There’s a large org (@ hope.net) that has a non-profit convention every few years. It maintains a e-mail list to let its > 1000 previous attendees know about the upcoming convention and related info. In the past decades everything was fine.
This year (con in July) Gmail has been spam-binning ALL of those reminder e-mails aimed at attendees who use Gmail. Quite clearly it’s not the users making that choice. The org is left with no other way to contact those attendees.
Singapore has too many rich Chinese already.
If we try the rolling power-outage trick, we’d better make damned sure we get it right the first time. Because they’ve been well-trained to mimick us.
If you haven’t seen ‘The Forbin Project’ yet, there may still be time. I read somewhere that the author did two sequels, but I never actually got a chance to see either. Ever. Anywhere. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t in Maui those two days.
assuming the profit of AI is sufficiently taxed for the wealth to redistribute
AH - hah-hah-hah-hah !!!
Oh well, at least some of us will still be good for cleaning up messes and other physical things. And remember, like they used to say, hard work never killed anybody.
Ya know … I’ll just give that a close hard look. Thanks!
After leaving Macs (and Logic) (Apple software great, Apple iMac shit) switched to LInux over 10 years ago. Haven’t made music since (hardware in boxes). Fully learned that Linux music ain’t got that swing.
I recently heard that newer PipeWire has improved things a quite a lot. Haven’t tried it yet … not sure I remember how to play any instruments any more.
Looks like I’ll need to switch to one of those browsers that only take and show characters I can type on a keyboard. Like F and U.
The how part.
Sounds about right … -some- of the older ICs are pretty rugged. OTOH, things I wonder about on the below-freezing side (colder things shrink) … include ROMs? Larger capacitors? Modern high-density RAM? FPGA? And then there’s water condensation (rust?) water freezing? (might even damage traces on PC boards)… (Wonder if there’s an archive of chip datesheets online?)
Desperate strategy they’re hoping will fool some of the people some of the time.
Trusting complete strangers with highly personal information is never a good idea. Even if they promise to take good care of it, before or after they’ve already got your money.
With all those noises moving parts inside, playing an OLD machine felt like tickling a hippo.
Ur so right! Diffy-Q has its uses, but analog was too advanced for us to grok so we had to settle for it. Newton ‘discovered’ gravity, and calculus, then found out how useful calc was!
Non-linear? Hella faster! Nature went with analog long ago. No analog, no music!
Glad to hear that! Yep he’s got a sense of humor -and- knows his stuff.
Oh well … at least we’ve still got Popular Mechanics.
It’s a great service. I found several of his expertly-created 78 tunes on there that I hadn’t heard in decades. (Some scarce stuff is almost never NOT available on 33 or 45rpm)
Another reason: Some people get deeper into multiple pieces of music because they like to compare performances of them. Fidelity doesn’t matter a whole lot. You want to compare how some bands or singers performed a (non-hit) song recorded in the 1930s or 1950s. You listen around the fidelity. People in the 1950s made million-selling hits everyone heard on AM radio or 45s. Fidelity is over-rated.
There is indeed a way to use lasers to read 78s without touching the surface, and the gear is availble. Though probably not at a price most of us would like. Here’s one example: https://www.elpj.com/ But after decades of work, they seem to have problems … /Laser_turntable#Performance
Welcome. I didn’t realize until I read that how complicated using the ‘right’ styli can get. Or that most ‘shellac’ 78s were mostly made of other crap. Interesting topic!
Got here from iCab.
I think the last time I installed Mint (21.2) it DID create a swapfile. Don’t use it, so commented that out in /ETC/FSTAB.
AND they might have had miniature cameras in them for the past 20 years.
(The laws against this stuff are almost non-existing. Option left for those of us creeped out by constant surveillance: don’t leave home, unplug that webcam. Demand privacy or lose it.)