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2·2 years agoNils Frahm, his albums are quite different from each other; here are some I like in no particular order:
1·2 years agoThanks for pointing me to KORDHELL!
Sounds nice, would you share a video of someone skating the style you strive for?
I happened to listen to Look Mum No Computer when I started learning inline skating. Today, I still enjoy listening to these two albums in particular:
Also, I really enjoyed the track in the beginning of The Wizard of Wall Street, Slowdance, and sometimes listened to it when skating; unfortunately, I don’t like any of the artist’s other songs.
When I need something more upbeat, I often go for Thick Boy Records.
9·2 years agoNicht direkt ein Ohrwurm, ist mir aber hängen geblieben: Team Scheisse – Schmetterling
Currently I enjoy wizard skating the most: It’s full of technical challenges, but it also has a relatively low risk of injury.
I’d like to do more aggressive street stuff, but neither do I want to buy another pair of skates nor do I want to change frames frequently.
For now I’ll keep improving my wizard skills until I feel confident enough to try more park and street tricks.
These two videos convinced me to give wizard skating a try:
Previously I only skated quads, but I felt more comfortable on blades relatively quickly.
I’ll join you in your corner. 🫂
Do you want to conform to any gender? If so, why?
What do you think makes one non-binary?
They really do look sleek, very nice!
What kind of surface do you usually skate on? Maybe your streets are more on the rougher side?
Also, the hardness of the wheels might not be optimal for durability.
When you decide to get new wheels you might check out this video first, it also talks about rotating the wheels (which, I suppose, is the same as twisting them?).
Thanks for the info, glad you found a nice setup! Never considered heating the boot itself, seems kinda risky.
It turned out that the Intuition liners do adapt to your feet after skating them for a while. I could even put the valcro butterflies back on for better responsiveness without introducing new hot spots.
How about the 2nd Skin liners? Did they require much breaking in? Or did they fit right away?
They do offer some strange technology. Even after reading most of their explanations I still don’t quite get how this kind of rockering is supposed to help but as I said, I have no clue about hockey. Anyway, fascinating stuff!
I created !onskates@lemmy.graz.social, a community for quad & inline skating. So far there was only a single post from someone other than me. 🥲
I’d also like to go much more niche with a community specifically for wizard skating. But considering the limited popularity of skating communities, there is no need to hurry creating that one.
I use it on a Raspberry Pi 4.
On the one hand I like Lua for its elegant, minimalistic design. I enjoy writing Lua, most of the time when working on Neovim plugins.
On the other hand I value the raw expressive power of C++. It is a beast, but I enjoy taming it.
7·2 years agoA lot of effort has gone into improving the performance and speed of all aspects of Inkscape.
Oh yeah! That’s what I want to see.
This involved the refactoring of inefficient code, rewriting how Inkscape works with patterns, moving bitmap tracing into a separate thread and so much more.
Canvas rendering is now both multithreaded, and done outside of Inkscape’s main process thread.
If your computer’s processor has more than one core (which it most likely does), this can result in a 2–4× speedup while zooming / panning / transforming objects.
1·2 years agoHah, same. As an overambitious employee of Grizzco the catalogue pages just fly by.
Damn, actually can’t wait to get there (just have to actually finish something first).
Thanks a lot for sharing! His previous videos on that topic also seem interesting.