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We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is in the Air

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Re: We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is in the Air

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Post by jefurii »

plurgid wrote: post #45

I say I'm a musician on the side, but truthfully I've been messing with sound instinctively since I came out of the womb, and I only picked up programming and design and stuff later on. As such, I gravitated toward electronic music doodads almost immediately. This issue of "falling down the LCD well" has been at the forefront of electronic music for a while. Synthesizers were cool in the 70's because they had knobs,…

The first time I heard about Eurorack was when the guy behind the Audio Damage plugins remarked on his blog that part of why he he was making the move to Eurorack was that hardware couldn't be pirated.

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Post by Adamantcheese »

ricardobeat wrote: post #90
Adamantcheese wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm somewhat sad that modular synthesizers are so expensive, even semimodular standalone units. They're really fun pieces of equipment to play with.

What’s expensive to you? With 2-3k you can gather an amazing array of equipment these days, unthinkable 10 years ago.

A basic modular system with all the basic oscillators and filters you'd find in a standard VST plugin set will cost roughly 5 thousand if not more. It's a bit expensive really, but I suppose that's the cost of analog in a digital world. It might just be me and my reluctance to spend money but it seems like prices would be dropping for equipment if it was making as big of a comeback as it is, but prices seem to be relatively stable, sometimes more expensive as new small scale manufacturers come out with modules.

Re: We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is in the Air

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Post by culot »

basejumping wrote: post #26
elorant wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why I don't own a smartphone. I'm behind a screen 8 hours a day. I don't want to keep watching one when I'm off work.

How about if there was a locked down smartphone OS with only call/messaging/camera and maps functionality. No other apps possible

This is kind of why I like the Windows Phone platform: it's generally sort of laggy, lacks apps for most things, and the apps it does have are generally not swift or feature-packed. It provides the basic functions fine, and with the Lumia 950, has a great camera, display, and is durable. It isn't versatile or swift enough to where I can get lost for hours on it like I tend to do with Android devices.

Even the lack of ad-blocking in the browser I find beneficial, because there is practically no way I can tolerate the web without ad filtering, so I use it mostly for utility, not much for leisure.

Trying to switch back to Android recently, and I find that the instant responsiveness, the virtually unlimited selection of great apps, means that its a lot more likely to turn into a time sink for me.

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Post by Theophraustous »

codethief wrote: post #70
sshtunnels wrote: post #30

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It may sound strange, but I found it very funny. I've had the same thoughts myself. As someone who sometimes worries a bit too much about making the best life choices, it's darkly funny to think that for all my planning, I'll probably find a way to regret and hate my attempts at thoughtful and wise decisionmaking in the future no matter what path I choose.

I couldn't agree more! The article that made me realize this was Mark Manson's "The Most Important Question of Your Life" ( https://markmanson.net/question ). It's probably one of the best articles I've ever read.

Thank you for posting this.

I needed this article more than I knew

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Post by graeme »

codethief wrote: post #73
pcprincipal wrote: post #57

I've been using Moment ( https://inthemoment.io/ ) for about a year and am really proud of how I've been able to reduce total screen time from 4 hours to 45 minutes per day. Most of the gains were due to deleting Safari and Twitter from my device (Moment breaks down app usage based on battery usage). To anyone reading this, be aware of how grabbing your phone in the morning to read headlines or Medium digest can turn…

Can anyone recommend an app for Android which does the same thing as Moment and is effective? (Not that I don't know any apps that offer similar functionality but so far none of them has really convinced me / worked.)

Android P is baking it into the system soon. That's probably the best you'll get.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/5/17426922/apple-digital-hea...

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Post by fjsolwmv »

padobson wrote: post #83
pcprincipal wrote: post #57

I've been using Moment ( https://inthemoment.io/ ) for about a year and am really proud of how I've been able to reduce total screen time from 4 hours to 45 minutes per day. Most of the gains were due to deleting Safari and Twitter from my device (Moment breaks down app usage based on battery usage). To anyone reading this, be aware of how grabbing your phone in the morning to read headlines or Medium digest can turn…

Think about how checking e-mails can take you completely out of context and badly dilute the quality of your work. I agree with this completely, but the converse is also true. Sometimes you need to switch context during the day, and scanning headlines and reading emails helps me do that (I'm doing it right now!). The best context switching strategies I've found are eating and meditation, but those aren't always feasi…

Surely walking around the building/block is an effective and healthy context switch?

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Post by dgudkov »

The article points in the wrong direction. Yes, smartphones is the new smoking but not because of their screens. It's not the screens that are addictive, it's what on the screens -- the internet. The internet is too good to not be addictive, especially with the rise of social media, internet news and messengers. Switching to other, non screen-based interaction channels will only bring all the notifications, social media and news to these new channels -- be it voice assistants, watches or whatever else.

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Post by QML »

anvandare wrote: post #31
LUmBULtERA wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was a depressing quote.

On the contrary. If all actions lead to regret, then it is regret which is meaningless, not the actions themselves. The same holds true for life. All our lives end in non-existence, but it is non-existence which is meaningless, not the life that's lived. Music is beautiful while it is being played, not only once it is over.

So this is what Bezos means when he talks about a "regret minimization framework" \s.

Re: We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is in the Air

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Post by arkades »

Nasrudith wrote: post #64

I know that I am not the typical use case for several reasons including the failure of voice recognition with speech impediments but I doubt voice will be the way forward any more than smart watches were - being niche at best. First off with speech everyone can tell what you are doing and it is obtrusive - look at the old DMV signs against cellphones back from when they could literally just call. Second it is just pl…

>including the failure of voice recognition with speech impediments

There’s a massive wave of geriatrics coming, and various dysarthrias (be it as significant as a stroke or as minor as edentulism or poorly fitting dentures) are extraordinarily common.

Any voice tech that can’t handle speech impediments isn’t ready for the market - it’s just too big a demographic chunk.

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