@llorenzin yes, please! I should have made both trips by the end of next week, once I catch my breath, I'm eager to be in touch.

Stage 3, at last. I'm moving into my new home/studio.

not an original thought by any stretch but while self-hosting is getting easier and the tools get better every day i don’t think the goal should be for most people to host their own stuff but to build up small communities and co-ops and work together.

(in the exact same way that it’s kind of insane that every household has its own set of power tools and ladders that sit around gathering dust.)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Sadsquatch/115487996081932738

Please, this. There are a lot of places I probably would have enjoyed eating and spending my money at but for the fact that I couldn't find out their hours or their menu without Facebook.

@MLE_online long story short, I'm guessing this texture is done by photo etching.

@MLE_online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ERckH7t04 nice overview from Star Rapid, who made the FieldKit case.

@MLE_online injection tooling has been made by CNC for a surprisingly long time, but yeah this seems like something that must be hanging around from the old school tool and die makers' technique books.

@MLE_online to me, this looks like something made via mask-and-etch, but I suppose they could have software that bakes it into the tool paths like 3d printed "fuzzy skin"

@MLE_online when I've had injection molded parts made, the companies have sent me samples of many textures to choose from, including variations on this, but they're very cagey if you ask whether they mill it into the tools with the CNC or whether it's some kind of etching situation. I've seen the tools though, and it's in the metal, it's not an applied coating to the tool or anything.

@dr_a I suppose can openers are technically "armor piercing"...

@dr_a lol your tactical culinary gadget line going to enter a crowded marker, eh? :D

@attie culinary artillery. For dudes who really need a little help feeling at home in a kitchen, presumably. lol

Okay, dudes.

@North I should say, I totally get people who spend their working lives in the terminal and don't want to have their musical/creative lives in there as well and want to twiddle knobs and plug in patch cables instead, but that's a luxury, if you WANT to create music in a cheap laptop with cheap software, it's less fun, but just as capable.

@North I see a lot of resemblance between the seemingly endless drive to create a Pizza expensive enough to be economically exclusive and to create new barriers to being a "real" musician which are high enough to be economically exclusive.

@North I have this sneaky suspicion that a lot of the chatter in this space is just an ego freakout / comparison / imposter syndrome complex around the fact that basically all the economic barriers around electronic music production have collapsed. If you want to do it for nearly free in your bedroom on a crappy laptop, you really can. And lots of post-bedroom musicians are internally freaking the fuck out about the fact. :D

@North I saw that video! I decided I wasn't allowed to download it until after I've moved.

@North I have such huge respect for the process of starting a patch from nothing and building up something remarkable, but I don't think you have to make your own paint to be a painter, and I think the suggestion is just SO weird that it really gives "trying to create artificial tiers so you can occupy a higher one" vibes.

It's funny, I grew up in the Classical music world, and always thought of it as very gatekept (which it is) and it's a funny head trip to dip a toe into electronic music and find the hilarious "rules" in that genre, like the people lining up to say you're not FOR REAL if you use presets or patches. Damn, I mean even Classical lets you write for the orchestra - you don't have to go INVENT the orchestra from first principles. Fuck that.