Thinking of setting up a pedal board for solo acoustic shows versus one of those multi-fx things. What do people think? Multi-fx I get recall and it's cheaper. It's also a single point of failure and if something goes wrong during the show, I might be on my knees messing with settings.
Separate pedals I have no recall, but it's conceptually simpler. I expect my vocal/acoustic guitar needs (harmonizer, reverb, eq) are small enough that it would be okay? #guitar#guitarpedals
@collin I can speak more to synths but in my experience unless you know the exact settings you want and will not need to tweak live, separate pedals with knob-per-function are easier to tweak “debug” under pressure. But once you have everything down, a preset-based setup is way easier. You can always get a second multi-fx for backup.
@collin as someone with a big pedal board (more than half can be midi-controlled)...I'm a fan of the Morningstar midi controllers to let me have "presets" for different songs and sections within songs.
Sometimes I end up on “EDC” Reddit, and it never disappoints. One person said they think their Swiss Army Knife is the best thing to carry day to day, and someone non-ironically said that unless you could use it to fashion a shelter in the woods, gut a fish, and skin a deer, it's not good enough. Dollars to donuts that guys every day involves sitting at a computer.
I'm not pro private jet or a Swifty, but I don't get the focus on Taylor Swift. She's not even in the top ten for celebrity private jet CO2 emissions.
I'd also argue that as the biggest celebrity in the world, she's one of the few people for whom commercial travel is not really an option. I'm not saying it's impossible, but can you imagine if people knew Taylor was in an airport or on a flight? It would be inconvenient and potentially unsafe for everyone.
Anyone remember the Fitbit Zip? I kind of want one of those for Apple Health.
A non-watch based health tracker that’s affordable seems out of the question, so easy automatic step tracking that works when I don’t have my phone in my pocket would be a fine compromise.
It's rare to find a screen in one of Apple's big important apps that appear to have not been touched for many years, which is why I'm always excited to see one. There's nothing wrong with this screen in Pages for setting custom layout sizes (other than these button styles not matching), but it definitely feels like it's from another time.
It’s so strange that if your package doesn’t show up when it is due, the policy does not usually seem to be that you’re put into the highest priority for the next day, but weirdly a lower one?
So if Apple is partnering with OpenAI, and training these models uses a lot of energy/carbon, do they just not acknowledge that, because technically it’s OpenAI training the models?
It feels like if they did another corny mother nature skit, but didn’t bring that up at all that would be kind of sketchy.
I'm not really sure why Apple would update the Apple TV? I don't think they're ever going to reposition it as a real gaming device, and otherwise It already does everything it needs to and has USB-C.
@adarsh I mean, yeah, it’s not great. The silver one is a lot better than the previous black one though. I got a little holder for it I could stick an AirTag in 😂
I wrote a simple app a long time ago for creating set lists. I wonder if something like that but with a lot more features could be a good idea now. It would be a pretty easy app to make with SwiftUI and SwiftData, theoretically.
If Ben and Adam (#GreatestGen & #GreatestTrek) take another show to series, I think Battlestar Galactica isnot the way to go, and they should do Stargate.
Here's my reasoning. Battlestar has 76 episodes total. Not enough for a new podcast. It's extremely self serious. It's violent. It has horrible sexual assault. It's a good show, but it's not a fun show.
Between SG-1 and spinoffs, there’s 334 Stargate episodes. And it's total ham and cheese — perfect fit for their humor.