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@eniko I used to mess around on my phone, and I wished that I didn't. So I had a kid and that solved the problem. She wakes up at 6 AM, ready to rumble.

What does one do with a half a loaf of dry, ossified German bread? I know about French toast (arme Ritter) but it's too hard to slice. Any other ideas?

I confess I don't know what "GPT" stands for in ChatGPT.

@valhalla pasta congee sounds cursed but... anything is possibly tasty with creative cooking.

@valhalla okay but that's Milchreis. Or rice pudding. Very different recipe than Cantonese style congee.

I don't understand congee. Why make rice mushy when you just make rice? What am I missing?

@aeva @mcc okay, I attempted to read the ALSA documentation, and there is indeed a facility to queue MIDI messages. But I don't understand it. It seems to be oriented towards playing back MIDI files.

Writing your own event list structure avoids all this stuff, but then you have to maintain it yourself. So I dunno.

Mostly I just use RtMidi in C++, which wraps everything in a simple, but limited, cross-platform API.

@aeva @mcc I don't know the details of ALSA, but I don't think you want your realtime audio thread processing MIDI events. Ideally, process the events in another thread (via a callback, if there's an API for that) and put them in a data structure that the realtime thread can read later. Don't trust the OS queue for anything. I don't know why ALSA drops messages, but I remember that MacOS had other forms of brittle weirdness in its MIDI queue.

Happy Black Friday, listen to black metal music. Queue up some Sunn O))) and drift off into distorted oblivion.

@lopta don't have a client on my phone, unfortunately. Would be fun to chat from a plane.

On a plane. Internet bandwidth is 150 kbps. The only service that works at that speed is Mastodon, sans pictures.

Please entertain me.