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A PalTalk user blog (see also https://www.paltalk.com/)

by PalTalk 'nic' EroticGuy-CleanLanguagePlease

Tuesday 28th March 2023

 First, the boring bit:-
 
 I dug out my Samson mic yesterday and got it working just enough to record an iPad voice memo, albeit via the headphone monitor circuit rather than the USB output; capturing the latter digitally probably involves learning more about Linux kernels than I'd ever wish to know, and it would almost certainly be quicker to stay with analogue and solder something together - which may yet happen later this week.  Alternatives include getting PalTalk itself working on Linux, presumably inside PaleMoon, or revisiting my MotoG8 to see if PalTalk will run within a browser on that.
 
 Enough.  Second, and more interestingly:-
 
 Building on my success yesterday, today I played a few seconds from a fifteen minute YouTube clip through a speaker set close to the Samson mic, recording it to check the quality (which seemed fine).  I then played the entire clip to 'President Jacob', a Power-and-Politics regular, who recognised it as Mark Levin - Levin was reading his monologue from his Sunday show on Fox News two days ago; I picked it out because his focus was China.  So it seems I can broadcast speech-clips intelligibly to PalTalk rooms, which should be very useful if I stick with the platform.
 
 For the record, the Mark Levin clip was <https://www.youtube.com/embed/6Y6bUlkFaYA>, also available at <https://www.foxnews.com/video/6323401080112>

Sunday 26th March 2023

 In the penultimate week of March 2023 I found an interesting PalTalk chatroom called 'Power and Politics' owned by a mid-thirties Houston lady, 'TheMixGirl', who's been using PalTalk for three years - so almost exactly three years more than me; I'd only joined it a week earlier.
 
 Newbie that I was (and am), I must have done something right because she 'hatted' me the next day, making me a full member of the group running the room.  I can only assume this was because I was clearly engaging in good faith, as usual.  (How else can I save the West?)
 
 Nevertheless, we hit a couple of roadblocks right away: apparently I'll need to have a microphone (ie headset, presumably) in order to contribute/assist properly and fully in the room. My initial keen-ness to help therefore suffered a setback when I discovered that the PalTalk app isn't available on my (recently inherited) MotoG8.
 
 The second hitch is that I don't really know what Ms Mix's ambitions and plans for the room are.  Accordingly, I'm gonna have to think of a way of quizzing her about this without making a pain in the ass of myself because I've little doubt that she's equally as busy a little bee as the rest of us are these days.
 
 The mic issue is on my MADE** list so I should either resolve that this week or have ordered a gadget that will on Amazon by the end of it.  The goal issue can wait until I've figured out how to accumulate intellectual capital on/by PalTalk, probably via the RRF*** wiki, which is the obvious place to set-up a project page.
 
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