ProdigalFrog

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A frog who wants the objective truth about anything and everything.
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SlowTV lemmy.world

5mo ago

Google Gemini is about to control your messages and calls, even if you say no
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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 5mo ago
If you'd be interested in a tracker-like DAW, Renoise has a native Linux version.
For more traditional DAWS, Bitwig and Reaper are the two best Linux native options. Reaper is quite cheap, and also offers a trial version that just nags you like winrar.

5mo ago

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In the US, pensions have become extremely rare, and were mostly replaced with a 401k, which is essentially a tax deferred stock market account. Often your employer will match contributions that you put into it up to a certain point.

5mo ago

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 5mo ago

What if their wages hadn't allowed them to build up a 401k? They likely won't be able to survive on social security alone.

5mo ago

Commodore has officially been purchased by Peri Fractic (of Retro Recipes)

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 5mo ago

Fractic’s tone, the repetitiveness, and gimmickery.

He's pretty much like that in most of his videos.

Just because someone did amazing stuff in the past doesn’t mean they’ll have the ability or the desire to do it in the future—the relative incentives, market conditions, technological constraints, and just plain interests are completely different than before. It’s fun to think one is changing the world and potentially getting rich by pushing the state of the art further than anyone thinks is possible. That’s not where these folks are now.

This I completely agree with. From what I can tell he's established relationships with these folk over the years during his coverage of C64 content, and likely felt having them be a part of this would legitimize it and make it feel like the 'real' commodore, but time and time again, when I've seen old legends try their hands at recapturing the magic of their past, it rarely seems to work out (a good example would be every ex-Sierra employee trying to make a new game with a kickstarter, all of which resulted in pretty sub-par stuff).

But I’d have a really hard time forking over any scratch to this guy, and will be astounded if this actually produces more than a curiosity.

I'm of the same mind.

I don't think Frantic has any sort of bad intentions or scheme planned (he's been steadily making classic computer content for over 7 years now), but I do think he's completely blinded by nostalgia, which is an ever pervasive theme in his videos, and is ultimately wildly overestimating the commercial viability of the goals he has in mind.

If he really did refinance his house to help fund all this, I don't foresee things going too well for him, as I can't really imagine them being able to put to market something that will be affordable enough and with some killer feature to truly capture a wide enough market. I also would love to be proven wrong here, but based on how the Commander X16 went, I suspect whatever they produce will be far too overpriced for what it actually is, and will end up only appealing to a small subset of similarly nostalgic Gen-x'ers who have the disposable income to get into it, similar to the Spectrum NEXT.

5mo ago

auto-cpufreq: An Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 5mo ago

I think you're right, and they may be exaggerating a bit. From what I can tell, this would be almost act like a 4th setting between power-save and on-demand mode, so you still get most of the benefits of power-save mode, but without the need to switch back to on-demand when you do something intense.

also @[email protected].

5mo ago

I'm putting my tin foil hat on and want to join the world of Linux, however I make music in Ableton. Do I just need to dual boot or does anyone have a better solution?

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 5mo ago

I suspect a VM would introduce latency (big no no for music production), and I can't imagine getting ASIO working would be easy (though I've never tried it).

5mo ago

I'm putting my tin foil hat on and want to join the world of Linux, however I make music in Ableton. Do I just need to dual boot or does anyone have a better solution?

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 5mo ago

According to WineHQ, Ableton's compatibility with wine isn't stellar. FL Studio works quite well in it, but switching DAWs can be a pretty major undertaking.

For Linux native DAWs, Reaper and Bitwig are the two best options. Reaper is the most affordable at 60 bucks, with an infinite free trial.

5mo ago

The end of Stop Killing Games - The Final Update. [Accursed Farms]

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 5mo ago

I don’t know. Fascism hates art

Speaking of which...

5mo ago

Looking for a Safe, Super Open Source (and also cheap if not free) Journaling app. Any Recomendations?

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 5mo ago

TrilliumNext Notes is a great one.

5mo ago

SteamWorld Dig free on Steam until 26 Jun.

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 5mo ago

It's a fun little game. Def worth grabbing if you haven't played it.

5mo ago

The end of Stop Killing Games - The Final Update. [Accursed Farms]

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 5mo ago

Here's hoping there's a final push for SKG, then!

5mo ago

The end of Stop Killing Games - The Final Update. [Accursed Farms]

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 5mo ago

The campaign was designed to save all future games, The Crew was just a useful catalyst to launch from, since it was a very visible example of what they were fighting against.

But yes, saving games is pretty minor compared to stopping literal fascism. It's just a shame that PirateSoftware fucked the campaign so hard, and stopped a big influencer from basically pressing the 'win' button by talking about it.

6mo ago

Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: CoMaps is Born

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 6mo ago

Glad to be of help and that you're up and running! :D

6mo ago

Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: CoMaps is Born

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 6mo ago

I had to go to the F-droid setting, click on Include Anti-Features, then enable 'Tethered Network Services' for it to show up in the F-droid search.

6mo ago

Beehaws Lemmy upgrade

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 6mo ago

Best of luck! :D

7mo ago

Any good privacy guides?

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 7mo ago

We put together a privacy guide with different tiers of inconvenience, which you may or may not find helpful:

https://slrpnk.net/post/17910446

7mo ago

Now that V for Vendetta and Idiocracy have essentially become documentaries, what other movies do you place in that camp?

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ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net 7mo ago

I wouldn't focus too much on the anachronistic technology, that's more to keep with the vibe of the original trilogy.

The farming audits, IMO, are pretty directly an analog to what ICE is doing in the US.

There's definitely some WW2 influence and stylistic choices, if anything that's to keep the execs willing to fund the thing, but later on you'll see some more blatant comparisons to our modern situation.