Summarized: I Respect Our Shared Humanity

ChatGPT. Was that coherent? You are a scholar of technical writing and the english language. Please give me a summary of what the writer was trying to say: Summary The writer discusses the evolution of their communication style, initially emphasizing correctness and spelling but now prioritizing speed and humor, even at the expense of errors. They reflect on how technology, specifically AI, has changed communication. While AI can handle some interactions, the writer stresses the importance of human-to-human communication, particularly in situations where nuance and personality are crucial.
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I Respect Our Shared Humanity

Intro I used to be a person who cared greatly about ensuring that my prose were correct, and that I spelled everything correctly. I'm actually going to avoid that here and I'm not even going to bother with a spell checker. For most casual communication I now like to focus on being fast and funny at the expense of the red squiggly lines or appeasing the specter of my english teacher.
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Installing Native Instruments Komplete in Wine

Installing Komplete in Wine to use with the AWESOME tool yabridge has a big pain point The .iso applications will not install because they do not mount correctly https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge#known-issues-and-fixes The fix here is fine but there's one gotcha: The documentation says that you should take two steps to install the packages with wine: udisksctl loop-setup -f ~/Downloads/<filename>.iso # load the .iso file udisksctl mount -t udf -o unhide -b /dev/loopX # where /dev/loopX corresponds to the loop device printed by the loop-setup The problem is that in Fedora 39 once you create the loop device it will automount.
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Pipewire and Jack on Fedora 39

I recently switched from a MacBook Pro to an AMD Framework 13 Laptop. That means that I need to actually figure out how to make Linux audio work. There were no issues using Pipewire for ALSA sound but I was unable to get Jack clients connected with errors like: Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel jack server is not running or cannot be started JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
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Roland FR-4X USB Drives

If you're a subscriber to this blog, thank you. This is almost certainly not interesting for you. If you're the owner of a Roland FR-4x digital accordion and trying to find which USB sticks can be used with your accordion I tried out every stick in my house with no luck. I learned: They need to be FAT32 (not ExFat) They need to be USB2.0 16GB seems to be the ideal size?
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