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bgrier, 4 months ago to news

Canadian journalism takes another hit - layoffs impacting large and small newsrooms, as well as the award-winning flagship national investigative news program, W5. Ooof.

'More big names from CTV National news axed in latest round of Bell Media layoffs'

https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/02/big-names-ctv-national-news-bell-media-layoffs/

#News #Journalism #Canada #Layoffs #Employment #CTV #Reporting

bgrier, 4 months ago to 3DPrinting

Spent part of the day designing and printing a watercolour swatch card template for my wife. She described something she saw and this was the result.

I used one of the textured print beds for that cool finished effect.

https://www.printables.com/model/731106-watercolor-swatch-card-template-or-watercolor-if-y

#3dPrinting #Hobbies #Crafts #Arts #Painting #Watercolor #Watercolour

bgrier, 4 months ago to Alberta

Looks like the #Alberta power grid is having issues with the demand and the cold #wx
#YEG #EmergencyAlert #Energy #Weather #Canada #Climate

bgrier, 5 months ago to mastodon

I guess it's time. Looking for #Mastodon desktop client recommendations (MacOS)

I've gotten to the point where the web client isn't meeting my needs. Especially regarding ALT text filtering.

Prefer a non-subscription model -- I prefer to own rather than rent :)

Ideas?

#SocialMedia #Client #MacOS #Desktop

bgrier, 7 months ago to 3DPrinting

Another #3DPrinting design that gets daily use - a bag drying rack. Perfect for silicon or reusable food bags. You provide the chopsticks (or even print your own :) )

https://www.printables.com/model/40865-chopstick-bag-drying-rack

#Kitchen #Sustainability #Recycle #Reuse #Baggies #Bags

bgrier, 7 months ago to til

Today I learned a neat trick. While listening to music from my Macbook Pro on headphones, I wanted to turn the volume up 'just a little bit'.

It seems the default volume control is 1/16th increment per step.

But, if you hold down Option and Shift ( ⌥ ⇧ ) while adjusting the volume, then the increment becomes 1/64.

This also works for screen brightness and for keyboard backlight - if you still have that setting on your MBP. Mine doesn't :(

#TIL #Macbook #Music #Apple

bgrier, 8 months ago to vinyl

Jeff Wayne's Musical War of the Worlds
1978 Canada pressing

Can't seem to get enough of this album :) which, sadly has water damage/ mould on the sleeves and liners. Safely wrapped in new ones now but...

Question:
I've been using this vintage Discwasher brush since it was new.

I'm thinking it's not really 'state of the art' for record cleaning these days, so I'm looking for a modern solution that won't break the bank. Not interested in ultrasonic (currently). Maybe something like spinclean? Though the Ama$$on prices seem more than it should be worth.

I'm cool with mixing my own cleaning liquid, just looking for something that will let me clean the occasional flea market find to the point where they actually could sound good :)

Thoughts on good #vinyl #records cleaning ideas?

#music #audiophile #turntable #NowPlaying #NowSpinning

Robotron, 8 months ago to random

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bgrier, 9 months ago to climate

Capital city of one of Canada's provinces evacuating due to approaching #wildfire

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt-wildfire-emergency-update-august-16-1.6938756

#ClimateChange #Canada #Yellowknife #NWT

bgrier, 10 months ago to vinyl

Sadly, lost the #vinyl when converting to digital (I'm an idiot). #NowPlaying

#RockyHorrorPictureShow
#Soundtrack

Klaxun, 11 months ago to random

These are the warming stripes for Oregon.

Share the stripes for your home.
https://showyourstripes.info/s/northamerica/usa/oregon

dansup, 11 months ago to random

Taking a break from the fediverse until further notice

bgrier, 11 months ago to reddit

Reading: /r/scams is re-opening, but not for the reasons you might suspect.

Good statement of position:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/14c9hlo/reopening_but_not_for_the_reasons_you_may_suspect/

#Reddit #scam

maegul, 1 year ago to fediversenews

So the closure of home.social (see https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839), from my memory of the recent musings of the admin, is another example of a sizeable instance closing because of admin burnout (partly, IIRC, from admin/instance infighting interestingly).

So given that account mobility is still imperfect, and frankly probably annoying and confusing for many people ... is there anything better that can be done?

@fediversenews