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- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 2 days ago:
It’s always possible, the bulk of the hardware Linux supports is proprietary stuff that someone had to reverse engineer at some point.
Whether a given niche piece of hardware, gets support for a non-essential-to-normal-operation feature such as firmware update support, is down to if someone is interested/motivated/determined enough to do the reverse engineering, write the driver and get it merged into the kernel.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 2 days ago:
Yeah I think there are a few Linux compiled VSTs out there but IIRC there’s very little host support for them in native Linux, let alone into a host running under Wine. CLAP is probably what we should be banking on tbh since it was designed with Linux support in mind from the start.
I’m also not a big fan of iLok or any similar DRM, but if they’re going to enforce draconian licensing restrictions anyway, being able to move my key between machines and use all my licenses is actually a pretty valuable feature. Compared that to (let’s say Waves) stuff that will only let me license it on a single machine, and limits the number of times you can remote-revoke to a couple of times a year.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 2 days ago:
It can with the addition of WineASIO, but unless this release has focused on fixes for this setup (which it may have done!), we’re still not ready.
But I tried during the summer (albeit with Ableton rather than FL) and it’s still quite high latency which turns into weird noise and artifacting if I try reducing the buffer size (with much larger buffers than I typically use on windows).
YABridge is getting better though, this time around I got a few more of my VSTs working, I still have zero luck with any of the VSTs with licenses that I have on my iLok key.
I can’t wait for the day the guys working on this finally crack pro audio properly, it’s literally the only reason I still run windows on my desktop.
And since every time I mention this problem, I end up having to say this in a reply to someone: To anyone suggesting I don’t use Ableton or my VSTs that don’t work (of which there are hundreds), I’ve got two decades of Ableton projects that I can open up in windows and pretty much carry on working on it as if I created it yesterday. That’s before going into the fact I’ve spent a lot of money over the years on licences for this stuff, so being able to continue using it is more important to me than my operating system choice. Until I can do the same in Linux it’s gonna have to be a dual boot situation.
- Comment on science rules! 2 days ago:
I was gonna say it’s so out of character I’d almost half assume he actually believes there to be grass there
- Comment on Tradition is just bullying by dead people 2 days ago:
In a modern society, generation by generation, we choose what tradition is acceptable to keep and what is not. We’ve abandoned many more traditions than we have kept, so they aren’t inherently sacred and unquestionable.
Anyone who wants to keep a tradition that causes harm is just malicious.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 3 days ago:
Plenty of people are telling him to piss off, it doesn’t matter anymore, he has the keys to the castle.
He’s also surrounded by a cabal of the worst people humanity has to offer, who are taking this opportunity to get as much abhorrent shit done as they can before he kicks the bucket and this weird cult of personality they have dies with him.
None of them are interested in stopping this train, they’re getting everything they dreamed of and more.
- Comment on You could convince evangelicals that AI is bad by saying it's converting children to satanism or making them gay 3 days ago:
Apologies if you took it as judging, that was not my intention. I’m just pointing out they only listen to whatever their authority figure is. The ability to reason about something is not in their toolbox
- Comment on You could convince evangelicals that AI is bad by saying it's converting children to satanism or making them gay 3 days ago:
Using the word “convince” means you might not fully realise what you’re facing.
You can’t convince the brainwashed, it’s not about what is said, but rather who said it. Unless you’re one of the authority figures they take their instructions from, there’s nothing you can say to convince them because as far as they’re concerned, you’re just a lyin’ lib’rul Satanist or some other bullshit.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 3 days ago:
That’s kinda a different case than what everyone is referring to when they’re talking about this
However, it’s an interesting point: do we know those voice actors are being paid the same as if they did the lines all themselves or is this a studio cheaping out on paying actors to do the job?
There might have been a load of actors who turned the job down before they found someone desperate enough for the money or native enough to not realise it will likely drive down wages for voice actors if this becomes commonplace.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 3 days ago:
There’s no shortage of games that are fun to play, you can just select for studios that don’t rely on the Grand Plagiarism Tool to get you to give them money
- Comment on Too much seriousness in the world, which Wacky Wheels character would you main? 3 days ago:
Always used to pick Razer
- Comment on Age, death, and inheritance. 3 days ago:
I’d hope you have more value to your kids than a chunk of money.
Sure money is always helpful, but I’m in no rush for my parents to kick the bucket. I’d rather they run my inheritance down to zero if it meant they got to stick around a bit longer.
