RileyKyeden

I'll be sure to demo both when I get to the point where I can afford a switch.

I plan to switch to Ableton once I earn enough from music to pay for it, but that's because it's made for the kind of music I do. Everyone I know uses it, so it's easy to find advice and tutorials.

For now, Reaper and a few free VSTs will do. I find myself bumping up against the fact that Reaper was made for live music and its devs are understandably keeping the focus there, even though they do good work on the MIDI roll. They always nail down a few irritants in each release.

You'll go further and have an easier time if the community around your tools makes the same kind of music. Choosing tools mostly comes down to what you want to do. If you want to do electronic, Ableton is a good bet.

Nope. I have a MIDI keyboard, but it doesn't work half the time, so I rarely bother with it. You can do everything inside the DAW with the MIDI roll or notation editor.

Reaper: http://www.reaper.fm/ (good tutorials: http://reaperblog.net/)

Good synths: https://www.kvraudio.com/product/firebird-by-tone2-audiosoft...

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/synth1-by-ichiro-toda

Good all-purpose instrument: https://www.kvraudio.com/product/orion-sound-module-by-sampl...

Good orchestral instruments: http://vis.versilstudios.net/vsco-community.html

A helpful article I wrote with links and basic advice for new musicians: https://blog.rileyreverb.com/how-to-be-a-musician-58511c4e18...

I do electronic music. The rise of platforms like Bandcamp and Patreon, and the abundance of high quality free/inexpensive tools and guides is raising the bar for quality in independent music, and making it easier for more people to get paid in whatever niches they prefer (vs. going for a mass audience).

I didn't even know IMDB had a message board.

I think it supports all the big video hosts. There's a box to paste a video URL, and it's labeled "Embed support for YouTube, Vimeo, and more."

Patreon doesn't support video uploads, at least as an embed. You can embed them from other sites and (I think) attach them to posts as downloads, but that's it.

I barely use extensions these days. Most of what I want is built in to all the browsers now. All that's left, more or less, is some way to save articles for later and make the few I want to read now easier to follow.

Firefox has a reading mode, supports Pocket (though it's integrated now), and lets me use uBlock Origin on mobile, so it's already perfect for my needs.

This is a better answer to the question in the post I replied to. I was responding to CWuestefeld's faulty belief that people who want diversity in involuntary attributes don't care about diversity in others.

> while simply assuming that all the other interesting ways that people experience life differently is irrelevant?

I don't know of anyone who values diversity in gender/religion/sexuality/etc but draws the line there, and I know a lot of very unusual people from all walks of life. That would be a weird line to draw. A gay genderfluid punk rocker probably has lots of experiences a biromantic genderfluid cellist would be fascinated by.

Diversity is good. The more intersections, the better. Why do you think anyone would draw this line?

What's wrong with Medium? I used to run my own blog software. I don't recommend it unless you really need to micromanage the implementation. Most people do not. This is why I let Medium handle all the intricacies of publishing my blog so I can just write.

Expanding business without an actual person doing it (inbound marketing) is cheap, but very slow going. Twitter probably has people making deals, helping bigger accounts work on their presence, and things like that.

Feedback privacy, found with the search in the settings thing.

Most people's civil liberties work so smoothly they don't even notice.

As I read this, I imagined you as one of those flailing tube people car dealerships put out.

Microsoft is working on this too: https://twitter.com/RileyReverb/status/825146383745351681

I was surprised when I opened the map app and it had 3D imagery of the little barely-known city I live in.

I didn't realize how much of the sets in Game of Thrones are done on computer until I watched a making-of for one of the seasons. Even knowing, I can't tell when watching.

I finally switched to Firefox when it dawned on me why Chrome for Android has no plugins, and why they went silent about the reading mode. With Firefox, I can install uBlock Origin, and it's had a reading mode for a while. Google wants to force me to look at ads that make the page slow to load, bouncy, and hard to scroll through.

Google is where Microsoft was not long ago: engaging in self-destructive user-hostile behavior to protect their profit center. It can't work forever.

There is no rule against politics. The guideline says stories about politics are usually off-topic, unless:

>"...they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

Going by this thread, it's obviously up for debate whether the submission fits the spirit of the guideline.

Aside: If the guidelines count as rules, your comment is definitely against them.

> (Also, go back to Reddit with your "OP" business.)

OP is short for original post(er). It's much older than both Reddit and HN.

There's a little eyedropper thing in that popup when you click the uBlock button. Use that to select elements you want to block.

Sometimes what you click is a few levels deep in a container. After you select one, you can click through the items in the "Cosmetic Filters" box until you get to the right level to block the entire element.

You can do this with uBlock Origin and avoid installing an extra extension.

I got it mixed up with a similar site with the same acronym. I don't know much about FetLife.

It's not dark at all. It's just a place for people to list their kinks. Nothing nefarious. It's very popular in the kinkier sub-communities of the furry fandom.

edit: I got this mixed up with F-List, which is similar in function with a narrower focus.

Styles change with technology. The headline may be rendered to maximize SEO value, but the body leaves room for flavor. Most writers don't take advantage, but that's on the writers, not technology. Already, we see headlines returning to a more creative state as people learn to bridge machine bait with human interest.

> really

I see what you did there.

The problem with this perspective is you can't know your true limit until you actually reach it by trying to improve. So you might as well keep aiming a little higher.

Not a single one of your interpretations of my words was correct. Take a deep breath and read again, with the understanding that I'm not making a...

> complaint

It was a simple, honest, friendly suggestion on word choice from one writer to another. This was a professional courtesy, not the rabid screed you misread it as. What I did is constructive criticism, something I see lauded here a lot at HN, and with good reason. You misread it as something very different.

You can either read again, interpreting it in a reasonable manner, or you can take your own advice:

> Try getting over it maybe?

And move on. Either way, my participation in this thread is over. I'm not sure if you're the author of the piece, but you're behaving the way an inexperienced writer does the first time they receive anything other than praise, and I find it very annoying (which means you're probably not the author, given his credentials).

Bye. :)