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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • You know what’s really stupid about this

    Notepad existed for decades, resisting the general trend of Microsoft software, and it continued to do one thing, and do it well (for the purposes of this argument, let’s not get started on line endings)

    If someone wanted to do more than just view text files, there was wordpad, a stripped down word processor, that would have been the perfect application to add support for markdown to.

    Except they killed it, because enough people must have realised that the word processor bundled with the OS did everything they needed without having to pay Microsoft a subscription for Word.

    So now Microsoft is trying to turn notepad into the rudimentary word processor that people expect to come with their OS, destroying the aspect that made it useful






  • I think you’re missing the point a bit.

    In modern audio production, there’s nearly always a laptop or something involved. The alternative approach is known as a “no computer”/“DAW-less” approach, where you replace everything a computer would be doing, with outboard hardware.

    Also worth highlighting It’s not necessarily about being 100% analog. For example, at the end of the day a eurorack trigger signal is obviously digital by nature, but it’s also nothing to do with a computer. You only need a couple of transistors, resistors and a capacitor to make a square wave oscillator after all

    The screen you’re pointing out is part of an Arturia BeatStep Pro which is a MIDI controller. It is also probably the only thing in his rig pictured that comes close to that. Most of the modules in the rig have build videos on his channel, and you can see they are not dressed up raspberry pis or anything like that, and basically all analog components.

    Now sure you could fence out a minimum viable computer definition that allows you to call anything with a microcontroller a computer, but you’d be including things like TV remote controls, car keys and microwave ovens.