m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

The Titanium PowerBook G4 still looks like a total work of art even 20+ years later.

And don't get me started on the art that was Aqua in Mac OS X. Looks playful but still like a serious Operating System -- none of this flat, overly joyful and bubbly bs we have today with stupid overly saturated colors and is completely unusable.

Old Apple hardware and software aged like the finest of all wine.

M.T. Void's first album is actually pretty good. I didn't like it on first listen. I actually didn't like it even on my second listen, but now it's starting to grow on me.
It's a project of Tool's bass player Justin Chancellor and leader of Sweet Noise — a alt. metal band from Poland.
I'm talking about their debut, they were to release something new this year I thing, but I'm yet to listen to it.

@EricZhang456
Yeah, that might be VST-related. I don't have many of them and I use more or less often even fewer, only Novation BassStation comes to mind
I've been using VST extensively when Max/MSP and Live weren't tightly integrates as it was the only way to use my patchers in Live, but it didn't crash on me even then. Omnispere looks like a rather complex thing so it might be the case. The fact that Live is cracked might also be a contributing factor — I've always liked it, since version 4 when I first discovered it, so when Live 7 was released I shelled out full price for the Suite and I've been upgrading since then, I didn't upgrade to 10 though and I don't even know what's the current version, maybe 11 or 12 already — mainly because I'm broke , but I also don't really see the point, they sure add interesting things, but I already more or less have what I want and I don't need something like Apple Silicon support or support for newer Windows.
Even with Live 8 and 9 on Windows I've had extensive mixing sessions that lasted days — with breaks for me of course, but not for Live — I've been saving my work, but not quitting Live. And it still never let me down.
But sure it gets flakier with every new version. Live 7 had been rock solid, I don't even know what you had to do to crash it. Maybe current versions got even worse in terms of reliability
@10leej @splitshockvirus @karolat @newt

@adiz @olmitch

Porcupine tree CD seems to want to tell me something. That listening to it makes me elite?

Tales from 4chan
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I've just made my second attempt to use the new Thunderbird with new UI and… I just can't use it! I think I'm going to downgrade despite vulnerabilities, I have WebP shit disabled so I think I'm safe.
Everything — and by that I mean really everything, is so painstakingly bad, even things that could've been good like the card message list view, are bad.
First of all, it doesn't adhere to gtk theming and keeps using its own blue accent — which is bad, I don't think one could come up with worse choice of color. I'm running it in Linux now, but I think it looks bad in every single OS Thunderbird supports.
And there currently are next to no themes that change that color. Well, there is this nice Gruvbox theme that changes it to orange — at least something. But it has poor contrast for selected message in the message list.
Then there is no way to customize toolbar in the main windows — and there is no toolbar. At all — it's gone. Now to do something with messages you have to either right click or open then and then perform some actions — those windows still have toolbars.
Instead of toolbar, main window has a giant… well, bar, with only hamburger menu button on it — you can't hide it, there are only two options: have close window button in addition to hamburger menu button on it and to not have it. Oh, and yes — there is a giant search field on it. I don't know, maybe it's true that most people use search a lot when working with email… But I don't! And when I do, I'm fine with using the Ctrl+F or Ctrl+K or whatever shortcut they use — I don't want this thing on the screen all the time.
Then there is no way to access third party addon's UI — at all. I've been using Dark Reader for example, to make HTML messages and websites less white. I know it probably wasn't supported to begin with, but it worked — and it still kinda does, but I can't access its settings anymore.
All in all it's unusable in its current form, at least for me. When they announced the UI overhaul, I haven't been as skeptical as many others were — on the mock-ups it looked like they are going to declutter it — and Thunderbird could've used that. But that's not what they finally did — they have just removed most part of the UI instead
This time I have made a complete backup of the profile directory so it would be easy to roll back.

@m0xee

What are you, crazy? Go out right now and buy a new Macbook Pro! And a Mac Pro to use at home! And since you're at the Apple store anyway, why don't you pick up an iPhone 15 Pro Super Mega Max as well, and of course an iPad and an Apple Watch to complete the ecosystem. Airpods are optional for now, but I'd highly appreciate it if you got a pair too. Or two, one for home and one for on the go.

You can't just keep using your old hardware. Think about the economy! Hardware manufacturers are struggling because of people like you!

You throw away that old crap right now, I don't care if it still works and fits your needs, and you buy everything new. And from now on, you do that *every single year*!

Understood? ;)

If you happen to get your hands on an older computer, say between 10 and 20 years old, do you

TIL about the doorway effect a known psychological event where a person's short-term memory declines when passing through a doorway moving from one location to another when it would not if they had remained in the same place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorway_effect
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/16jki5m/til_about_the_doorway_effect_a_known/

https://www.makeworld.space/2023/08/bye_gemini.html

Looks like Amfora won't be actively developed anymore.
It's a pity as it was one of my favourite Gemini browsers, and I'm sure not mine only. Although some of the reasons stated aren't ungrounded, TBH the whole post looks like a classic case of burnout, not real disappointment in technology, but I'm not judging in either case, I'm just sad