Oh my god, my favorite key is absolutely destroyed. It used to be D-Minor, but I’ve been using Bb-Minor increasingly and really enjoying it. But now I know the truth, it’s actually “obscure and terrible”!

Well not everyone, just everyone with bullshit jobs.

What? A lot of people with real jobs got screwed over as well. E.g., most prominently restaurant workers. I personally know several people who lost their jobs or small businesses due to covid, including a pâtissière, local art gallery curator, club DJ, and bartender. They were all valuable members of the local community who were absolutely shit on by the pandemic.

Everything was basically fine. The only real problems as far as i could tell were that we all thought we were going to die and were scared to go near our grandparents incase we killed them, and some lines stopped going up.

Over seven million people died and are still dying, not to mention permanent conditions and long hospitalizations. And now we have an inflated, cancerous anti-vax movement, cost-of-living crisis, and generation of students who got fucked.

I’m happy it worked out for you, but the COVID-19 pandemic left a monstrous scar on the world. I can only hope our governments and people will be more prepared next time. We should not forget what was lost.

The goal, really, is to cut the crud out of Windows to create a more Linux-like experience.

LOL. I’ll just keep using Linux, thank you very much. Great article though:

[…] demanding 64GB of RAM in the age of the RAMaggedon seems inexcusable. (Especially because Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI and its overall AI push is a big reason memory prices have skyrocketed.)

Nailed it!

And yet 99% of mixing mainstream music is trying to make shit sound good. Well, like polished shit.

Fyi, Reaper and Bitwig both have excellent, native Linux support. If you’re willing to re-learn a DAW, both of those are great choices. Reaper is by far the best mixing & mastering DAW out there, IMHO. Bitwig is great for composition and has awesome, intuitive modulation features, as well as great stock plugins and MPE support.

Fwiw try out Reaper. Much easier and more professional than ardour, but unfortunately not open source. It supports a custom JavaScript system for making your own plugins on the fly, though, and is crazy powerful.

This is also the case for the German version I player, funny.

Happy cake day!

…that’s definitely not the case for everyone. But count yourself lucky that it isn’t visible for you. Highschool + puberty is pretty miserable otherwise.

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The best for privacy are definitely mullvad and proton vpn. Nordvpn is the best for p2p/pirating (…not that I condone that…), but not as solid privacy wise. I know that nord and proton have excellent Linux support, idk about mullvad in that respect though.

Honestly though, if you’re just doing this for privacy concerns you might as well just use something like quad9 DNS – for free. VPNs are only really useful faking you’re location or pirating. Not so much for privacy or security. Quad9 + librewolf is king there.

It’s my authentic self in both of those situations. Like I said, they are different kinds of friendships, but they are of equal integrity and value to me. I think you fail to understand that people can have very real and ernest friendships that are different from your presuppositions around friendship.

Reflecting on this, though, makes me realize that I don’t really switch gears. I tend to not talk about myself that much anyway (I also have a therapist, which may contribute to my not feeling like I need to), and when I’m with friends who do, I mostly listen. But I don’t think that diminishes the friendship. One doesn’t need to know my familial history to be my friend.

For me, anyway, a feeling of compassion towards the other, the capability of empathy, and a genuine understanding of their personality is what it takes to be friends :)

Why? When I am with a gal friend a kinda switch gears, but I also have many wonderful guy friendships that are very much like what’s described above. There’s nothing bad about that. It’s just different. But I would trust them with my life and I know they would trust me with theirs.

In my defense, this is because I had to zoom out as far as alacritty would allow to get everything on screen, so the res of the text got significantly reduced. Is there a way to take lossless screenshots of a terminal emulator, though? This was the only way I could think of doing it, zoom out really far and then capture with grim

Back then CS:GO used to run better on Linux! That was why I switched (apart from a borked windows system I put Linux on just for shits and giggles): to get more frames, lol. Now I couldn’t live without Linux, even though I don’t even play CS:GO anymore.