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I’m quite happy to be seeing conversations about the benefits of simplicity, boring tech, etc lately.

It’s a breath if fresh air from the sadly too common (IMO) flavor of the month new tech promotion.

Considering my past personal experiences with IPSs, Mozilla must be doing something right.

I for one really dislike touch screens and menu driven controls in most applications. Especially if driving. Even controlling an iPhone is error prone when it’s mounted to a gps holder in a moving vehicle.

Give me tactile buttons, switches and knobs that do one thing well, are keyed with different feeling textures and are backlit.

Hello, human here. Interacting with you through a screen now.

How about a used lenovo m92p

Ive been running raspberry pis on sd cards for years and really haven't had any issues. And if I did have an issue I’d just fire up a new sd card and dd the disk image back on.

It’s actually one of the great features of the PI IMO, having the ability to quickly swap disks and reboot. Reminds me of the computers and video games of yesterday.

Possibly unpopular opinion, but IMO to learn a synth it’s best to start with a simple physical subtractive monosynth.

Software synths are often built to model popular hardware instruments in both sound and interface. So learning the basic concepts on a “real” subtractive synth builds a foundation to learn more.

Plus a physical synth is far less distracting than a multitasking device. I find it much easier to create, experiment and learn when a screen is not involved.

Vanilla. It’s so-so performance wise. A raspberry pi 2 has been good enough for our 6 player games. Newer models I’m sure would perform better.

Thats why you turn on music once you put the earbuds in...

retropie, pi-hole and running misc temporary servers like minecraft

Hopefully some of these make it to museums.

Makes me sad to think of instruments with a history like this belonging to blues lawyers.