u/rooreynolds

What’s happened to Dolby vision? Can’t see it in the iPhone app or the MacOS desktop app at all. Annoying.

I’ve recently started kitting myself out ready to do some expedition training in Chamonix in October.

I found the progression from walking to hiking to mountaineering is at its most striking when you suddenly need a whole bunch of gear.

Quite excited. I thought you might appreciate my neatly wrapped slings and loops.

For the curious, this is..

Help me rack my climbing gear efficiently and effectively.
I have:

- Black Diamond Capitan E helmet
- 3x Grivel Mega K6N HMS screwgate carabiner
- 2x Grivel Mega K6G HMS twin gate carabiner
- DMM Mantis belay device
- DMM Phantom wire gate carabiner grey
- Black Diamond LiteWire carabiner black
- DMM Dyneema sling 8mm x 120cm
- Wild Country Dyneema sling 10mm x 60cm
- Prusik loop 6mm x 150cm
- Prusik loop 5mm x 125cm
- Petzl Summit 66cm ice axe
- Black Diamond Couloir harness
- Rock Empire PIP adjustable dynamic lanyard

Any tips and advice for a beginner gratefully received.

I took my family to the Isle of Wight last week, and we hiked and camped for 5 days. We took the ferry, and then walked from Yarmouth down to Ventnor (with a little bit of help from the bus on a couple of hot days!) and had a great time. My son did brilliantly and could have gone a lot further I reckon. The dog very much enjoyed it too, especially snuggling up next to us at night.

Pairs well with mountains and deep snow. Overkill during a British heatwave of course, but I wanted to try it out. Feels very sturdy!

I can’t quite tell how waterproof the inner tent is, so I put the outer fly on just in case we get some rain tonight

Hello, wise Reaper power users.

I love the workflow of opening an audio sample and running MK Slicer to create slices at a handful of transients, then arming midi input in that sliced audio so I can trigger the slices using a midi keyboard. (Arpeggios are super fun to experiment with.)

Now I want to do the exact same thing, but using a video file instead of an audio sample. In my head, if I get the right number of transients and trigger it nicely it will be possible to make something that looks a little bit like Upular (or at least be the beginning of something that I can tweak..)

Sadly, MK Slicer only seems to support audio samples rather than video. (Or rather, it slices the audio and ignores the video).

Is there another plugin that works in a similar way and would let me decide what to do with each midi trigger in a video clip? Or a combination of plugins I can bodge together?

First I mix two parts shredded paper & cardboard with one part coffee grounds (from my local cafe) and one part sawdust, plus whatever charcoal I have kept from burning wood in my stove.

Next I soak it overnight, then whisk it with a drill mixer attachment. I like to then leave it overnight again and mix it once more, to create a softer mix.

A briquette maker squeezes out the water, then just stack them in the sun for a few weeks.

The mixture can be tailored to whatever you have to hand. In the past I’ve gone for equal parts cardboard, coffee grounds and sawdust and that works fine too.

When burned, it’s very similar to wood in terms of heat, burn time and ash content. (Definitely not as good as oak, but better than pine!)

What is this fast-looking bike being used by a motorcycle outrider in London today?

Thoroughly enjoyed my first trip to the Cairngorms. Absolutely stunning scenery, and great company for a 3 day adventure. Camping on Loch Avon and waking up to sunshine was a real highlight.

A live Eurorack jam, with bonus projection-mapped audio-reactive visualisation via TouchDesigner

Following a recent tumble (photo 1) I gave the clutch case a light brushing with a wire brush and a scotch-brite pad (photo 2) yesterday. Today, I took the badge off and gave it a more thorough sanding with some 100 grit wet&dry sandpaper (photo 3).

Since there are still some pretty deep scratches I think I’m going to have a go getting them out with some coarse sandpaper (maybe even a file? Dremel?) and work up to the scotch-brite again.

I’m safe to do this, right? I’ve never taken the case off so I’m not sure what the construction is like. It’s not going to surprise me by being paper thin?

I have a replacement badge ready to go on too.