I think that I have an answer for you.

From the other comments, it sounds like you’re using a dynamic mic. So, you can very likely rule out phantom power as, while they may exist, I’m not aware of any dynamic mics that use phantom power.

Additionally, from your original post, you note that you are using an XLR to phono adapter to connect and can get some signal, if you crank up the boost.

Are you by chance running direct from the mic to the on-board soundcard?

If so, that is probably your issue. The mic-in on most non-audio production soundcards isn’t designed for this. They are intended for things like electret condensor mics that have built-in pre-amps or others that produce a signal that is closer to line-level.

Most stage and studio mics that use XLR connections produce a very low signal that is intended to run through a pre-amplifier to bring it up to line-level before it goes to tape/DAW/PA power amp.

So, my recommendation would be to take one of two routes:

1. Obtain a mic pre-amp and add it to your signal chain between the mic and computer.

2. Obtain an audio interface that contains a decent mic pre-amp.

I would recommend the second, if practical as the ADCs in on-board soundcards are historically mediocre to poor. You will probably be much happier with the result.

One of the PCs though (who joined after the other guy left) is an artificer who was born without legs (currently has prosthetics they made) and the reason he’s out adventuring is to bring legs to those who lack them. Like his mentor did for him.

That’s my kind of power fantasy right there.

Indeed. Linux, with WINE is known to outperform Windows, sometimes by a wide margin, for older games for some time. Win98 hasn’t seen any development in about two decades. Meanwhile, people who enjoy old software have been continually improving WINE, allowing modern hardware and OS advances to be leveraged and unpatched low-level issues to be fixed. Linux is very much a better Win98 than Win98.

Things have improved a lot since the 90s.

Going to have to disagree on the second bit. Nearly every game that was released on XP or earlier has run better for me with WINE or DosBox in Linux than Windows. Proton and Lutris/Heroic have only made it better. I have the Might and Magic collection and Mass Effect Remastered on my deck and both run flawlessly with little setup.

Yeah. If you have everything but the PCB, it is rather cheap. It’s the other parts where the costs add up.

For the comment, it must have been a quirk of federation. I saw it in my notifications in pre-deleted form.

I already had switches, caps, nice!nanos, and am printing a temporary case while I finalize what I want to use (currently planning on a linen-reinforced epoxy - think FR4 but DIY and sub linen for glass fiber). So, cost for me was fairly low.

I’m looking forward to hardware and firmware hacking on a Framework laptop.

Thank you (and the rest of the dev team)! I’ve rather been missing it as my home instance moved to a 0.19-rc last month.

I’m unsure that I would find this useful. While I might want a good solution to view web content on the terminal (with a modern, w3c standards rendering engine) so that I can do less outside of the terminal, I don’t think I see the utility of using web tech to power my zsh and vim usage. I am enjoying my balance of utility and perf with kitty.

I hope you have a good experience and share your findings.

Whack-a-Mole

I think that they were referring to the exploit that was recently published. Google researchers were able to reliably get the LLM to output training data verbatim, including PII.

To me, this reads as damage control for that. Especially as they are being sued for copyright infringement, which they and their proponents have been claiming is impossible (clearly, they were either wrong or lying).

Ok. That’s incredible. This is more what I saw for the technology’s potential. Not cutting all corners possible to make delivery of disposable goods worse.

Add Trader Joe’s to the map and it will look a bit better. They’re both owned by the same people and have similar offerings, from what I’ve seen.

No problem!

Like many Internet phenomena of recent years, NNN has been used as part of the far-right/chauvinist movement. Lots of weird and biologically incorrect stuff going around surrounding it too. I think that far-right movements think that they can leverage male sexual frustration to drive people to violence and other nefarious activities - sexual denial seems weirdly common in extremist right-wing groups, across cultures. Seriously. It’s weird.

This right here. Just found out about this last week after a long debug.

You’re not wrong for trying to find another solution. Unfortunately, I think, in this case, your up against fundamental Linux permissions. One possibility would be running the work in a container with reduced capabilities but, it really is going to depend on what behaviors you’re trying to avoid.

Overall, it’s likely a better idea to re-install because noone should be running stuff directly as root in the majority of production scenarios.

DO NOT OPEN PRs CONTAINING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.

That is all.

You’re very welcome!

I studied this stuff back in uni, is really fascinating, though, I’m more familiar with DNA amplification via Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).

If you’re interested, I’ll give some details here and a link to a neat video. Effectively, there is an enzyme in our cells called DNA Polymerase. It literally scans a strand of DNA and copies it. In PCR, they use a solution of nucleotides (building blocks of DNA) and the DNA Polymerase extracted from a heat-loving microbe. The DNA to be copied (amplified) is added, and then the temperature maintained at the enzyme’s optimal temperature (higher than usual for other organisms). The solution is allowed to “stew” for a set amount of time, then, filtered to separate the DNA (lots of copies of the original) from everything else.

A similar process can be done using an RNA polymerase (possibly modified) in order to amplify mRNA. So, once the template is printed, it gets put in the solution and RNA polymerases go brrrrrr.

https://youtu.be/wJyUtbn0O5Y?si=Gkz8B87iY-35GvuZ