@Pat_Walrond note to self: visit Barbados someday.

@NoahPaulLeGies @sumpnlikefaith same here. And it's pretty rare to have to change the battery, so my guess is they either all turn themselves off, or they use so little juice that it doesn't make much difference.

If you can, switch over to rechargeable batteries & then you don't even have to worry about creating landfill material.

@matuzalem dayum!

@Beanc @redenigma You can take the boy out of New York...

@BlueStateBabe (My DW and both daughters are all musicians, and this is a position I adopt in order to spin them all up.

But seriously--anything I can't do must be a hoax.)

@BlueStateBabe (and for the record, I still believe that the idea that it's possible to write music down on paper is an elaborate hoax, and commend you on your commitment to the bit)

😜

@BlueStateBabe @BenA ooh--hang on:

https://musescore.org/en/node/367594

@BlueStateBabe @BenA heh--no doubt.

I suppose you could install musescore & just noodle around on it for a bit. Maybe it's got a "use the finale shortcut keys" mode or something? That'd just cost you the time...

@BlueStateBabe @BenA that'd be found at: https://musescore.org/en

@BlueStateBabe ach, condolences. I agree with @BenA that your best bet would be to try and find the install program. On windows that will frequently have an .msi file extension.

No clue if it's really comparable, but FWIW, this here nominates something called MuseScore as an open-source alternative to finale:

https://alternativeto.net/software/finale/

@InUnfunky not at all--I appreciate the rec--thanks!

@InUnfunky heh--well, it's possible my memory of the first post I saw mentioning it is faulty. Tho the title of the book & content of the article are pretty simpatico, so...

@InUnfunky heh--when I first encountered a link to that article it mentioned that it was an excerpt from her book. I was firewalled out of reading the article & so I went & ordered the book... ;-)

source (which you should visit if the link above is not as gifty- as hoped):

https://elk.zone/hachyderm.io/@ZhiZhu@newsie.social/113075065594514181

Not my gift link, so not sure if it'll work, but...

F*ckin'-A!

The kleptocrats aren’t just stealing money. They’re stealing democracy

https://www.ft.com/content/0876ef7a-bf88-463e-b8ca-bd9b4a11665c?accessToken=zwAGIQ6jzGSgkc8Idu96v4hGPtO4yr2bShFmXA.MEUCIAjwvv97o-GbDWICTJI-1kTLgIEmpcxXnmKwyCJyAEX8AiEAlIQ0PFuVHD2nCcw9QF_fmrHm03OPnWdNSPjMpn70j5k&sharetype=gift&token=cbe21496-8086-4af8-a07c-7c2201d2995e

/nosanitize

#worldpol #corruption

once again my innate boringness and lack of importance protects me from the elite haxors of the world...

this bums me out b/c I've got an affected key, but I'm not gonna panic over it thus far.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/yubikeys-are-vulnerable-to-cloning-attacks-thanks-to-newly-discovered-side-channel/

@Marc_T_Benedict FWIW--not that I can perceive.

@ps9714 Wow--that's awesome!

Seems like TPH was the first person to really put #Project2025 on the radar of the non-terminally-online...