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I'm not having an issue with laptop with subpar speakers, but I don't see any way of not using EasyEffects. I'm running Arch on a Beelink SER8 through a focusrite 2i2 and into my Sony stereo receiver, out to floorstanding speakers. At the moment I am just using a slightly modified variation of one of the common community plugins, LoudnessEqualizer. For better or for worse, my ears are so accustomed to this. Elsewhere I also use it for things like dialogue boost and it surely does feel like overkill then, but convenient.

Now I am about to dig back into my Bitwig DAW, something I haven't done for many years, and dealing with all the issues around clean vs EasyEffects-modified sounds is daunting.

Re:Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @01:37PM (#48025812)
Where is this tutorial? I see nothing on the link nor on wordtrak.com that really explains how to play. I tried to play Daily and I had no idea. I tried dragging tiles onto squares to spell words, no tiles stuck anywhere, gave up.
Re:Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement on Thursday April 09, 2026 @12:58PM (#47706126)
Love Lichess. These days I haven't been playing very much but always watching chess streaming commentary. So I was surprised when I saw Take Take Take had a launch party Monday but no stream on Tuesday (getting dumped by chess.com). I never play chess on a phone but I was curious to see how Take Take Take might be incorporating LLM for English language explanation. Last fall I did a sort of proof of concept of this, not nearly fleshed out like the TTT app.

So I literally dusted off an old Android tablet and played one game. Pleased to see I got logged right in to my lichess account, played a 10 + 5 unrated, did game review. I think this should be great for everybody all around, and as others have expressed I hope lichess doesn't get caught up in some business grief. The game review was not earth-shattering but decent move-by-move explanation that I think will help a lot of players, especially newer players.

I will stick to playing on lichess in browser, on a 43" tv monitor, running and reading local Stockfish eval., without the English explan.

I thought they were named Microsloth. Making products like Windoze and Winblows.
Re:Online Collection of Keygen Music on Saturday August 02, 2025 @02:34PM (#44770103)
Ha! Memories from 25 years ago when you had to run Windoze for your audio and sometimes chess software.
Re:Show HN: Zev – Remember (or discover) terminal commands on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:23PM (#43785198)
I'm trying to get this to work with ollama. I'm on Arch Linux, fish shell, new to ollama, and only very rarely used pipx. I get:

raise ValueError("OPENAI_BASE_URL and OPENAI_API_KEY must be set. Try running `zev --setup`.") ValueError: OPENAI_BASE_URL and OPENAI_API_KEY must be set. Try running `zev --setup`

even when I run (for example) set -x ZEV_USE_OLLAMA 1; zev 'show all files and all permissions'

Re:Ultima VII: Revisited on Sunday February 23, 2025 @01:41PM (#43151841)
Looks cool. I loved Ultima II and III as a kid. Even wrote some text walk-throughs back then. Played them on Apple //e and //c, the last Apple products I ever owned (or ever will). I also ditched all Windows about 25 years ago.

I suppose to play on Linux though, I would need to run some Wine setup huh?

Re:Review of Linux on Minisforum V3 AMD Ryzen Tablet on Sunday June 23, 2024 @05:18PM (#40770647)
The 4:3 thing as you say. I've been wanting a tablet just for displaying sheet music. I asked some forum once but was told pretty much the same, only Apple. Why?
Re:Clean mount lists in Linux on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:06PM (#37274646)
Great post, thanks, also 'duf' was new to me, like it.

One question: I have 2 ntfs drives and they show as type "fuseblk". They don't show now with the new "mount" alias. I tried removing "fuse" from the list but no change. How can I bring these back to displaying when I enter "mount"?

Thanks for making this, just gave it a try. You might be able to work with the chess.com people in a way that might generate some $$. Or, better, work with the lichess folks (not for $$). I'd like to be working on something like this. Meanwhile, I think I'll run it some. Holes in my tactics especially in blitz showing up too often at the local chess Meetup.
I second the notion.
The intricacies and legal details here are a little beyond the scope of my understanding. Medium was never much, and when they turned into a popup-serving nagware, that was the end of them for me.