Gesaffelstein is hardly a pop culture figure, though; I don’t think many gen-z kids know him. But he’s an absolute icon of the 2010s dark techno scene.

The Conspiracy singles were legendary. My Conspiracy Pt. 1 record has a More Cowbell joke on it, which I love. Weird record though, it’s 33 1/3 on one side and 45 on the other. And it doesn’t say that anywhere on the record, so it took me years before realizing I was listening to a slowed down Hatred. I kinda love the slowed down version, funny how that happens :P

I took a single-semester Linux course and had the terminal down pat.

Out of curiosity, what exactly do you mean by this? It sounds a little like you’re implying mastery of the rather vague “terminal.” Do you mean everything in the terminal? Or just a common shell, like bash? Or some common cli tools?

I ask because it seems like you’re suggesting that you can master the unix terminal in just a semester while you learn new important things that affect your workflow in your office suite regularly. I agree with you in regard to the office suite, but vis-a-vis the terminal… I have spent my entire life working in it, and, while I’m very comfortable, I still learn new things that affect my workflow every week at minimum.

But I fear that I’m misunderstanding you here, which is why I ask.

You QWERTY people…

/jk

Colemak is great though

I use librewolf, with default settings, as my main browser. If a page doesn’t work (which is quite rare for me) I usually turn of uBO which does the trick. There are of course a few known culprits that don’t work, like Netflix. I have brave installed for that kind of thing 🤷.

Also Tor is definitely not more usable then Librewolf…

Could you point out any specific sites that don’t work for you?

I have yet to encounter a VST that doesn’t work at minimum with yabridge. I gotta admit though, since I switched (ca. 3 years ago now) I find myself using Linux native tools much more that the VSTs I used to depend on so much. I use airwindows (full Linux compatibility) much more on the VST front, and find myself replacing many windows VSTs with pure data or supercollider…

Some cool Linux tools I’ve discovered and are now dominating my workflow:

• Reaper (https://www.reaper.fm/), also super common in professional studios.
• airwindows (https://www.airwindows.com/), genuinely amazing and FREE!
• Pure Data L2Ork & Max (https://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/make-your-own-l2ork/software/), literally infinite possibilities.
• Supercollidor (https://supercollider.github.io/), you can never have too much Supercollidor…
• Orca Sequencer (https://100r.co/site/orca.html), basically my default sequencer now.
• old-school tracker (my fav: https://schismtracker.org/)
• and much, much more!

Also audio management (routing, etc) is sooooo nice and faaaast with jack in Linux. Literally a dream. If anything, I think my experience has significantly improved since switching to Linux vis-a-vis audio production.

And Reaper and Bitwig!

I didn’t even know people do this wtf… The only explanation I could fathom would be some kind of over use of the OED’s fourth definition:

4. (1797) – (A body of) non-fictional books and writings published on a particular subject.

The key is “on a particular subject.” When referring to literature in general, it refers to literally any written work (including letters, advertising, etc.). I very much sympathize with your frustration…

Literally the person you are responding to

PS: also me and a whole lot of other people; just pointing out of pointless your question/statement was.

+1, it is much worse than even proof-of-work crypto though. I think AI is the bigger enemy, since at least in crypto, there are ways of developing and using it that aren’t as bad (or even at all) for the climate.

If you are from a western country there is a certain risk in going to North Korea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40335169

Interesting question! The issue of white genocide in South Africa is particularly relevant here…

Yeah, the angle is kinda misleading… I would almost hazard that there were more people in the Obama shot.