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How many of you out there were influenced by Art Attack growing up? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

The first time I saw the Spanish one was at like four in the morning, and I thought I'd had a stroke lol

How many of you out there were influenced by Art Attack growing up? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I have very fond memories of the Neil Buchanan era — of how quaint, low-fi and distinctly British it was — so my mind was kind of blown when I realized it has since become an international franchise

"1.32 MB" Is that pronounced, "one-point-three-two" megabytes, or "one-point-thirty-two" megabytes? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"One point three two", because otherwise the question is 'thirty two what'. Consider what happens if we put a zero on the end — does it become "one point three hundred and twenty" despite being exactly the same number?

Help me understand DSP on Linux? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

I'm using Bitwig (the DAW) wrt hardware, it's an i7 4770 with 8gb DDR3 RAM (which doesn't seem to be filling up) and a sata SSD.

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Help me understand DSP on Linux? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Andrzej3K@hexbear.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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And also on computers generally lol.

The situation: I'm trying out Bitwig on my geriatric computer, which is running Linux Mint. It seems that I can't do very much without spiking the DSP, leading to awful glitchiness in playback. However, according to btop, the CPU (i7 4770) load isn't breaking 30%, spread evenly across the cores.

Things I have tried:

uninstalling speech dispatcher, which helped
tweaking the pipewire config, which doesn't seem to have helped much

So... what is the bottleneck here?

EDIT: the (main) issue was that my user didn't have real time priority permissions. An edit to /etc/security/limits.conf has improved things immeasurably.

What happened to make you finally accept that it's not worth it to be an altruistic person? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

It is definitely worth it