Nine Club is a bit of a controversial one atm - Roger Bagley came out as a Trumper in a recent Jenkem interview, and is quite happy to support problematic industry persons as long as they skate good. Also possibly brigaded his own comment section lol.
Gifted Hater hasn't been mentioned so I guess check him out.
As for actual parts that get you psyched to skate : Eetu's one from a couple days ago is pretty ninja. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=985KFs90BLY
Left screen is me bullying an AI in a themed terminal. Just for fun.
Virtual midi keyboard (glad you asked) is yoshimi, which assigns the keys automatically to your keyboard. I was actually playing along to some music [playing in cmus] using a 25 key midi sampler. The virtual keyboard shows me which key is being pressed [a blue dot appears on the relevant key]
https://yoshimi.github.io/docs/user-guide/starting/starting.html
You know what, install yoshimi and use it. It's great fun.
Yes and no. Use case is the great definer here.
This machine has been, and still is, many things; NAS, router, media server, server server, karaoke machine. Hell I even fell for that Chia Coin bingo card bullshit for about a month years back, and pressed it into service to 'farm' that with a big old ugly Noctua cooler sticking out of the open case.
Actually that's a good example bc doing that shit fried the RAM and if I had been using a laptop with so-dimm and soldered it would have likely grilled the whole board.
At the moment it's set up on a work bench desk in a corner of the drawing room where everyone in the household can finger fuck the screens if they wish and I don't have to worry about it . When kids ask if they can play games on it they either get gzdoom or mame or sent away disappointed.
Also it is silent. I love silent computers.
I know plenty of people who don’t even use their laptop much because they’re doing everything on their phones or game consoles.
Thank you but no.
Well, I do have other computers that are much better suited for it. One of them even has its own room, laid out specifically for that purpose ;). But that's a different post for a different sub, maybe.
Thank you. I like CRT (even if it has its quirks) but always struggled to find a use for it. Then I realised its great with an older monitor and a dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks LLM. It's like arguing with the bomb from the film Darkstar.
Old office firesale OEM Dell optiplex 5040 w/ i7 -6700 chipset
Upgraded with extra ram and nvme. No GPU.
Dual monitor setup (one 5:4 for that pre 2010 vibe)
Mint with Cinnamon. Programs - Yoshimi, CMUS, xed, htop and Ollama running Llava:7b in cool-retro-term.
Since no one had actually answered you: In roughly 30 minutes increments.
Do you wear a watch? I find it helps massively. Make a point of looking at it. I don't know what your work situation is, or living situation, but if you feel the wire trip, time it. Go and take a thirty minute break elsewhere. Toilet, conference room, cupboard, who cares just as long as you can be by yourself, and not be bothered. Write a journal, note why you got pissed off. Simmering anger can sabotage easily because it is basically you against you. Like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies. It can also be addictive. Note that too.
Thirty minutes I guarantee it the anger will have gone.
Plan your day so when you deal with them, you get it out of the way nice and early. You don' t need them dropping a load of shit in your lap at 4pm on a friday. Know when to be gone, if you know what I mean.
Seedy bread must be served on only the finest of China plates.
You know what I'm probably thinking of the slap thread where they just rip through his socials - apparently liked a lot of Charlie Kirk type grifty shit. https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=132216.120
Roger is definitely complaining about Gifted Hater. 'Cancel Culture' refers (I think) the Chris Cole debacle (beat up his wife and neglected his kids pretty badly over the years) and that just kind of got swept under the rug by JT and a bunch of other industry stone heads. GH made a video about that plus other shitbags like Tim Poole.
Glad you liked it!
Thinking about parts of note from the last couple years. This T-Funk is probably the one that sticks in my head. Just a fucking beast. Worth watching the whole vid but it is very Bakery ;) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uyfck1p430
Louis Lopez dropped loads of great parts while making a run for SOTY- His Cons one- https://youtu.be/2m8gvIzgfik?t=439
Evan Smith is also pretty banging - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tUr2NZfRq4
Supreme's Cherry just bc if you haven't seen it, it seems to have been one of those seminal vids of the teenies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zIVTDbve7k (not a supreme product fan but the vid is great)