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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Interesting article but I want to clear up some very questionable statements that I see here. >Linux users have long enjoyed the degree to which they are able to personalize their desktop apps and environments through theming [...] Reaso
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
>I don't trust GNOME/GTK developers to keep their "every preference has a cost" philosophy limited to GNOME That isn't a philosophy, it's just how development works. Preferences do have a cost, in any projec
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Are you mounting them on NFS or using samba? That wouldn't be bash. Under windows you would just type the SMB path name.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Nit pick: Bash is only standard on GNU, it has never been standard anywhere else. You may be thinking of the Bourne shell, although neither bash nor the Bourne shell include a standard for shared directories, so I'm curious what you me
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
>employees at large corporations attacking people who don't have a big corporate affiliation That's interesting because on this forum I have seen quite a lot of the exact opposite: employees at startups attacking big corporatio
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Or maybe it's just a coincidence? Please be careful not to get drawn into "doomsday" thinking.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I'm afraid I don't understand your analogy, all of that has even less to do with Richard Stallman, who does not work on GNU software and hasn't done that in decades. Edit: I had to look up Naughty Dog that made me more confus
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I don't understand why this is relevant. To use the word from that article, please do not "shitpost" here, let's keep the conversation above ground.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
That's the GNU system though, which is a different thing entirely. It has always supported multiple kernels, in fact a lot of GNU software has ports for Microsoft Windows or can otherwise be cajoled into running there.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I've also been using Linux for about 20 years and I would happily switch to Fuchsia if it had good hardware support and worked well on servers. POSIX is just a bad API spec, I'm personally sick of programming for it and dealing wi
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I disagree, out-of-touch founders being kicked out is a good thing. It's a sign that the community is strong enough and can move forward irrespective of any one person's opinion. This video has it totally backwards. Like, I get th
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I don't understand why that would be relevant, Richard Stallman has nothing to do with Linux and has never worked on Linux at all.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I don't understand what you mean, that's not censorship. To use an analogy, when you tell everyone you don't like Star Wars, your friends will likely decide to only talk to you about Westworld and not talk to you about what h
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
It doesn't really matter who does the work, if you were writing a new DAW, you'd probably do it. But if you were working on an established & popular DAW, plugin developers could be convinced to do it if there was benefit to th
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
That's also another aspect where the plugin API vendors have not much incentive to fix things, because users can just use another thing on top of it (JUCE, DPF, etc) that makes better progress towards solving these issues from the deve
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
That's what I mean. The solution there would be to get Logic to run "auval" before loading the plugin which ensures that developers don't do that. But for users of Logic doing that serves no benefit as it doesn't ac
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
As per your other comment, it seems things are already going in that direction, if developers are treating their plugins as being written in a format that could be described as "AU that is compatible with Logic but nothing else" o
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I have switched to Pipewire but last time I tried JACK2 there were tools that would auto-start a2jmidi for all available midi ports. This is trivial to do. If hotplug was a concern then someone could just write it to run based on udev trigg
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I'm sorry, I don't get where this is coming from, the specialists don't need to be hired to write the same code again. The old code can just be re-used. If I could guess, I think this is stemming from a misunderstanding that
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
It's not different, and in fact most DAWs are already doing something along these lines internally to actually implement an abstraction layer that can load various plugin formats and have them all interact. That's actually my key
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I still don't get how that is related, in my opinion, that is unlikely to change until there are tools that make it easy to resolve all those various threading/communication/latency issues on the developer side before a plugi
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I don't understand why you are saying that either, please explain. Nobody needs to work for just one, as any code can be linked into any number of DAWs.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean extra hoop? You just start a2jmidi and then connect the device. Crashes would indeed be an issue, generally if you want to mitigate those, you would want to: - Auto restart any important services (with system
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
That's the thing though, not having plugins would not mean that you can't delegate development duties for a synth or reverb out to another company. I am not sure where you are drawing that conclusion from. It just means that the d
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I think you are misinterpreting that comment, I believe the idea there would be to have built-in functionality that would be equal or surpassing to those plugins, possibly by merging the actual plugins with the DAW. Of course doing that in
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Which problem are you referring to? a2jmidi should work fine as long as you have access to the device. But in any case that should not be necessary anymore if you use pipewire, which should be able to manage all the devices at once.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Does it matter? The game developers I've talked to are well aware that they're trading some aspect of long-term historical significance for short term gain, and it doesn't seem to bother them. To use a sports analogy here, do
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
>So, it is important to listen to vocal complainers, even in minority, Maybe in some cases this is true, but I can't agree with that in terms of taking product direction from social media. In my (anecdotal) experience with areas whe
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I'm also baffled by this comment. Wouldn't that same reasoning also apply to moderation, i.e. if you think Facebook's moderation is bad, you should just not go there? How are they "controlling people" if you acknowl
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
>For years they didn't do things like fact check posts or try to auto-classify racism, the site was fine >Gmail spam filtering [...] works fine, is uncontroversial and makes users happy regardless of their politics >an attempt

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