They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

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

Did I say “only”?

Fascists are the most dangerous and frankly, alarmingly flooding the internet with their shit right now

“Magnitudes” is a borderline dangerous understatement of the difference in their output versus any other corner of political thought.

Hyper targeted advertising on the internet means you categorically will not be seeing anything close to the worst of it.

Of course it is.

Fascists can create the illusions they need to convince morons whilst at the same time making them distrust reality (“nah that’s AI”)

A lot of people are going to suffer

It does actually seem like it’s only the US for now

Unless I’ve misunderstood your comment

BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vgkn7w10o

People who knew what they were doing with computers used Netscape until it died, those people went to Mozilla suite and then Firefox (well, Phoenix then Firebird then Firefox). But that was a shrinking minority of people on the internet at the turn of the millennium.

Practically everyone else used IE (90%+ of web traffic at its peak) and continued to do so until Google released Chrome and shone a light on how little Microsoft had been doing for nearly a decade.

Dominance was dominance however they got it, and they pissed it away through complacency, somewhat similarly to what they’re doing now.

They had internet explorer dominance, they pissed that away

They had PC gaming OS dominance, they’re now pissing that away

Oh dear Microsoft, you had everything and you pissed it away again

Heath was prime minister for this with Thatcher in his cabinet, right? (albeit she was focused on stealing milk from kids at the time)

Neoliberals ruining our country’s potential for half a century now 🎉

I wonder if Steam would remove it from people’s libraries in that instance or just the Storefront

See every NJB video that references Strong Towns.

Road transit exclusivity bankrupts cities

Oh yes, more of this.

I think having a healthy population is key for defense too, so I’d say NHS spending is also defense spending and should get a slice of that pie

Weird traffic loving idiots

Bike lanes reduce traffic

VScode locally, vim if I’m shelled into something

Used to use sublimetext, but roughly a decade ago VSCode ended up getting a lot of inertia, and that resulted in better plugins (at the time anyway)

I’ve used the jetbrains stuff and I do not get the hype whatsoever, it’s bloaty and cumbersome.

One of the main reasons I switched from vim as my main was ping-pong pair programming. I’m not gonna be the arsehole that tries to force a junior dev to figure out vim instead of actually working on the ticket. Still 100% my go-to in text mode though, it’s basically perfect.

Using a magic keyboard for this is a bit cursed

I also am short sighted, though possibly a bit worse than you given your description. If my glasses suddenly fell off there are plenty of hazards I would potentially miss. Idiot kid about to run into the road, etc.

I think I’m more concerned about the unfortunate scenarios where:

Glasses fuck up meaning driver can only see near -> something that needs quick reactions happens to avoid someone dying -> driver is fumbling with glasses or trying to find a spare pair -> somebody dies

I don’t think I want it to be possible for someone’s glasses to die or freeze

People do dangerous things that are made safer by the fact they can see—like driving

Edit: you’ll need a prescription because the amount of focus it needs to do will be different for everyone and there isn’t a sensor to determine your eyesight

I think it’s worth understanding that tinyconfig is the result of a lot of effort into finding how much you can strip back the kernel and have it still (kinda) work. It’s realistically as stripped back as you can get—you don’t even get access to storage devices by default.

I’m curious about where your requirements have come from, as if the kernel was literally just tty and ethernet, you basically wouldn’t be able to do anything with it.