Qwerty though? Remap that thing over to Colemak or something!

I do physical synths / drum machine as well, in fact I basically use a daw as a mixer with effects :) The latency is good, and I don’t have the newest machine or anything. On Linux it’s super easy to combine interfaces too, like I have my tr-8 (drums) as a multitrack USB interface, and an 8i6 for my synths, and it combines them way easier than I could do in windows! Take with a grain of salt as I’m an amateur, but for my purposes it’s been great so far.

I ended up switching to Linux recently for same reasons, but my kids are older and i had time to nerd out and go full Archwiki. Ableton was one of the last holdouts that was keeping me from switching… and I spent a good month dicking around with wine trying to get it to work. And I couldn’t! I ended up selling my Ableton license and buying Bitwig, which is natively supported in Linux, and actually pretty amazing… (I don’t expect you to switch, just telling my story. It has really fun modular synth-like interface, with all the other VST support and quite good out-of-the-box plugins etc.)

I also couldn’t get Affinity Photo working in wine… and gimp doesn’t quite do it for me. So I’m not sure what to do there, so my photo editing hobby is on hold til I figure that out.

That said, some of my other windows stuff works magically in wine (sierrachart, games, etc.).

So with all that in mind, I’d say if you don’t have time to figure it out, and still want ableton to work, it might not be worth the mental load until you have more time on your hands. Unless you have an old laptop lying around, it wouldn’t hurt to just try it and see what you can get working.

Mama called the doctor and the doctor said, Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed. For our scheduling department please press 1. …

I think so. We’ve lost James, at least!

Yep, we as a family have been doing Friday night movie+homemadepizza since covid days. The kids usually win out on the movie pick, so it’s often something animated or starring Jack Black, but we occasionally make them watch something like Amelie or Office Space, and those adult picks usually go over pretty well. :)

Oof, yeah, not worth it <3 happy cubing!

But your best ao5 happens when you drink coffee, right?

Unmeasured edibles in the olden days, oh boy… I don’t miss it.

This isn’t strictly corpo-speak, but upper mgmt type people do this a lot:
Misuse of the word “myself.” Like, “if you have any questions, talk to Joe or myself.”
Nice one dumb-ass–you tried to sound smarter by adding syllables but it didn’t work, did it!

One point five… d’oh!

Ha, yeah! I had to practically go into hiding to get through Severance without hearing hints from coworkers/internet/friends. Expanse hasn’t been quite as challenging :fingerscrossed:

Same here on The Expanse. I hope to get back to it someday because my friends say it gets better.

Same! I gave up after season 1. That s1 finale just pissed me off.

Bach. Anything after that’s pretty cheesy…

Does peanut butter count? I eat it on carrots, dip dark chocolate bars into it, sometimes just scoop it with a spoon. Yum.

I keep hearing about this thing. Does it really do all the photoshop things? adjustment layers, masks, dodge+burn, all that stuff? and I guess, does it do it well, with big files?

Before November, I did it by mainly looking at AP News. During November I was kind of a mess. After November, no news at all. My lemmy feed is comic strips, Linux, photography, and asklemmy, a few other things that are not political. If major shit happens I hear from my partner or friends, but they all know I’m not that interested. My YouTube feed is Buddhist stuff, standup comedy, and hobby rabbit holes. I even filtered out the lefty late night shows (daily show etc). I know the basics of what’s going on, but don’t feel any need to get daily updates on it and I’m feeling pretty sane compared to a few months ago! We donate to Palestinian charities, HRC, etc., are active in other ways, but this daily media crap is not healthy.

It is. And stop calling me Shirley.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

The Big Lebowski

such a hard question. Those are two that I’ve watched a million times and keep getting enjoyment out of, and not just because I’ve seen them so much, but they’re actually well made. I’d definitely put Spirited Away as a contender. LotR, I know, unpopular opinion, but I don’t think they are great movies. The books were great!