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I keep wanting to say the same thing. In fact, how other people describe hobbies is why I don't like the term hobbies.

I think music is a good example of sometimes you need to not have fun to have fun. Practice isn't really fun, but if you can put up with it you can have a lot of fun. So you can say that the not fun parts are part of the fun parts because it's what gives you the payoff. But when people then go and send you a Suno generated song, and say it's better than yours, it is them devaluing the "not fun" parts you had to put up with. I've had people do similar things to code projects I've done. It's a real buzz kill.

I also really value when musicians critique my songs, even when I feel defensive about it. Because then it's not about them devaluing my time, it's about them helping me grow, and they know how it feels to go through that process.

This is how I feel, I like to share the cool thing I did and be part of creative spaces with other people, but I feel those spaces have gotten smaller, or changed.

No, but I think a lot is, and it makes it (more) difficult to discover new music. There's still in person music, which is what it's about anyway.

Indeed, I also don't listen to music after 2024. I'm also not interested in anything my friends have made (with claude or others). Or how so much of creativity is now a prompt away.

A lot of our culture is disappearing before our eyes and people are defending it.

Pretty much every vst, clap, etc plugin on Linux requires X calls because of how windows get created and then managed by the host.

I've moved to running Bitwig in an Ubuntu distrobox container. Hope you're enjoying 6, it seems they fixed a lot with the piano roll.

I had to set mouse warping off in my tiling manager for yabridge/wine plugins.

Costco and similar do have them at a decent price, currently see them 20$ for 10. I think most people just look at the 2 packs, which are more expensive.

I play with generally lighter strings. 8.5-40 mighty slinky fender scale. I noticed when I switched my fingers pay much more attention to pressure, and being in tune with microbends.

Been thinking of going a bit lighter recently, and also getting a classical.

I have been building music theory/midi related vst plugins in JUCE.

It's mostly targeted at me, or others that make music, but are not piano players.

There isn't much to show currently, but I have a rhythm generator, and have been working on a chord builder. The main thing that has taken time has been trying to decide which things to add to a user interface to make it worth actually building.

Isn't it that you sign up for Star Fleet, go through school, take tests, and then get assigned to a position?

Not everybody is in Star Fleet, so I assume people want the ability to travel the stars and they'd be happy enough scrubbing torpedo tubes.

Awesome OP. I'll give it a shot because I've been considering doing something similar for chord charts. Glad to see abc notation support.

This is a really important point that I think a lot of people who aren't vegan don't get. There might be an understanding that food is culture (lets order chinese, or italian), but realizing that's not a culture you experience but a culture you live.

The first thing many new vegans ask is "what do I eat now?" The replacement food comes first, and beyond hits the mark a lot more than seitan does because we don't culturally eat seitan.

And even more so, I think beyond has made it so an entire generation realized they could go vegan. A black bean burger just never hit the same way.

A few weeks ago I was looking into `XReparentWindow` because certain things use it (DAW Plugins). I don't think Wayland can do something similar (but I guess XWayland works), GTK and Qt both seem to have their own version.

Looking more into plugin libraries, a lot of it is based specifically on X, I don't think that's going to be rewritten anytime soon.

I've felt for a while stuck between X and Wayland. Same with Pipewire and Jack/Pulse.

Shut up n play yer guitar.

You can practice playing over the changes, or you can go to the bar, watch netflix, or do anything else.

But in 10 years are you going to be able to play over the changes?

If you remove llms from the article everything is still the same.