Christmas Music Project: Back to When Music Was Music
Before CG crap (spun as "AI") was even considered somewhat comparable to contemporary pop (because the pop was of very low quality)
Christmas projects are fun and they keep people occupied. For me, a solution was put together after an unexpected ordeal [1, 2, 3]. No new hardware was necessary, just some KDE applications and wires (some of the cords I use are from the mid-90s, they still work fine).
Let's face it; it's not "AI advances" but cultural regressions that made music (and some other arts) so much worse. With cults like Rust, the trajectory is the same for programming (it's not about science or engineering anymore). In 2025 we're expected to have 4,000 megabytes of RAM (which got expensive) just to run some OS with a Web browser that presents the weather forecasts or "GMail". Is that progress? Shouldn't 10 MB be enough for every application? Why can't we run an entire operating system with a suite of applications in less than 100 MB, and without any swap?
11 days ago Valnet published "The smallest desktop OS you’ve never heard of". Notice the totals:
It has a GUI:
"So many neat built-in apps..."
But now Canonical (or Ubuntu) says we should make available tens of gigabytes of disk space [1, 2]. What for? To play an audio track? No, thanks. █