I mean, if more people here in NYC voted against Eric Adams in the mayoral race (who won the primary by less than 1% against a much better candidate), we would have a more functional city government- i.e., something that tangibly affects our day-to-day lives, in terms of housing costs, transportation access, education, health care, etc. To say nothing of the dozens of other elected offices covering our own districts, which in aggregate are at least as important as the mayor's office.

So maybe at some point, we can collectively wake up to the fact that presidential elections aren't the only thing happening in the country

The 'general' package has basically fixed that for me:
https://github.com/noctuid/general.el

Makes it pretty simple to swap out most common emacs shortcuts for much more ergonomic alternatives.

Emacs with evil-mode. Best of both worlds

You can ban them for yourself by monitoring your own internet use, deleting mobile apps (and/or disabling notifications) and reducing news consumption in general. All of which are pretty solid protocols for most people to follow 365 days / year, actually.

I'd check out Leechblock NG (for Firefox and Chrome) if you need a short vacation from Lemmy or any other websites.

Not being able to run Signal on my Android tablet feels really inconvenient. That would be no. 1 on my wish list

I'd say LLMs are pretty comparable to an operating system (i.e., something anyone can buy, use and develop without any outside interference) and not comparable at all to nuclear weapons.

Love Japanese green teas as well. I've made a pot of that stuff (or matcha, genmaicha, etc) nearly every day for the last 20+ years

Renoise is very fun to use, and sounds great too. My imaginary DAW would definitely come with a 'tracker mode' inspired by that

I have a paid copy of Ableton already, just enjoy the open-source model a lot more for (basically all) non-music software, for the openness and flexibility

I have to navigate my city's public transit system every day, so mobile internet has been a game changer for me personally. Thanks to that I'm able to check live arrivals and see which station it makes more sense to walk to in my neighborhood, or figure out exactly when where to switch lines (also based on live arrival times), etc.

Having access to streaming music doesn't hurt, either. IMO it really just comes down to not installing dopamine slot machines (e.g., basically any social media). Keep the thing simple and utilitarian

I'd say no, the benefits vastly outweigh the drawbacks. But yeah, it's important to have enough discipline to get outside and do plenty of stuff that doesn't revolve around the internet

I like that it exists, but haven't gotten any good results with it personally. I could see it being useful if your needs are simple though, e.g., just setting up mics with instruments, and getting a decently-mixed multitrack recording together.

That said, I fully acknowledge that building something with the capabilities and sophistication of Ableton, or Logic, etc, is a gigantic undertaking, requiring huge amounts of work from a well-organized team. But an 'all-in-one' DAW solution might not even the right approach to take here, tbh. Maybe the FOSS model would work better for building a bunch of small modules that can be brought together somehow