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My experience with transposing/retuning is with the Digitech Whammy DT pedal (it's ok, but you could never gig fast heavy metal with that), and the Line 6 Helix (my current, also pretty good but I wouldn't gig or record with it).

I'm using the Neural DSP Petrucci X plugin and... wow. You could play gigs with this, I feel. The sound quality is outstanding! I pretty much can't tell the difference. Tuning up a couple steps or down a couple steps are both solid.

Better yet, it introduces ZERO additional latency. The PDC value reported in Reaper is 52 with it on, and 52 with it off. The same. So it introduces no additional latency.

Of course, that's a full blown PC with a monster CPU. Whatever processor is in the Quad Cortex is probably great, but nothing compared to a modern desktop CPU.

So how is it? Is it as good? If the transpose is on par with this VST plugin, I might have to consider ditching my Helix for a Quad Cortex.

I almost had a meltdown while installing them and it was a little more than I bargained for. But in the end, it was 100% worth it and this single coil mode sounds great.

Thanks dudes. I can't believe my Strandberg can sound this way now.

I feel like I'm simultaneously in a really good place, and a really bad place.

I work in IT, doing system administration with some light programming. I've been working at my company for over 10 years. It's been a great company to work for.

We went work from home for COVID. They eventually lifted the full-time work from home policy and demanded that we return to office, but only for 2-3 days a week.

Well I work in a somewhat remote office, not working directly with anyone in my physical office at all. So I just ignored the RTO mandate. I haven't been back to my office in over 2 years! (lol)

Some people know I'm not coming in. My boss may not know for sure, but I'm sure that he suspects it and just doesn't care because I do a great job.

Our company just experienced a change in ownership. They are increasing the RTO mandate to at least 4 days in office. And from what I'm hearing, they will be actually checking if people are coming in from badge swipes.

My "stats":

• 42 year old man
• Unmarried, have a girlfriend of 3 years who has her own house which is too small for me to move into
• No kids
• I do NOT own a house unfortunately, I pay $2100 rent per month
• Probably could call this a medium cost of living area
• My net worth is around $2.45 million
• My job pays about $150k base pay, plus bonus which is usually another $20k

Anyway, I could type about this all day. But the bottom line is that I'm not cool with coming in to the office 4 days a week, or even at all really. It's likely that a lot of people will be laid off soon anyway, especially me. I have been very effective and important in my role, which I think is why they tolerate me not coming into the office (if they know). But that's like to change soon, as there are massive reorganizations coming and the things that I work on could even be discarded by the business.

There are too many things to list in this post about how bad the work conditions in my company are shifting recently.

I think that I'm going to just ignore the RTO and keep doing what I've been doing, and see how it goes until somebody says something. I'm slowly accepting that I could be fired and not eligible for severance or unemployment because of this. Unfortunately, the job market in IT is abysmal right now.

Shoot, I've wanted to take a "sabbatical" forever. Maybe I should just look at it that way? Take the chances if they want to fire me, and if so, now I'm on sabbatical for a while. The only things that truly worry me though in that scenario is health insurance (not that I use it very often), and if being fired for disobeying a work policy could harm the reputation and make it hard to get a new job elsewhere eventually.

The fact that I will likely be laid off even if I "do everything right" and lick the corporate boots and go into the office every day makes it REALLY hard to be motivated to care and value this job anymore. But the idea of missing out on a severance gives a lot of FOMO.

I guess that I don't even have any very specific question. Just looking for some thoughts. Is a person with $2.45M net worth worrying about all this stuff just me overthinking and being ridiculous? I'm not sure how to think about this anymore.

I am upgrading from the Fishman Fluence Modern's that came with this, to the Fisman Abasi model. Apparently it requires a 5-way selector to use the single coil voicing, which is the whole reason that I'm upgrading.

I was surprised that the pickups come with absolutely everything except for that pickup selector. My guitar only has a 3-way switch.

I see 5-way Fender selector switches on Amazon. Will that suffice? I couldn't find switches on the Strandberg website. I just want to make sure that I get the right thing, it will fit, and that it will not give me any grief.

Thanks.

I updated two machines simultaneously this morning, one CachyOS Desktop and the other Handheld.

After that they would boot to a safe mode terminal, and not into KDE or Steam. I was able to fix both systems of course with reverting snapshots.

Did this happen to anyone else? I'm curious if it's something about my own setup.

EDIT: Solved, my machines were missing the plymouth package. I think that was my bad!

I've been playing around with AI for a few weeks and am blown away.

I have an idea for something I'd like to make. I recorded a heavy metal EP something like 12 years ago now. I always thought that it would be really cool to make a music video for one of the songs in particular, in the style of Metalocalypse (an old cartoon about a heavy metal band from Adult Swim). But I always assumed that to pay someone to animate a music video must cost a lot more than it's worth for a hobby project, and I cannot draw.

It's coming into focus for me now though that through ComfyUI, this may be possible.

But it would be uninspiring if the animated musicians are clearly not playing or singing the material and it's just random singing, strumming and drumming that doesn't align at all with the real music.

Are there ways to make this easier? Or you just kind of have to iterate over and over until you're lucky, and then edit it all the traditional way?

I have done a stretching routine called "The Golden Routine" every day for like a year way back in the day, and I was still miles away from touching my toes. After all that hard working resulting in sheer disappointment, I pretty much gave up.

