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Can confirm, have ventured all over the deserts of my homeland, and every time I do, I am filled with awe at the temerity of life on the brink of hardship.

It is a spiritually rewarding activity to look out over a landscape, be still for a while, and notice the absolute abundance of life, as robust as ever.

Even in the dustiest Earth voids, there are colours and growth. It pays to look for it.

In my opinion this is one of the most productive uses of the Internet.

It can really help to have this running on some spare screen while trapped in the deep, deep depths of cubicle hell.

Even the wind is soothing.

Another great Namibian destination is the "Ocean Conservation Namibia" channel, where one can witness the rescue of ocean life (mostly mammals, i.e. seals) from the plastic trash of humanity.

https://www.youtube.com/@OceanConservationNamibia

This has been a constantly soothing device in my life for a few years. There is something so cathartic about seeing the little pups being chased down to have their bindings removed.

>I suppose what’s particularly brilliant with CRDTs is that they handle both use cases very well, you don’t have to have two different systems.

.. and can equally be used to make CRUD if you wanna.

error joining room.

Because CRUD is the opposite of collaborative editing, and people are sick of it - CRDT represents a solution to getting humans working together through computers that isn't based on decades of cruft (disclaimer: imho)

Yes indeed, and let us not forget that the Romans had slaves.

>Are they sure it was definitely the same author?

Perhaps there is a better analysis available, but the lines of the phallus appear to me to have been cut by the same author of the letters in the words.

Besides that, having dated an archeology student who left their interesting books around, I seem to remember there being a standard for identifying the cut of these objects. Perhaps it was more easily verified than we might think.

Three cheers for Devuan! :). Completely agree, this would've been an easy distro switch-a-rooni ..

>You can run quite a lot in 512MB of RAM if you use the right languages to write code in.

I recently delivered a production-ready embedded system running Armbian with 512megs RAM, and indeed disabled systemd-journald for our uses, also .. but even with it enabled, our Lua-based app was (science/data analysis on sensor network) running in the best environment it has ever run, so I can confirm: 512MB is enough for a lot of things.

No software ever works without defining nuts and/or bolts.

Software is language. It is as slippery as all other human languages when you try to pin it down to absolutes.

Both programs are easy to use, though. If a company has Photoshop installed, use it, sure. But there is also no reason not to use GIMP if that is preferred, and .. you know .. gets the job done anyway.

I get art from artists to integrate into apps all the time that wasn't made in photoshop. Most important is they know what they're doing, whatever they're using...

If you have a Raspberry Pi, you can run ZynthianOS by just flashing the image and booting. You can also run Zynthian headless on your own RaspberryPi, should you have one available:

https://wiki.zynthian.org/index.php?title=Beginners_Headless...

ZynthianOS can be configured with external MIDI controllers for the menus, etc. That might be a bit of work, but its definitely worth the effort, because ZynthianOS is just amaze-balls. NORNS too, its just astonishing the power in these little distros.

As well as the original Zynthian, I also have Zynthian running on one of these:

https://www.audiophonics.fr/en/open-source-streamers/rasptou...

.. with a touch-pad, and its just such a tidy, neat system. I look forward to this particular flavour of machine becoming much more prevalent in the MI world ..

ZynthianOS:

https://zynthian.org

Monome NORNS:

https://monome.org/docs/norns/shield/

Both of these Linux vendors have created what you describe - definitely worth checking out if you are a performing musician. These machines transform into viable, usable instruments - you don't have to do much Linux hacking, you can just plug in and play, like any other electronic musical instrument, and some of the stuff in the NORNS community is amazing for live performance (actually most of it is):

https://norns.community

Both systems will let you play with MOD DUO, which is a plug and play effects system that kicks serious ass:

https://moddevices.com/devices/dwarf/

Other than that - definitely check out Ubuntu Studio, as others have mentioned. I've been running it for a decade as a production DAW in my studio and it really kicks ass... you will be astonished at what is included, out of the box ..

I cringe at the places I've used XML for things like declarative programming, its just too obnoxious to think about.

However, as someone who is currently pushing bytecode on the wire in place of such things, because reasons, I can only tell you the madness is just a toolchain away.

> linuxphones

A hacker friend of mine carries around his pixel, which he has set up to use DAS KEYBOARD (ohne buchstaben) as his Linux development workstation.

This is a wonder to see, honestly. Truly a cyberpunk scenario out there on the edge of linuxphones.

Apropos, I flunk out with my PinephonePro+KB setup, which doesn't work nearly as well as his rig. Grr, power management "last 1%" ..

Now we just need those hydro-fuel cell guys to wake up and drop a feed line somewhere hydro-dynamically convenient, and we can stop carrying fuel-tanks with us, forever ..

>that would have far exceeded the capacity of an Amiga disk

Simple bitmaps for game-mechanics/level design goes back to the 8-bit era.

Bitmaps with colour bytes that indicate level/enemy/goal hit points tend to compress rather well, since a lot of the bit-space is 00's, and .. anyway .. Amiga is legitimately viewed as one of the birthplaces of interesting compression for these kinds of reasons ..

Back in the day, I'd tee a supposedly quiet log file to /dev/snd0 on my workstation so I could take a nap under the desk and be sure to be woken up when the particles hit the fabric, so to speak..

The Deluge is simply an amazing device, and I can confirm it is definitely not difficult to purchase.

Also, quite a great company support experience too.

It is quite extraordinary that such a treatise would not have an entire section on "What is a User?", and really very weird to me that the primacy of the user over the developer, in terms of making the thing useful, is ignored.