I feel like you're right about this one.

Using these as some sort of "flair" would be best. While there's always a place for more specific fandom communities (ex: Zelda, Pikmin, Mario Kart, etc) the other communities can feed nicely under the umbrella of just "Nintendo"

Do it.

I currently use all 3 (M1 MacBook Air for a laptop while I'm at work, and Ubuntu 23.04/Win10 dual boot desktop, and an old Dell Latitude core2duo running AntiX for just sorta messing around with)

All 3 of the systems have their ups and downs. I just recently tarted using Linux again after trying it off and on for several years. This time seems like it's properly sticking for me though.

I also like to do audio production, and no matter how much people like to yell about how you can do music production on Linux, it's a right pain in the ass to deal with Jack and finding a DAW that doesn't have that classic FOSS learning curve.

So, I use Windows for music production because FL Studio works great, ASIO is surprisingly just fine and it supports all the plugins I use.

I like MacOS on laptops because of the fantastic touch pad, pretty insane battery life, good screens and good speakers. Not to mention that the Apple Silicon has been WAAY more than powerful enough for anything I throw at it.

I use Ubuntu as just a basic daily driver. Discord, Telegram, Firefox, a file browser. I don't really need to do much more than that on a daily basis. I enjoy that Linux provides me the ability to reduce big companies spying on me, but otherwise... It's fine. Gaming through steam proton is fine, chatting with friends is fine. It all just feels very middle of the road. I do appreciate the fast boot times I get, and the immediately usable desktop. The styling of Gnome 44 is also nice, but I just love "dock + top bar" setups personally.

As someone who uses all three, if I was forced to use any one of them for the rest of my life.. It'd probably be MacOS. You get the flexibility of an underlying unix system, and support for pretty much everything Windows has these days.

yeah, pretty much what blackstrat said. If someone can pick up a guitar, and play it!

VLC will play whatever you throw at it.. can’t believe you didn’t use it. Also homebrew isn’t a requirement, it’s a nice to have, sure. But macOS works just fine without it.

i recently-ish made an account. sadly it feels like not enough creators followed along :(

First comment from it, and I’m totally digging it over Mlem. Something about it feels more familiar to me already as a longtime RIF and Narwhal user!

equestra.social is a pretty cool instance. seems like a really friendly bunch over there!

Honestly, that’s why I’ve been liking Apple Arcade so much. $5 a month, tons of quality mobile games with 0 micro transactions. Most games work across my phone/iPad/MacBook. I know that subscriptions kinda blow. But I don’t have Netflix or Hulu or any of the big streaming sites.

They just recently added Stardee Valley, and it’s also where I found out that Slay the Spire is fucking awesome. On top of that, there’s many updated classic mobile games that had all the micro transactions ripped out and put on there.

I’m no Apple shill, but I give credit where it’s due. Apple Arcade fuckin slaps

I’ve thought about bitwig, but I don’t like their monetization method. Only reason I slowly upgraded my fl studio over the years is because I know it’s a lifetime key and that I’ll be getting every update. $400 for one year of updates (starting, I know renewal is cheaper) is atrocious to me.

It's been through a lot! Through the washer a couple times, fell out of my pocket in the yard and got left overnight in a storm. Fell off the lip of my engine bay and got beat up by a metal fan blade. Still just keeps truckin!

Ponymotes would be rad I haven't used them much since, iirc, Discord killed the ability to use them

The amount of crossover between the Vtuber community and Pony community is actually insane.

from what I understand a lot of big Vtubers definitely went through a pony phase!

This Day Aria is definitely what got me paying attention to the music in the shiw. My absolute favorite still might be The Art of the Dress though. Early season music just hits different

I wasn't aware of that actually. I like that this little guy just runs off a AA, is plenty bright for a little pocket light, durable and affordable!

https://autoeq.app/

You should look and see if there's an AutoEQ patch for them. Might be able to even out the response curve to something much more usable!

Makeup and Vanity Set is my goto for some proper good retrowave stuff. 88:88 by them is easily one of my favorite synth albums

I actually haven't poked around Kbin yet. I checked on here, and there's a MLP community on Lemmy.ml, but I figured I'd try my hand a building one up as it seemed pretty slow

I want to like Zrythm. I've been having some issues with it though.

I've tried the MacOS version to no avail (opened once, crashed and would not open again. even after a reinstall) And the Linux version (Ubuntu 23.04) is having problems with needing more permissions. It can probably be fixed, but I haven't messed around with it yet as I'm still thinking about doing some bistro hopping.

Coming from a longtime FL Studio user though. It looks promising!