Jeskola Buzz Tracker. Making tracks in a vertical midi step sequencer with no mixer was wild AF.
IIRC it came with an awesome drum kit called PSI Drums and a set of proprietary plugins (non VST) which included several cool synths abd Whitenoise Stereodist - the most brutal distortion I've ever heard, surpassing Ohmicide, Coldfire and Rift in its ability to turn things into aggressive digital terrain.
Migrated to Fruity Loops pretty soon thereafter
Very much in the AI skeptical and even anti-AI crowd. I appreciate the attempt and it does feel aligned with Proton's overall direction / mission.
I just tries it in a web browser and it was 0/2 of the first two questions I asked it.
It is really exhausting and annoying to have assistants baked into everything now just so "ready to help".
Will probably check back in a year and see if this still exists and if it is has improved. In the meantime I'm doing just fine without any AI whatsoever
From an outsiders perspective, element has never worked for me and never been stable enough to get anywhere close to discord. Joining servers is buggy AF and Element X is severely hobbied on mobile.
I've been refusing to use discord for about 6-8 months and am often invites to join various discords by IRL friends and online communities. I wish Matrix / Element was a viable alternative but I've never been able to get it working for anythung other than DMs, and I'm already happy with Signal for that honestly.
As a non developer I want to be sensitive to the amount of work involves, and the number of cooks in the kitchen, but the fact that we don't have a FOSS- federated slack / discord killer app is leaving so much interaction on the table.
I've heard of Revolt but it doesn't seem to be there with encryption
Ehhhh do you have more evidence than a couple policy-specific / sycophantic tweets? I'm not sure I'd personally describe it that way
This type of thing (+ the AI embedded shenanigans) is what sent me over to Obsidian for personal use.
Still use Notion a bit for work but I've peeled way back on it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think we are still waiting for true tab process separation.
I love IronFox and use it alongside Vanadium. When Fission is confirmed I will bump IronFox back up to most browsing - vastly prefer Gecko browsers as a user but concerned about tab isolation and tracking.
iIRC IronFox has Fission already but there was a dangling question regarding an inability to still isolate processes.
This isn't on the IronFox devs either - it really needs to be fixed upstream by Mozilla
As always, these guides are highly valuable and easy to understand!
I found a search string that cycles through available public instances of SearXNG. It has been an awesome experience
I'm planning to experiment with my own instance soon
Thanks! Yes I had intended to include links, trying again now:
On this note, I've been having a decent run with Qwant. No AI chatbot, seems to be referencing some of the big indexes but also recently partnered with Eccosia to start working on building an independent index.
Mojeek was underwhelming but I'll try it again
Kagi was appealing to me as well, especially the quality of their results. However the requirement for a user profile (allowing them to build a profile based on your searches) and their involvement with AI soured me.
Would possibly pay for a search engine if it could somehow avoid the above pitfalls.
Joined PeerTube last month and have had great success with it in terms of as a platform and place to share art / content, though of course the views have been low.
I'm sure there is a megathread elsewhere but would love to see an acceleration of folks adopting the Fediverse. My talking point has been to sort of sell Fediverse alternatives (Lemmy, Pixelfed, Mastodon) as superior to other big tech alternatives out there (such as BlueSky and Flashes). We are either at the vanguard of a mass migration or just migrating while no one else is intending to, which I guess amounts to the same thing!
Same! I have a few of my very early very primitive tracks in Buzz.
Jeskola briefly revived it so if you're wanting to return to trackers could be worth a look. Renoise is still hyped (haven't tried it) as is the hardware Polyend Tracker (also haven't tried it).
I'm more of a (virtual) modular than a tracker mindset these days so a combo of FL, Bitwig, Reaktor, Plugdata etc to make a fusion of industrial and idm--
https://sunthief.bandcamp.com/album/thy-neighbors-looking-glass