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If you feel like taking the chance, go for a lighter roast or a breakfast blend. Something unapologetically nutty and smooth. Drip coffee is not usually great. Pour over or French press is the easiest method for getting smooth coffee.

It may take some experimenting to dial in the steep time that works for you, but for French press I’d recommend starting at 5 to 6 minutes before slowly pressing the grounds. Too strong or bitter? Steep for less time.

Add half & half to taste. It softens the coffee flavour a bit and complements a nutty brew.

Starbucks and other corporate coffee is not good. If you have a small local coffee shop that roasts their own, give them a try. A good barista can suggest a brew for you if you describe what you’re after.

Or: Continue to not drink coffee. You’ll avoid that slight daily caffeine dependence and save some money, so I really can’t fault you at all.

No they don’t.

Cool, cool. Just put it on top of the precarious stack of all his other impeachable offences.

Here’s a ladder.

Explain how liberal media supports fascism

He has a very punchable, condescending face.

I’m not threatening, simply observing.

Platonic ideal of a punchable face.

So dude’s previous medical experience was…gender-affirming care.

Yeah by the time you add effects, throw that synth into a full mix with other instruments, THEIR effects, and all the compression and EQing in a finished track, the only thing that matters is whether that single instrument adds what it needs to add to the whole.

Objectively, digital oscillators are better - they don’t drift unless you want them to, they stay in tune, and they can always be run through analogue filters to add imperfections (sorry, “warmth”).

But it still boils down to my first point: it’s a single part of a multi-part song. As long as it gets the job done, who cares whether it’s fluctuating voltage or zeroes & ones. It’ll be analogue on its way into the listener’s ear canal either way.

Ha ha then allow me to remind you of Sony’s pre-NetMD USB adapter that kinda turned a USB signal into either TOSLink optical or analogue stereo so you could play your files on a computer and record to MD in real time!

Yeah, their software was trash, probably written solely to support ad copy in an attempt to lure MP3 people to MD.

As someone who made mix tapes and wanted all of an album’s B-sides in one place, MD was amazing and I embraced it as a replacement for cassettes. No cassette wobble, hiss, or getting eaten, no LP warp, surface noise, or skipping. It was digital purity in the palm of my hand, and for a while it sounded far better than MP3s.

But LAME got better and better, we started getting more storage and FLAC files and hard drive MP3 jukeboxes like the Rio Karma and Creative Nomad…MDs could not compete no matter how desperate Sony got.

I still love my MD equipment and have hundreds of discs that all still play beautifully. But the format is a historic footnote that (sadly) really did lean into its own obsolescence.

The Dirtywave M8 handheld music tracker. It’s a studio in your pocket. It looks like a goth Game Boy, using only 8 keys to create entire songs. It has multiple synth engines, a sampler, built in limiter, compressor, and effects, an amazing sequencer, and it just sounds awesome. It can be an audio interface, it can control other hardware synths, and you can use it anywhere.

Once you learn the basic controls and navigation, the user interface is easy and consistent. I suck at making music, but I can do it so fast on the M8 because it’s always with me and I can grab random chunks of downtime to work on songs instead of wasting time doomscrolling on Lemmy.

….wait

Appreciate the MD love. Super fun format and slick tech. It’s over 25 years old and still feels like the future.

I am still very fond of MiniDisc and have all my old discs and equipment, which still works and plays just fine. But yeah, the 2000s were the decade of DRM and Sony’s tech side was constantly at odds with its media side. Limitations on optical recording & dubbing from MD to MD, using their horrible SonicStage software for NetMD, and horrible marketing overseas handicapped them constantly.

They finally got it right with their very last flagship NetMD portable (apart from its OLED screens dying after a few years) but by then Apple had made the iPod the default portable listening experience and Sony had very obviously lost.

They did make some excellent MP3 players, but once again: proprietary data connectors, restrictive media transfers, poor CODEC support, and freaking SonicStage made using those a nightmare as well. They never did learn.

Dude. The shroud of Turin was a known fake in the 1300s when it was made. The church decided to adopt it anyway because it was a great money maker with tourists, even though according to your other reply they don’t mix money and faith. I do love that you lead with the most thoroughly debunked religious fraud in Christian history as your strongest evidence though. That genuinely gave me a laugh.

Witnesses are notoriously unreliable and easily swayed. And you never said witnesses of what. Just vague “miracles” of the trust-me-bro variety? Which Roman officials? Were the letters corroborated by contemporary evidence and writings from reliable scholars?

Magic does not exist. Ghosts and the Easter Bunny are fake too, sorry to ruin that for you.

You are absolutely divorced from reality aren’t you. Side note: Look up the No True Scotsman fallacy.

There you go trying to explain and rationalise the divine words of your infallible god. So why even include the Old Testament? If Jesus “fulfilled” it like an Amazon order, it’s over. Stop using it to judge people. No more Leviticus, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, Proverbs…

Christians hate being reminded that the Old Testament is just Torah fanfiction, so you should be happy to lose that stuff.

And yet that seems good enough for the in group more often than not.

Is that not the church’s whole thing? You’d think they would be better at it.

Matt 5:17

I could but I don’t care enough.