A few weeks ago my wife and I were getting breakfast at a local bakery. Inside, a dad had decided that it did not matter that his small child was running around, screaming at the top of his lungs. The little gremlin started trying to steal pastries off other people’s tables and dad stiff didn’t do anything until the staff announced loudly that all unattended children would be reported to CPS.

That kid didn’t need a beating, but that dad sure did.

Move to a liberal area. Bay area, Portland or Seattle areas. No one cares if you’re fem or masc in west coast cities. Live a happy life.

Windows wasn’t any better in this case. I grabbed an old win7 laptop and it wouldn’t run there either, but this time it was Korg’s drivers and Windows’ flawed notion of how to MIDI that kept me out of the promised land. SYSEX still works on both platforms though.

I’ll note that on both MacOS and Linux the synth in question is ID’d, addressed and usable via USB midi with no additional drivers, installations or scripts.

Macs are popular in music because Apple pushed hard to get creatives on board for decades and it worked. I have a Mac because doing music stuff on Linux had me fixing tools more than playing music and I’m sure as shit not gonna run win11.

Also when you own electronic musical instruments. Tons of librarian software for synths doesn’t run on Apple silicon. My 2005 flagship synth can’t talk to my Mac mini.

Mario 2 music.

15 years ago I thought he was a dorky rich guy with a well-connected publicist.

10 years ago I thought he was a too-full-of-himself car manufacturer who bought his way into the game who overestimated his own engineering prowess.

5 years ago I thought he was an asshole and wondered why other people seemed to respect him.

Now I think he’s a pathetic rich guy who got used and thrown away by Trump, the guy famous for using people and then throwing them away. Fuckin’ cuck of a chump who could have his cock in the US’s pussy and still wouldn’t have the balls to fuck.

Dude you can’t just say “sn*rgletooth” on the internet.

This is the scenario I saw debated in the early 2000s on slashdot if you replace Proton with Wine. Some folks didn’t like Wine because if it works well it means there’s no reason to build natively for Linux, hurting Linux and contextualizing it within Microsoft’s ecosystem, instead of beside it. I’m all for anything that means I can play my Steam library and not run Windows, so I think Proton is the bee’s knees.

There are also Pika in North America.

If you watch the Comedy Central episodes, Seymour had a good long life with Fry’s time travel paradox twin before he was flash-fossilized.

I don’t think you’re using that phrase correctly.

So the upcoming Xbox console is Windows on Arm.

You mean like when he shilled Goya foods from the Resolute desk last time?

Beta blockers are pretty mild as far as prescription drugs go. They entirely knock out my wife’s tremor and the only side effect she feels is being a little more chill.

I don’t understand how the ATX standard hasn’t adopted higher voltage rails for GPUs. Higher volts mean fewer amps which means less heat. 44A through an 8 pin connector is going to make a lot of heat. 11A at 48v would be much better.

Beta blockers might help.

I’m pretty sure singing a poem turns it into a song.

Who dropped all this monkey paw in the shower?

I recently bought a Mac Mini because music production on Linux had me fighting my tools more than using them. My Linux box is a 7800x3d/7800xtx. The Mini idles at 4w, while the 78000xtx alone idles closer to 50w. I use the mini for everything non-gaming now.

There’s nothing wrong with orderly carbon. There’s more than a few things wrong with Debeers