The problem with music and instruments (and probably some other manual skills) as opposed to information learning is that pretty soon you’re going to need steady practice in order to progress and not regress. Half an hour min a day on one instrument is already a fair bit to keep up (almost) every single day. Doing that for e.g. six instruments is three plus hours of intense work every day. And if any of them need your lips or fingers or facial muscles etc, that’s multiple times the repetitive strain on them.

Even one real instrument is hard on many people’s physique. Not to mention wallet.

But information, improvising, ear training, theory. That kind of thing will help on all fronts. That works great.

Beginning is easy, but keeping up is hard. If you’re ok with that or can cut down later, I’d say go for it. Just try not to get injured.

When I was 20-ish it would have cost as much to own a car than to rent an apartment even if you never drove anywhere. Realities vary.

I hate Illinois nazis.

Security is not convenient. That’s what they’ve always said.

Too bad Americans voted otherwise.

Lots of people don’t like him, though.

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nokia might have some of the history and why the name of the town is tangled in several almost unrelated companies.

We can only hope the same thing doesn’t spread “here” in our lifetime.

So, that’s why they want more of them.

Might also be the second best thing to do at that point.

Have you been playing with the cartoon magnet again?

The “worst so far”.

Ah, the old Shady Sands Shuffle.

That’s the sliver that makes it only pretty completely sure and not completely sure.

~I want to believe~

US has been there for a long time already.

Having a country where law and neutrality don’t apply gives a lot of opportunities like this.

I think Weird Al Yankovic posted a picture some time back saying all his songs have been Al generated or such. Couldn’t quickly find a copy now.

That’s pretty much how all concept demos work at start. At some point they might actually do the thing, but need a lot of careful setup and pushing along. Later on, they start to work for some cases, then more cases and hopefully before they go in the field there’s certainty and fault handling that they more or less work.

How honest the marketing is about this process and their market research varies. But investors generally know how the sausage is made, too.

Yes, that Batman…

I’m pretty completely sure it was in fact not that Batman.

I guess I should start getting to work.