Absolutely I am! That’s so fucking cool. I love when folks build things out of bad ideas and gumption for creative endeavors

Oh absolutely! Shoot (or play, or draw, or whatever) on what you have. Get it to that 80% range of the professional output you see/hear. Then start looking at targeted upgrades.

But younger folks with wide eyes (including myself when I was that age) are sure that one more sensor or one more tube will get them where they need to go.

Spend enough to get something credible so you’re not fighting the gear and learn it end to end. Spend the money you would have spent on gear on experiences instead. Or put it in an account for better gear once you learn what each piece does.

Honestly I always hated that advice when I was young. But it would have saved me enough to buy some really really nice stuff when I was actually ready for it. Or put a down payment on a house.

I’m not a photography guy (browsing all while I wait on a 2am Uber so I’m not out driving drunk) but GAS is huge in musician circles. I remember when I was younger I wanted one of every guitar, one of every pedal, one of every amp… Eventually I realized I could get credible results with a handful of guitars, a few decent amps, and one intentionally curated pedalboard.

I still have a pile but that’s because I’m building and not acquiring these days.

I imagine it’s a little different in photography circles since there’s probably no good way to build new lenses with solder, a box of components, and a bad idea. However, I wanted to reach out both in solidarity (I know how you feel) and to let people feeling behind the 8 ball right now gear wise know that it’s not just them. A lot of us with gear heavy creative endeavors have felt the same way.

I just like how they feel. Know what I’m sayin’?

Look, I’m not racist but I have to say, I fucking love peanut butter.

I fully agree with this and formed my opinion based on your comments and posts. I’ll be getting all my opinions from you from now on.

I thought Junior just meant they only had 3 or 4 pair of programming socks.

Right? Minute 55-60 is the 15th minute. Fuck that. If it takes that long then the team is too big for agile or the scrum master had lost control.

You’re right. The other side of that is I did a little contract work for a company that is working on software for unmanned commercial flights.

Those guys actually made me feel better. They were all super smart, meticulous, and incredibly good at their jobs. It was the first environment I’ve ever been in where I felt like I could just barely keep up. I always felt one commit away from fucking things up. So I moseyed on down the road as soon as the thing I was contracted for was finished.

It was such a cool job and they offered me a permanent place. I just couldn’t feel behind every single day for the rest of my career until my system destroyed people’s lives.

That’s funny, because they’re currently trying to hire a bunch of folks back who they just fired then realized how important they were.

Instead of doing things in a controlled and thoughtful manner they’re running around being fucking morons. They have no idea what the hell they’re doing.

I worked at an MSP for years and had clients who would send it back and forth that way to each other. The most common were medical practices, but banking wasn’t far behind.

Fax was considered secure because you could lock up the fax machine physically.

My favorite setup was a medical practice that dealt with stomach issues, including colon cancer, and their neighbor in the same building who was a pathology lab. They both had the PDF to fax and fax to PDF servers set up to send back and forth when someone could just walk 50 feet and hand over paperwork.

Making music got easier by decade and it’s around 500$ to have all kinds of tech and instruments better than what Radiohead used in Kid A, and it’s way more accessible to access to learning resources.

People forget the part. The garage bands who couldn’t possibly make it in the 90s can now release their own music without a label. I’m just a drunk and I’ve got music out there that was mostly recorded in a closet. Anyone can put stuff out and try to find their audience.

The other thing a lot of folks forget is that most bands never made much from album sales. Only the top tiny percent did, even among a lot of famous bands. Musicians have always out there killing themselves on the road to make money on ticket sales and merch.

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The prevailing wisdom for dealing with trolls in the past has been report, block, and move on. You never know if someone is going to thrive on that kind of conflict and a whole lot of motherfuckers love it.

I’m not saying it’s right or wrong because honestly I don’t know. I’m just sad they’re running off people contributing to their community and mad that they’re sexually harassing people.

Learned skill. I spend a lot of time drunk and Android tends to do a pretty good job of guessing what I’m swiping.

I also tend to reread what I wrote when I’m drunk. I actually generally do a worse job sober because I won’t double check my work.

And it was signage displays for the dumb TVs I was thinking of, and Sharp TVs used to have unsecured wireless networks that you couldn’t really turn off, so they’d make a mesh with other smart TVs. I believe I’ve heard the same thing about Samsung as well.

Now it’s time to go jog myself sick.

Sceptre is cheapo stuff. And at least one brand of smart TV is wardriving to find networks behind your back (again, drunk, I can’t remember which right now) and creating mesh networks with other TVs of the same type.

Sceptre has some dumb TVs. You can also still get the display TVs that companies use. I’m drunk so I forget what they’re called.

“You forgot your kids exist, go check to see if they’re alive.”

Most things should be. Hell, one of Google’s biggest public failures was building an opt-out social media network that let all sorts of people see who you’ve emailed lately.