Their track Carpet Flavored Betty was such a breath of fresh air in my pretty stale new releases playlist however many weeks ago.

I had to explain this to my retired parent, who worked their entire life handling payroll. It’s genuinely appalling that the system is so effective at keeping the public uninformed.

Sharts On The Air

I think that’s it. My original comment probably came off as judgey/rude, any functional machine from scratch is a triumph

I watched a video a year or two ago about a guy printing a lathe, which he filled with concrete.

It ended up being kinda shit iirc

I just upgraded one install a couple weeks ago. The upgrade was fine. Manually installed packages were all removed so that was annoying. Not all config gets converted so a little more annoying. But otherwise it’s mostly ok. But as time goes on I find more and more buggy rough edges. Not enough where I’m regretting, but enough that I’m not upgrading my main yet. I think it’s honestly mostly Wayland issues somehow in 2026

Your comment about your fretting hand giving you problems is kinda why I was looking at strandberg in the first place. I picked up skateboarding as a Covid hobby and my 30 year old wrist didn’t like falling on it, that left me in a similar situation to you where I could get a half hour of low intensity playing before it was just too uncomfortable to keep going. They advertise their neck profile is some hyper ergonomic design, and maybe I drank the koolaid but I swear it made a huge difference. I’m finally back to normal and I still find it more comfortable to play than my traditional necked instruments.

Maybe I’ll do a lil writeup.

My biggest issue with the strandberg I don’t have the skills to deserve to own but do anyway is the bridge tuner. Picking a string and then fumbling the pick out of my fingers so I can twist the peg is a pain. That’s the one bit of muscle memory that I just haven’t been able to deal with.

You want human feedback yet the entire post is LLM?

From what I’ve read it didn’t begin until, like, after their third album. So that’s how I rationalize it, and I hate saying that. But Fake Sound of Progress and Start Something were utterly formative for me, so I’ve gotta cope.

I was confused too, but I guess their logic is that 10.11.x is 11.x.x. They might have been more explicit about that.

No plates in the plate carrier. In case anyone was wondering how protected he was.