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Written by Markus Hofer on 2025-01-27 at 22:48

This is difficult. I finally got rid of all Tesla shares - way overdue. And while I was at it I got rid of NVIDIA to help a little with that crash. But looking at the rest of the market - stocks are essentially a capitalistic grift and capitalism is engineered to have the bad guys win. So where do you put your money in good conscience? I guess the rising inequality will take care of any surplus money soon anyway...

[#]stocks #tesla #nvidia

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Written by Markus Hofer on 2025-01-22 at 22:31

Bitwig Connect looks like it could be quite the nice audio interface! Will have to have a good think if I want to replace my trusty MOTU M4... But that Bitwig Button for tweaking any value with the big knob and the CV input/output would be quite nice...

https://www.bitwig.com/connect/

[#]bitwig #daw #audiointerface

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Written by Markus Hofer on 2024-12-16 at 22:27

I'm trying to like the Silo series, but it's just so long-winded and boring. What happened in the second season so far? They walked up and down a lot?

[#]silo #tv

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Written by Markus Hofer on 2024-11-07 at 12:42

Learnt to play ARCS this evening. Very promising game. I think I'm going to like this one a lot!

[#]Arcs #boardgames

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Written by Markus Hofer on 2024-10-20 at 22:48

this tweet has held up well!

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Written by Markus Hofer on 2024-09-03 at 12:26

Today on Markus' weird quest of trying to provide cultural context to the English-speaking world: An essential part of the soundtrack of his childhood: "Zu Spät" (too late) by "Die Ärzte".

Never has there been a more quintessential teenage song. - She has a new boyfriend, he still loves her. But someday he'll be a star and she'll regret dumping him, but by then it will be ... too late. too late. too late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X648-JAusbg

[#]culturalcontext #diearzte #music

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Written by Markus Hofer on 2024-09-01 at 03:18

I also learnt today that I really really do have to learn a game before trying to play it with the family... And especially so if the rules are a mess.

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Written by Markus Hofer on 2024-09-01 at 03:16

Played our first game of #SpiritIsland and pretty much everyone hated it.

Too many rules and the rules are a mess - first they list 200 terms and you have to page all over the place to piece together what they all mean. Design needs work.

What a weird progression of difficulty: Starts out frustratingly hard, then gets easier as your powers grow.

I'd be willing to give it another go with a group of adults, but the family is definitely never going to play this with me again...

[#]boardgames

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Written by Markus Hofer on 2024-08-25 at 20:51

no words.

[#]cat

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Written by Markus Hofer on 2024-08-24 at 02:49

Ok, here's a slightly longer writeup of my feelings on "Design vs Capitalism"...

https://markus.hofer.rocks/design-vs-capitalism

[#]design #capitalism #rant

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Written by Markus Hofer on 2024-08-24 at 01:43

And they lost me right on page one... On some days I hate capitalism so much...

I want to make things that are original, beautiful and easy to use.

I do NOT want to work backwards from the money and tack on those points as hollow promises in marketing-speak. No, I don't want products to exist "because they sell". I want products to exist that serve a meaningful purpose and improve my life. Don't you see we've got it all wrong?

"Designing Products People Love"?! #baitandswitch

[#]rant #design

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