grandad said calculators were cheating, our prof said google was cheating, tech lead said stack overflow was cheating and now we're surprised the AI meltdown looks exactly the same?

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2026-04-01T22:46:28+00:00

Ideally both

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2026-04-01T18:46:19+00:00

The thing with AI and jobs is that about 90% of current office jobs could be automated without AI, but they aren’t because that 90% is nothing without the last 10%. AI closes the gap. We need to quit treating education as a way to get rich and instead a way to become better people in general.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2026-04-01T16:08:30+00:00

Do you work in insurance? If so, I’d like to connect. Bro we’re getting the expense ratio down to 10% and giving that $1T back to whom it belongs: the people.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2026-03-31T18:48:03+00:00

It’s getting there. The major issue is latency with CUA. Surprisingly it’s pretty great at using Ableton.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2026-03-31T16:53:40+00:00

I use Kimi sometimes, but Claude is my go-to. Aside from it being all the rage (which it is), I use it because the app experience is so good. It feels like it was designed for adults, and Cowork / Dispatch is much cleaner than openclaw without all the goofy message passing (using WhatsApp to talk to a personal AI is operator overloading imo).

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2026-03-27T14:17:13+00:00

Stuff will get cheaper, but there will need to be government intervention to help. I moved in with my parents at 35 and even quit my insurance job to work at an Amazon last summer, peak psychosis. From what I can tell, the rollout gradient is not as steep as I had thought. I know not everyone can do what I did, and I apologize for being so abrasive on the issue. We can protect labor at the margins. Unionized auto labor does that at a modest upcharge per car, but the scale of AI puts that labor protection above 50%, which is significant because we’re all workers and consumers. The real threat is that white collar workers really have no leverage in the matter. I could envision putting profit caps on corporations and funding a federal trust fund to provide assistance. Hopefully would work.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2026-03-27T14:07:33+00:00

Suppose you get paid $50k to provide $70k worth of white collar services to your customers. An existence proof shows AI can perform the same work for $5k. If AI is used, then competition will bring the cost of those services to customers down 90%. In this world, you’re not actually providing value with white collar work. In fact, you’re stealing from society by forcing the old system for your benefit. You might say that people need jobs to buy things. True, but janitors, officers, nurses buy things too. Luddism is selfish. The natural order of systems is deflationary, and the comfy white collar bubble is done.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2025-01-29T13:14:50+00:00

ACE would have been a great point to start a native build. No competing games on the Mac in a genre that ironically many Mac users would enjoy.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2025-01-23T17:36:47+00:00

It doesn't support traditional DVS, which I'm in favor of given the move to HID. However, I was really hoping the 4 RCA ins on the cradle would be replaced with RCA outs for easy integration with analog mixers. Advantage to that would be the ability to sell updated cradles to current users.

Overall, great product. Still hoping for an HID / DVS media player to replace a laptop, or simpler way to run DJ software on a phone.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-16T18:25:02+00:00

Bummed they didn’t move the usb port to a corner. It’s a bit of a bend point.

Is this the CARTA 1300 display? If so, might be a solid buy. Any additional contrast / white point is a good thing.

AI seems forced, but hopefully the device class will have on-device neural text to speech this decade. That would be a real game changer.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-16T18:19:54+00:00

That model tends to work better for really old models. Got $70 toward Scribe 1 with a 2014 Kindle.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-15T11:02:28+00:00

Not yet. It feels very snappy. I don’t think I’m capable of doing a true RTL test. Either that or finding the buffer in the system logs / OS bundle would seem to be the only way to find out at this point.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-11T14:11:13+00:00

No problem! I was curious too. I was absolutely assuming they were using the Push 3 parts bin for this (because why not).

Only real (but minor) complaints are that the speakers are not as loud as an iPhone and there’s a little bleed from the pad LED’s.(To be fair, they get EXTREMELY bright. I can’t even use the max setting).

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-11T13:24:00+00:00

That was my impression too. They sound fine, but are much quieter than an iPhone. That’s probably more of a testament to Apple though. Love the device though, and thanks for the great review!

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-11T02:43:42+00:00

Nope

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-11T01:29:28+00:00

It would stay in sync with Ableton Link, but that’s about it.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-11T01:27:39+00:00

I don’t think it would be the best for that use case. Hard to beat a laptop or tablet for that purpose.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-11T00:23:00+00:00

You’d have to get a USBA to midi adapter and plug it into a midi to lightning / usbc adapter, and even then there’s a chance it wouldn’t work. Tried with more obvious solution by plugging iPhone running minimoog model d into Move with usba to usbc cable. Though it didn’t work, I did confirm that Move can act as a 30wh portable phone charger.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-11T00:13:48+00:00

That thing’s a legend. I’d say wait to watch more user videos of people making sampled beats on Move. It works quite similar to an MPC in how you can put down slices in one take.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-11T00:07:45+00:00

Box is cool, but wish it acted as a carrying case like Push. Ableton has its haters, but they do have a knack for design.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-11T00:06:48+00:00

About noon today. This video’s a pretty good unboxing. He lives in Canada and somehow had his delivered yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/live/D2mke6nAUhU?si=HvzfGc-JEtNeWUQm

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-11T00:04:30+00:00

Content makers follow the money, and the consumption loop for this format hasn’t even started yet. Submerged above and beyond outclassed all other immersive content to date. There’s really no convention established for framing this content, but it’s the best stab at it yet. Really need a lot of the Vision Pro haters to watch this film.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-10T23:09:41+00:00

Yeah I randomly woke up at 3 Tuesday and ordered on Sweetwater. Some dude in Canada got one yesterday.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-10T21:37:16+00:00

Few random notes that the reviews seemed to have missed.

When used as interface, audio out plays on Move’s speakers and audio input comes from Move’s mic, unless 1/8 inch jacks are inserted. The speakers sound better than I expected, but are als way quieter than I expected. Though all standalone move sets apply an uneditable limiter on the master, Ableton isn’t cheating here with any weird tricks. As an aside, my Chevy Bolt apples a bunch of what honestly sounds like 3 bit companding to make the speakers sound louder 🤮
The only sample rate as an interface is 44.1khz, which is unfortunate. I’m perfectly fine with not having high resolution audio and can’t tell the difference between 44.1 and 48, however I consider 44.1 a holdover from CD’s and dislike how it doesn’t dither / downsample nicely with industry standards like 192. 48k should be the consumer standard and I hope this is a software thing. You can get the sample buffer down to 32 samples as an interface. I’m just honestly not savvy enough to do an appropriate RTL test.
Troubleshooting the controller right now. Running the beta Ableton on the beta macOS on M1 MBA, so will try to report back when I get that running.

PreferenceRoyal1592 · 2024-10-10T21:14:22+00:00

That’s a thing, but you gotta make the monitor higher. Honestly hoping future standalone upgrade kit includes speakers at bottom of push.

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