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If I’m not mistaken, there’s a weird trend here.

My SO worked in admin at a school for a few years, primarily young people of less fortunate backgrounds, immigrants, etc.

To her great surprise, almost everyone aged 16-22 knew how to use a phone, but an equality small percentage were comfortable with PCs, macbooks or other desktop systems.

That surprised the hell of me. Like you, I grew up using brick phones, then command line systems, then gui computers. I grew up being better at computers than my parents generation, a digital native who was expected to fix the older generations computers, fully expecting to be one day out-done by the younger generation who would grasp the newer more advanced tech faster than me simply by virtue of having been around it longer.

Somehow that seems to both not be the case and very much be the case. Mobile devices are the native device now, but it seems like being native to mobile does not translate backwards to knowing how to build a computer or what a file system is.

My best bet is that it’s a matter of UX and accessibility. You don’t learn how to troubleshoot installer errors when everything runs through an app store, the same way I didn’t learn how to fix a car like my dad did. I didn’t need to.

I might be mistaken, but I think this style was pioneered by Welcome to my Meme Page.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/welcome-to-my-meme-page

I think “by hand” implies making ascii art in a text editor, rather than in a dedicated drawing tool that lets you paint characters etc.

which might or might not be a separate unit from the keyboard.

Funny that you mention it. Synthesizers are very much a product of university research programs. Back in the 60’s and 70’s, when synthesizers as a concept was still new, there was heated debate between the pioneers of the field (Robert Moog in New York and Donald Buchla in Berkley, California) over whether or not synthesizers should even have a keyboard.

The origin of the word “synthesizer” isn’t actually “synthetic”, as many believe, but rather synthesis, as in the academic sense of the word, from the idea of breaking a sound down into it’s individual parts and reassembling them.

Are you sticking to only softsynths / digital, or also going into analog?

I ask because I have previously struggled with explaining why plugins and dsp stuff works the way it does (why is “saving my settings” called a patch?) without going into a long winded history lesson.

Either way, super cool!

I think I know a fair bit about both the history of synths and how they work, so if you need someone try bounce ideas off of don’t hesitate to write.

Interesting! Do you happen to know where the -UX suffix convention came from?

No, not it’s not. And not even just for the lulz of having access to porn.

You wanna know why? For the same reasons that decriminalisation of drugs is has potential upsides, and for the same reasons why repression breeds kinks.

People are going to try to get porn anyway. If you force young people (or people who can’t provide ID) to resort viewing porn illegally, then it is infinitely easier for them to go browsing for porn in places that will let them find really illegal porn.

In other words, would you rather have your kids watching main stream porn, or would you like them to potentially end up on the dark web?

I wonder if one could make a renderer that translates ascii characters into squares of solid colours. Colour depends on the character.

Zoom out far enough and you have a bitmap.

Now that I think about it, tahini and peanut butter are fairly similar in texture and consistency.

I wonder what Hummus with peanut butter would taste like.

I also wonder what peanut butter with garlic, lemon and cumin would taste like.

The qualifier listed by op was “popular music”

Yes, but how often do you see them in mainstream media these days?

There are three battles wise men know not to fight:

• A land war in Asia
• The Finns in winter
• Swedish Unions

Wow, thanks for the reply!

That makes a lot of sense. I was trying to work out why a sink immediately next to a corner was bad, but now I know what you mean.

I guess it’s a bad solution to trying to work around the problem of kitchen real estate, the same way trying to use for cabinet in the corner unit for anything is almost always a bad time.

Ok, I’m super curious. By “In the corner” do you mean putting a sink on the actual corner unit? Or by the tablespace immediately next to it?

In the case of the first one I totally get it. The corner unit is a cursed part of the kitchen anyway. If you mean immediately next to it, why not? Not disagreeing, just curious what a professional says.

I did ;)

How is it untypical?

Not to be a dick, because I agree, but this doesn’t really answer the question.

“The European Commission went on to point out that Safari’s functionality and underlying technologies are near-identical across platforms. The Commission even highlights Apple’s own marketing materials for its Continuity feature, which appear to contradict the company’s claims, touting the tag line “Same Safari. Different device.” As a result, the Commission rejected Apple’s claim and insists that “Safari qualifies as a single web browser, irrespective of the device through which that service is accessed.””

Chef’s Kiss

Governments and stately instances so rarely have a proper grasp of technology. This is beautiful.

Not sure if they’re that obscure, by some people’s standards, but here, have some Kardashev

Yes, but who has the most famous seafood culture? Scandinavia or japan?

We’re famous for eating a lot of fish, but not for high quality of it. Japan treats it’s tuna like texas treats it’s cattle.

We mass fish salmon, cod and plaice and sell it to the rest of Europe at dumping prices.

Japan has good fish, we have lots of fish.