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.

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.

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.

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 for native DAWs is getting better though at least, 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.

That said when I next have a weekend with nothing on, I’ll try this latest release

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 naive enough to not realise it will likely drive down wages for voice actors if this becomes commonplace.

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

TBF I’m happy with an optical drive being a peripheral these days, I probably need mine about twice an average year currently

Agree on everything else though. I miss my 17" from ages ago pretty much because it had a numpad

Okay that took me by surprise

I’ll be sharing this

kill, and I swear to god if you’re still there when I ps, I’m getting out the -9

In the UK, where I believe VDSL and G.Fast both are achieved by putting the equipment in your local “green cabinet” which is the sub distribution between you and your local telephone exchange.

My cabinet is about a 200m straight line from my house, so I was lucky enough that I always got pretty close to whatever speed the telco was selling me.

My parents’ place is about 500m or so from theirs and I think they typically got about 70-80% of the “up to” rate on VDSL before they switched to fibre. It used to be more like 50% on regular ADSL/2/2+

I think you have to be kinda rural before you’re much further than that from a green cabinet (which of course isn’t an insignificant number of people, but I believe per capita it’s not typical)

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

Helps if you read past the headline

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?

DONKkk vvvvvvvvvvrrrrrr click

The filling of the ravioli is the decider here

Magnets mostly messed with tapes, floppies and hard disks. I believe you could also mess up a CRT’s calibration with one.

None of those technologies are particularly commonplace these days, especially not in those glasses.

I mean an MRI level magnet could crush them, but you’re gonna struggle to move that around

Oh, I guess I’m a stoneager with a penchant for functional elitism then.

Though I will admit OOP is valid for involved data modelling, everything else should be functional though.

I’ve also trained myself out of most short variable names for maintainability reasons

The damage wasn’t really reversed, rather overcome.

If the world (not just the UK) didn’t see the massive increase in bond yields over the years following the mini budget, we would still very much be in the hole. The Bank of England had to intervene to buy an unprecedented number of bonds at not great prices, if they weren’t able to sell them for profit, we would still be directly facing the consequences.

If the bank didn’t have to intervene, we would be better off today because we’d have that growth without the hit. Most other developed countries got that, so in comparative terms we’re still behind.

I feel for you guys that didn’t get to live in the world pre-9/11 and pre-2008 financial crash. The world was just significantly worse in many ways after each, and never got to recover.

Though I will say the rate of these perma-shittening events does seem to be getting worse. Here’s what I consider to be the big ones with related shit in sub bullets (caveat I’m British so a couple of things are more specific to my country):

• 2001: 9/11 and all the pointless war and islamophobia that followed
• 2008: subprime mortgage crash
  • 2010: Murdoch successfully blames the above on Labour causing the Tories to get in on an austerity manifesto
• 2016: Trump & Brexit, leading up to this:
  • 2011: Alternative vote campaign fails thanks to the propaganda directed by the guy who does the same for the Brexit campaign. We didn’t realise at the time but this was the trial run.
  • 2014: Putin tests the water in Georgia
  • 2015: David Cameron changes the BBC charter to allow government appointments to the board. What follows is a defanging of the news department and the installation of a load of right wing editors. This is a big contributor to Brexit happening and everything else that follows.
• 2020: COVID
• 2021: failed Coup in the US
• 2022: Putin invades Ukraine
• 2022: Liz Truss gets in and delivers an actual real-deal right-libertarian budget and policy platform, despite everyone with a brain telling her it would tank the economy. She does it anyway and instantly wipes £30bn of our country’s wealth out of existence in a day.
• 2023: the current Israel-Gaza conflict kicks off, quickly turns into a genocide with the support of the western world leaders
• 2025: Trump gets in again and goes mask-off fascist
• 2026: Trump starts invading other countries in an effort to distract everyone from the mounting evidence he is a disgusting human trafficking pedo

Why does he always look like he has misjudged a fart