Totally know what you mean! As long as it's not too cold, getting all wet and accepting it, feels great.
I have a shower at my work, and hang up my sweaty/wet bike clothes, but....yeah, if they're soaked, they're still gonna be wet at the end of the workday. And that's no fun, for the first few minutes at least. :D
I do physical synths / drum machine as well, in fact I basically use a daw as a mixer with effects :) The latency is good, and I don't have the newest machine or anything. On Linux it's super easy to combine interfaces too, like I have my tr-8 (drums) as a multitrack USB interface, and an 8i6 for my synths, and it combines them way easier than I could do in windows!
Take with a grain of salt as I'm an amateur, but for my purposes it's been great so far.
I ended up switching to Linux recently for same reasons, but my kids are older and i had time to nerd out and go full Archwiki. Ableton was one of the last holdouts that was keeping me from switching.... and I spent a good month dicking around with wine trying to get it to work. And I couldn't! I ended up selling my Ableton license and buying Bitwig, which is natively supported in Linux, and actually pretty amazing... (I don't expect you to switch, just telling my story. It has really fun modular synth-like interface, with all the other VST support and quite good out-of-the-box plugins etc.)
I also couldn't get Affinity Photo working in wine.... and gimp doesn't quite do it for me. So I'm not sure what to do there, so my photo editing hobby is on hold til I figure that out.
That said, some of my other windows stuff works magically in wine (sierrachart, games, etc.).
So with all that in mind, I'd say if you don't have time to figure it out, and still want ableton to work, it might not be worth the mental load until you have more time on your hands. Unless you have an old laptop lying around, it wouldn't hurt to just try it and see what you can get working.
Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,
Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed. For our scheduling department please press 1. ....
Yep, we as a family have been doing Friday night movie+homemadepizza since covid days. The kids usually win out on the movie pick, so it's often something animated or starring Jack Black, but we occasionally make them watch something like Amelie or Office Space, and those adult picks usually go over pretty well. :)
Very cool photo, and thanks for sharing the story. It reminds me of when a family member came out as ace by pulling an Ace of Spades out of their shirtsleeve.
I've been using the Stumptown method, which has you pour half the water, wait a minute, then there'll be a crust on top.. you want to break that crust with your spoon then give it a light stir. Then pour the other half of the water, wait til the 4 minute mark, press, and voila.
If you don't stir in that crust, you'll have unevenly brewed grounds. If you're getting bitterness from stirring, try a coarser grind.
This is what I use! I like that it's privacy-focused, and syncs across my devices. I paid for premium for the extra little bits, but the free version is quite good too.
holy crap, nice.