I knew something must have been happening with the recent sporadic downtime over the past few days.

A shame, but understandable. I’ve enjoyed my time here, thanks for all of your efforts in maintaining the instance!

Just got an Elektron Model:Cycles and it’s as fun as I was hoping for! Excited to actually complete a track with it.

• nginx for public sites
• wireguard
• linkding
• miniflux
• restic

“I’m about to find out!”

It’s Apple focused, but Accidental Tech Podcast definitively fits the bill!

Great recommendation, never heard anything quite like this! Neō Wax Bloom was a frenetic but joyous adventure!

Thanks very much for all of the recommendations, everyone! I have lots of musical exploration ahead of me!

I’ve heard While 1 < 2 and listened to lots of Deadmau5 back in the day! Will have to check out the Mat Zo album, never heard of him or that album before!

I’ve listened to Selected Ambient Works and Squarepusher’s Hard Normal Daddy in the past, both great! Have also listened to lots of Lisa Bella Donna. Have somehow never dived deep into Autechre before. Thanks for all the good recommendations!

I use a Raspberry Pi 4B with a USB 3 JBOD 4-bay disk enclosure, with the disks in a ZFS pool, and it has been working great for my needs.

I love all-in-one portable grooveboxes and I think the M8 is my favorite of the ones I own.

Ones I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

• Synthstrom Deluge - Extremely flexible powerhouse and a pleasure to use now that it has been updated from a 7-segment display to an OLED display. Not tiny, but is about the length/width of a laptop and is battery powered.
• Elektron Syntakt

For me, Shovel Knight and Chrono Trigger tie for first, followed by Ocarina of Time and Super Mario World.

Fun fact: nearly every single song in the Super Mario World soundtrack is a variation on one single melody, so its diversity even with that constraint really showcases how cleverly it was created.

Lemlins? 🤣