Cabinet Derg @Motodrachen@awoo.space

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This weekend I spent my time at a friend's house building a Lego mecha squad for Mobile Frame Zero. Unfortunately we did not get to play, but look upon my works.

Well, this is useful. https://www.ufseeds.com/learning/planting-schedules/

#gardening #growing

I work in IT which is the reason this house has:

- mechanical windows
- mechanical door locks
- no Alexa/HomeKit/Google
- no Internet connected thermostats, lamps, or whatnots
- a dumb TV
- wall switches for lights

Oh my god...

Kestrels are the kobolds of birds of prey.

"Modern processors are like nitro-fueled funny cars - they excel at the 1/4 mile. Unfortunately modern languages are like Monte Carlo - full of twists and turns."

-- Dave Ungar, 1998

@Thomas

well, shit. i knew this day would come eventually, and here it is...

the display on my alesis fusion is on the blink. literally; just like my vaio screen did a few days ago, it's started flickering and fuzzing and generally behaving like something's just burned out.

this would be annoying but not fatal in most synths, because most synth have an extensive SysEx implementation that allows them to be more or less completely controlled remotely.

but the fusion does not. they never got that far when they were coding the OS - they got stuck on basic stuff, like keeping audio and MIDI in sync...

so this damn thing, which cost £799 new in 2006 (and had its power supply replaced in 2007, after it decided one day that it really didn't like the mains voltage standards in the UK), is basically going to have to go in the bin because as far as i know it can't be effectively serviced :-(

this is why we don't tend to bother having nice things. eventually they go away.

the annoying thing is that i was just on the cusp of buying a new synth anyway - a Roland JD-Xi - but the money i would have spent on that instead went on an emergency sojourn in west yorkshire

oh well. i guess instead i'll just load up a PC with all the commercial softsynths i've bought over the years, and make that work

because if the hardware that, say, the Korg Wavestation VST is running on dies, you can just buy a new machine and reinstall. whereas if you have an actual Korg Wavestation and the hardware dies... that's all she wrote.