I got to play with a Hololens a bit when my brother brought one home from work. Astonishing tech.

To be fair, this has been pretty standard corporate-speak in most industries for a long time. It’s (typically) referring to giving people a reason to stay with your product - we used to use this exact phrase in reference to our complementary training programmes that were included with the product.

But, this is HP, so locked in means LOCKED IN. So, fuck HP 😂

Pretty sure they’re asking for software FOR Windows, rather than Windows itself.

The *arr suite all have web front ends - so you open the page from your phone or laptop etc, add the show you want and off they go with the download, rename, cataloging etc. It it is generally quite elegant in the way it works.

Oh Christ, really? That’s just sickening. I often sort by new, sounds like I’ve been very lucky to miss it entirely…

I like the comparisons with synthesizers, digital cameras, Photoshop etc. Not an aspect I’d considered before, so it will be interesting if we do in fact see a “creativity boom” as a result of these new techs…

Personally, I’ve found the text based LLMs to be invaluable in parts of my professional life - for example, churning out boilerplate type text for procedural documents. It’s a tool to be used when appropriate, but currently it’s new and shiny…

Arrrrr!

Fascinating read, cheers.

There’s really nothing other than Bitwig and Ableton that deals well with loops/clips, or has that clip-based workflow.