I have a preference and I'm curious if others share it or if there's a name for it.

I like having no visible text in my house. No books left in sight (or just a meaningful one), no brand names or logos on appliances, no product packaging on display. Anything with words on it either gets stored away or debranded.

It's more about the visual quiet. Text pulls at my attention, books especially. So a room with no words in it just feels calmer to me, and I find deep focus much easier to reach there, for creative work.

Is this a thing for anyone else? And is there an actual term for this?

I'm thinking about throwing out a box of handwritten letters and physical photographs from my late ex-wife. I don't have the heart to open the box and go through the letters and photos, and I really don't believe I ever will. I don't have anywhere to keep the box outside my home.

Has anyone been through something similar with heavy sentimental items, and how do you feel about it now?

Puisqu'on semble tous amenés à passer à autre chose une fois les fortes chaleurs derrière nous, pourquoi ne pas épingler un megathread sur r/France ?

Idée débile ou petite goutte à la colibri ?

I'd like to run a Tonverk off a USB-C power bank when out in the garden but would rather not have a loose cable + bank flopping around separately from the unit.

Curious if anyone's attached a power bank to the device itself (Velcro, silicone strap, bracket, etc) so it travels as one piece rather than three loose things

Photos welcome :)

We're in the middle of a heatwave here. I went to close a shutter I don't usually close and found a garden snail behind it, it must have been there in 40°C heat for days or weeks. I didn't want to leave it out in direct sun, so I moved it, expecting to find it dried out and empty. Instead, it was sealed up and had some weight to it. I think unsealed snails can get attacked and eaten by ants, and there's also a toad nearby that snacks on snails at night, I can hear it happening. So I decided to bring it home

After 4 days, she woke up and ate a super tiny bit of food, then went back to sleep for 2 days. Now she's starting to wake up every night very briefly. She still seems a bit sluggish, with low antennae, but improving. I'll release her once the heatwave passes

I used soil from a flower pot, making sure it was free of organisms, and dampened it with a water spray using mineral water. I added a piece of wood (also slightly dampened) and some dry leaves, which she seems to like sleeping under

For food, I'm giving her banana (only occasionally), zucchini boiled in mineral water, lettuce, raw cucumber, and sweet potato boiled in mineral water.

I wanted to share the setup and get some feedback. Am I missing anything, food-wise or setup-wise?

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I've noticed certain music puts me in a strong powerful grounded, present-moment state. A lot of ambient does this, I find the same quality in other places too, like shakuhachi, viola da gamba, some classical and slowed-down classical...

What's interesting and intriguing to me still, after so many years of experiencing and exploring this artform, is the contradictions in it:

It's a bath of sound that somehow fills silence with something silence-like present, making no demands. So it's both really here and not here at once. It ends up both silencing... and filling (the silence doesn't feel as empty/heavy). Not a lot to anticipate, it's fully here all at once. Or unfolding so slowly that it slows my chasing-brain-down.

Emotionally, it makes me miss people I had or have in my life or even miss them while I'm with them. Not in a sad way, like it pulls a kind of tenderness forward, an appreciation, a gratefulness with the imperfect instant.

It also makes loneliness feel more acute but in a way that's poetic and meaningful, rather than something to numb or distract from. Something just worth just welcoming and sitting in.
It's powerful, especially in contrast with the world we live in.

Curious whatever shape it takes for you, and what is it about ambient-related music that evokes this, you think?

Bit of a lucky find, there's a 7-string viol for sale and I'm tempted. It's a bit far but doable, and I'm a complete beginner so I'd love some input.

It's a Chinese student instrument from 2024, barely played, gut frets. Seller tells me "No cracks, the bridge stands fairly straight. Case included in the price. Bow in good condition I think."

Asking price is €2100. My gut says that's steep for a factory viol what do you think?
Thanks for any opinion.

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I don't have a DN2 to check and I'm trying to understand exactly how Chord Memory Learn works on the Digitone II.

When I create and save a set of chords using Chord Memory Learn, are the chord sets saved globally independently from projects? I hope the custom chords sets are available from anywhere.

How many chords sets can you create?

Seriously considering picking one up.

I work a lot with long recordings, around one-minute files and I want to pull short individual hits out of them.

