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  • insomniac_lemon@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•[closed] im gonna build a desktop application(daw). i need advice/opinion
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    1 month ago

    I want to use Raylib, but mentioning it here on the fediverse doesn’t get much of a response (I can’t see a raylib community from my instance). My choice of language probably doesn’t help, though.

    My first issue is wanting vertex colors on 3D models and I am not getting this (this may be a problem with the bindings I’m using, naylib(nim-lang)). The second would be needing guidance for the 2D polygon text loader that I started.

    Maybe I could make simple GUI applications with raygui, but I don’t currently really have many viable ideas on what I would want to make.

    To OP: Another potential option is using Godot w/bindings. Design is pretty fast and flexible, then using signals is super easy.

    I’ve tested some frameworks (specific to my language, so not really helpful to most), the one that I liked more said it was declarative user interface framework based on GTK though I would prefer a similar thing for Qt and there wasn’t an ability to automatically scale text size to better fill the available button size (I was testing an adventure-book reader and hoping to use unicode characters).

    Frameworks for single page applications (or some other browser-based tech) might be ok for simple stuff. Similarly, I’ve liked the idea of TUI frameworks (yeah, because htop) but haven’t really tried that yet.

  • insomniac_lemon@kbin.socialtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Algerian man found alive after 26 years in neighbour’s cellar
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    2 months ago

    Reminder on Stockholm syndrome:

    According to accounts by Kristin Enmark (one of the hostages): the police were acting incompetently, with little care for the hostages’ safety.

    She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire, and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire

    but the prime minister [Palme] told her that she would have to content herself with dying at her post rather than Palme giving in to the captors’ demands.

    Ultimately, Enmark explained she was more afraid of the police, whose attitude seemed to be a much larger, direct threat to her life than the robbers.

    Which could possibly be relevant here, particularly the civil war part.

  • insomniac_lemon@kbin.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Imagination rule
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    2 months ago

    I am all of the issues to some degree and AI outputs to me* just seem like dairy-free maple-coconut water cheese. So personally I’ll just stick with nothing (substantial) until the format/workflow that I’m looking for (hopefully) becomes viable for me.

    Luckily writing a book or painting hyper-realism are not the only type of creativity.

    (also funnily enough, AI currently is just a different set of skills/knowledge especially for the better results or wrangling custom inputs/training/adjustments etc)

    *= Particularly what I can run locally, w/a 1050Ti. But also just really most examples of AI (aside from maybe the stuff that is either extremely overproduced/hand-picked or potentially faked)

  • insomniac_lemon@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
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    2 months ago

    Huh, I’m using technology as an escape from woodworking. Lack of space/tools and a few times when I tried to do something the wood was too seasoned (last thing I tried was whittling hoping to do it in my room anytime and not have dust as an issue, cheap folding knife probably didn’t help)

    Well not fully true on the escape part, I just drop things really easy when I run into issues like that. Well that and I haven’t done anything noteworthy with technology or woodworking.

  • insomniac_lemon@kbin.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•rule
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    2 months ago

    If you’re a woman of the woods who will feed my brain to a bear, that’d put me at 80% on-board. As always, travel would be the issue.

    Though if I was awake for the eating part, I’d definitely make the joke “Is this a Tally Hall reference?” even though I made it now.

  • insomniac_lemon@kbin.socialtoFirefox@lemmy.ml•TTS voices on Linux for Firefox are shit - video with examples
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    2 months ago

    I meant newer than the context I stated (1983). And also ground floor stuff that doesn’t need internet (after install) and doesn’t need a purchase/sign-up. Available by default or not too obscure to get decent voices.

    There might be some half-decent voices somewhere, but it really just doesn’t seem like it’s night-and-day for the ground floor stuff from what I’ve seen. Maybe some vocaloid stuff but even that seems like a chore to do the phonemes manually to get expected pronunciation.

  • insomniac_lemon@kbin.socialtoAntique Memes Roadshow@lemmy.world•Country Music
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    2 months ago

    I’m the opposite side of the same coin: if I like it, I don’t consider it country music.

    Lots of stuff without twang I’d just call folk music (add other terms if needed, American, western etc).

    Also I’m glad the same thing didn’t happen to rock. Like there is a certain mostly-post-grunge vocal style popular in the 2000s that’d be really annoying if it was part of most rock music.

  • insomniac_lemon@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•My opinion on Bone conduction earphones
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    3 months ago

    I tried a cheap pair and my takeaway is that this technology needs a specific amount of contact pressure, and with no mechanism to assure this (do the “name brand” ones have something?) a poor fit means it doesn’t work at all and then if you fiddle with the position you can get something that basically turns your ear canal into a speaker (at least it doesn’t seem like it’s actually going direct, at least for most of the sound).

    Also using a headphone amplifier, loudness normalization is an issue especially as certain content clips while some doesn’t. This one probably directly relates to cost.

  • insomniac_lemon@kbin.socialtoGames@lemmy.world•Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability.
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    3 months ago

    Games back then were pricier - once you account for inflation.

    That’s commonly said but ignores other economic factors such as income, unspent money, and cost-of-living.

    Though lots of things are better now: the entire back-catalogue of games, more access to review/forums, free games (and also ability to create your own games without doing so from nothing) etc. Aside from when video store rental was applicable, early gaming was more take-what-you-can-get (niche hardware/platforms might still have that feel somewhat).

  • insomniac_lemon@kbin.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Do you know how much even a low-end perch costs?
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    3 months ago

    Ah, fuck. I can’t believe you’ve done this.

    If you just mean a cult in general (or furry molepeople?), no.

    For cryo/cyborg, that might be somehow a step better than billionaire involvement, but still really questionable. Probably not though, too personal and not something that I’d expect to work out for me (I am a shut-in). I mean unless it was like some weird med-sci student or gayspacecommune thing that just has a lot of furries as a secondary thing.

    I could see having my brain hooked up to some kind of drone body or even emplaced (some sort of station, also in either case I’d still want sensory information), so I would expect my social life to go unchanged. If living roombas could have personal lives in the future, I don’t think I would not be one of them.