Thanks for the warning.

From memory, it felt like the electrostatic discharge that used to happen whenever I was touching my car. Annoying but harmless. The CRT part was speculation as I was reaching around blindly and don’t ultimately know which exposed contact shocked me.

Interestingly, the PC suffered no damage at all and didn’t blow its internal fuse, either.

Windows 10 EOL is a problem for future me, having just signed up for free extended support.

And I’ve got CachyOS in my back pocket. Initial experiments have been somewhat positive.

Yeah, that’s why I’m not a burgers person. Never really got the appeal.

To me it actually conveys what I was thinking, namely “ex cuse me?”

Like the Italian hand gesture, you know.

Depending on the era and genre, the most ubiquitous drum machine would be a Linn Drum (late 70s & early 80s pop, e.g. ABBA), Roland TR-808 (80s soft pop, e.g. Phil Collins), or Roland TR-909 (90s House/Dance/Trance, e.g. Scooter).

There are many others, of course, and even if the actual machine wasn’t used, these sounds have been sampled and reused countless times, e.g. using a Fairlight CMI.

Interestingly, the 808 is the only one of the three that does NOT use samples itself but synthesizes all of its percussion sounds, which gives it a rather distinct character. Perhaps that is what led you to believe that it is the most ubiquitous drum machine - it’s easier to recognize than the others, even in a crowded mix.

Getting some strong the missile knows where it is vibes here. 😅

Live modding, huh? 😂 Takes me right back to my first PC, whose loudspeaker prevented me from covertly playing games when I was supposed to be sleeping. 😇

So I opened up the case and figured out that the PC speaker lead had a detachable connector. And the case was flexible enough that if I didn’t put all the the screws back in, I could just reach in and plug or unplug the speaker. 👌

Worked great, except for that one time I got shocked while blindly trying to finagle in the connector⚡🤯 (probably by the CRT assembly; this was one of those PCs that had everything incorporated in the case).

Thankfully, it must have been all volts and no amps so I was OK, even though I let out quite the yelp. 😁

Fear of what, then?

And it wasn’t until the U.S. invaded Mexico and forced it to cede large swaths of its territory. Same with California, Arizona, Nevada, etc.

Puerto Rico didn’t exactly beg to be annexed, either.

I think a lot of this panic about Latin American people illegally taking over the United States stems from repressed colonial guilt.

Not pictured here are the scratches they got putting that thing on their cat. 😅