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• Musicians: what's your experience with multiple instruments?

  I’ve dabbled with multiple instruments in my life off topic celebration of playing by ear but I’ve been acoustically crippled with a bad ear. About 2 years ago, I started working on playing by ear and, holy shit, it totally changed the game! Before, I had to laboriously read music and look up fingerings. Now, I know what it’s supposed to sound like and I keep pushing buttons (clarinet) until I get it right because I know what it’s supposed to sound like, and now I know if I want to flat that po...

• The plague of AI flyers

  I’ve been noticing a lot of event flyers with KEY information missing, like dates, costs, locations, etc. I’m almost certain all these flyers are AI generated. Here goes the process when you are creating a flyer like an old fuddy-duddy that knows how to connect to a 300 baud modem by whistling: You write all the key information down in a document. You double check all the key information in the document. You format and add graphics. Print. But when you’re using AI it’s: Tell AI to crea...

• Second drive disappeared after Mint reinstall

  I reinstalled Mint and my second drive is absolutely invisible to everything. I can’t mount what I can’t see. I’m thinking of unplugging it and plugging it back in just because I’m out of ideas. What could have caused a drive to become invisible after a reinstall?

• Men in pink collar positions, what's your experience?

  Pink collar positions are office jobs that have been dominated by women for the past 70 years or so–secretary, receptionist, administrative assistant, scheduler, etc. In my life, I’ve only ever met a single man who worked as a receptionist in a medical office. Recently in a thread about AI showing bias against job applications, someone mentioned male names being thrown in the discard pile for women’s positions. If you’re a man who is in the field OR has tried to get into it, what’s your ex...