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I have FLStudio mobile and some other mobile DAW on my iphone and ipad. And to be honest, I never use them, other than as a tapping BPM counter. Do people actually feel productive tapping this stuff in on an iPad?
A lot of people making music have spent $$$ on plugins, and just on the sheer R&D they've received, are going to sound considerably better than anything someone who is focused on writing a DAW can make.
Plus, from my own experience, I have 20+ years working with FLStudio and know the program inside and out. Abandoning that plus my investments in VSTs is simply a no-go.
So, good luck, but you've got some significant barriers to overcome.
Give me the carnies any day of the week!
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But the microwave is producing more waste as it isn't built to last as long, and the items you cook in it are probably wrapped in chemical-seeping plastic and printed cardboard. So the volume of waste with use is considerably higher as well.
And I'm not even considering electric ovens, which are becoming increasingly mandated.
And you very clearly overestimate the need for a microwave. A gas oven, range, or BBQ produces considerably better results for many things for only a 2x or 3x investment of time and effort. I have several friends that have opted not to own a microwave.
Hell, large parts of the world don't have a microwave and they're fine. There's a good chance they are even building our microwaves for us. You know, I would rather we focus our efforts on lifting them up so that they can have their own microwaves and other nice things before I stand in line to buy yet another microwave, because it was made so poorly by microwave makers that cheap out on microwave building.
This was the promise. But all we really have today is cost disease. For every microwave the US also has infrastructural costs that are 10x+ that of other countries and a culture that is being increasingly incentivized to hand over their wealth for short-term, materialistic gains, and goods/services that aren't worth the price being charged.
To say nothing of the fact that in most cases, said microwaves leaves you with lower-quality results concomitant with the time you saved. Which really feels like all of life; we are being sold a bill of plenty that is only paper-thin
And this is completely separate from the larger festival circuit, EDC/CRSSD and the like. I actually don't like going to bigger festivals, the vibe is all wrong and its way too bro-y.
The subcultures are still there, they're just not easily organized or present on Spotify. I judge a DJ by how easy it is to Shazam all the tracks he plays, the good ones aren't getting their shit off Spotify thats for sure
My sis has been diving headfirst into goth culture, and exploring their musical palette. She goes to events centered around the music they listen to. And on and on.
In a previous job I was the biggest Ruby supporter on a team of Pythonistas. To show them how similar the language was I translated a couple of their scripts from Python to Ruby... it was surprisingly easy and the linecount was about the same
And amongst the community, this is not a complaint I hear very often.
I still think of Ruby as the language that maps closest to my thought process when programming.
What is troubling for you?
I'm not talking about opoids which were sold to folks as non-habit-forming for a long time. Or other cases of addiction without consent. But I don't think that is the case here, for the majority of people.
This isn't Minnesota or New York City. Our winters are mild; you don't need meth to stay warm at night, and the transients here tend to have more than enough clothing to stay warm when it gets into the low 50s/40s.
In fact this mild weather is probably why we have so many of them literally dumped on us. (Dumped, as in, given a one-way ticket to a sunny, seaside city of their choice)
Community policing programs work, just look at the success that Urban Alchemy has had in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The community is more than capable of policing itself, but it doesn't.
A couple of weeks ago I had to avoid an altercation with a woman who talking to herself on the subway, she didn't like the way I "looked" at her as I was doing my best to mind my own business. She starts mad-dogging me and then darts off the train.
Every so often a transient blocks the stoplight at a large, 6-lane intersection near my house, because he decided to ignore the crossing signal, and sometimes even the crosswalks.
My young sister doesn't feel safe walking home on certain routes as there are groups of disheveled men hanging out doing nothing in particular. I've counted over a dozen of them, blocking the sidewalk and sometimes a lane or two on the street.
The strip mall near my house has had to fence off certain areas open spaces because they had a habit of hosting impromptu bike chop shops.
A woman who owns a local tasting room at said strip-mall has told me multiple stories of shenanigans with the local transients, as they like to get into trouble in their outdoor bathrooms, and her business has the closest key.
Last week a man was sucker-punched because he asked a transient, who was sleeping in his car, to leave. (The man who got punched needed to drive to work.)
Last year a woman was stabbed with a needle by a transient while waiting in line at a drive-thru.
My city's local subreddits are rife with complaints and specific altercations. Most city parks are or have homeless encampments, and you can find them pretty much anywhere that there is unattended open space. My city even opened a safe zone for unhoused to camp, with police supervision and outreach resources available, and had to shut it down due to lack of use.
City police generally do nothing; they are underfunded, understaffed, and still butthurt from the BLM protests and imposed COVID policies. Some of the videos that have been posted online have been downright childish.
I know that not everybody is the same, and there are a handful of locals that I see repeatedly and know to be decent folk, but it is extremely difficult to be charitable with a narrative like this. And I am aware of other cities around here that have it much worse.
There are areas of town that I used to enjoy walking through, but now they smell of a shit and piss. People are not quite as destitute as some of the South American cities I've walked around, but it feels like we are getting closer to that.
If the homeless, as a group, would control/behave themselves people might have a different attitude. But they don't, and it takes a long time to recognize whether a specific individual is worth helping or not.
Because it is really, really hard to be empathetic with the homeless folks here, based on how they behave.
Emulation works pretty well from what I hear, is the lack of support that big of a deal right now?
I've written a few toy apps in it and in my limited exploration it seems to be a joy to work with, once you get used to Pascal's quirks... and I'm not a fan of the ancient MDI workflow it imposes either.
I also learned to program with VB and Lazarus is the closest thing I've found. The WinForms designer in Visual Studio would be the next closest.
Both GTK and Swing have various GUI designers that are similar, but have their own design and use different layout metaphors. If you're looking for a more modern take on what's left of RAD maybe check them out.
Like why do they even need DSP chips, might as well just run a VST softsynth with a MIDI keyboard
If the industry got itself together enough to start teaching people good internet hygiene we'd all be much better off. But instead we strip away OK security for horrible security, and inconvenience nearly everyone in the process.
Like, Valheim runs like ass, all things considered. Battletech takes up like 50gb for a game without more than a couple of cutscenes and a camera that sits in the sky, and takes forever to load. Graveyard Keeper -- a PIXEL ART 2d game -- is for some reason made in Unity, and it takes way too long to load a couple of megabytes worth of textures
(And rest mode or no, whenever I turn on my PS4 -- every couple of months -- there's always a stack of updates to deal with. And it always takes forever)
And Starbucks has never made me a perfect cup of coffee. Their beans are perpetually burnt and their process sucks. Back when I was a customer of theirs I had make my order so complicated it's frequently the butt of jokes. In all their haste to serve me and a thousand others every hour, they've stripped coffee down to the barest of essence, robbing it of any character that might have saved it.
Perhaps you've never known what it is like to truly master something, only to have it ripped out of your hands because reasons. I truly hate not having control over my software.