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I feel like those kids are potentially buying their own kids devices by now

Don’t buy any of the pod based coffee machines, they’re comparatively cheap up front, but they’ll cost you more in the long run and give you a much more limited selection of the kinds of coffee you can have.

I’d say if you want to push a button and get a coffee, look into bean-to-cup machines. If you don’t mind doing a few bits a traditional style espresso machine is going to give you a load of flexibility, and can generally be a bit cheaper than a bean-to-cup (though they can also get much more expensive!).

If you don’t mind it being fully manual, perhaps look into pour-over or aeropress kit. Definitely a much cheaper step than buying a machine, and lots to learn from using those methods

Resilvering one of those is going to be a multiple day anxiety festival

I really really wish people didn’t just view degrees as simply a means to a job.

Like I completely get given the cost of them in some countries, that you need to do the cost/benefit analysis. But a degree should be a way of expanding your knowledge on a subject primarily because you’re interested in it.

Sure I’d be a bit miffed if my degree never resulted in a job, but I don’t think I’d ever think of it as worthless or a waste of time.

Oh cool, I can’t think of any potential issues with oil companies prioritising AI over human customers

Look at all those methods I would never use to share anything from a website.

Might just be me, but if I wanted to share something with someone it’s going to be an IM

If you look at the TSLA stock, it’s now roughly where it was 4 years ago.

It’s sinking, don’t you worry

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I always liked how it’s ironically basically the opposite of the international “no stopping” road sign.

Like it represents something that was stopped.

You’re also SOL if you have a couple of decades of music projects in various DAWs (though predominantly Ableton, plus a decent number of Maschine & Reason projects, for me) using all sorts of VSTs from over the years. I keep several versions of some VSTs installed so I can open older projects, and those older versions are never getting patched to fix broken Linux support by the developer, even if a more modern version does get fixed. It’s all got to come from wine devs, which frankly probably have more important issues to focus on.

I’ve tried a few times to get Ableton working with all my plugins and MIDI hardware and it’s always been an exercise in madness ultimately resulting in failure and usually a lost weekend. It particularly doesn’t like anything with my iLok key involved, last I tried a couple of years ago.

I happily run Linux elsewhere, but my main desktop is going to mainly run Windows for the foreseeable future unless something drastically changes. At least my projects aren’t all in Logic!

There’s also some software I use for my photography that didn’t properly work on Linux when I last tried (e.g. GPU features in PureRAW are the main thing I remember), but I think there’re some alternatives there I’d look at if I could get the audio production stuff working perfectly.

If only there was a way to make billions in tax from these operations, reduce money going to funding violent gangs, improve the safety of the people near the farms and solve the energy theft problem all while reducing police enforcement costs and spaces needed in prisons all at the same time.

I mean if there was a single solution that would do all of that we’d be pretty fucking stupid to not be pursuing it, right? I wonder if any other countries have figured out the answer…

The thing to remind any clown that says “you don’t have to choose it, it will be labelled” is that they don’t know where the meat in any of their restaurant meals, takeaways and ready meals/Lunch deals comes from because the label is long in the bin before they see the food.

[16-bar eurodance loops intensify]

I mean it’s right wing politics in a nutshell

Dupe fools with simple, comforting lies over complicated, uncomfortable truth. If people don’t understand reality they can’t change it.

Santini’s output has been prolific, with comments in Vogue, Metro, Cosmopolitan, the i newspaper, the Express, Hello!, the Telegraph, the Daily Star, the Daily Mail and the Sun

Lol half that list is the daily mail group—who would have thought they don’t check the credentials of their sources.

Tbh excluding the fashion/gossip mags that I don’t have opinions about—every paper in that list is not somewhere I’d trust to get factual news from

Kinda like NFTs tbh

Ah that clears it up, cheers

What a weird choice for the headline to do what it did