The Promox node for my pfSense router has been screaming at me ("BACK UP DATA NOW!") for two and a half weeks. Finally had a chance to acquire a used Samsung SSD from a local eBay seller and get everything migrated over. The old SSD was at 90% wear level when the alerts started appearing, and 97% by the time it was retired today. I like to live on the edge!
![Screenshot from Gotify Desktop on macOS with alert messages about a dying SSD. The border is purple and the text is in white.
One set of errors reads:
Jul 03 03:13:08:28 router smartd[985]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT]: FAILED SMART self-check: BACK UP DATA NOW!
Jul 03 13:08:08:28 router smartd[985]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT]: Failed SMART usage Attribute: 177 Wear_Leveling_Count](https://highbias.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/859/483/599/248/611/small/d3ef13dc21827681.png)
There's no signal passing in the right headphone channel of this Tascam 244 multitrack cassette recorder, and the left channel is distorted. Removed the Playback Amp PCB in order to recap the whole Monitor section. Now to reassemble and test. #recdel
#cassette #repair #refurbished #electronics #vintage #VintageElectronics
This is the Thermals from Portland performing "A Pillar of Salt." There's another clip of them doing "Returning to the Fold" and both of those songs are from their album The Body, The Blood, The Machine. Judging by this 4-piece lineup of the band I'd guess this is 2006 or 2007.
Japanther performs "Bumpin' Rap Tapes." Again, this must've been 2008. I saw them a few times in the years prior to that and they were aways fun live.
@voiceofunreason Did they seem to come through Portland like every other month, or is that just my hazy recollection?
Here's American Steel doing "Dead and Gone" off their album Destroy Their Future. That record same out in October 2007, so this clip is probably from late '07 or early '08. There's also another clip of them doing "Sons of Avarice" on the same channel.
cc @tito_swineflu Bet you'll mysteriously crave a Snickers bar after watching this one.
A bunch of archived live performances have started appearing on YT, taken from a Fuel TV show called The Daily Habit, which apparently aired between 2005-2011.
@yewknee speculates that the channel may be unofficial. Either way, it's cool to see these clips, some of them from artists who don't have many studio-shot live performances online.
Adrian Utley from #Portishead talks to Recording The Masters about why he appreciates recording to tape (and #cassette in particular) vs. a DAW. At the end he also demonstrates some #Mellotron -style tape loops on a Yamaha MT4X 4-track cassette recorder.
Biked 6+ miles to Grainger in the 95 F heat to pick up some boxes for @recursivedelete , only to discover that this location closes at 4 PM and not 4:30. 😢 Currently kicking it under a tree with my water bottle.
“I was offered this commercial before the tour. I’m not going to mention any names, but they told me...it was business software that would increase productivity. A week before we’re supposed to shoot it, I find out, oh, this is, it’s AI. And I thought, ‘Oh no, I can’t be the poster boy for AI, forget it.’ So I felt bad about kind of pulling out at the last minute. But yeah, I’m not, I’m not down with that.”
RE: https://lile.cl/@capibarabot/116839219396061457
Finally we get a photo of the administrator running the @capibarabot account.
RE: https://maro.xyz/@kini/116836127897636268
Curious about this as well. Or the related, "How do we kindly encourage them to cross-post?"
Took time for a short #roadtrip to Tennessee Aquarium.
@keila Is it currently possible to receive a notification when a new contact confirms their subscription? Ideally I'd want to receive the notification via a webhook / Gotify type of method.
If not, is there an API command via curl to get a list of new subscribers from the past X-amount of hours?
Last night I watched The Third Man, my first time having seen it.
The artwork on #Kanopy referred to a "stunning 4K restoration." The image looked fine on my 1080p-limited projector, but I tend to wonder if the version shown was actually an earlier transfer of the film. The mono audio track was hard to understand, extremely muddy, with exaggerated midrange that often vibrated the speakers — during *dialogue*!
Nonetheless, a great watch.
The Audio Gear Sale Extravaganza is happening again in Nashville at the Eastside Bowl on 8/15/2026. I tabled at this event a few years back and it was full of vendors selling inexpensive used recording equipment. (That year I bought a few 4-track machines and passed on a super nice Tascam M-208 mixer.) RDAV won't be selling this year, but I'll meet up with clients that day to return and pickup machines. Come say hi?
If I ever had a music release slabbed, I'd probably choose something from my collection with no actual value beyond its ability to elicit a chuckle when somebody noticed it mounted on my wall — my copy of Beach Boys Salute NASCAR on cassette, for example. (It does have "Special Collectors Edition!" exclaimed on its cover, after all.)
A fun, even-handed look at having a compact disc graded and slabbed. This reminded me that there a few longboxes from early '90s CD releases in a closet at my parents' house — I should go dig those out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV71snyct_0
#CompactDisc #music #vintage #longbox #artwork #collectibles
RE: https://counterforce.social/@shotgunseamstress/116828500254883373
This is a recommended read — an interesting peek into a corner of Florida that I previously didn't know much about, and the punk scene that sprung up there in the early '80s. One of these days I plan to put together an oral history of Huntsville's early punk scene, and I'll be taking inspiration from Paradise Lost. Note to self: include maps of where all those old venues, record stores, etc, were located!
🎵 Jejune - "Early Stars" (1997) 🎵
Numero Group remastered and re-released Jejune's entire discography a week ago. This song in particular is an evergreen classic, and sounds so much better than it did on the original, crackly split 7" with Jimmy Eat World.
Bandcamp: https://numerojejune.bandcamp.com/track/early-stars
ListenBrainz: https://listenbrainz.org/track/cb836447-e49f-488f-916e-5dc24645783e
🎵 John Oswald - Plunderphonics 69/96 compilation (2001) 🎵
Bandcamp: https://plunderphonic.bandcamp.com/album/plunderphonic-songs
ListenBrainz: https://listenbrainz.org/album/05fbc0b8-9294-31c9-a677-44a70f53c8d7/