But now I'm interested in it again and I found some content about "nerve flossing". Seems like people are rarely talking about this, at least in the places that I've tended to look.

It finally makes sense. I try to touch my toes and I don't feel any stretch in the muscles. Just this very uncomfortable feeling of near-pain along the whole leg which is my body telling me that this position is a bad one for me and I should stop.

Does anyone know of any good routines that would give something like a full body nerve flossing? I feel like I need it in both my arms and my legs for a variety of reasons. I get tingling and numbness in my pinky fingers sometimes. I can't even come close to touching my toes and it hurts before the muscle stretches.

I can search YouTube for this stuff, but I am curious what you all think is the best resource for nerve flossing in particular.

I thought that this was a VPN issue at first. In a way it is, since that's probably why the check is presented to me in the first place. But it shouldn't go into an endless loop.

Then I thought it was a Firefox issue.

Now I've finally found the problem. It was a browser extension. Specifically, it was the UltimaDark extension (this makes sites dark mode, like DarkReader but is faster). What the hell!

I found that I can get around this by either disabling UltimaDark just to bypass the check, or even better I can go to cloudflare.com and then click in the extension to add an exclusion for the site cloudflare.com and all subdomains. This seems to fix the issue completely for me on all sites, and now I don't have to disable/enable the extension all of the time.

If you are not using UltimaDark in the first place, it is probably some other extension that you're using that's causing it. Do what I did to troubleshoot, which is to turn off all of your browser extensions, then open a private window and go to some site that presents you with the challenge, and see if it allows you through. If it does, close the private window, then turn on 1 more of your extensions and repeat with a fresh private window. Do this until you've tried every extension and you should see which extension is causing the issue, then find a way to hopefully deal with it.

Anyway, I was excited to finally fix this seriously irritating issue today, and I wanted to share this in case it helps anyone, either by showing up in their feed or by them explicitly searching for the information.

Have a great day, y'all.

I am using CachyOS, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and have VRR enabled.

When I move my mouse through a web page and the cursor passes over the top of links, it stutters horribly. This started a few weeks ago. Feels like my mouse is failing.

I believe it's VRR related though because I noticed that as it's happening, if I pull up the monitor panel I will see the Hz jumping up and down as the issue happens.

Everything else on the PC seems to function buttery smooth, it's just in Firefox that this is happening. Anybody have any ideas?

I'm 42 years old and have been taking drum lessons for about a year. I wanted to try creatine because it's universally regarded as extremely safe, and I wanted to enhance my performance in the gym.

I've heard people say that creatine helps them to get a few extra reps in. My experience has been much more than that, though.

My workouts feel way easier than before. I haven't had a "bad day" in the gym since I started taking it. (5 grams per day for a few weeks now)

But what really shocks me is that it's helping my drumming dramatically.

I really like heavy metal and stuff, but I also like most other genres. With drums, I basically surrendered myself to not getting into the crazy double bass stuff because it's just so physically demanding and at 42 years old, I feel kinda gassed right away with fast double bass.

But now my endurance is vastly improved. I have so much more energy for this shit.

It kind of makes me think that maybe I wasn't an average normal person before, but may have been very creatine deficient and this pushed me back to normal and beyond (it is a natural substance that our bodies create and need to produce energy in our muscles). I also have some pretty bad sleeping problems and am chronically sleep deprived, which as I understand it creatine is a huge help for, which may also explain some of this.

So has anyone else had a similar experience with this? If you've never tried creatine, I think that it's worth trying for everyone, even if you don't ever plan to set foot in a gym. They say it's good for your brain, too.

My system is a fully updated CachyOS. My audio interface is a Scarlett 18i20. I use this system for recording guitar, eDrums, video games, and all of the usual stuff. I use pipewire-jack for the recording type things, through Reaper.

What happens is I might be listening to a song and the audio just instantly goes completely dead/silent. The application appears to still be playing, the OS sees the interface as active, there is nothing wrong whatsoever as far as the OS is concerned. It seems to think everything is still working.

But in the real world, no sound is produced. I have to shut down and then start up the interface, and the sound returns.

I checked the dmesg logs. Nothing. I check the pipewire systemctl status. Nothing.

This can happen when I'm playing drums. When I'm gaming. Or when I'm simply listening to some tunes and nothing else is going on with the system, as it just did minutes ago.

Since nothing is logged anywhere that I've found, this is puzzling. If anyone has suggestions on where else to look for logs, I'd be happy to know.

I've checked the Unbound logs and didn't see any errors or warnings of note. It starts up when the system starts, it just doesn't work until I restart it.

I also checked the general system logs and I can't find anything of interest.

I am wondering if this is a known issue?

Basically what the title says.

I'm very fond of Time Life Music's massive compilation releases. They have them for the 60s, 70s, 80s, and other random eras or genres.

But funny enough, the hardest one to get your hands on seems to be the 90s one, called "The 90s Collection". It seems to consist of something like 20+ 2-disc sets, so that's over 40 CDs at least.

I've searched for some of them and it just seems unreasonable to buy them all used, since they're extremely rare and you'd have to get them 1 by 1 and everyone seems to enjoy charging outrageous $20+ shipping costs on what should cost like $6 to ship. That would really add up.

Are there any tools to help in reconstructing a big set like this song by song? I'm thinking probably not since it's kind of a strange thing to want to do.