I’ll have to see if hypernormalisation is still on iPlayer

Edit: yes it is, well that’s not what I needed to discover at 1am with work tomorrow…

Siren song for those browsing with an internet connection of a geographically British persuasion: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c

I assume this is coming at some point, tbh

I personally reckon they’re working on something YAbridge-esque to allow people to bring their VSTs to the push in standalone mode. If they can actually nail that, it’s an absolute no brainer to then release a full Linux version of the DAW and finally allow people like me to make the switch

Every time I’ve tried to run Ableton on Linux over the years (most recently about Christmas last year), it’s the VST support that lets me down. I’ve got hundreds of VSTs I’ve used in various projects over the past couple of decades and I can’t switch unless I know they all work properly—projects not loading or sounding different is unacceptable. I need to be able to open anything I’ve worked on over the years and be able to get right into the creativity without tinkering, as that is what I already have today.

Until that day, I’ve got to begrudgingly keep windows around.

You would not want to do this for latency reasons

A lot of Arnie and no “hasta la vista, baby”

Baffling

The pixel 9 doesn’t do the blinding thing anymore, and it works pretty well. This is apparently an even better version of that.

Don’t disagree that on the back should be a thing too, the sensor on the back of the pixel 5 (IIRC?) was perfectly quick and had a few useful gestures you could use it for. I doubt it would increase the BOM much to just have both considering we’re talking at phones that cost a grand

Do you live somewhere without winter?

The problem you have is you care which disk gets wiped, russian roulette is the best design pattern!

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=$(ls /dev/sd* | shuf | head -n1)

…I shouldn’t need to say, but don’t run that unless you want to make your day a bit worse

Depends what you want to spend and how much you want to do with it.

If you’ve got the technical ability and interest, look into building one yourself (they’re just computers, just usually with a lot of storage) and running FreeNAS or UnRAID as the OS.

If you want a bit more of a plug and play solution, both Synology and QNAP are good brands. I’d also recommend over-provisioning the NAS in terms of bays. Sure 2 drives might be fine today, but it’s nice to have room for expansion down the line.

Whatever you choose, you’ll be able to run nextcloud and similar

(Also your English is great, don’t sweat it!)

You know what, I’m surprised it took this long

Once you’ve got a job in your chosen career, 99% of situations don’t give any shit about what happened before that.

Isn’t this built into the Android OS already? I assume iOS has a similar feature

Proton for ARM is not (currently) a thing, if that’s a factor

Wouldn’t have an alternative to Reddit without it—so, by all means

Is it clever enough to not send STOP to engagement fishing spam? Like the ones that use the STOP message to add you to a list of people who actually read the thing and then you’re spammed a load more for months?

I think there’s an alpine build too if your system has low oxygen levels

In the magpie nests

(Sorry, you made me think of this article)

I’m in the same boat as you, with decades of projects I want to be able to open.

However, OP mentioned Reaper, which has a native Linux version! So as long as they’re not using a load of VSTs, and the ones they do play nicely with Linux, it could work out for them

The only way is to give it a go and find out though

I was asked a question about AI art so I answered 🤷‍♂️

Even tried to bring it back on topic

Given my comment got half the upvotes of the post, I could make the argument that half of the people in here agree with me saying it was a bit rubbish.

Like be honest, do you genuinely think the original post is actually more memorable and effective* at conveying the message than the Murdoch one? If you do, that’s fine I guess, art is subjective, but you don’t get to insist everyone else has to love it.

*This is a lefty memes community remember, that’s the important thing

Yeah if it’s actually got artistic merit or is actually interesting in some way sure, life isn’t black & white, so I won’t be either. Cards on the table, I’ve got some issues with how some of the big models have been trained and deployed, but no real issue with the technology itself.

The AI art will be at most as good as the effort going into it, and honestly it’s pretty clear that 90% of the stuff you see posted around at the moment barely had 30 mins spent on the idea.

I can guarantee I’m not gonna like much of any traditional art where it’s clearly low effort and derivative either. The best art does something new and interesting