I joined my present employer to do a project and got to set my preferred hours, which I set at 4 days of 6 hours per week. That was lovely! They later took me on full time, whereupon I started working 5 days but was able to keep the 6 hour workday and that has been the norm since. Pretty much ideal IMO.

CDs I bought, the massive trove of albums I’ve ripped from friends and library CDs since around 1997 and everything dl’d from Spotify and more recently Tidal (switched not only because ethics and quality - mostly because spotify-dl started breaking up :o) now lives on my home server, backs up once a week and is available to grooving to via Jellyfin over the Net. So much debt of gratitude to Jellyfin for enabling this.

At home I’ll plug the phone into a USB Toslink box and play lossless over the speakers; in the car over Bluetooth into car stereo (which has seen a little bespoke work). Headphones I haven’t bought into, I’d rather be in the moment with all senses when out and about. Same goes for motorcycle riding, music is too much of a distraction.

New music comes along by following Pitchfork’s album reviews. They are pushed out to RSS so that I browse them over morning coffee.

There is no such thing as a favourite band when one really listens to music. I get kicks from still discovering new stuff at a ripe age. One newish band that blew my mind is black midi.

https://www.youtube.com/@shugemery

Whoooo buddy! Hammocking, camping and occasional circus antics since good Lord knows when.

I’d be happy to see one more email client option. Using Geary now - nice ui but very limited in features. Been through quite a few in the past.

Self-hosted, federated Matrix instance with wife, kids and even my old folks on it, yay! Even have video conferencing self-hosted on there. Telegram presence via mautrix-telegram bridge also there. Nheko on desktop and Element X on mobile. Fearing every Postgres update as it’s an Arch server, other than that life’s peachy.

Still on IRC (Libera) for shits and giggles with weechat.

Yei, I was hovering on nominating a FSOL album. Glad someone did.

Let’s put in Joker’s Daughter - The Last Laugh. The track Lucid particulary is exemplary of what puts the corn on this uni. A Danger Mouse joint.

Was going to say this exact thing, good thing someone else of sound sense has typed the correct answer. Just turn the screw pictured open (counter-clockwise) ever so slightly to let air out (makes hiss) and tighten once water comes out (makes no sound).

Source: Nordic man of the house. I did this a lot until we put in a new heating system with an automatic valve at the main heat reservoir.

At least as far back as keyboard instruments have been around I could be a musician. Ending up further in time, I’d be a composer; the guy that revolutionised polyphony.

‘Palestrina, that’s really nice. Now check this out’

‘My Myers-Briggs is NSFW’.

When you log out, have a script take screenshot, blur it and save to a known file.

Conf your display manager to use that file as background.

https://clocks.brianmoore.com/

I do this! Friendly reminder: the Arch Wiki is also in the repo an arch-wiki-docs.

Haha, no. Off by one alphabet, proudly representing X! Referring to the Oriental meditation tradition Zen.

Goran Bregovic: Yeremia

There’s a lot in the Balkan basket that would be on topic, but let’s go with AALKO’OL!

Zenster here would go with weighted blanket grey. ‘Nothing special’.

Here’s one who always liked customising the daily driver computers - Sway, custom configs, painting the laptop cover with very permanent enamel paint. Reasons are to make it run reliably, serving my preferences and looking nice and cared for.

Similar reasons apply with the car and motorcycle, only with the car it’s not cheap fun (bike stuff is actually very reasonably priced). But I figured since I get paid every month, I’m going to use money on what sparks joy. And I’m keeping it sensible, only one car and bike at a time :}

My scheme might come useful to somebody.

On the home server, there is a 2 Tb solid state drive and a 2 Tb spinning drive. Stuff goes on the SSD, it’s a regular ext4 volume mounted at /work. The spinning drive is configured to spin down after 10 min when not in use.

Once a week a script mounts the spinny one, runs an rsync from SSD to it, then unmounts. Thus the spinny one only runs about 20 min per week: it’s going to last forever. If the SSD borks it’s easily replaced and repopulated.

I’ve ran a 4 in, 4 out ADAT-CAT5 snake thingy on Linux, so 32 channels in and out. The remote end was synced via Word Clock with the Linux box providing master clock. RME RayDat for a soundcard, RME converters in the remote rack. Worked 100 % flawlessly, I even did live sound on it. ADAT is a ‘just works’ thing, go for it. You just need to understand that one device needs to be the clock master and others follow that.

Thumb-key by Lemmy’s own dessalines. I even contributed a layout early on, and it’s still there.