new #blog article: "Tourists will grope a child in the name of culture"

https://serime.net/md/blog/2026-03-15-tourism-juliet.md

#tourism #verona

it's kinda weird we still don't have a proper way of building an ordered (from the top) masonry-like webpage without javascript

another day on vanilla gnome. life's good

my shitposting days are so over. I don't got that thang in me no more

I do this too, and it is a great solution, especially when you're going through a hard time and don't want people to read your most intimate thoughts:

Blog post by @008080
"You should have a second journal, as a treat"

https://sunny.garden/@008080/116221270809767492

#journal #journaling

new #blog post: "You should have a second journal, as a treat"

https://serime.net/md/blog/2026-03-13-doublejournal.md

@L0wKey thank you very much!! i'll get to my pc and look for some demos

@L0wKey I'm using strato-like with a three single-coil setup. I would be more comfortable with suggestions under 50€, although I am happy to listen to options up to 100€ and keep an eye on the used market.

I would eventually like to add a big reverb to steer towards shoegazey territory. Maybe a fuzz that doesn't have the extra octave could be better suited? the Super Fuzz by Behringer saturates easily as soon as you move outside of power chords and riffs

@L0wKey Thanks! Nevertheless, I needed another new cable anyway, so it's not a wasted purchase. Mine's a Harley Benton ST-62MNVW, veeery budget. I would be surprised if it didn't produce any sort of hum - and it's not like I mind, I prefer music that has a bit of dirt, so to speak. But the one probably introduced by the Behringer Super Fazz is just gnarly haha.

In case I send it back, do you think there's any other fuzz worth trying, in the "very budget" tier? :>

@erin I think that in the end this absolutely 100% comes down to just using a linux computer. Like, every non-techy person I know has one of those tricks where he had to "go delete this dll and replace it with one he found online" or "had to remove this one checkbox and then reboot their pc" for whatever to works. Why? Because they spent an afternoon looking for solutions online.

The truth is that linux feels scary because many options are terminal-based, but once it clicks, it feels so liberating

@rachaelspooky knowing japanese absurd's age perception, Cid might as well be 23 canonically for all we know

@L0wKey the guitar is dead quiet once I remove the Behringer, even if I set my small amp to simulate an overdriven metal sound.

I did I want to take the cable out of the equation because all the ones I do have laying around, other than my "good one", are old and do introduce some static if I use them in direct connection between guitar and amp :)

@wolfram_roesler hmm I'm not sure, I guess I ought to take a look inside if other troubleshooting doesn't come through.

@L0wKey noise is still very vivid both when the guitar is unplugged, and the effect turned off! If everything is plugged and the fuzz is turned on, leaving strings untouched produces a hum louder than an open G haha.

I only have a few cables lying around and I suspect some aren't blocking inferference as they should, so to eliminate any doubt I'll first get an extra reputable cable before sending the fuzz back and trying to get it replaced. It's one of the cheap Berhingers, so a malfunction is very possible.

Thank you for the help! I'll update on the matter.

@L0wKey Hmm, okay, I think what's introducing the most hum of all is the only pedal I have chained before the amp, a Behringer Super Fuzz. I get that it's a noisy pedal, but it's hella loud even as I keep my fingers on the strings lol

I'll investigate online and understand how much hum it should actually produce.

hmm my cheap #guitar has an ungodly amount of hum and popping, most easily hearable when I take off all of my fingers from the fretboard and then touch a string :( any suggestions?

#electricguitar #musicians

maybe unpopular opinion but thank goodness #opensuse is slowly getting rid of yast2. It always felt messy, a sorry alternative compared to doing anything through command line. Cockpit is way more promising tbh

@SarraceniaWilds ow right, it's a bit though. I admit strongest selling points for me nowadays is qmk compatibility and layer keys, and I suggest looking into that if you like portable factors.

That makes it so I can have so many functions on just a few keys. I use a lily58 and feels like I could easily trim away the top row, since I have a numpad on another layer.

@SarraceniaWilds what seems to be the matter? Trouble deciding?