So what I am reading is that I should open a few Reddit accounts and start replying to posts with random excerpts from Master P era dirty south lyrics en masse.
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster's taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
My wife and I were piss poor and getting finance degree at a third rate state college. I was paying my way with PC support. One day I spent money I didn't have to buy a Wndows NT certification book and used the university's T1 line to pirate NT 4.0 for myself and MS SQL and Oracle 7 for my wife (I also bought a CD of Red Hat Halloween).
Almost thirty years later we literally saved a presidential election and are the ones keeping significant parts of the US infrastructure from falling apart. All thanks to piracy.
We currently have a stacked roster thanks to those mandates. Even more hilarious is that we are helping three clients who's projects are currently underwater because they lost key staff thanks to return-to-office mandates. We are not a staffing agency, we are a highly specialized firm, so right now they are paying six times the cost for specialists to do what they used to do with in-house staff. Funnier still, we have been a 100% remote work firm since 2012, so ultimately the office is still empty. SMH
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*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...
This is a genuine question, so please don't do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...
It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community....
There is some functionality not available through the web apps. If you work in a corporate setting, the odds are really good that the web apps won't be adequate for you.
One example that comes to mind is one of our clients that has us file a report once per quarter. The report is an Excel spreadsheet that can be filled but not edited. The submission demands that the file be then password edit protected and uploaded along with the password. You cannot secure files that way via the web app. We literally keep a Windows VM with the a copy of the desktop office suite, just for this client's quarterly form.
I use to run RasPlex on a PiZero with a Bluetooth gamepad as a Plex client. There has to be a jellyfin equivalent. For some time, I have just used older game consoles as media clients instead.
Fun Fact: I started "archiving" games off of BBS back in the intel 386. By the early 2000's I had hundreds of games and apps going back to Zork and other very early PC, backed up in hard drives, CDs, and Zip Drives. I have no doubt that I might have had one of very few copies in existence of some games.
Sad Fact: They all went missing after one of our moves. All I have left are a small stack of zip drives and no zip drive to read them with.
The point is that, had it not been for a moving mishap, I would have copies of long lost games to share with the world, all thanks to piracy.
Texas would be the perfect setting. The privateer settled by n Louisiana to enjoy retirement at her plantation. An English minor lord wants to partner with her for an expansion into the new fields west of the river (now Texas) and they hire a ronin that just arrived at the port of New Orleans. It once in Texas, they encounter the gunslinger.
DM accidentally uses his roommate's THC gummies for underlings. The battle to kill the cinnamon roll is bloody and vicious as PC turns on PC for the glory and the sweet spoils.
At this point I use Linux for everything except my music production hobby (Mac for that) and even then I use Renoise and BitWig on Linux. I've been on Linux since 1996 but I haven't been 100% Linux until the past two years.
I bought Abelton Live 12 before I tried Bitwig and now I have a bit of buyer's remorse. Bitwig and Renoise are so good. Bitwig is also far more inspiring IMHO. I couldn't get into Reaper though.
If you are mostly recording your guitar play and aren't using a lot of plugins, then Linux is a great solution. I highly recommend Bitwig as a DAW on Linux. If you're on a tight budget, Reaper is also a great solution on Linux. It didn't vibe with me (Bitwig is my favorite DAW), but a lot of people love it. I hear that the Reaper community is very active and inviting and the DAW is very customizable.
I cannot comment on LLMs for music generation but, if you are starting from scratch, there are a few methods that I think are interesting.
Sequencer/Groovebox: Hardware like the Elektron Digitakt and Polyend Play+ use the "piano roll" style generation that you find in most DAWs. How you import and edit samples, then sequence them in the piano roll, varies from one to the other. Fortunately, you can find a lot of video tutorials for most DAWs and hardware based sequencers on YouTube.
Music Trackers: Whether it is a hardware tracker like the Polyend Tracker or the M8, or a software tracker like Renoise, this type of sample edit and sequencing really lends itself to electronic music. Plenty of tutorials on YouTube.
Samplers: Here you have hardware like the Roland SP404 MKii, the MPC One, and the Teenage Engineering EP133 KO II and DAWs like Native Instruments Maschine (also requires Maschine hardware). If you have a tablet, check out Koala Sampler. It might be the best $5 you'll spend this year.
In my opinion, trackers are an extremely fast and powerful way to create electronic music. The main complaint people have is the learning curve since almost everything else uses the "piano roll" method. Since you are starting from scratch, that complaint doesn't really apply because no matter what you select, you'll have to learn from zero.
Depends on budget. Obviously you are familiar with FOSS offerings. Outside of FOSS, if you want a paid products for not too much money, then Reaper is a favorite and Renoise is VERY interesting. If money is no object but Linux compatibility is still a main concern, then Bitwig, 1000%. The top Bitwig package costs $399 but they also have more limited versions for $199 and $99.
PS: No matter what, Koala Sampler is worth the buy.
I did something like this some 22 years ago or so. I can't remember the exact reason why but essentially DHCP was not reliable enough or it caused some issue with the proprietary network hardware my company built and sold. So I built a little "kiosk" (old laptop with an HTML interface to an database) that would give you an IP and a "return by" timer of 12 hours. Before displaying it would ping to make sure the IP wasn't active. Looking at this post I know realize that I could have just bought a pack of clothes pins and saved myself some trouble.
I would love the option of keeping containers in vertical tabs with "page tabs" horizontal. For example; Facebook, Personal, Banking, Work, Incognito, etc containers along the left as vertical tabs, and each one has all the pages in tabs across the top. Vertical tabs only appear after you open more than one type of container.
