Heh, I posted a basically identical timeline in reply to another comment above.

I’ve been using it full time for 21 years, and dual boot for years before that. Early on it definitely took up a bit of time, but that’s mostly because I was interested in breaking things and learning to fix them. Even 10-15 years ago I don’t think I would have spent more than a few hours a month fixing things. These days it’s a few hours a year, and that’s only when I start messing around with something in a careless way.

Correct. But usually it’s spelled anecdotal.

Dist-upgrading across 2+ years of upgrades.

It’s been a long while for me, but some kind of dumb tinkering resulting in system death was semi regular 15 years ago. It got real bad when encyption started getting involved…

Shadow is a favourite, I’ve been listening to him for nearly 20 years. I went to see him last year. He’s fucking next level though, I can’t comprehend the patience it would require to do what he does. Blockhead is similar.

If you’re in to that stuff, you REALLY should check out Kognitif’s Soul Food Album - IMO the most under-rated instrumental hip-hop album ever, I love it so much.

I’ve been really digging El-P’s production lately. It seems a little bit simpler, less going on, but it hits super hard. Still requires years to develop that that taste for what samples should go where, I think.

Lots of good stuff in here!

The point about separating out sample finding time from making music is really good. I often find myself in the middle of making a track, and think “I really could use a sample of X here”, and then go off down a rabbit hole of search (and rarely finding something appropriate).

Actually grabbing and using the samples is much easier than finding them, IMO… crate-digging style sampling is more miss than hit for me so far. I do get the feeling that I should be trying to slow down, and approach each potential sample-source track more deliberately though…

I did find https://samplette.io/ recently, which is pretty cool. Like an automated youtube crate digger, and you can filter by lots of parameters, like genre, number of views, etc.

If you have bitwig, you really don’t need much else. Other things can be nice to have, but focusing on new gear/software is a never ending rabbit hole that has a near-complete reduction in productivity at the bottom. Bitwig’s included synths, samplers, and effects are WILDLY powerful, and you can do basically anything you can do in any other synth, with few exceptions.

I would focus on trying to make specific things. Like, try to recreate a section of a track you like. If you can’t see an obvious way to do a specific part in bitwig, look up a tutorial, or download a sample. That way you’ll focus on doing stuff you like, and on learning how to do it better.

Thanks! I already use zsh’s partial name matching, but that looks even more useful

I think the “Indian and Asian” parts are adjectives, right, not meant to be part of the name?

Are they not? Looks right to me

Because scientists are normal people, and probably a higher proportion of them than normal are tech nerds.

People don’t have only one interest. The board members of fediscience.org are biosystems scientists and forensic linguists.

Right, but why would a scientist set up a mastodon server within their work place? If I were to do it (and I did set up a diaspora instance back in the day), it would be off my own bat, not on work machines.

If I wanted my workplace to do it, that would be a different story, and I’d argue for it to be done by the IT team…

My question was about the “scientists are not allowed to” part. I’ve never heard to such restrictions, and been in the field for more than a decade.

It’s a problem for the same reason twitter dying sucks… The network effect is important, and maintaining yours during a slow, piecemeal mass migration is hard. Which is why I’m sticking with mastodon now, despite more of my relevant network being on BS.

It’s important because, along with the ability to migrate accounts, it prevents/deters enshittification. In betting Bluesky will hit that wall in the next few years (I’m guessing they’ll never properly implement federation).

It’s not that it’s less annoying, it’s that it was in the right place at the right time to capture sufficient network effect…

What… Are you taking about? I know hundreds of scientists and the vast majority of them interact with social media just as much as normal people.

Some of us have. There are a few science focused servers.

Scientists: invents commercial scale fusion Capitalist: hordes the almost free energy because why not? Poor people are only useful as a resource anyway.

Wait, what is the cheaper alternative to the moon landing?