Thanks for the awesome comments everyone - I’m reading all of them 🙏

Initially I did yeah, but eventually learned that different people use it differently. So good practice to never assume sarcasm through emojis unless you know the person well

Yeah ReNoise is great! Though since I’ve transitioned to a full-FOSS workflow, I now use OpenMPT as my main, and Furnace for Game Boy specific tracks.

I’ve listed my main tools here if you’re interested: https://johnoestmannmusic.com/tooling/

The thought is still appreciated haha 🙏

Oh hey - thanks for the share!

Shout out to @Binette@lemmy.ml for advising me to cross-post here from lemmy.ml/c/opensource

Will do! Wait, you know flight_school from somewhere? :o

As much as I love what they’re doing, tieing an OS to a specific region via name seems like the opposite of Open Source values… Then again, I suppose it could just be forked into a more generalized version

Ah, I missed that detall! https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

Try an uncensored version, because everyone knows Communists hate Hexadecimal /s

Yeah agreed - anything not FOSS is just setting up another bad situation waiting to happen

I wrote a comment explaining Tariffs on a Fox News YouTube video a few weeks back, and the entire reply chain was people arguing with eachother about how tariffs work because “Trump said it’s a tax on other countries, so that’s how they work”

Meanwhile the Trump administration has asked Australian academics to justify that their US-funded research lines up with Conservative values

Almost 50% of a company’s worth gone in 2 months. Tesla really is leading the race.

These people idolize Henry Ford, so they should double check the history on how he tried and failed spectacularly at the same thing: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/19/lost-cities-10-fordlandia-failure-henry-ford-amazon

In other news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Yeah this is important to note.

It would be super helpful if Reddit showed the date a sub was banned so we could determine if this was a recent thing or not. https://www.reddit.com/r/suppressed_news/ is still up

according to the linked article, it sounds like it is for performance reasons.

I do suspect Qi is a useful abstract concept for focusing and activating parts of our physiology. But while it feels like a single thing (“energy”), it is more a very complex bunch of processes the same way our consciousness feels like a single thing, but is actually a very complex bunch of processes.

I’m just going to use this opportunity to publicly grieve again for Winamp fake becoming open-source: https://hackaday.com/2024/10/16/winamp-taken-down-too-good-for-this-open-source-world/