Tonverk doesn't seem to have a slicer, so the approach would be manually setting start/end points in Single Player, which is fine.

- Is scrubbing through a long file to find a specific hit actually usable, or is it a pain without a waveform zoom?

- Can you load the same file across multiple Subtracks with different start/end points to build a kit from a single wav?

- Can you destructively crop/export a trimmed region as its own file on the SD card, or is the start/end point just a playback setting that leaves the original untouched?"

- Is this a workflow people use, or is it easier to pre-chop on the computer first?

Looking at picking up a Tracker Mini and trying to wrap my head around the sample memory limits before I commit. From what I could find:

The sample pool is ~350 seconds in stereo (or has that changed?)
There's a hard cap of 48 instrument slots per project

So for short samples (~6s) you'd hit the 48 slot limit before the memory limit.
For longer samples (30–60s) the 350s budget becomes a real issue, looking at maybe 5–10 long samples per project :/

My use case would be loading longer 30–60s samples to slice or extract segments from. Trimming on-device sounds doable but I wonder how practical it is on the Mini with long waveforms

Coming from the M8 and finding it too fiddly, the Tracker Mini's size and layout seems more up my street but don't want to juggle with sample memory. the M8 didn't really have that kind of limitations.

Thanks for any help 😄

Has Alan Watts ever mentioned Jainism in any lecture or writing? The ideas feel too aligned with what he kept returning to, like the impossibility of fixing truth in a single proposition, for him to have entirely missed Jainism. But I can't find much. Maybe it wasn't all translated or available at the time.
Any known references, even passing ones?

Je voulais partager une expérience (sans doute banale et normale) mais qui m'a interpellé et avoir vos avis.

Un jardinier est venu chez moi pour un devis. Le soir venu, sans me demander mon accord, il a créé un compte à mon nom sur Unipros (coopérative officielle de services à la personne) en utilisant mon nom, mon adresse, mon numéro de téléphone, mon email. J'ai reçu une flopée d’emails automatiques m'informant de la création du compte. Surpris. Je ne me suis pas connecté.

Ma première question : est-ce légal d’inscrire une personne tierce sur une plateforme ?

Même si la plateforme est officielle et encadrée, utiliser les données personnelles de quelqu'un pour créer un compte sans son consentement me semble être une violation du RGPD. Le fait que le système permette des avantages financiers ne change rien au principe : personne ne m'a demandé. On est incité car l’économie est importante, c’est pratique, confortable, on y va.

Au-delà du cas particulier, ça soulève quelque chose pour moi.

Une normalisation. Les transactions entre individus sont progressivement absorbées par des plateformes numériques. Pas par la force mais par incitations. C'est (beaucoup) moins cher si tu passes par le système. Ou bien c'est plus sécurisé si tu utilises la plateforme pour d'autres cas de figures comme Dossier Facile (?)
Résultat : le faire devient la norme. Bon, rien de nouveau, ça fait un bail que c’est le cas. Ce qui me dérange, c'est que cette logique détruit quelque chose de subtil mais d'important : la confiance directe entre personnes. Et à un moment ce mode de fonctionnement devient tellement la norme qu’on imagine plus fonctionner autrement.

Que devient ce genre d’infrastructures demain ?

Aujourd'hui Unipros est une coopérative française, encadrée, apparemment bienveillante. Mais une base de données contenant les habitudes, les prestataires, les adresses, les transactions de millions de foyers, tout ça relié au finances publiques… ça a une valeur. Qu'est-ce qui garantit que dans 10 ans ce type de plateforme ne sera pas racheté par une entreprise privée française, américaine, chinoise… ? Ou soumis à des pressions d'un état dont le régime politique est différent.

De manière plus générale, l’Union Européenne est en train de construire un cadre d'identité numérique qui touchera bientôt beaucoup d’interactions officielles de nos vies. L'intention est peut-être louable. Mais j’imagine que l’infrastructure finit toujours par être utilisée ou exploitée.

Ce qui était incitatif hier devient la norme aujourd'hui, et l'obligation demain. C'est ce glissement-là que je remarque. Après, tout ça n’est pas mon domaine... j’intuitione et me questionne plus d’autre chose.

Curieux d'avoir vos avis