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  • Oh man, in general, people be raving about aliens, but never give two looks to the ants in their garden. Or you know, the entirety of Australia. Or the deep sea. We have so much life that’s alien buzzing around us. Hell, we even have the Scottish – humanoids that speak an entirely cryptic language. It’s so much more compelling story-telling, too, if they don’t arrive here in a spaceship, but rather have been living among us all this time.



  • I’m also very much a beginner, but on Linux, you seem to have the choice between two open-source DAWs: LMMS and Ardour.

    Ardour has more features, by quite a bit. Which basically tells you the rest of the story: Ardour is more capable to become the tool that you use long-term, i.e. even for more complex projects. But it’s also much more likely to overwhelm you right away.

    Personally, for example, I have a knack for weird, changing time signatures, i.e. I might go from 5/4 time to 7/4 time to 3/2 time etc…
    LMMS couldn’t really do that, when I dicked around with it about 2 years ago. You could change time signatures in the middle of the song, but it was only dynamic, so your notes didn’t get displayed in the different time signature until you triggered playback.
    As a result, I felt kind of forced to learn Ardour …and then fucked off in a different direction anyways. DAWs generally just felt like they introduce a lot of complexity and aren’t really made for the kind of music I want to make. 🫠

    Your mileage will obviously vary.



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    Last year, I got sneakers with a canvas cover to combat my stinky feet. And they’re heckin’ excellent for that. But yeah, now rain is scary. If too much comes from above, you get soggy feet. And if too much came from above, you’ve got dirt puddles that can somehow dye the white rubber rim. 🫠




  • My doctor explained it like so: B12 is produced by bacteria that hang out in dirt. Us humans have largely stopped chewing on dirt directly, so for a while, it was advantageous to have that middleman of animals eating plants+dirt and then eating those animals or what comes out of them.

    But now it’s becoming rarer for farm animals to chew on dirt, too, because they might never see a meadow and instead just get fed soy or corn or such, to bulk them up as quickly as possible.

    And so, yeah, she actually recommends B12 supplements to everyone. B12 is just consistently low in blood tests and well, she’s also obviously not going to recommend chewing dirt when supplements are cheap and easy to get.




  • Hmm, for whatever reason, I’m on 2.31.4, so that might be the difference.

    That version was tagged two weeks ago, because they apparently still release patch versions for rather old minor versions of nix. So, apparently I am getting updates, but I’m on some older release channel or something. No idea why.

    I have to head to work now, so will have to debug in the evening or the weekend. Thanks for the clue, though.




  • Yeah, good point. So, I wrote that comment with an experience I had in Luanti in mind (which is basically a community-developed platform for Minecraft-like games).

    In the worlds there, I’d find a cave and it would expand down several hundred blocks. The good ores also only start to appear down there, so because you’d need to dig down a lot more blocks, and because the caves allow you to descend so quickly, it is definitely not worth digging straight down.

    But then those sprawling caves are also worth coming back to, because you will definitely not mine all of it in one go.
    Even if you do deplete those caves, it’s still worth using them as a starting point for digging further down, where you’re also likely going to run into more caves.

    All of that just means that it becomes worth your time to build out your mine.

    Ladders are worth bringing right away, because the caves are so vertical, but when the way up or down takes several minutes, it’s also a good idea to build intermediate bases and minecart rails.

    In my most built-out world, I think, I had like 500 blocks of minecart line to get to my second intermediate base. And the deepest point I reached was -3400, if I remember correctly. Found a massive cavern down there. Even just placing torches down to light it up needed several visits. Was considering building a city into there, but it was actually too large for that. I would’ve never been able to fill that cavern. 🥲