• BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
    120·
    3 days ago

    Me, who edits comments over and over until I believe they convey my message correctly.

    You, who didn’t even double check that your fingers were on the home row, but submitted the comment, regardless.

    • binarytobis@lemmy.world
      24·
      2 days ago

      That feeling after your 4th edit, when the story you wrote out finally flows cleanly and doesn’t have any snags that will spur an internet argument, then you hit cancel and move on without posting it.

      • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        Typing out the comment then delete it is therapeutic, but without the traumatisation of getting piled on.

          • MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 days ago

            For me it was Discord. Entered a server, was all cool, but people there had the weird habit of making bots and saying “hey that’s my alter” (no, “Hawk Two” as in Two from BFDI riding a hawk is not your alter ego no way). I tried to say those jokes weren’t funny, guess what? Got doxxed.

                • mangobanana@discuss.online
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  And now I’m super freaked out because I’ve been hearing all the people getting their Google accounts and emails completely IP banned. It honestly should not be allowed that they can completely IP ban you and all of your accounts. Like it should be a month-long ban or a few month long ban or something. It should not be allowed that your permanently banned for the rest of your life for something like stupid Reddit or Google because they’re like pretty much a Monopoly

    • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
      18·
      3 days ago

      TBF the home row wouldn’t matter. There’s enough food stick between the keys that what you press isn’t what you get anyway.

      • fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        I usually edit several times to avoid typos but when I edit to correct my comment because I was told I was wrong and they were right, I usually cross the old text so poorly know I was wrong and the other comments don’t seem crazy or me disingenuous.

        some stupid thing or lacking proper contextnah I was wrong.

        • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
          3·
          2 days ago

          I occasionally append an edit line to my first submission to fuck with the convention police

          Edit: why all the downvotes??

    • St.Elsewhere@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
      71·
      3 days ago

      I mean like if that’s what happens then like whatever it is is what it is like if I don’t feel like finishing my thought what are you gonna do about it it’s just really whatever you know?

    • akwd169@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 days ago

      Forgot about home row, they tried to teach me to type their way but I didnt like that

      Now I type faster than most but thats not saying much

      However I look at the keyboard only, instead of the screen only like they tried to teach

      My way I can move my fingers as fast as possible and i’m accurate, I know what key I hit so I know what it says on the screen without looking

          • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            20 hours ago

            Haven’t tried it personally, but from what I know it’s supposed to fix some of QWERTY’s pitfalls. QWERTY was originally made for typewriters and has some things in mind to prevent jamming (i.e. placing letters that appear next to each other in words far from each other on the keyboard). Modern keyboards don’t have those mechanical limitations any more; from what I know DVORAK and other alternative layouts try to optimise things by placing most used letters on the home row and alternating between hands, but now have to overcome the fact that maybe 99% of people are used to QWERTY.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    “Man, I’m sorry, they said some pretty harsh things about what you wrote.”

    Every writer:

    “I don’t care! Someone actually read it!”

    • Doug@piefed.socialEnglish
      29·
      3 days ago

      When I did webcomics I was worried nobody would think they were funny or had some reservations about public opinions.

      Then I watched some documentary on comic artists, including Calvin & Hobbe’s Bill Watterson, and he said something like “I just make something I think is funny, and if my wife also thinks it’s funny that’s a bonus, and everyone else can think whatever they want to think, but I’m happy with it, and that’s all I really cared about.”

      And that was enough for me to get into it.

      Make it for you first. Everyone else is a bonus.

      • akwd169@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        2 days ago

        That’s how I feel about my constant jokes, i’m airways making myself laugh

        It’s a very fulfilling way to live

    • Leviathan@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      For real, there’s dickbags pushing a button so AI can shit out songs that no one but themselves will listen to, patting themselves on the back as artists. Let’s never be afraid to put our art out there, spread it, play it live. People need to know what human creativity feels like.

      Edit: This may have been more about AI than I wanted it to be.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      but people love bullshit. they gorge themselves on it none stop all day.

      podcast listeners listen to it this shit for hours and hours. because it’s junk food that’s easy to have on in the background.

    • NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I have thousands worth of random modular, sequencers, groove boxes, software synths… It’s endless. I sold a ton the last few years. I own 5 guitars for “different purposes”. I have a Tracker Mini on the way tomorrow.

      I’ve never produced a single thing I’d want to share with anyone. But I have fun making bleep bloops and that’s what I remember when I start to feel bad about it. I just wanna live in a musical spaceship and that’s ok until it’s not, so let’s just make cool sounds and not worry about it. 🤷‍♂️

    • chrizzly@feddit.org
      7·
      2 days ago

      looks behind him at his guitar corner

      Am I out of touch and maybe I have enough already? … no its the children listeners who are wrong!

        • mangobanana@discuss.online
          3·
          2 days ago

          There’s a famous actor guy who got into pottery and even though his stuff is meh all of a sudden he’s an ceramic expert and is mass producing his designs. Kinda pisses me off that those of us who are not already famous have to work 20xs harder to get out stuff out in the world and he just gets a pass because he’s an actor.

  • mangobanana@discuss.online
    71·
    2 days ago

    I’m the pottery/ceramics world we have the debate all the time about if pottery is a craft or art. Personally I think it’s a art that can be functional.

      • mangobanana@discuss.online
        32·
        2 days ago

        Yes this is true but when you have the mindset that you are an artist but people are telling you nothing but a crafts person it can be kind of demoralizing. Especially if you’re a woman. Because of course men can be great artists but women are not considered anything but crafts people. Just look at fiber arts and the way people are treated there

        • luciferofastora@feddit.org
          2·
          2 days ago

          Especially if you’re a woman.

          I’m pissed that this world has me so jaded I immediately spotted the “logic” behind this. Because of course it has its roots in traditional gender roles that made sense when they developed but are now so outdated that everyone still clinging to them should be stripped of every post-industrial comfort and luxury.

          When you can divide your jobs into “can be done around the house while keeping an eye on the kids, the stew and your pregnant sister” and “requires you to walk out to some acre and tend to the crops”, pottery and textiles both fall into the former category. When you divide the people into “Can do walk-out-to-the-acres jobs year round” and “needs to stay at home while pregnant or nursing”, the second group are obviously going to be doing the first type of job more. Hence, when a medieval peasant woman makes a nice vase, it’s a craft (that also happens to have some art to it, because people liked nice things).

          When you’re in a modern, industrialised world where making cups and sweaters is a pastime rather than necessity, many jobs don’t require a lot of physical labour and medicine has made pregnancies both safer and less frequent, none of those distinctions matter any more.

          Hence, when you make a nice piece of pottery that happens to double as something functional, what’s in your pants doesn’t matter. You’re an artist (whose art happens to have a function).

    • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I imagine the same argument is made with the glass blowing community. It’s incredible what those create.

  • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    20·
    2 days ago

    I made released an album last year, spent the previous year working on it. Probably about 100 listens so far, across all the tracks, but it’s fine 🥲 I’ve been using it like a demo, taking some of the songs to my new band, so they can hear what I had in my head!

  • navigator@piefed.zipEnglish
    24·
    3 days ago

    I average 6 listeners a month on streaming platforms lol. But hey, that’s better than 0. And I do it for the love of music first and foremost.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      a lot of places there are no cashiers anymore in USA. it’s self-service only, and yeah it’s slow af because people dont know how to check themselves out, get confused, and have to wait for a manager to come help them, which of course, takes 5m to even show up.

  • Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world
    211·
    3 days ago

    I only make sleepy tunes anyways. My kid is my adience and he loves it. That’s enough for me