Same for Homebrew. I just updated it and yes, there was an update for ffmpeg, but it only updated it to 6.1.1_7

I have an auto-updated tap for the ffmpeg binaries from https://www.osxexperts.net, feel free to

  brew tap bsiegel/tap

I got frustrated having to install all of the runtime dependencies and just wanted an easy way to install the statically-linked version, so here it is.

6.1.1 is the latest build from the 6.1 release channel, which was the latest up until about 4 or 5 hours ago when a new major release was cut.

Not at all the same as running a 4.x release.

I like some of it, but I agree with you on most of jazz. Kind of Blue is great though. It really is something special.

But as I say, I agree with you on most other Jazz though. And I'm convinced that about 80% of the people that go around saying they love jazz are just pretending to.

Also, along with Bluegrass, jazz is SO closed off to people who'd like to join in and play with a group. It's filled with gatekeepers and judgemental jerks. For instance, criticizing you for bringing a guita they don't agree with, "you can't play jazz with that, go home and get another something else there, Eddie Van Halen". Seriously, it can be that bad.

> It's filled with gatekeepers and judgemental jerks.

That's not been my experience playing jazz around my local area. I've never played jazz in New York but I have heard that all manner of ungentlemanly behaviour goes on in jams there and I suspect I'd be on the receiving end of it if I dared to try. Presumably acceptance of the newcomer is determined by the size of the existing pool of talent. Rural England is not well supplied with jazz musicians of any skill level (or discerning audiences) so we can't really afford to treat them rudely. I'm not really a guitarist, but the last time I played one at a jam it was one of these: https://www.andertons.co.uk/brands/gl-guitars/asat-guitars/g...

It could be the location, for sure. My experiences have been around the Chicago area. Blues jams though were all very welcoming, as were folk and just rock&roll. But jazz was just bad. Hopefully it's changed since then, because this was around 20 years ago.

I think that's all genres. A classic rock group I played with once told me that I had to have a maple fretboard instead of rosewood

Man, I really miss Byte. Subscribed to it for years. Loved that it covered a wide variety of topics.

Byte was great. I've the discussion of the NEC 7220 here.

It was widely available here in the UK and in a pre-world wide web age it was one of the most important ways of knowing what was going in the US market. Well for a young me anyway.

I loved it. I remember the issue detail the NeXT Cube particularly.

and loved the covers!

Pretty cool...but I could barely get through the class just from writing with a pencil. I can't imagine trying to take notes AND remember formatting notation and making sure you get everything right while typing, as a little slip and it may not be right and the lecture is already moving on and wait wait wait...don't don't move the board up..awww, now it's behind the...wait, what the hell did I just type. Hang on, what is that notation again, oh right...wait...(backspace 10 times)...okay. Okay, now I'm lost, wtf is he talking about now?

Yeah, this is a "me" problem for sure. But the above scenario was nearly like that when it was just a pencil and paper for me.

This is exactly my experience as well. I just ended up not taking notes.

I played this on the Amiga when the game first came out. Loved it.

In the future, everyone will come out with an A.I. Chatbot for 15 minutes.

You’re too late. I don’t remember the exact companies but I’m constantly seeing AI chat bots on websites that super don’t need them and they’re also still just using plain old stupid pre GPT tech

I 100% switched from 3rd party password managers to keychain and never looked back. It does everything natively, including 2-factor auth.

As much as I generally love Apple products, I'm good with keeping my passwords in a system not 100% controlled by Apple. Thanks though!

I'm the opposite, while I don't trust any company, there are levels of trust I give. I trust Apple over a 3rd party. I remember when LastPass was touted by everyone as safe and secure...now look what's happened to them several times.

I mean, we'll see people NOW saying "oh, I never trusted LastPass", but that's BS.

Unlike LastPass, Bitwarden has the advantage of being open source and self hostable.

What if you want to use a Windows or Linux machine?

I do all the time, everyday. Is it an automatic paste? No. But then again, I don't want that on other computers.

I've done questionable things in my life. I am a sinner who does not expect forgiveness. But at least I never got into cryptocurrencies.

I started using BBSs in the 80s. Starting on 300 baud modem connections and then upwards. It was such a cool feeling like you were living in the future...all with that extremely slow 300 baud.

I guess I tried chasing that feeling for a while, but when the Internet came to consumers (I was on it about a year before it hit mainstream, and even before the World Wide Web), that feeling was there a little. But as it became an everyday tool to use by the world, it became mundane somehow. Hard to describe.

And of course, back then I thought it would be a tool to unite the world, but it's just torn it apart.

makes you so nostalgic to think of things back then... i had a "tech school" registered to the k12.pa.us domain for free. No verification on those :)

I have subscribed to it for a long time too. I mean, I watch YouTube more than any other streaming service like Hulu or Netflix or whatever. I've guarded my viewing habits jealously so it doesn't feed me any of the toxic BS that can invade the platform. My feed is mostly food and guitar related...with some interesting science bits thrown in. I too am happy to pay for a service I use so much.

And it's also so I don't hear any ads. I have trouble falling asleep, and I use it to watch/listen to relaxing videos that calm me down and let me fall asleep. Sure, if I watched everything on a computer, I could just use an ad-blocker. But I rarely watch it on my computer. I watch it on my tablet, and mostly on my streaming box attached to my big TV in the living room. Can't put an ad-blocker on there easily...especially since YouTube can change the way they stream to suddenly nullify how the ad-blockers work. So then you have to somehow update the ad-blocker and tweak it and by that time, you're spending more time than you want to just to watch the fricken video. Yeah, I know...they make watching the ad supported YouTube as obnoxious as hell to push you to just subscribe. But the content I watch, in my opinion, is worth it for me.

Yeah, I know. I'll get the "but your contributing to a corporation that does blah blah blah". Okay, but that's a slippery slop. The only way to NOT contribute to myriad of "evil corporations" is to buy and own nothing. Just live in an empty room with a mattress and a single light-bulb hanging from the ceiling. But wait! Is that light-bulb powered by a fossil-fuel electric plant??? I'm a monster!