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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We live in a time where live action adaptations of classic sci-fi literature are now possible - both technically and financially. But now TBH I find most of it super boring. Been trying to plow through that Foundation series and got to say it just doesn't hold my attention. Same with the William Gibson adaptation the Peripheral. I liked the books but just can't hang with the vids.

There is stuff I like but its rare. Arrival, Raised by Wolves, the Dune movies, a few others.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

are we looking at a work slowdown from the digital serfs of x?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

How shite is the band? If its shite enough, you're good enough lol.

Seriously tho, find you a jam situation if you can. For instance, bluegrass is a genre with a strong jam tradition. In my area there are public bluegrass jams where you can basically hang out and play rhythm, learn the tunes and watch other players. Usually there are enough people that there's always someone else to watch on guitar. Bluegrass leads are heinously difficult but rhythm playing isn't bad.

Some other folk genres that have jams: Irish, 'old time', gypsy jazz, regular jazz, blues, choro, cajun. Maybe there's something in your area.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

yeah I wish the satire could have been more witty and less bludgeony

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So I guess 'Nicole' is a bot or something? Feeling FOMO

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

LOL this is no Dune: Part Two blockbuster. Stop pretending that its supposed to be one.

Ruffalo does a solid, loathsome Trump.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

that is the wrong mindset for a boycott. no amazon period from now until forever. if shows go under so much the better. take your show business elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You don't have to replace the html web. If a new system was sufficiently fun to create with, people might use it for all kinds of cool new projects. Kind of like Flash used to be. You'd go there for a specific thing you heard about.

A new web free of cruft might turn out to be cheaper to develop for, and that might appeal to the corporate types. Maybe useful for intranet type apps where the browser is specified anyway and you have a captive audience.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Ok maybe off topic, why does a web browser have to be one of the most complicated software artifacts on earth? So expensive to write and maintain that only a few orgs with huge developer resources can do it?

What would it look like to start from scratch with a massively simplified standard for specifying UIs, based on all we've learned since html/css was invented? A standard that a few developers could implement in a few weeks using off the shelf libraries. Rather than reimplement every bizarre historical detail in html/css, have a new UI layout system that's simple and consistent, and perhaps more powerful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Haven't looked at it in detail. I like F-Droid because the apps seem to be non-predatory OSS that gets the job done. Its not really a 'store' though. I think some apps have a paid Play Store release and a free F-Droid release, to make it easy to support the devs if you want.

Does accrescent support non-free apps?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I had a touchscreen laptop for years and only used the screen if the touchpad was broken for some reason. a touchscreen is just not ergonomic in laptop form. the yoga-style screen should make it much more useful.

my use case would be for occasionally reading music on a music stand, and to run an audio mixer with a tablet style interface.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'll add to this that when I first registered at mastodon.social, my default view was some fancied up multi-column monstrosity. I managed to turn most of that off, but it was super confusing at first. Start simple and let users add complexity.

Also agree about the empty feed. At least default to the explore tab. Way better would be a tool to help build your feed based on interests. There are various tools for that, but a user shouldn't have to leave the app and google around to discover them.

A tool to read your phone contacts and search for corresponding mastodon accounts would be intrusive (some would even say unprincipled), but many users would welcome it.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23517383

From way back in 1994. David Winston on banjo and Kevin Enoch on guitar. Norman Edmonds source

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22604292

Twin fiddles of Rhys Jones and Cleek Schrey are locked in. Lots of closeups of John Herrman's banjo work in this vid. More info re the pickup band bigfoot

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22534350

As far as I can tell, it has nothing to do with the Irish tune of the same name.

Kim Johnson on banjo, Jesse Pearson on fiddle. Rest of the album is great too.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21711809

Great version of this classic jam tune.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21334917

Chance McCoy on fiddle, Adam Hurt banjo. Rockin version of this tune!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20189817

Judy Hyman played this tune on Bob Carlin's Banging and Sawing record back in 1996, and here it is again in 2024, Ithaca style.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20120284

Nice twin fiddle version of this tune, which is apparently from the english ballad.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19930720

Ripping version of this mississippi tune from "Jeb and Mark" plus Andy on bass according to the comments. No idea who's playing guitar. No one looks up!

carter brothers version.

Tractor Family version, Ithaca style.

 

A big part of why nix documentation is sub par. The essential tomes of nix - the nix manual, the nixos manual, the nixos options, the nixpkgs manual - each of these documents is just one long page.

They are the digital equivalent of scrolls, rather than books (codices?).

Rather than having a page number (or page link), one must unroll the scroll to the point of interest. One cannot simply flip between two points of interest. One cannot have bookmarks, or refer to page numbers. Ctrl-F is helpful, sure, but not great.

For instance, I was just looking for the documentation of the systemd.services. options. Its near the end of the colossally long scroll known as the Nixos Options Appendix. Ctrl-F on systemctl.services will get one million hits on all the myriad services nixos offers before you finally get to the relevant section. And if you do find that section (with single pixel movements of the scroll bar) and then ctrl-f, woe betide you, you're now at the top of the document and your place is lost!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19151035

Cool ragtimey tune, with train activity in the background. The 1929 original from Prince Albert Hunt’s Texas Ramblers. "Feel like a jug of molasses"

 

Some fancy flatfooting from Nic Gareiss!

 

Grooving track from the chicken chokers.

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