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2022-09-23

One Minute Singles

tl;dr – embrace the format I’m of a generation where singles were very important. As a kid, a piece of music on 7″ of vinyl lasting about 3-ish minutes, and then later the 12″ extended single took over. But clearly the duration of a piece of music bears no relation to it’s aesthetic value. I have, in a long past...

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2021-10-11

Cheap Laptop Upgrade

Upgrading memory & hard drive in an Asus F507M laptop (with mostly-broken keyboard). A €300-ish machine made significantly more friendly with €70 of parts and a couple of hours work (mostly research). Some tips if you want to do something similar. Caveat: I use Ubuntu, no idea what might be different on other operating systems. Background A few years back...

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2021-09-03

Linux Audio Problems? Try this.

(On Ubuntu 21.04 with a USB audio interface – ymmv) For general use, sound on any modern Linux distribution Just Works. But when you start attaching audio interfaces and playing with things like digital audio workstations (DAWs) or video editing, things can get very confusing very fast. Historically, things like soundcards were an absolute pain on Linux. While manufacturers would...

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2020-03-23

Before and After

*** Hello again! *** tl;dr – blog! I’ve not posted here for about 18 months but I’m going to try and resume regular posts. Years back, on Raw Blog I probably posted once a day on average. Usually something brief, fine-grained, occasionally more long-form. That will be my target here. Apart from all the other reasons, there is a specific...

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Category: New Place

One Minute Singles

Cheap Laptop Upgrade

Linux Audio Problems? Try this.

Before and After