Deer God. Just had yet another instance of yt-dlp randomly breaking for me, but working again after updating to the latest version. This cycle is not only old news, but really annoying news now. Still, I gotta admit, this ongoing duel between Youtube and yt-dlp is amusing to watch, so I'm not going away any time soon.
Ray Dog
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Hello there! I'm just another blind, geeky audio person. My biggest interests are music transcription and various synthesizers. I also do a bit of gaming, though I tend to stick to action-based offline audio games. I'm fairly shy and reclusive, but I still hope I can contribute something interesting to your timeline!
Update on my ear situation. I lucked out and got in to see the doctor practically when they opened this morning. They saw that I had some earwax stuck in there, and they tried to flush it out with water and hydrogen peroxide, but it didn't come out willingly. They got some out, but the rest is stuck deep in my ear canal. So they prescribed some eardrops to soften it and hopefully it'll come out on its own. The good news is my hearing is much better now than it was when I went in. Not quite normal yet, but it's about 90-95 percent there lol
Slightly personal question: How do you clean your ears to keep them from getting blocked with wax? I've been having some trouble with this lately.
Are eardrops easy to do as a blind person? I wouldn't know, I never had to use them. I probably should be using wax softeners, but I don't want to screw it up and waste the medicine. Lol.
Sometimes my mom and I will use the dreaded q-tip/cotton swab to get wax out of my ears, and that helps if my hearing is very slightly muffled. But I think I'm paying the price for that now, since my hearing on the left side is persistently muffled. About 4 hours ago, I tried to irrigate it with warm water, and that made it much worse. It hasn't improved yet. Everything sounds extremely right heavy now. I won't be playing audio games or doing fancy audio work today.
I'm guessing I got myself a proper blockage. Deciding what to do about it is slowly but surely making my anxiety levels slope up. Part of me wants to try more at-home remities or just go to ergent care, because sitting here doing nothing about the problem is killing me. I'm even starting to psych myself out wondering if there is a blockage there at all, because my anxiety kinda does that. Another part of me is saying, calm down, you're not deaf, this is temporary. Maybe it would just go away if you quit worrying. Just ugh.
Today is going to be... Interesting. I was listening to music and responding to a text on autopilot, and I very, very nearly incriminated myself. In my zoned out state, I had typed a thing in the message that only me and my silliest friends would get, but the band mate I was sending it to certainly would not. Literally caught myself in the brief moment between typing and sending. God, brain, that was way too close. Please do not do that!
I need to come up with or find a word to describe a thing that is understandably difficult, until you figure out the secret, then the difficulty just vanishes. Calling such a thing easy or simple sounds belittling, because to me that carries the subtext that it was never hard, and if it is then you are lacking something. Ehh, I'm probably overemotioning this, as usual.
PCMagIn a scammy tactic, some third-party laptop sellers are listing cloud storage capacity as part of the device's storage. https://www.pcmag.com/news/1tb-of-storage-not-quite-beware-this-sketchy-pc-listing-tactic
I am a decent speller. Not bad by any means, but nowhere near good enough to be in a spelling bee. Anyhow I just learned how to spell machinery. It just looks so weird in my head. Now let's see how long I remember this. Don't be surprised if I forget it in a week or less. Lol
Random tech question. I have two internal drives, C and D. My C drive has Windows and all my installed software. My D drive is just for data, it doesn't have anything installed on it.
I am having issues with running out of space on my D drive. Not surprising really since a lot of my programs store temp files there. The issue is that, if I close one of those programs, it will delete its temp files but the free space sometimes doesn't get restored. Windows will think I'm using more space than i am. The only way to get the free space back is to reboot the PC.
I have my theory that only one specific program is having this issue, but I need to do some more testing before I can confidently say that. While I attempt to do said testing, I just thought I'd put it out here in masto land. Anyone have ideas about why rebooting is the only way to get my free space back?
Best way to encourage someone to explore a new interest: Throw a dozen so-called basic sounding terms at them, put the most essential of them near the end of your list and the most advanced at the beginning, and tell them this is the list of things they need to understand before they can start.
This is not how you impress people or screen them to see who's cut out for the task. Instead it's gatekeeping 101.
Wait wait, they can use AI to learn about stuff! Um no. The only reason they're tempted to do that is because you couldn't be bothered explaining a damn thing or giving a helpful recommendation of your own.
Bleh. I guess I'm just too old and cranky to put up with this crap these days. Lol
So I randomly looked at which apps on my IPhone got updated, and the latest entry in the change log for one of those apps is something like this: "Fixed IOS 12 compatibility issue." Dang. This is a recent update too. Didn't expect to see that level of legacy support in Apple land, but hey I'm not hating. I actually think it's cool!