I ended up buying the 3.0 Légère European cut because idk. Some people on line said the strength on the Légère reeds were softer or harder than other reeds. To me they're about the same as the Vandoren reeds, idk.

I should have gotten a 3.5.

In terms of feel, wow. They feel different than cane reeds. Definitely feels like plastic in your mouth, but then you forget about it when you start playing.

Compared to cane reeds, the plasticness of the reed really makes a different in terms of tone. With cane reeds, you can really control the tone of a note. You can bend it to make it really flat or really sharp really easily. For the style of music I play, this is essential. With the Légère, you can also mostly do this, but it takes more effort. The default tone with the Légère is very... firm... very robotic? I could see this strong firm tone being great for formal music.

The other thing I noticed with feel is that the Légère seems to vibrate less than cane reeds. The cane reeds vibrate more up and down, maybe due to weaker fibers or light fractures? It's very subtle, but something that added to the firmness of the Légère.

I just finished a gig where I played 1 hour with the Légère and 1 hour with my old trusty Vandoren traditional ... and I think I prefer the cane reeds.

Granted the Vandoren traditional is a 3.5 and the Légère is a 3.0... maybe I'll buy a Légère 3.5 and try again. But the Légère does seem less expressive than cane, so idk... Maybe the Légère isn't a great fit for the type of music I play.

Oh! Also, very important! The ligatures on my mouthpiece fit weird with the Légère reed. There's a little notch that fits over the reeds. It's a Vandoren mouthpiece/ligature, so the Vandoren reeds fit perfectly.

The Légère European cut is wider than the Vandoren traditionals, so I probably need a different ligature that properly fits the Légère. This definitely affected the performance of the Légère. I noticed it didn't sit perfectly with the mouthpiece, allowing a little bit of spit to escape through the sides of the reed.

Overall, a neat experiment. I haven't tried synthetic reeds in a very long while.

My car's owners manual only lists the 4 pinch welds next to the tires as lift points. No front or back lift points are mentioned.

How can I get the car on 4 jack stands?

If I place my floor jack on the front-left pinch weld to lift the car, there is not enough room for me to place a jack stand at that location anymore. The floor jack gets in the way.

However, I recently found a very interesting video by Home Depot that demonstrates just this.

https://youtu.be/df3nmx_LyGY?si=gfTkUnhO2LP-E6kB&t=35

Is this the way everyone has been doing it? My floor jack is pretty wide at the bottom and doesn't allow me to place a jack stand that close to it. Do I just need different equipment?

How wide are those pinch welds?

Wuuttup. I'm here complaining again about Framework's Linux unfriendly display. The new one this time.

https://frame.work/products/display-kit?v=FRANJF0001

Old display, 2256 x 1504 (3:2)

GNOME

100% scale

• Nothing looks blurry
• Everything is tiny
• Unusable

100% scale + large text accessibility

• Nothing looks blurry
• Most apps scale appropriately
• Some apps don’t respect GNOME’s large text setting (Alacritty)

125% scale

• Most apps look blurry (Picard, Firefox, Spotify, Alacritty)

200% scale

• Everything is way too big
• Unusable

Plasma

100% scale

• Nothing looks blurry
• Everything is tiny
• Unusable

125% scale + Apply scaling themselves

• Nothing looks blurry
• Most apps scale appropriate
• Some apps can’t scale themselves and look tiny (Picard)

125% scale + Scaled by system

• Most apps look blurry (Picard, Firefox, Spotify, Alacritty)

200% scale

• Everything is way too big
• Unusable

New display, 2880 x 1920 (3:2)

GNOME

100% scale

• Nothing looks blurry
• Everything is tiny
• Unusable

100% scale + large text accessibility

• Nothing looks blurry
• Most apps scale appropriately
• Some apps don’t respect GNOME’s large text setting (Alacritty)
• Everything is tiny

150% scale

• Most apps look blurry (Picard, Firefox, Spotify, Alacritty)

200% scale

• Everything is way too big
• Unusable

Plasma

100% scale

• Nothing looks blurry
• Everything is tiny
• Unusable

150% scale + Apply scaling themselves

• Nothing looks blurry
• Some apps can’t scale themselves, but look a little better here? (Picard)

150% scale + Scaled by system

• Most apps look blurry (Picard, Firefox, Spotify, Alacritty)

200% scale

• Everything is way too big
• Unusable

tl;dr

In the old display, GNOME at 100% + large text was the best compromise. In the new display, Plasma at 150% + Apply scaling themselves is the best compromise.

Interestingly, Picard scaling itself looks super tiny in the old display, but in the new display it looks... better. It's still not correctly scaled like native Wayland apps, but it's better.

Warning

If you can't stomach moving from GNOME to Plasma, then 🚨 DO NOT BUY THE NEW DISPLAY 🚨. The new display is worse for GNOME.

Once again

I am once again begging Framework to just give us a damn regular DPI display that works! Without workarounds. Without forcing users on specific DEs. Without forcing users to stop using their favorite apps. This new display has basically all of the flaws as the previous one.

Let's say I become a citizen of a country that doesn't allow dual citizenship. During naturalization, new country B tells me I have to renounce citizenship from old country A.

Does that have any effects back in country A? How would country A know? Would country A even care if they found out?

I'm currently working on my sprinkler valve box. It sucks ass. It's dug in the ground. I'm on my knees trying to replace a Hunter valve. This is the second time I'm back here this week because replacing the diaphragm didn't fix the leak. I think I'm gonna have to replace the whole valve, but the stupid valves are in the stupid valve box. So now I have dig out the box anyway (which is something the valve box is supposed to save you from).

I don't get why people think valve boxes are a good idea... It's making maintenance a bitch. It also hid the leak from me for a while. I only found this problem because I had a HUGE helldivers2-style bug breach here. Which makes sense: the box provides shelter and water.

I'm thinking of redoing this part of the Irrigation system and having the valves stick up out of the ground. Obviously now I have to protect against the weather, but that seems like a decent trade off for easy maintenance, easy malfunction discovery, and less potential for a bug infestation. (Don't give a crap about looks.)

Does anyone have any recommendations for above ground enclosures? The main weather I have to protect against is sun. I don't get snow or crazy wind. I just need something like a wooden crate or something to cover the valves.

My lower res, lower DPI display from my old Dell laptop looks much more sharp and crisp than the fancy pants Framework 13 high res display.

In 2024, with GNOME 45, Wayland, and 1.25 fractional scaling, regular DPI displays still look better than HiDPI displays. This is a photo of Discord on two laptops side by side.

The blurry one is the HiDPI display from Framework 13. The sharp one is a regular DPI display from Dell XPS 13. Both laptops.

The difference is even more stark in person.

Even the screenshots from the Framework are blurrier than the screen shots from the Dell.

Maybe I don't understand how Lemmy works yet...

I've created an account on lemmy.world. I've subscribed to [email protected]. In the browser, I can up-vote posts on lemmy.ml. However, when I tried the same thing it the app, it told me I had to log into lemmy.ml to up-vote.

Is this right? How come it works in the browser?

I'm starting to get tired of people talking about Reddit on Lemmy. I personally don't care about Reddit anymore and am not interested in Reddit news.

I already blocked c/reddit that helped. Is there anything else I can do? Is there a way to hide posts that contain a keyword?