For my birthday I gifted myself a DIY Pedal Kit: it's a clone of a quite famous effect, can you guess what it is?
Every fart is a gamble
pH3ra
joined 3 years ago
I could say, "If you aren't addicted, then just quit."
Did anyone actually tell you that 1 beer a week is too much? Because it's not a real case scenario in my mind.
And even if they really did it's probably their own problem, and you don't really have to defend yourself for doing that.
In any other case, if a person tells you "hey, tone it down with the booze" you probably should.
Since less techy people tend to use more the mouse/touchpad anyways, I would pick a hard-to-mess-with desktop environment like Cinnamon or Gnome. With KDE, XFCE and such you can screw panels really easily if you don't know what you're doing.
Slap Debian under it and there you go
If you are in a position where you need to defend your booze consumpion, you're probably an alcoholic.
I agree, and I haven't seen many people doing that on this thread, so calling out the totality of lemmy.world users as "unmoderated transphobes" as the parent comment tries to do is forced and useless.
I'll go a step further and say that this kind of behaviour detracts from the main cause of trans rights, which many of the people here stand behind. Because if you call me a transphobe when all I'm trying to do is to call out your bullshit, what you're actually achieving is making me loose simpathy for your cause.
Is mentioning the name in a conversation deadnaming?
Because in my mind there is a difference between "trump said we have to call you bruce" and "hey bruce, guess what trump said", but it might not be the same for the people who disagree with my argument
If finding irony in a situation is transphobic I guess you'll have a hard time on social media in general. Have you tried gardening? And I suggest you don't announce your departure either, this isn't a train station.
This is like a trolley problem: how many infant are you willing to run over in order to kill Elon? And how many children are dying just by the fact that piece of garbage is alive?
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The Vatican has gone woke...
14 as well. I used to play in a marching band as a kid and we traveled abroad for a couple concerts over a long weekend: picture an unsupervized child surrounded by enabling adults in Southern Germany with access to free beer for one night.
I drank almost 3 liters of beer (yeah German beer is better than any other, sorry), got escorted to my hotel room by our town mayor, where I proceeded to expel my soul via esophagus and... March and play on the morning of the next day.
I was right in front of the bass drum.
20 years later I can steel feel every hit like a clear pain deep in my skull bones.
Everytime I see videos like that, I have to remember the promise I made to myself not to become like my father.
It gets harder every year.
So, I had this amp lying around in my father's basement for a while now. 13 years to be precise: It was my first practice amp back when I bought my first electric guitar. The circuit wasn't half bad, had a cool gritty marshally sound with an analogical spring reverb, but unfortunately the speaker was trash.
30 watts RMS are hard to handle for an 8 inches cheap speaker, so one morning, after an intense early '00s punk rock rehersal it simply went BZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz..... and it was gone.
And finding a new speaker that wouldn't blow up again, expecially one with such required specifications, was something I couldn't achieve 13 years ago. So eventually I gave up searching for spares and I bought a new amp.
Fast forward to a couple months ago, I need a small practice amp to carry around, now that I have a new band after a log time.
I remembered the existence of this relic from the past, went to my dad's house and I was surprised he didn't throw it away after all of this time.
I started to look for spares immediately and thanks to the power of today's internet, I was able to find that the Celestion TF0818, even tho it's not a speaker intended for guitar amps in the first place, had all the specifications I needed: 8 inches, 8 ohms, able to withstand up to 100 watts of power.
The delivery took a while to get to my house (I ordered it via a local website) but once it arrived I put it straight in.
With new guts, my old friend is back in action: the 0818 has a good response to mid-low frequencies which gives a lovely round and dark tone to the gain channel, while still being able to work with high frequencies due the small sizes.
I'm always happy to bring new life to old music equipment, it reminds us that we don't need the latest gizmos (and create unnecessary waste) if we take care of our stuff. Also, the swap was super easy, no joke I just needed a scewdriver and 10 minutes, so if you have and old amp lying around you could totally give it a shot, the results might surprise you.
This friend was gifted to me by my next door neighbour in 2009, when I was 17 and it has been love ever since.
Today it was it's cleaning day: I cleaned it all up, scraped the gunk from the fretboard and polished the frets with car scratch remover and at the end it came out so fine that made me want to share a picture with the community.
Take care of your instruments and they will last for a long time.
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Last year I bought an Harley Benton Telecaster and I loved it right away. Today I'm going to make it even better by upgrading its weak spots like the tuners, the electronics and the plastic nut. I'm also going to mod the wiring with a 4-way switch and adding a "pickup in series" mode.
Wish me luck.
You can't really compare the two movies, John Wick takes the route of being so over the top to the point of becoming funny. I don't think they were aiming for that with the new SW trilogy.