I was looking up stuff about Linux DAWs today, and I found this. I don’t know if you already know about it or not, but maybe it’ll be helpful to you.

I’ve never seen Bladerunner. But why would I flip the poor thing on its back in the first place? It’s just a tortoise, what the hell did the poor thing ever do to me?

Secret handshakes and codewords from movies I know the real one has never seen.

Ace enby lesbian here. I generally feel the same way. I’m attracted to femininity, equipment really doesn’t factor into how I feel about a woman. Or about femme-presenting people in general. I just think girls are pretty.

As a person with some pretty serious mental health issues, this is hilarious. I’m stealing it.

Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. If there was ever a voice of love and peace, it was a giant of a man with a giant’s heart. If I could bring one musician back from the dead, it would be the Hawaiian avatar of humankind’s best qualities.

But there may be a worthy successor to his voice.

I’ve been meaning to ask, what complaints do you have with open source DAWs? I know a lot of VST plugins just refuse to work in other programs, but what specifically do you miss the most?

Darkstone (1999) - Good game for a Diablo clone.

Debian-flavored Linux - My only complaints are hardware compatibility-related, and that is primarily because Nvidia and Intel both suck Microsoft’s floppy disk.

Krita, Gimp, Blender - Never needed another art program. Adobe can eat my paintbrush.

LibreOffice - I would literally have this over MSOffice any and every day of the week.

VLC - It just frickin’ works. And it’s good at its job. It plays anything!

The culture I grew up in was as a Mormon in the Rocky Mountains. They don’t do matchmaking per se, but the Mormon church has specific congregations for specific phases of life. There are “family wards”, for Mormons who are married with kids, “seniors’ wards” in nursing homes and retirement homes so elders don’t have to travel as far for church on Sunday, and “Singles’ Wards”.

As soon as you turn 18, you basically get sentenced to Singles’ Ward until you manage to get a girlfriend/boyfriend. The cultural expectation is heavy enough that you’ll get a lot of weird looks if you’re still going to church with your parents as a 19-year old. Mormon churches are very activity-heavy, so during the week there will be a ton of church-sponsored group-date and double-date events. And because Mormons are really serious about the premarital chastity thing, they usually get married before they ever realize just how big a commitment that is.

I found out I was gay while I was in Singles’ Ward. Mormonism is a VERY homophobic religion. Things got awkward really, really fast.

Knife, taser, bulletproof backpack insert, laptop and charger, battery pack, water, compass, water purifier drops, small ocarina, granola bars, tin cup, fire starter, local maps, notebook and pencils, sharpies, light jacket, extra socks, hiking towel, first aid kit, floss, deodorant…

and a set of comedic emergency mustaches.

Night. I have a hard time getting ready in the morning, and the last thing I need is to be late to work AND have wet hair the entire morning. But being nice and clean before bed helps me sleep.

Aaahhh. Clean and sleepy. ☺️😪

Put that paper on the wall in a frame, and keep it as a badge of honor!

I, for one, appreciate this man engaging in the exact grassroots direct democracy that LA prizes. Sometimes, illustrating exactly where the system fails and where the people prevail is the right approach. He did everything right. And when the government failed, he took it upon himself to do the right thing.

There is a kid that didn’t get squished by a truck today. Why would I complain about that?

For real. Did you see that hill halfway down the article? That’s a completely blind street, that crosswalk is 100% necessary. Is the city planner’s office reluctant to use the paint because they’re all busy huffing it, or what?!

I was always told that ‘dandelion’ is an Anglicization of the French name, “dents-de-léon” (Lion’s Teeth). But some English speakers spell it as “dandy lion” as in “A gentlemanly and well-dressed lion”, for its cheerful yellow ‘mane’.

You are right. But my statement already includes these groups.

Cheapest toilet paper.

It’s already begun.

It’s only paranoia when you’re wrong.

I love eating dandelion heads when they first show up in the spring. Everybody thinks I’m nuts when I reach into someone’s yard and pop it right off the stem and eat it, but I genuinely like them.

Question from a yank: Is it ‘dandy lion’ or ‘dents-de-leon’?