Music. Photography. Thoughts.
Don’t ask me what that title means – I have no idea. But it was the title of a track on today’s ‘album of the day’ on Wikiloops by a former member, his name is now leftTheLoops22012327, but the artist was formerly known as ‘MikaBass’. So here is he on piano, and me adding a little fretless to it:
So thanks and so long to ‘MikaBass’, to Wikiloops as always, and to you for listening.
Took this one yesterday:
As always, thanks for viewing.
I’m glad that when I last bought a new SSD for my machine (in August 2021 I think) I set up that boot SSD as a triple boot system, with Win10 just for a few programs (Olympus/OM System, looking at you), my usual workhorse Debian GNU/Linux, but also Arch Linux which is a “rolling release” type Linux distribution, so you’ll always have the latest and greatest software within days or even hours – a bit like Debian “Sid”/unstable.
So yesterday I updated Arch again, and got a new kernel – and after a reboot, the sensors were all working:
That was a bit of a surprise since there was this bug concerning sensord in conjunction with some chips which are used on Asus mainboards such as mine or Mitchie’s (I’m always using Asus when building machines). So finally, after 8 or 9 years I can see the rotation speed of the CPU and case fans again, plus some other things.
This doesn’t show up on Debian of course:
There’s a reason to run Debian stable on your desktop. While I enjoy seeing all the progress with pipewire and other programs on Arch, I’m also not afraid to break something with these updates, because I still have my trusty old Debian which serves me well since I first used it (in 2008 or even earlier? Would have to dig the internet archive for my articles about this)…
So it will take a while (I think even “Sid” is still at linux-image-5.15, and so are derivates like Ubuntu & Co), but sooner or later this kernel version will also be available in Debian. And that’s why I wanted to send a “thank you” to all the kernel developers, and of course also the Arch team. Great work, everyone. 🙂
Got myself some “Reference-grade headphones for analytical listening sessions”, as it says on the box:
And, a bit further up on the same box, the product name:
And the Sennheiser HD 560S, currently available for 149€ instead of 199, are just wow. Watch a review from a Youtuber who calls himself “DMS” who is also cited on the product page:
So yes, for that price they are without any real competition if you need headphones which you can trust, without having to eq or “correct” them, which is what I did with my Sennheiser HD 598SE during the last years. First listens of today were:
and finally one from our “mix master” at wikiloops, Monsieur OliVBee:
I also tried to listen with some equalizer settings and frequency curves made for and of these headphones from a reddit user named “oratory1990”, find his list and explanations/howtos and free programs here. With these, Oliv’s track #10082 sounded just like with my corrected headphones before, but the interesting thing was: I liked the sparkle on these cymbals even more *without* that correction – these cans are great right out of the proverbial box!
So well done, Sennheiser. You have some headphones there which are like the famous HD600 in their neutrality, with an even more pronounced bass, and very very detailed. Bravo! I can only recommend to try these.
This is no advertising – I paid them with my own money, and my trusty old HD 598SE with new earpads will find a new home at some relative’s place.
As always, thanks for reading (and maybe listening). And look up oratory1990, maybe you’ll find some correction curves/settings for your own headphones.
P.S., from later in the evening:
I have listened a bit more, and tried both pulseeffects on Debian (with pulseaudio and jack) and easyeffects on Arch (with pipewire), the LSP parametric eq was the same. And so was the sound, with oratory1990’s recommended eq settings it’s pretty much the same as my Sennheiser 598SE, corrected with Sonarworks (99$). But the difference with the 560S is pretty minimal, so you don’t have to eq it. But this is just a cheap (free) method of getting a sound reproduction which is very nice, and close to reality. So – I can recommend both the headphones *and* the eq methods and curves. Nice 🙂
Again, thanks for reading. And good night.
Bundesregierung: ja zum Ausschluß Rußlands aus Swift
Everyone: stop trading and/or mining digital virtual money. That should stop them.
Come on, Oligarchs – even your own people don’t want this… oh, and I somehow like these guys… 🙂
Edit, from Wednesday March 9th, 2022: sometimes I wonder if no one has seen or remembers this movie (and again, in Russian)? I wonder if the guys who started this love their children, too?
… just where our Tuna used to lay and rest …
cropped to 16:10
sunny white balance
out of camera image – used raw converters just to add metadata
As always, thanks for viewing.
This is good advice from the FSF (Free Software Foundation) Europe. And here are their German and English sites about it (with more translations available).
So please keep using your old phones as long as possible, even if Google/Android don’t support them any more. Do something good for the planet, and for us all. Thanks.
Thanks go out to Wales Online for this article which also provides some good links, like those to The Kyiv Independent, and The New Voice of Ukraine. Russia These fools from the Kreml will *not* succeed in this…
More thoughts, from another IT guy but in German, are here.
Cookie as Romeo:
Not my sharpest photo ever, but it shows feline desire (one way, poor guy). I also tried and liked a new version of Darktable to convert the raw .orf image to a .jpg using only Arch Linux. It’s not as contrasty as the out-of-camera jpg, which improves the image rather than taking anything away.
As always, thanks for viewing.