@linux I just switched from windows 10 to Ubuntu Studio last Saturday, just wrapped up the transition yesterday. I love Linux. It is how a computer should be. I lost access to my audio interface, Keyscape VST and Valorant, but I have gained so much more. The Terminal is so much better than Windows neutered offering
@Toidi@the_postminimalist haha I ended up getting rid of all of what you listed , but for someone just starting out and doesn't have money for much, its perfect
Yeah there is just so much choice now with Linux audio, all of those above are good for beginners. My son regularly uses Guitarix and hydrogen when he is working on something new, before the band get together with the real hardware. Ardour is a great introductory DAW that people can learn before they move on to something like Reaper or pro tools.
With the introduction of pipewire as well recently, the whole Alsa, jack, pulse nightmare is rapidly looking like a thing of the past.
Went to the hospital today for neurological testing. I saw only four other patients who were wearing a mask and no practitioners or staff. I honestly don't understand.
1/x #Covid#LongCovid#MasksInHealthcare
I've never been treated like I was an imposition before at at medical facility - at check in, by the assistant, by the doctor. I don't know if it was the mask. My mind is spinning.
2/x
I so miss the interactions that I had on Twitter. I've lost count of how many people I met there, especially educators, and yearn for being able to share and discuss things in that community. I'm going to try again to be more active here on Mastodon. If you have advice for how I can find and interact more surreptitiously with people, I'd so appreciate it!
I have some very exciting writing news to share. I have sold a novella.
No Sympathy, my urban fantasy about sympathetic magic and ego, will be published by Android Press. Delighted to be working with such a cool indie publisher, and I know they're a fantastic fit for the work.
Das erste Stück wird sich um die #Zeidlerei im #Spreewald des 18. Jahrhunderts, das andere um den Versuch der (Wieder?) Einführung der Zeidlerei im #ThüringerWald des 16. Jahrhunderts drehen.
Sobald die Periodika gedruckt sind, werde ich natürlich informieren. 📯
Die Druckfahne für die Spreewälder Zeidlerei konnte ich bereits korrigiert zurücksenden. Ich freue mich sehr. Und auch der erste Aufsatzteil zur Thüringer Zeidlerei hat bereits zum Herausgeber gefunden. #Thüringen#Brandenburg
Endlich ist das erste Büchlein da. Auf den Seiten 35 bis 38 des aktuellen #Lübben|er #Heimatkalender|s stelle ich eine kleine Geschichte rund um einen widerrechtlich gefällten Bienenbaum vor und was uns diese über die #Zeidlerei im #Spreewald der Frühen Neuzeut verrät.
Parce qu’elles ne sont pas forcément évidentes à retrouver sur le site web de la BnF, voici les liens vers les vidéos du dernier cycle de conférences de la #bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, « Éclats de papier », qui s'est tenu en 2023 :
For those in research or innovation spaces, (including open source),
What is your method for assigning tasks, of different priority and involvement levels.
How do you differentiate between presenting volunteer/open that have one set of quality standards, vs other quality standards for different tasks-roles-responsibilities?
Okay, here we go! Giving social media another try with #Mastodon since I started to miss the academic community that social media used to provide for me.
I'm Nele, a #linguistics postdoc at the University of Oslo, working on the language of fake news in English. I'm also affiliated with Lund University through my work on the London–Lund Corpus 2 and spoken language.
That's (mainly) what I'll be posting about. Here we go again!
The 16th C composer Thomas Whythorne wrote that maids go for looks, but widows have...um...other priorities. To court an experienced woman, he said, you "must not carry quick eels in your codpiece, but show some proof of being stiff." #eels#history#medieval#datingadvice
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is fire and there are two major Greek gods associated with fire: #Hestia, goddess of the hearth, and #Hephaistos, god of smiths.
They represent #fire in two different forms: the sacrificial flame of the hearth as the sacred centre of domestic life and the flame of Hephaistos, source of all arts, and fuel of the funeral pyre. But both could be invoked for the cooking of sacrificial meat or a good meal:
If it did go out, only sacred fire produced by friction, or by bronze burning mirrors drawing fire from the sun, might be used to rekindle it.
A ritual from #Lemnos, the cult centre of #Hephaistos, has all fires on Lemnos extinguished for nine days until new fire is brought from the island of #Delos:
"And the island of #Lemnos is purified every year for the deed once done to the men on Lemnos by their wives at #Aphrodite's instigation. The fire on Lemnos is extinguished for nine days. A sacred ship from #Delos, however, carries the fire, and if it arrives before the offerings for the dead, it puts in nowhere on Lemnos, but rides at anchor off the headlands out at sea until sailing into the harbor is permitted by divine law."
Heroikos by Lucius Flavius Philostratus, 213–214 CE