Congrats on the migration from Windows, first of all. And second, do u still produce music? If so how is the experience on CachyOS? What software do u use?

Have u managed to get this setup working? I want to do something similar

Also only realized now this post is from last year… Oops. Still found it relevant to talk about

My personal view (and prepare for a long ass text with no TLDR) is that paired with smarter marketing/manipulation schemes from these corporations, and a fast medium to proliferate these schemes (which is social media), the same people that criticized those technologies back in the day realized their bitter and obsolete opinions, formed on a tiny sample size and a lot of assumptions and predictions, didn’t resonate or have any substance (such as in saying electronic music wasnt real music).

Since now we’re so interconnected it’s much easier to corroborate things, so they realize (but won’t admit) their bitterness from back in the day and, perhaps to overcompensate, try to do the opposite and nowadays adopt a posture of being hip with the cool kids, hopping on the newest trend. But since we’re so interconnected, corporations are also getting smarter, and getting a bigger insight into the inner workings of the human mind, and how to resonante with one’s weaknesses. Edward Bernays’ legacy fyi (nephew of Sigmund Freud).

All that, along with the unforgiving age that doesn’t regress, makes people just say fuck it and embrace this new technological milestone that is being pushed which is AI and, so they don’t get left behind yet again, they start defending with their bodies and souls (going so far as to even insult you if you don’t hop on the trend) something truly despicable and twisted, that they don’t have the slightest clue on what it encompasses, that was manufactured (or shall I say synthesized) by these money-hungry corporations, getting a grip in even the most purists. I’ve seen this happen in Hip Hop, where the most purist figures who defended that the culture should be strictly this or that and there was no space for nothing else, that it was something manufactured with sweat, tears and love by us for us, now defend AI slop and generative bullshit on the basis that it is “another tool, like a computer, or an MPC”

Adding to that there’s also a lot of ingenuity, as people think that some generative AI is the same as those face swap softwares from back in the day, and in general don’t know the implications in the usage of AI. “It’s a cycle, when PC’s were invented people said that it would be the doom. When calculators were invented people said that it would be the doom. When games were invented people said that it would be the doom.” and of course corporations also ride this wave and appeal to the ingenuity of people.

It’s just what happens when a startup gets to the level of a corporation. An initiative that seems promising at first gets corrupted by the corporatocracy, that at the end of the day exists for one reason only. Domain over the masses by the elites, the rule of the fittest, kill or be killed, let the world burn, “I shall step on whoever as long as it saves my skin”.

Excuse my long rant and absence of TLDR, I wouldnt even know where to begin wrapping this in a tidy manner. I guess TLDR: It’s all synthesized by the elites for domain over the masses in order to protect their ass. They just have a better social engineering and social literacy nowadays because we’re so interconnected