NES releases don’t bother me because I was still a kid when I played them. Things released twenty years ago bother me because it seems like yesterday given that I was already an adult with an established career and a mortgage.
I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed...
I thought it was going to be a cringe inducing fluff piece but the guy showed a decent grasp of the benefits and pitfalls of expanded AI use as well as why the EU’s approach is not the way we probably want to go. Pleasantly surprised.
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.
On Linux I use Bitwig for live guitar play and the Renoise music tracker for sample chop based beat making. Eventually everything I make on Linux goes to the Mac for the bulk of the finish work. I stuck with Mac for most music for the same reasons as you but also because I could not find anything that comes close to my M2 Max based system in a compact laptop format. Those Apple chips are crazy.
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 am specifically talking about the micro pads they put on the Mercedes Benz steering wheels. Everything is still done at the touchscreen, but now you have a track pad to navigate it with. It is faster and safer to reach over and touch the screen. Less time with your eyes off the road when you are driving a big ass van.
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.
Video footage broadcast Wednesday by Al Jazeera shows Israeli soldiers gunning down two Palestinians on the coast of northern Gaza, even as one of them waves what appears to be a piece of white fabric. The video then shows Israeli soldiers burying the bodies with a bulldozer....
I am watching the Miami Open (tennis) live on the Tennis Channel and every few minutes they cut in with the live odds from Fanduel. This TV channel is actively tempting viewers to go bet on the match they are watching before the odds update.
It’s a very gentle warning that patience is not limitless and that all the US has to do to ruin Israel’s day is nothing. Don’t veto. Don’t approve funding increase. Don’t expedite a shipment. These are all perks that Netenyahu has taken for granted.
Also, even this gentlest of warnings is still unprecedented. Normally the US gives Israel whatever they want, no questions asked.
Maybe, just maybe, if enough people keep complaining…
This right there is my point. This abstention is unprecedented and has only come about because of the pressure American citizens are putting on the administration.
When this genocidal campaign started, the administration’s tone was all in with Israel because that’s what it has always been. They didn’t even bother to read the room. Then it turned out that a significant number of Americans, including three generations worth of voting age citizens, were not overwhelming in favor of genocide. Go figure. Now the administration is back tracking and taking a different tone. That is all because of those who raised their voice. Keep up the pressure.
EDIT: To be clear, I am not saying that we shouldn’t aim high. We absolutely should, but we should also acknowledge our victories.
A Konami code variant in Castlevania has been discovered after a quarter of a century (www.pcgamer.com)
Which game series had the worst anniversary celebration?
Rockstar didn’t even acknowledge GTA IV’s tenth anniversary. Only by removing several songs from its radio stations....
Rule Laugh Love (i.ibb.co)
Putin is bombing Ukraine into darkness — and leaving Europe short of power (www.politico.eu)
The EU relies on Kyiv for energy. So Russia is attacking the critical storage sites that hold Europe’s gas....
How to revitalize this sub?
I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed...
Ukraine's military chief warns of 'significantly' worsening battlefield situation in the east | AP News (apnews.com)
Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 (mastodon.gamedev.place)
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feeling attacked rule (lemmy.world)
Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Unity’s Runtime Fee debacle cost it the trust of several indie developers, and led to Slay the Spire 2 being made in Godot.
Ah shit... here we go again. (lemmy.world)
A congressman wanted to understand AI. So he went back to a college classroom to learn (apnews.com)
This gem got removed from 196 (lemmy.world)
rule (beehaw.org)
Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow (edition.cnn.com)
Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow.
Portal Is Perfect, But Not For The Reasons You Might Think (www.youtube.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.
European car safety body is coming for touchscreens. The European New Car Assessment Programme mandates that key controls need physical buttons or switches (www.politico.eu)
Carmakers are equipping their latest models with fancy touchscreens, but that could cause problems with Europe’s largest car safety authority....
Firefox rules (i.ibb.co)
I created rcp, an OSC52 copy tool for your remote server (codeberg.org)
cross-posted from: 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.
'Horrifying' Footage Shows IDF Killing Two Gazans, Burying Their Bodies With a Bulldozer (www.commondreams.org)
Video footage broadcast Wednesday by Al Jazeera shows Israeli soldiers gunning down two Palestinians on the coast of northern Gaza, even as one of them waves what appears to be a piece of white fabric. The video then shows Israeli soldiers burying the bodies with a bulldozer....
Nissan Ruletima (sh.itjust.works)
Online Gambling Has Swallowed Professional Sports (www.thenation.com)
Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. (lemmy.world)
Playing Asteroids (2600) on Atari VCS (lemmus.org)
Final score: 8310
‘Madness’: Netanyahu’s handling of US relations under scrutiny after UN vote | Benjamin Netanyahu (www.theguardian.com)
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