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▲ 5 r/youtube

YouTube (web) audio is.. loud?

I don't really know how to describe this, but for the past at least half a year YouTube audio has been annoyingly...loud?

But it's not actually loud volume wise - and my Stable Volume slider is turned off (and turning it on doesn't seem to change this audio quality much) - but it's like everything is close to clipping without actually clipping and with too much maybe bass. I wish I knew a lot more about audio so I can describe this better.

It's really annoying, almost uncomfortable to listen to some of videos, that feeling you get with infrasound but not at full uneasiness levels?

I'm listening on my PC through cheap speakers, like I've been doing for many years. I think they're Logitech Z150 or something. Nothing on my end has changed. PC volume is at 70. It's only happening on YouTube, not for all channels I think. iTunes etc are all still normal. Firefox/Chrome doesn't seem to matter.

I'm not sure how to fix it, I'm not sure if I can fix it or if it's creators all using the same shitty microphone/setup/processing whatever.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears!

(I'll now go chase some kids off my law or something, I thought I was supposed to get deafer with age).

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u/hwknd — 2 days ago
▲ 3 r/stenography

StenoTrainer fork of TypeyType - practice on your own texts

I love Typey Type, but it keeps giving me words in lessons that I'm never going to write again and it felt like I was wasting time. So I forked it and built StenoTrainer (by telling Claude Code what to do)

You can add your Plover dictionary and any text file/word document/markdown you want. Short or long doesn't matter. List of words you want to train, a full book, emails, code, legal transcripts, whatever.

StenoTrainer looks every word up in your dictionary - so it can show the stroke diagram - and lets you generate a personal curriculum. The most-often-used strokes are trained first. Multi-stroke words unlock once their individual parts have been passed. Already known words from prior levels get mixed back in with the next level(s).

You can set how many new words you want each lesson, and can set which WPM/accuracy you need to pass a level.

It runs fully offline. I stripped it down to three pages: Settings, Curriculum, Lessons.

The typing engine, lesson player, metronome, and steno diagrams are all Di's original Typey Type work, used under the AGPLv3 license.

https://github.com/bioluminesceme/stenotrainer

I've been using it this past week and I'm finally progressing more quickly, and training on words I type often. I started at 20 WPM and am now at 35ish average, 60 wpm max on easy words.

I thought maybe others would find it useful too

Edit - if there's enough interest in me putting this online as a website similar to typeytype please comment or upvote the comment that suggests putting it on GitHub Pages.

u/hwknd — 9 days ago
▲ 3 r/typewriters

Brother AX-110 stopped typing

My Brother AX-110 Daisy Wheel (electronic) typewriter was working great, and right when I got alll the daisy wheels I wanted, it stopped typing. It sounds like something is seized up maybe?

https://imgur.com/CDgHpO3

https://imgur.com/a/RyIcGqj

The daisy wheel does not spin, and the hammer does not strike.

Any suggestions on where/what to clean with isopropyl (99%? dilute?) and then re-oil? I've already taken the whole thing apart and removed gunky black oil and added some clear new oil to everything that I thought would move.. When I rotate things manually nothing feels stuck.

Thanks in advance!!

u/hwknd — 25 days ago
▲ 10 r/notebooks

Oof, I've been browsing the internet for ages looking for a nice planner. Some hard/soft requirements that are really hard to find.

  • A5
  • White paper -- Tomoe River/Sanzen Tomoe, or whatever Stalogy or Kinbor use, the thin 52 or 68 gsm paper with the crinkle, ghosting but no bleeding with fountain pens.
  • 5mm grid (preferably a tad darker than Stalogy, I'm getting old)
  • opens flat
  • has at least 1 page a day, preferably more. 400 ish pages would be great.
  • "always in stock" because man is everything always sold out!

What I've found/tried.

  • Hobonichi notebooks. Grid too small and the paper curls up in the corners really fast.
  • Stalogy - great paper, and my current go to, but the grid is a bit too small and a bit too light.
  • LiveNotes , not enough pages, only comes ins 7mm lined.
  • Odyssey, 68gsm, 5mm but dot grid and a bit on the pricey side.
  • Paper Penguin Co , does not lay flat I think because it's just folded double, also 80 sheets max
  • GoodInkPressions, my other go to, I love their notebooks, love their grid and paper, but also doesn't open completely flat due to the stapled binding, and I'd love more pages.
  • Sterling Ink notebook - the grid is 3.7mm or something like that, a bit too small, enough pages though so I might try it?
  • Pebble Stationary Co - 5mm dot grid
  • Sakae Technical Paper Sanzen Tomoe River Notebook A5 Grid , only 80 pages

What I've not tried

  • Find a Chinese/Japanese factory and create my own, limited order quantity 100: buy stock for life..
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u/hwknd — 1 month ago