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A blog post exploring the growing movement of people abandoning corporate-controlled technology for analog and DIY alternatives, drawing parallels to historical movements like the Arts and Crafts movement and medieval guilds.
The article explains how the loudness war, typically a digital phenomenon, degrades vinyl record quality when compressed digital masters are used for vinyl cutting, using Prince's Purple Rain as an example.
Artist Doug MacDowell describes spending 50 hours hand-drawing a statistically accurate line graph about a coffee maker computer, contrasting the process with modern software tools and sharing resources for hand-drawn data visualization.