robmusial

> Faux pas?

Yeah I would say it's definitely more like classic Apple products if anything. It's well designed, fun to use, expensive, but limited and locked down. Which does breed creativity, but let's not pretend it's "more free".

I'd say the Synthstrom Deluge is more like Linux. Somewhat harder to get into, community driven, expandable, and FOSS.

I wanted to hate Teenage Engineering as a traditional synth and groovebox/sampler nerd but after playing with an OP-1 Field and a few pocket operators, I understood why they were so successful. Beyond just the aesthetic and marketing the OP-1 Field especially was just _fun_ to play with. I was at first put off by the lack of standard tools and controls but when I first tried one it felt like getting a Nintendo as a kid and hours just passed me by while I was locked in fooling around. I never ended up buying one because it was (for me) too expensive, but the one I had on loan for awhile got me pretty close. They definitely had some misses like the wooden doll "choir". But maybe I'll see if I can find a used OP-1 Field now before everyone gets this news and the prices increase.

The only reason we had a computer was my dad was a machinist/metal fabricator and was convinced by business partners that he had to stop using his graph paper and scientific calculator and NEEDED AutoCAD. We had the tablet, puck, everything. He sat down to use it once and went straight back to graph paper.

But this was a great boon to me because it gave me a highly spec'd 486DX in the early 90s.

Oh they definitely did give me FTP sites, I just didn't want to ramble too much. I think at that time I had a USRobotics 33.6 sportster and a shared line with the rest of the house. Downloading large-ish files even overnight was a no go. My mom was a school teacher and the thought of her missing a call from the district about a snow day or other calamity would have been a disaster!

Hilarious that we were both commandeering computers of those we lived with via a $2.99 copy of Red Hat. Good times!

Like a lot of 90s kids my first language was BASIC via QBasic. After feeling like I had outgrown that I went looking for a "real" language to learn and landed on C++. The cost of Borland Turbo C++ 4.5 for a young kid, and my parents not being into computers so not keen on funding me, led me to ask for alternatives on IRC. I was told about [GNU/]Linux coming with a C/C++ compiler for free! I ordered a Red Hat CDROM from cheap*bytes and never looked back.

Had Borland not been so expensive or had the stranger on IRC known or told me GCC existed for DOS/Windows who knows where my career would be today.

In a weird way though I never used it, hearing about Borland Turbo anything still makes me happy because it reminds me of something I thought was unobtainium.

I thought it was better than the Nuclear war scenario, which I also enjoyed. I thought she did a better job in this one explaining possible off ramps or inflection points in the scenario but saying "this is the one we're exploring", which answers some of the critique of the nuclear war scenario.

No spoilers but Jacobsen's scenario books don't end with "and society came together, acted rationally, and solved the problem!"

I literally just finished Annie Jacobsen's book 'Biological War: A Scenario' last week where the central plot point is an accidental release of modified form of pneumonic plague from a lab in Siberia. Very coincidental timing, especially since it made me wonder how often labs like these have accidents and we never hear about them because it is cleaned up without issue.

It's probably being downvoted and flagged because it's off topic to the post and adds no substance which is against site rules.

Very similar use case but even for smaller amounts. I try to be as free software as possible so USDC is my go to alternative to Venmo/Apple Pay. I would use GNU Taler if it worked with U.S. banks.

And yet I'm constantly getting asked when we'll support Windows containers at my office.