- Comment on YSK that taking advice from youtubers and podcasters is a terrible idea. Only take advice from research universities 3 days ago:
Frankly no, don’t even take advice directly from research universities unless you’re a qualified doctor or have cleared it with one. Just because a paper is written in the same language you speak, does not guarantee you will understand it completely, and you may not even realise you’re missing something important.
Your doctor will be able to tell you what is right for your body, a random medical researcher has no idea you even exist. Everyone is different and there are plenty of changes to your lifestyle you can make that could cause problems if they’re not right for you.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 4 days ago:
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Satellite TV was much more popular compared to cable generally in European countries, so phone lines make up the bulk of wired networking in a lot of places, making DSL a pretty practical option without having to lay a whole network. I get the feeling in countries where cable is much more common, DSL is reserved for the last resort level of service, whereas in Europe many of the telecoms make sure to deploy the latest standards.
I finally swapped to 1gbps fibre a year or two ago, but before that I was on about 250mbps with G.Fast DSL that honestly wasn’t bad at all. I believe the theoretical limits go much higher than that too
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 4 days ago:
Helps if you read past the headline
- Comment on What is Substack and why all the sudden do all the content creators seem to be on it? 4 days ago:
It’s a place that lets people charge subscriptions for blogs.
Avoid it and encourage others to do the same
- Comment on 4 days ago:
FOR. A. SINGLE. CHANGE. Yes. For a single change. Like having an editor with 2 minute save lag, pushing commit using program running on cassette tapes
Am I reading this bit correctly? Are they complaining about testing a CI change and it only taking a couple of minutes to verify?
And this person’s using a compiled language?
- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 1 week ago:
I mean… You can still technically use Eclipse if you’re a masochist… Android studio is head and shoulders above it despite all of the Jetbrains nonsense
If you want to make a website, you still only need a text editor
If you want to make a C++/rust/go/python/Haskell/brainfuck application for something that isn’t a phone? You still only need a text editor and a compiler
- Comment on Water time 1 week ago:
The non-can-only-be-used-to-refill-a-bottle kind of water fountains being as ubiquitous as they seem to be, seems to be a uniquely American thing.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the UK since I was in school
- Comment on really makes you think 1 week ago:
Could be the other way, our brains nerfing the incredible flavour so we don’t all die of hyperhydration
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 1 week ago:
All sorts of weird precedents are being set in the shameless kowtowing to the deluded traffic cone
Lawyers are going to be making all sorts of weird arguments based on precedent for years thanks to this presidency
- Comment on Right to protest is under attack in England and Wales, reports warn 1 week ago:
They highlight the arrest of Republic anti-monarchy protesters during King Charles’s coronation, charges and arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators and long sentences for climate protesters as examples of the crackdown on the right to peaceful dissent.
Funny how the flag shaggers get a pass to literally travel across the country to batter police officers when a pensioner wearing a t-shirt gets arrested on sight
Why do these laws disproportionately affect progressive protesters, hm?
- Comment on Mirror’s Edge Was Never Meant to Slow Down 1 week ago:
Great gameplay, but also a great soundtrack and general world aesthetic too
All neatly packaged in a game that doesn’t outstay its welcome
Hard to imagine EA making anything like this today
- Comment on Are they for real? 2 weeks ago:
Technically they gave it to “The architects of AI”
And also worth knowing Time person of the year isn’t necessarily someone who did something good, just who they seem to have had the biggest impact
Hitler got it once I believe
- Comment on T2 butter mold 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen something so pointless that I’ve wanted more
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
NK is safe because trump admires it.
Venezuela has oil and wasn’t giving it to America. They have a left wing government. Trump wants to keep the Epstein stuff out of the news, lest the final few people out there who still don’t realise he’s a human trafficking pedo, find out.
I don’t think nukes prevent this one. Frankly I think he would have done it anyway
- Comment on Some Japanese shops start rationing GPUs — graphics cards with 16GB VRAM and up are becoming harder to find, says one store 3 weeks ago:
GPU shortage V.2?
I mean, did the first one ever end?
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 3 weeks ago:
When there is a finite amount of something and someone with more money wants it, it makes the price of it for everyone go up to make it so that some people can no longer afford to compete for the resource, making it available for the higher spender.
Same thing with land & property on it, the working class can’t afford to buy housing now, because rich people want to use housing as an investment vehicle.
Food is another
Ultimately it’s the same problem across the board and the only solution is a wealth tax to prevent densely concentrated capital from distorting the market
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah it’s CD quality on everything and 24/96 on most stuff
You can also send bitstream over it for most pre Blu-ray multichannel formats
