(I'm new to smartphones, still trying to figure out the basic functionality :P) Would that be because DND also disables visual display of notifications? Or maybe it stores up the notifications and releases them once DND is disabled? Oh, or I guess the control over which notifications go through might not be fine enough? If any of those, that sucks; it doesn't seem like it should be difficult to control which apps are allowed to make audible notifications.
Not sure if I'm understanding the problem correctly, but: Modes & Routines > Work > Stay focused (Do not disturb: On) > Do not disturb > App notifications (None allowed), then add your calendar app to the list of allowed apps and turn up global notification volume, which should let the calendar alerts chirp at you while keeping messages, calls, and other notifications silent.
Who are you quoting/responding to?
thanks for linking "River Man", I really liked it! The apparent lack of any interesting midi string parts is strange, I feel like someone should've done something by now. My hunch is that people are coming at it with the "how can I make these midi strings sound acceptably realistic" frame instead of a more "oh, I wonder what I can do with these robot strings" frame.
I'd tried to include something coherent about the causation in my first reply, couldn't quite figure it out. :P Hold on, I can tell already the structure's gonna be pretty rough...
It's sorta hard to imagine classical violin having songs only as difficult as the fiddle repertoire, because in some sense the difficulty is the whole point. The challenge is never to make something sound more beautiful, it's to include {insert a difficult to explain violin technique, +/- equivalent to tying your hand around your back} even if it sounds slightly worse as a result...
I did! 10/10 experience so far, not going back (besides, i couldn't if i wanted to!)
Nah, in my experience fiddle players are a lot less neurotic.
Oh wait dang it's me, I'm ~the park friend!
I was born in 2006. The first phone I acquired was a flip phone; I bought in late 2023 because a friend wanted my number and I was running out of plausible excuses. I know what the blogosphere is but don't care too much about it. I feel like I could convince the raspberry pi in the kitchen to become a server, but I feel like that would take more googling than I'd like and why would I want a webcomic anyways? I can make a real comic and give it to people. I saw some open flames around Christmas-time and so di...
Recent events have updated me towards thinking that a decent fraction of Americans (10-40%?) will rationalize and go along with ~anything the current admin does
I feel like unfortunately I am maybe one of these people, but it sort of depends on the definition of "going along with". I can't imagine myself ever feeling generally good about any of the recent administrations, but I also can't imagine myself trying to do much of anything about any of the things the administrations do, except for direct impacts on people I'm really close to. I'd guess that for that definition, the proportion may be significantly above 40%, like 80%-90%, but I've got no particular reason for those numbers.
i'm not certain you've yet earned the right to conclude that trying to do it makes you worse! :P Considering the set of all things that might someday go well, I don't think all such things will necessarily go well in the beginning, nor do i think they'll necessarily go well after a Significant Deliberate Attempt to Make Them Go Well. (I could ofc be totally wrong here—for instance maybe you've had many experiences that lead you to believe 'trying do this makes you worse', but you focused on the meetup in your post for narrative purposes.)
I've only attended...
Oh right, duh. Thanks!