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Bophades @midwest.social
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Young people are struggling to deal with their MAGA parents — again
  • I didn't choose to be born. I didn't choose to be adopted into a dysfunctional family. I didn't choose to be raised as a little bigot. I did choose to walk away when I grew up and started seeing how people like me and my family were hurting others. This goes far beyond mere opinion, and perhaps you ought to spend some time reasoning about why these things aren't that important to you.

    Edit to add a word.

  • Adobe's decision to eliminate perpetual licensing for its Elements software has stirred controversy among consumers
  • Use Affinity Publisher, Photo, and Designer instead. Looks like it's USD $165 for a universal license at the moment. Very few of the more exclusive features Adobe provides are worth the cost of doing business with them. The only thing I missed at first is Photoshop's timeline, but apps like Krita or Aseprite (if pixel art is your jam) have that covered.

    Edit to add: one great feature of Affinity is that, if you have Publisher and at least one of the other apps, Publisher will unify the workflows of the others into the same screen. In other words, you can switch between Publisher, Designer, and Photo without minimizing or opening the other apps individually.

    Art and design, regardless of medium, need not be gatekept by corporate goons to stuff greedy pockets.

  • Audio Engineering @lemm.ee Bophades @midwest.social

    Question about guitar amplifier Send/Return loop and SFX propagation

    --- Update ---

    @rigatti's advice put me on the right track! I needed to hook up the amp to my PC using the USB-B port in the back, and download Boss Tone Studio (specifically the Katana Mk2 version). Under the "Editor" tab, and then the secondary "Send/Return" tab, I simply needed to switch the "position" property to "Post Rev".

    Dope. Rock on, friends.

    --- Original Post ---

    Heyo, I hope this is appropriate to post here:

    I picked up a Boss Katana MkII guitar amp, and it has a lot of cool features that I'm new to, one being its send and return loop. I currently have it sending to, and returning from, a little Ditto looper pedal. With this setup, it typically allows me to overlay multiple tracks, with each one having different effects (powered by the amp) applied. However, sometimes it happens that switching to another preset channel seems to apply that new channel's effects over the existing loop tracks. It appears to be mainly happening with reverb, but it's not consistent, and I can't pin down what's causing it. Even switching to another channel and back will sometimes solve it.

    Any tips or ideas?

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    “If Young Voters Voted at the Same Rate”
  • I think it's not quite the case that people get more conservative as they age. It's that policies and goals throughout society tend to get more progressive with time – as we learn more about our needs and those of others – while personal ideologies tend to crystallize with age. When one generation solves a problem, the next generation starts looking for new problems to tackle. The trouble is that we have to do that while dragging the previous generations, kicking and screaming, towards something more broadly beneficial to society because they think they've already got it all figured out. The evolution of our understanding of the world doesn't end with our generation, no matter how much effort we put in. 🤷