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Awesome, thanks for making my morning.

General love for music devices that entice you to just fuck around and let accidents happen. Analog synths without presets and modulars are also very good at that.

Yes, systemd improved service and startup management. Likes launchd did for MacOS earlier. I’m just a bit grumpy because it didn’t use to be that ‘ps -axu’ listed a shit-ton of processes on a freshly booted machine where I had no clue what even half of them did without looking it up. I’m sure there are perfectly reasonable motivations for all of these services existing, but operating systems do seem to have involved into being one giant honking attack surface.

MacOS has gotten a bit annoying over time, it used to be a very nice GUI layer over a solid Unix system. The soup of services running on a typical system these days make it hard to figure out what’s going on. Ironically enough, Linux also started dropping the KISS principle the past couple of years, with the rise of systemd.

I’d be happy to use either, but Linux just lacks the ecosystem for multimedia authoring. Even if there were credible open source alternatives for programs like Logic and Final Cut, it would still lack in terms of support for specialized hardware (higher end audio interfaces, controllers), and third party extensions / plug-ins.

On a machine only used for browsing / word processing / text editing, Linux has basically been an acceptable alternative for about 20 years now.

Even if you’re completely nato-brained, or even just think the Putin regime is made up of assholes, the Russian language is actually quite beautiful. I love singing Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov.

Unrolled thread because why the fuck would you have a shitter account"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1827474244856365440.html

A conductor performs a number of essential functions for an orchestra:

• Offering a pulse. You may think this is trivial if your experience with music is through rock bands and smaller ensembles, where the musicians can just listen to eachother. But keep in mind that a large orchestra takes up a lot of space, to the point where the speed of sound becomes a major barrier. A symphony orchestra easily spans an area of more than 30 meters, meaning people on the left hear what people on the right play 0.1s late. The ‘beat’ shown by the conductor arrives with the speed of light, keeping the musicians more together.
• Setting the tempo. Orchestral music tends to have more deliberate tempo changes and fermatas (points where a note is held longer than the implied beat would require).
• Controlling the dynamics and timbre that people play with. A lot of that tends to get ironed down during rehearsals, and sometimes it will be explicitly mentioned in the score, but it can be really helpful for players to reminded that, hey, perform this bit light and playful, and over here, be loud and solid. Especially in longer pieces.
• Cueing players when they have to start playing. In orchestral music, some instrument groups may have large swaths of time where they don’t have to play anything (especially percussionists).

Generally the conductor is also responsible for the interpretation of the music. Orchestral scores don’t tend to be black&white, and there are a lot of decisions to be made in how to approach a piece. The conductor is the one who makes those decisions.

And then you remember the bunch of clowns currently elected to parliament.

This is valid late 90’s critique on Windows. In the modern day, it’s valid critique on the entire state of computer software. There used to be a time where I could run “ps axuw” on a then modern Unix system and understand exactly what the fuck was going on and what each process was for. These days the nerd-favoured systems are also a big mess of complexity.

I think a lot of older nerds also under-appreciate the position tech has taken in the world in the meantime. Look at it like electricity. When that first popped up, people involved with it knew all the ins-and-outs, they -had- to know all the ins-and-outs. But by the time I grew up, electricity was a done deal. You flip the button, lights go on. Same has happened for the rest of the world with IT. You click the icon, facebook pops up.

LinkedIn pivoting as a VPN provider confirmed. Bet they figured they could never compete with X, the everything app.

Is this actually Linux gaining any significant new mindshare, or is it just that the use of desktops is in relative decline, and the holdouts are going to be the more linux-inclined?