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Interesting... My other half couldn't sign in this morning, and has been playing in offline mode - this could be it :)

Thank you :) just added this to my robots.txt :)

Waaaaaht!

(I hope my wordplay lands)

Ahhh if there's one guilty chuckle I miss from Reddit it is the captioning of Sesame Street into bertstrips! :) the creativity always got me :)

Gabe did it... For da rock

Thanks for sharing this! :)

I got a kick out of seeing helm on your list, as I was using the developer's Unity engine integration for a game when I started coding :) Fantastic synth.

I could also recommend hydrogen as a drum machine - it plays nicely with lmms, which is cool! :) There's also tuxguitar which I use as a guitar sketchpad when I just want to jot down a thing I'm playing, or learn a complicated song. :)

That's a really good question! All I've got is software sadly, but it might help the cause at least:

GUITab is a visual editor for tabs

TuxGuitar for opening and editing power tabs, making PDFs of tabs, midi etc.

I've found a couple of neat tab places specific to bands themselves, but they're not open source as much as maintained by one or a few people - nonetheless not UG :)

Sonic Youth have an officially hosted tab place on their site.

The Fall have tabs hosted on what I think is a fan site :)

I'm guessing the reason there's not one already is the sheer number of copyright issues that would appear the second it's online - Ultimate Guitar made some kind of deal if I remember correctly, which is probably why they're so aggressive about making me download the silly app and buying premium. :/

Oh wow, I'm glad it wasn't just a fever dream! Nobody I know was witness to it, so my friends look at me blankly if the pear ever comes up! :) People speedrunning getting banned from the pit via lolwut was always funny. 😂

It truly was, just a bunch of people with a common interest being mostly pretty cool to each other... Damn that was a good forum. :) This is the nearest thing I've seen to the vibe of it, but still not with all the comedy and characters (yet!)

Awesome! Thank you I'll definitely add Snow Crash to the list! :)

No kidding?! I didn't realise that was a thing! Awesome, I'd be up for rewatching them to find nods and links! :) Thank you, that's really neat

Have fun!!! 🤘 :)

Okay, imagine I can see windows in all its inefficient, telemetry riddled candy crush glory... in a better of minutes I can start making music with my hardware, with absolutely no setup besides plugging in some cables and downloading my program.

I spent months trying to convince JACK that my PC had a line-out even with the help of some lovely people over at JACK and Ubuntu forums, the answer we all came to was to try using Windows 7, which grudgingly got on with it, no issue at all.

I really, really wanted to ditch Windows for good, and did so proudly for almost five years, I have no loyalty to companies because that's daft. But part of maturing is knowing that someone tried a thing, it didn't work for them, and what works for you may vary. My build on my computer has been rock solid for performances, live recording, making entire games... I can't fault the damn thing try as I do!

I think it does the amazing work of the FOSS world a disservice to go after people exercising their choice to use whatever they want. It also makes these people feel unwelcome, and less likely to want to touch Linux with a ten-foot-pole.

I had various distros, and would to this day run LXLE proudly if I didn't have a need to use the music software I do. I still rock FOSS projects as much as possible (an old Audacity build gets much of what I need to do with game audio done, I take great glee in never touching Adobe products).

That said, in my subjective use case, I can't in any way say that the ethics of Linux made me make better music, but it did make me interested in technology, and that's also good. Arguing with Ardour and Jack to get Audio out was tedious, and I lost months of productivity through trying to will things to work.

I hope that's a constructive and helpful way to expand on this. :)

Oh my gosh, I'm getting flashbacks that bloody "wut" pear in The Pit! :) Me too, I miss that place being the biggest part of the internet to me, simpler and much more musical times! :)