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.

Kinda like NFTs tbh

Ah that clears it up, cheers

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

I assume it’s people with shitty opinions that are salty because they usually get downvoted when they comment.

Wii sports

You made me curious to go and see what triggered this—dude got one downvote on a comment

I think you need to get your Haribo from somewhere else, they’re generally a pretty pleasant level of gummy. The only time I can remember them being hard is when they’re super old.

Well unless you’re getting whatever their version of sports mix or mini gems is called, which are supposed to be hard gummies.

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