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@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2026-02-05 15:55:03

Still getting used to all this 'vinyl' stuff; think I've managed to capture one side; it took quite a few goes on the last track to stop it getting stuck; now I got it through on about the 5th take of that track, but hmm - was it me tweaking the weight settings on the turntable, giving it another clean, or was it just getting happier as it actually had been played and fixing up small problems? Heck I dunno.
Got to say it sounds great on my dads Hifi.

A laptop is sat ontop of a small speaker next to a rack of mostly old hifi stuff including a turntable on top.  In front is the cover of Jean Michel Jarre's  'Essential'.  The laptop is displaying Ardour's screen.
@smashtie@mas.to
2026-01-10 14:09:05

Just found this while going through my dad's stuff. What a great response! I can only guess what he wrote to get this response. Happier times.
#usa #uk

A letter, typed on official police paper, reading: 

ROBERT M. SHIELLS REFERENCE
Chief of Police NUMBER
August 21, 1990
Re: notice of violation #....
Dear Mr. (Redacted)
The circumstances surrounding your receipt of a parking citation while in
Alamea have been reviewed. In the interest of fairness we will cancel the
citation.

I hope you enjoyed your visit to Alameda and, in the absence of the $14.00 "training fee", am certain we have helped to bridge another small part of the “cultural gap". W…
@jake4480@c.im
2026-01-10 22:08:23

I was thinking this morning, there should be more things like Goodwill, more thrift stores like that everywhere, for even LESS things going to landfills. Just people getting together, even as a trade or barter system, things like flea markets or garage sales-- people do some of this already.
Reusing things is so important, and repair, when possible-- I've been seeing some cool self-repair fix-it meetups on here, too.
As I was talking to my wife about it, and I remembered thi…

Snip from Wired piece that says 'how will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the billionaires. Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don't buy much. Their smartphones are six versions behind and have badly cracked screens. They fix bicycles, then talk about fixing bicycles, then they show their friend, who just came over for no reason, how they fixed their bicycle, and their friend says, 'Wow, good job," and they make…

Trump's mad hubris has been coming fast and furious.
On Air Force One, next to a grinning and bobbing Sen. Lindsey Graham,
Trump doubled down on the notion that the failed state of Cuba would be next to fall, 
finding time to threaten Colombia, Mexico, and even Greenland.
This isn’t evidence of great power. 
But it is more than just  the egotistical impulse of an unchecked imperial president.
It is a deliberate strategy that involves the gleeful destructio…