Re: New Pi 5 (Diversity - good or bad ?)

On 1/15/25 4:13 AM, D wrote:

  On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
 

On 2025-01-14, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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 I think it was rbowman I was talking to - the
 boss wanted 'muzak' for the office. So, I took
 an old Pi-1/256mb and a few long muzak tracks
 from 70s shopping malls and sneaked the wiring
 into the PA system. The tracks rotate every
 month. Worked for a dozen years and likely STILL
 does - so long as none of the muzak haters FIND
 the thing.
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 There was about an inch behind where the PBX system
 was ... so I velcroed the unit to the back of the
 PBX box where it's almost perfectly invisible  :-)
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 Proper muzak - you shouldn't actually HEAR it unless
 you TRY. Keeps some little corner of the brain occupied
 and, according to some, thus actually improves performance
 on other tasks.

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It could very well become the last piece of operating machinery on planet
earth. Could you imagine the sun expanding, swallowing the earth while
your little muzak machine plays the perfect muzak for the event? ;)

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That reminds me of the end of the post-acopalytic novel _Level 7_,
by Mordecai Roshwald.

 Sigh... makes one despair of ever writing an original science fiction novel! =(

   Hard to do now ... most everything will derive from
   many other existing sources/premises even if you try
   to avoid it. Kinda like rock/pop now ... last even
   remotely 'different' sound was 'grunge' - and that
   was 'remotely'.
   Someone from Pink Floyd once commented that the reason
   their music sounded so "different" was mostly because
   their skills with their instruments was initially SO
   poor - they COULDN'T emulate the popular bands  :-)
   Something really new - beyond 'space' and 'multiverses',
   'galactic empires', dubious 'time travel' and 'AI' - will
   have to be on the horizon before sci-fi can move up a notch.
   All that stuff is old and creaky and over-exploited.