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Oh cool, I can’t think of any potential issues with oil companies prioritising AI over human customers

You’re also SOL if you have a couple of decades of music projects in various DAWs (though predominantly Ableton, plus a decent number of Maschine & Reason projects, for me) using all sorts of VSTs from over the years. I keep several versions of some VSTs installed so I can open older projects, and those older versions are never getting patched to fix broken Linux support by the developer, even if a more modern version does get fixed. It’s all got to come from wine devs, which frankly probably have more important issues to focus on.

I’ve tried a few times to get Ableton working with all my plugins and MIDI hardware and it’s always been an exercise in madness ultimately resulting in failure and usually a lost weekend. It particularly doesn’t like anything with my iLok key involved, last I tried a couple of years ago.

I happily run Linux elsewhere, but my main desktop is going to mainly run Windows for the foreseeable future unless something drastically changes. At least my projects aren’t all in Logic!

There’s also some software I use for my photography that didn’t properly work on Linux when I last tried (e.g. GPU features in PureRAW are the main thing I remember), but I think there’re some alternatives there I’d look at if I could get the audio production stuff working perfectly.

Ah that clears it up, cheers

What a weird choice for the headline to do what it did

I wouldn’t be surprised if 4chan’s server-side setup was entirely made up of typical web dev decisions from ~2003

I’d say most RTS games I can think of can be played with just a mouse

Older diablo-like ARPGs didn’t really rely on the keyboard too much IIRC, the modern ones do tend to rely on the keyboard a bit more

If you don’t mind older games, basically the whole genre of point and click adventures is this by definition

£1 says someone gets physX running on an AMD GPU before a 5xxx one

Just because things have a funny way of working out like that sometimes

Sounds like you’re after hackaday and similar specialist blogs

General tech sites will mostly cater to the tech the general public care about, enthusiasts don’t bring in the ad money comparatively

Reddit died June 2023

I don’t know why people are still playing with the corpse

There’s a baseline 20-30% of all polls taken over the world that is made up of hateful nutjobs and conspiracy theorists

There could be someone running for office who has figured out how to solve all the world’s problems for free, and that 20-30% will vehemently oppose them.

The main thing to remember about authoritarians is that none have ever been documented to be impervious to small pieces of metal moving at high speed.

Ticketmaster only exists to reduce the income of musicians.

The musicians would exist without Ticketmaster

The venues would exist without Ticketmaster

The crowd would exist without Ticketmaster

They only extract value

Fair play!

If you need to convert audio or video, ffmpeg is your man

If you need to convert a document pandoc is what you need

If you need to convert an image, imagemagick

If you need to “convert” some online media into local media, yt-dlp

Can’t think of another use case that people would regularly be converting off the top of my head, but happy to fill in any gaps if there are any

What are you trying to convert? Generally shoving “open source software” on the end of the search query will get you something legit

I was about to remark how this data backs up the events we’ve been watching unfold in America recently

Was just thinking this

A single LiDAR sensor prevents this kind of issue

Of course it was

You know that thing scammers do where they set up a situation they’ll use for blackmail later on?

Don’t know why that just came to mind

Big thanks for providing this extra context, that made it a lot clearer for me