Notices by Lorewegian 📚 (lore@berserker.town), page 2

@LupusGelupus

someone: macOS sucks
macOS users: :angy:

someone: Linux sucks
Linux users: :angy:

someone: Windows sucks
Windows users: we know :yes_chad:

feels like i'm pissing off half the Linux users on fedi with my remarks. it's just frustrating as a user and i use this place for venting.

oh, hey, here's a Linux video editor i haven't heard of before:

https://www.openshot.org/download/

a forum poster said that - unlike Kdenlive - it can use the GPU for rendering

sounds promising

ah

hello Linux problems

installed OpenShot via the the Ubuntu package manager. it didn't launch. checked what was going on via the terminal and

i'm going to try the AppImage version from the website and see what happens...

this isn't very helpful. no waveform preview on the WAV file so i can't sync. also, why the emojis? this looks like it was designed for casual users. KDEnlive has a more professional interface. but this is much faster. i want KDEnlive's interface with the engine that OpenShot uses.

trying to get different bits of Linux software to work together harmoniously will quickly introduce you to the internal politics and infighting of the FOSS world.

"this isn't working."

"it's those guys' fault."

"i don't care. make it work."

if the Linux ecosystem was a boat, it would have 300 captains and everyone would be rowing in different directions, at different speeds, and blaming the others for doing it wrong.

if you ever wished you could snuggle a computer, i've got you covered. my MacBook Pro has built-in pillows, and they decided to fluff up the other day.

just realised i can't fix the problem of getting a Certbot certificate for a home-hosted server by making the certificate on another server first. the certificate has to be renewed at some point too. it looks like i'm going to have to move my CalDAV server to a cloud VM.

@augustine oh, this post is outdated now, because i just put it on a cloud server. the problem now is that the CalDAV server has a bug that hasn't been patched for 5 years. :angy:

@augustine it even has a pull request that everyone agrees looks fine. not being merged. i picked this CalDAV server because people recommended it. unfortunately, it chokes on recurring calendar events made from iOS. the fix is simple. i don't understand why the pull request hasn't been merged.

@augustine more specifically, it actually accepts the events that the iOS Calendar app makes. what it doesn't accept is when i try to edit them in Evolution and save them back again...

@augustine it kind of feels like the Fediverse because everything appears to be working at first, because it's all using the same protocol, but then you run into compatibility issues

cinematographer vs sound engineer

@icedquinn @ringo of course it needs to know what to expect, so there's that

@icedquinn @ringo arguably, that's 12 multiplications when you oversample it 4X. but in theory you could get away with 2X if you had a very steep anti-aliasing filter. unfortunately, such a steep filter is going to cost you *way* more multiplications...

@icedquinn @ringo the most hilarious example i know of ML being used for engineering is that one time NASA used it for an antenna and this is what came out

"we don't know what the fuck is going on here, but we couldn't have designed a better performing one."

@icedquinn @ringo LUTs are absolutely necessary for adequate performance, but you risk them getting too big if you require some precision, and then you exhaust the cache memory in the CPU.

@icedquinn @ringo you end up with some pretty funky compromises. i needed to have a sine waveform for the synth but it sounded digital if i made the LUT too small.

then i discovered that if you add some dithering noise to the LUT index, you get hiss instead, which is much better. and you can easily filter that away, leaving a nice sine wave.