Damn. I feel so seen suddenly.

Yes, this. Even if some of it is procedurally generated, how fun would it be to go in ANY door in cp77??

Ah! I knew I was missing something!

Well did you follow the timeless directions of “RUB HANDS UNDER ARM HAIR” followed by “STOP AUTO AT ALLY” ?

me too!!! I went fully linux thinking “I’ll figure it out,” and I have, for everything except affinity. That hobby is basically on hold now. I might just finally check out (gulp) gimp.

I feel so seen. :D

Also, username checks out!

I laughed too hard at this. Thanks!

holy crap, nice.

Cactus Juice (from the Flintstones).

I do physical synths / drum machine as well, in fact I basically use a daw as a mixer with effects :) The latency is good, and I don’t have the newest machine or anything. On Linux it’s super easy to combine interfaces too, like I have my tr-8 (drums) as a multitrack USB interface, and an 8i6 for my synths, and it combines them way easier than I could do in windows! Take with a grain of salt as I’m an amateur, but for my purposes it’s been great so far.

I ended up switching to Linux recently for same reasons, but my kids are older and i had time to nerd out and go full Archwiki. Ableton was one of the last holdouts that was keeping me from switching… and I spent a good month dicking around with wine trying to get it to work. And I couldn’t! I ended up selling my Ableton license and buying Bitwig, which is natively supported in Linux, and actually pretty amazing… (I don’t expect you to switch, just telling my story. It has really fun modular synth-like interface, with all the other VST support and quite good out-of-the-box plugins etc.)

I also couldn’t get Affinity Photo working in wine… and gimp doesn’t quite do it for me. So I’m not sure what to do there, so my photo editing hobby is on hold til I figure that out.

That said, some of my other windows stuff works magically in wine (sierrachart, games, etc.).

So with all that in mind, I’d say if you don’t have time to figure it out, and still want ableton to work, it might not be worth the mental load until you have more time on your hands. Unless you have an old laptop lying around, it wouldn’t hurt to just try it and see what you can get working.

Mama called the doctor and the doctor said, Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed. For our scheduling department please press 1. …

I think so. We’ve lost James, at least!

Yep, we as a family have been doing Friday night movie+homemadepizza since covid days. The kids usually win out on the movie pick, so it’s often something animated or starring Jack Black, but we occasionally make them watch something like Amelie or Office Space, and those adult picks usually go over pretty well. :)

ha!

maybe it’s 2 AV (after V)

Oof, yeah, not worth it <3 happy cubing!

But your best ao5 happens when you drink coffee, right?

Mm I don’t know, but it makes me want a cigarette.

Unmeasured edibles in the olden days, oh boy… I don’t miss it.

This isn’t strictly corpo-speak, but upper mgmt type people do this a lot:
Misuse of the word “myself.” Like, “if you have any questions, talk to Joe or myself.”
Nice one dumb-ass–you tried to sound smarter by adding syllables but it didn’t work, did it!