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Writing in a non-Latin language while using a non-QWERTY keyboard layout (lemm.ee)
 

I am using the Silakka54 keyboard with great pleasure. I configured the keyboard in such a way that I am using the Colemak-DH layout for English. However, I also speak other languages which do not use the Latin alphabet. For those languages, the operating system deals with translating the key presses. The problem is that my keyboard sends key signals according to the Colemak-DH layout while the system expects the QWERTY layout. Ergo, I get nonsense when I type.

To illustrate what I mean, let's say that pressing "L" on the QWERTY keyboard corresponds to the letter "Λ" being typed out. Since Colemak-DH moves the location of "L" to the "U" key, in order to type that character again, I'd have to press "U" on QWERTY, not "L" anymore. This breaks the layout.

One of the solutions I can think of is to make a macro that switches the keyboard over to a QWERTY layout and toggles the language change in the system. However, that would require me to reconfigure home row mods and other keys twice. Is there a more elegant solution for this problem, such as allowing the keyboard to send Unicode symbols? My keyboard uses VIAL for the firmware, by the way.

Thoughts On Generative Music in c/musicproduction@sh.itjust.works
[–] gvalia@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's such a shame that only a minority of people who knew about generative music before the rise of "generative AI" can get the real meaning of the title.

I'm still wondering about what should be done in this case. Changing either term would be very cumbersome. Should we add a (non-AI) disclaimer to generative music instead?

Rant: Alexithymia sucks major fucking ass in c/autism@lemmy.world
[–] gvalia@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

You might know about this but https://youfeellikeshit.com/ is really helpful to self-diagnose.

I would also suggest you write "disaster reports" where you ask yourself what happened and why it happened 5 or more times. Preferrably write it out by hand on a piece of paper.

Example:

"I couldn't sleep last night. Why? Because I couldn't calm down. Why? Because I felt too tired to consciously steer myself to calm down. Why? Because of the conversation earlier. What happened there? I was forced to pretend everything was okay when it wasn't."

You can keep going after this until you feel satisfied with your answers.

Afterwards, I also like to write something similar to this:

"Conclusion: tough conversations overdrain energy. Next time I should strive to mask less/plan recovery activities afterwards, etc."

Finally, labeling emotions is a skill that will come to you after persistently working on it. Don't give up! And read as much as you can about it.

VCV Rack - Anyone interested ? in c/musicproduction@sh.itjust.works
[–] gvalia@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Beads has a special mode with its own wavetable banks, so you can use it as a granural synth basically. Although, if you know how to play with feedback well, you don't really need to feed it too meaningful of a material to get gnarly sounds out of it. In addition, you can feed standard line level signals into Beads, which means that it's compatible with virtually any audio device.

VCV Rack - Anyone interested ? in c/musicproduction@sh.itjust.works
[–] gvalia@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yes, I've been into VCV rack and Cardinal for a while. My primary use case is idea/sample generation and it's spectacular for that.

Maybe once I learn the sequencers I'll make whole tracks in it.

By the way, you should not be afraid of modular hardware. Get a versatile effects module (for me, Mutable Instruments Beads) and use it as an effects processor.

Some people haven't learned that corporate will screw them over again in c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
[–] gvalia@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I tried to get into IRC, but it lacked a lot of things that are basic nowadays, such as the ability to view past history of the chat and embedding media. I didn't want to sit around for hours just to see what people would write about.