Italy. The people, the style, the food, the scenery, the architecture the art, the music, the history, the culture, the language.

I’m British so descended from a large mix, but a significant part is Italian. I’ve been a few times and find it so wonderful it’s almost overwhelming.

It’s no doubt a romanticised view that a few years living there would surely dampen. Maybe I’ll get to find out.

I’ve been running a 12R since March. Big battery, mad fast charging, camera is fine, Oxygen OS is good. I have to use Samsung for work and I don’t like their skin at all.

For the money it’s a great phone. For me.

Well, that’s conflicting.

I was living in SW London then, I even joined Twitter hoping to get news on local trouble more quickly. I did see a few very dodgy looking chaps hanging around in twos and threes but nothing happened.

Oh except a shop front glass got smashed over in New Malden high street. It was big news until the reports confirmed it was the owners had an accident.

It’s not like the old days when we could have a proper riot like in Brixton or Toxteth. Ah those were the days…

Space.com got it wrong? Well that will teach me to triple check my sources!

Thanks for clarifying.

Pockets, and with the further threatened riots being closed down by anti racism demonstrators. It’s over egging it for views.

Telegram clearly has much less users in the UK, but I don’t think it’s nearly as unknown generally as the article declares.

My issue with these points is not that they’re inaccurate, but that the article uses them in a sensationalist manner.

It’s poor journalism and it removes credibility.

As riots swept the U.K.

fringe social network Telegram.

Yep, you need not read further.

They did not “sweep” and Telegram is far from “fringe” in the UK.

This is the correct answer.

It’s a mess. I just used Google Assistant (not even Gemini) to ask the distance in km and got this -

According to the website Space, the distance is 37.8 trillion km.

I know which one I’m going with but finding out assistant is wrong is a big deal. Lots of people will assume like I did that the info is just pulled from relevant websites. Can’t do that now.

Ippei Tambaataa

Just over 2k now, which is great but a bit surprising given the content. It’s improvised electronic audio generated entirely with a Korg MS20 rev2 synthesiser from around 1979.

It’s not everyone’s cuppa, but the synth is a type that is similar to the world famous Minimoog. Even so, it’s about as far away from that as possible in terms of sound. If the Moog is smooth and creamy, the Korg is knarly and vicious.

What makes it interesting is it’s ability to do unusual things. It has more in common in this sense with modular systems than the Minimoog.

Ok it’s nuts, but also fascinating and to me and two thousand or so other weirdos, captivating.

If you like it, I recommend large speakers to really experience the depth of sound from this classic machine. Just be careful with the volume.

Your prejudice is showing, mate.

Everything you’ve said is complete nonsense, you should get out more.

Thanks.

Tvm.

Amazing stuff.

And yes, Nikon and Sony have their crews in the Main Press Center too.

But what sane person would use those? Ha!

Rhetorically speaking, I’ve no idea what an ID is, nor do I know what a front end is.

But my lack of knowledge about either of those things doesn’t seem to impact my use of Lemmy, and without the FedditUK instance that use would also have to be via somewhere that I know would not be as relevant to me.

While you guys continue doing the good stuff, I’ll be here and supporting your work. Many thanks.

Is that a ground source? I can’t use air source.

Yeah but, Messi didn’t play for Arsenal.

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Thierry Henry.

Get a refurbished MacBook Pro M1 and use Ableton on it.

Windows free music production is like having a superpower and you won’t have to learn a new DAW.

Seriously, I promise you won’t regret it.

Not only was that an interesting experience to read about, but you wrote it very well. It was like reading a novel, where the main character is narrating some back story.

If you don’t already write, you should give it a go. I’m no expert but I’ve been reading actual books for pleasure since about 1975. I have a mind which generates images from text when I’m reading and they are more vivid with writing that I enjoy. Lots of imagery was flowing from your words.