He uses quite a bit of tooling, including lasers. It's not like he would be able to get this far in the middle of nowhere :)

In a way it is somewhat similar to people writing demos for old computers using emulators. Still great fun, but using these tools it doesn't take a village to make one floppy disk. With modern hardware you are apparently able to pull this off on your own. That would have been almost impossible in the 1980s, when these floppy disks were popular.

I probably worded it badly, but I really enjoy these efforts, and I would never be able to do this myself, even if I had a shed with all those tools!

Are you even a musician if you don’t have a goat farm?

How can someone call themselves a programmer when they don’t even mine for silicon!

  > How can someone call themselves a programmer when they don’t even mine for silicon!

To be fair, after three or four Tinder dates I realized that it was mostly silicon to be found there. It's not a stretch to say that a programmer going out on Tinder dates is mining for silicone!

So now we've got clankers catfishing human singles?

Silicon and silicone are two very different things...

It’s not sili-cone valley, you have to say sili-kawn.

Silicone Valley is in Southern California.

(The San Fernando Valley was central to the porn industry in the late 20th century.)

> when they don’t even mine for silicon!

Knowing how to design a CPU is quite helpful.

For anyone that hasn't seen it yet, there's the YouTube channel "Primitive Technology", where a guy does this literally - in a jungle, with no tools apart from what he makes himself. He gets as far as smelting a tiny amount of iron.

I couldn't find an answer on google - how is a goat farm precursor for music? It's an activity that needs herding and shepherds started playing songs for fun? Or..? :o

It's an old story about using a drum machine and feeling like it's not real music, replacing the synthesized samples with real drum samples, then getting rid of the machine playing the drums yourself, then making your own drums, then finally farming your own goats for leather to make drumheads out of.

Stringed instruments use goat or sheep intestines. And drums are from their skin (leather).

Start with naturally occurring things only.

Mine and refine iron ore to make hub. Mine and refine zinc(?) to plate it.

Drill for and refine oil to make PET for disk and casing. Injection mold casing. Make film for actual disc.

Etc, etc.

I’d be ok using tools that weren’t made from scratch as well, but that’d be bonus ooints.

He didn't first create the universe.

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent... the universe" Carl Sagan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s664NsLeFM

Related: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

Yes. Was gonna post that at first ;-)

> not making your own plastic monomers from syngas

why even bother