I went the other route. I am very noisy online. I post and comment all over the place but I treat all of that as what it is, content I have given away freely and publicly. Now, when I need to do something privately, you are going to need serious mojo to be able to dig it out. Plus, who would assume that I do certain things privately when almost everything I do is out in the open.
Exactly. Do a search for my username and get flooded with shitposts. IP? MAC? Same, plus some porn watching and way too much YouTube. Everything I want to keep private is done with as many degrees of separation as possible.
I use disposable hardware (one time use) and unique, pre-configured remote access points from third party locations for my work. In other words, many little headless Raspberry Pis everywhere.
It turns out that the “Internet of Things” is full of automated snoops and spies. Data collection, now integrated into new car designs, is more pervasive than ever and is ushering in a brave new world of surveillance and corporate collusion.
My next car will probably be a 1986 Ford Bronco with an EV conversion and zero network connectivity. Just a hunk of 4x4 steel with a ton (literally) of batteries under the hood.
The mid-80's Bronco is just for sentimentality. It was a piece of shit but given that little of the original's powertrain survives the conversion, I don't mind. My second option is a Range Rover from the same era. There I would also replace the electronics.
This October will mark my 30th year on Linux (got started with Red Hat 0.9 aka Halloween). I've always been able to say that Linux "works hard" but it took nearly thirty years for me to comfortably be able to say that Linux "plays hard".
As the title says, I've been using various flavours of Arch basically since I started with Linux. My very first Linux experience was with Ubuntu, but I quickly switched to Manjaro, then Endeavour, then plain Arch. Recently I've done some spring cleaning, reinstalling my OS's. I have a pretty decent laptop that I got for school a...
I am an old hand at Linux. I started with Red Hat's Halloween release. A few years ago I bought a Thinkpad and I slapped Pop!_OS on it and it's been my daily driver ever since. Rock solid and stable. If you have shit to get done and don't have time for shenanigans, Debian is hard to beat.
The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions....
Winamp is going open source, and it feels like the early 2000s again ( www.xda-developers.com )
Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products” ( www.theverge.com )
What drew you to the high seas?
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster's taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing ( www.techradar.com )
Sliding into your DMs
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away ( arstechnica.com )
I hate to go as cliche as "surprising absolutely no one," but really, this is not a surprise.
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Little help here linux guys? Trying to figure out what distro to use
Yeah. It's another one of these. But! Here me out!...
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services ( www.theguardian.com )
*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...
Benefits of resolutions beyond 1080p
This is a genuine question, so please don't do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...
[ META ] What is the community's opinion of Pop!_OS?
It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community....
Seeing these memes lately. Anyways, -most- druids are like: ( lemmy.world )
Now don't leave me hanging, and let's get to the next adventure!
Worth the effort to obtain a copy of MS Office on the high seas? *SOLVED
It's for my mother, who so far cannot stand LibreOffice.
Linux Distro for Jellyfin Client HTPC
I'm looking to replace my Rock 5B running Android TV (the OS jank has finally gotten to me) with an x64 Linux HTPC coupled with an Rii remote....
Video Game Piracy Is Good, Actually ( www.youtube.com )
Piped link
New adventuring party just dropped
This little guy and his frog friend decided to go for a swim in the pool. ( lemmy.world )
Both mouse and frog were rescued this morning around 6:40AM, after found in the deep end of a pool.
I absolutely love this idea ( lemmy.world )
Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 ( mastodon.gamedev.place )
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Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites ( arstechnica.com )
Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop ( www.gamingonlinux.com )
New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )
Low tech DHCP ( jlai.lu )
Mozilla released a Firefox Nightly test build with vertical tabs - gHacks Tech News ( www.ghacks.net )
Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade ( www.neowin.net )
I don't think people on this sub use it, but it's great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.
I created rcp, an OSC52 copy tool for your remote server ( codeberg.org )
cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/10585019...
Reddit started blocking VPN users on old.reddit.com ( lemm.ee )
At this point, I'm not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.
Not everyone has fun during bath time ( lemmy.world )
GitLab confirms it’s removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu ( www.theverge.com )
Your Car Is Spying on You for Insurance Companies ( jacobin.com )
It turns out that the “Internet of Things” is full of automated snoops and spies. Data collection, now integrated into new car designs, is more pervasive than ever and is ushering in a brave new world of surveillance and corporate collusion.
First day using Linux Mint instead of Windows 11 ( kbin.social )
It feels faster and it seems to use up less storage....
Longtime Arch user, first time Debian enjoyer
As the title says, I've been using various flavours of Arch basically since I started with Linux. My very first Linux experience was with Ubuntu, but I quickly switched to Manjaro, then Endeavour, then plain Arch. Recently I've done some spring cleaning, reinstalling my OS's. I have a pretty decent laptop that I got for school a...
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation ( www.wired.com )
The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions....
I hate the term "Boomer Shooter"
Not to say I hate the genre, I actually love me some Dusk or Turbo Overkill, but why, oh why are they called Boomer Shooters?...
Boeing whistle-blower found dead by suicide ( www.bbc.com )
Coincidentally, it was only 1 day before he was scheduled to make his deposition against Boeing.
Libation: Download DRM Free copies of those audiobooks you've paid for on Audible. ( lemmy.ml )
The project has versions for Windows, Linux and macOS, and even ARM builds for those using M Series macs and ARM on Linux....