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!
@Bruce @bmoore123 @amir I think whether it is an improvement or not depends on how you look at it. Objectively speaking, the upsampler can't improve anything because it can't intellligently add missing content. But its aliasing artifacts (which are in the high frequencies) makes it sound better to some people. Not knocking the people who like it btw, I like it as much as anyone else. I just don't want people thinking of it as some modern quality enhancement voodoo, because it really isn't. It's a decades-old artifact that finally got implemented in an Eloquence add-on for people who like it.
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
@ginsenshi Yeah I'll probably have to start making an ear cleaning a regular thing when I get my yearly checkup with my gp. Just wish I could deal with it at home when my hearing starts to get muffled 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.
@simon At one point I had the exact resolution threshold that would cause the crash, but I have to look back through old messages to find those details. Perhaps it was also related to my display driver, since I since found out that Windows Update was, without my knowledge, installing an old display driver that was giving me blue screens. So I had to disable some update policies and install the correct driver. No idea if that was related at all to my QWS crashing.