A large part of the power comes from the cult of personality, they don’t have someone they can just swap in.

That and he’s surrounded himself with people who all think they’re gonna be the one who comes out on top when he’s gone. They’re probably most likely to blow up very publicly and eat each other rather than actually succeed.

I can only assume it will be renamed the “Board of War” in six months

Ah sorry, I wasn’t clear

6GB average per month

I think it was one month 3, another 10 and one about 5

So apparently I’m averaging about 6GB on mobile data going by the past 3 months, and according to my router, 90GB the past 30 days on my phone via WiFi, though I imagine some of that is probably LAN traffic.

Gotta say the on WiFi number surprised me

I have unlimited data, so I don’t usually look at this stuff haha

It’s always possible, the bulk of the hardware Linux supports is proprietary stuff that someone had to reverse engineer at some point.

Whether a given niche piece of hardware, gets support for a non-essential-to-normal-operation feature such as firmware update support, is down to if someone is interested/motivated/determined enough to do the reverse engineering, write the driver and get it merged into the kernel.

Yeah I think there are a few Linux compiled VSTs out there but IIRC there’s very little host support for them in native Linux, let alone into a host running under Wine. CLAP is probably what we should be banking on tbh since it was designed with Linux support in mind from the start.

I’m also not a big fan of iLok or any similar DRM, but if they’re going to enforce draconian licensing restrictions anyway, being able to move my key between machines and use all my licenses is actually a pretty valuable feature. Compared that to (let’s say Waves) stuff that will only let me license it on a single machine, and limits the number of times you can remote-revoke to a couple of times a year.

It can with the addition of WineASIO, but unless this release has focused on fixes for this setup (which it may have done!), we’re still not ready.

I tried during the summer (albeit with Ableton rather than FL) and it’s still quite high latency which turns into weird noise and artifacting if I try reducing the buffer size (with much larger buffers than I typically use on windows).

YABridge for native DAWs is getting better though at least, this time around I got a few more of my VSTs working, I still have zero luck with any of the VSTs with licenses that I have on my iLok key.

I can’t wait for the day the guys working on this finally crack pro audio properly, it’s literally the only reason I still run windows on my desktop.

And since every time I mention this problem, I end up having to say this in a reply to someone: To anyone suggesting I don’t use Ableton or my VSTs that don’t work (of which there are hundreds), I’ve got two decades of Ableton projects that I can open up in windows and pretty much carry on working on it as if I created it yesterday. That’s before going into the fact I’ve spent a lot of money over the years on licences for this stuff, so being able to continue using it is more important to me than my operating system choice. Until I can do the same in Linux it’s gonna have to be a dual boot situation.

That said when I next have a weekend with nothing on, I’ll try this latest release

In a modern society, generation by generation, we choose what tradition is acceptable to keep and what is not. We’ve abandoned many more traditions than we have kept, so they aren’t inherently sacred and unquestionable.

Anyone who wants to keep a tradition that causes harm is just malicious.

But there were plenty of traditions out there that just add richness to a culture, that stuff is good as long as no one gets hurt

Doubleclick was the 2nd biggest ad network on the internet when Google bought them about a decade ago

Doubleclick is pretty much used exclusively as an adtech/marketing brand by Google these days. They typically do the kind of stuff you describe under their Google analytics product.

Also I’m 99% sure from the legal perspective of the consent banner legislation, tracking user journeys like you describe is specifically not “essential” functionality and must be consented to.

Pretty much the only stuff in the necessary category is stuff like login cookies, explicit user preferences and things like shopping cart IDs

Apologies if you took it as judging, that was not my intention. I’m just pointing out they only listen to whatever their authority figure is. The ability to reason about something is not in their toolbox

Technically they can load stuff that’s “necessary”

But given that list I think they have implemented the banner incorrectly, pretty hard to make a case for Doubleclick being for anything other than marketing

Using the word “convince” means you might not fully realise what you’re facing.

You can’t convince the brainwashed, it’s not about what is said, but rather who said it. Unless you’re one of the authority figures they take their instructions from, there’s nothing you can say to convince them because as far as they’re concerned, you’re just a lyin’ lib’rul Satanist or some other bullshit.

That’s kinda a different case than what everyone is referring to when they’re talking about this

However, it’s an interesting point: do we know those voice actors are being paid the same as if they did the lines all themselves or is this a studio cheaping out on paying actors to do the job?

There might have been a load of actors who turned the job down before they found someone desperate enough for the money or naive enough to not realise it will likely drive down wages for voice actors if this becomes commonplace.

There’s no shortage of games that are fun to play, you can just select for studios that don’t rely on the Grand Plagiarism Tool to get you to give them money

I’d hope you have more value to your kids than a chunk of money.

Sure money is always helpful, but I’m in no rush for my parents to kick the bucket. I’d rather they run my inheritance down to zero if it meant they got to stick around a bit longer.

I highly doubt the idea for invading Greenland comes from him, but rather the people manipulating him who would perhaps benefit from the instability caused by a war between the US and EU.

In the UK, where I believe VDSL and G.Fast both are achieved by putting the equipment in your local “green cabinet” which is the sub distribution between you and your local telephone exchange.

My cabinet is about a 200m straight line from my house, so I was lucky enough that I always got pretty close to whatever speed the telco was selling me.

My parents’ place is about 500m or so from theirs and I think they typically got about 70-80% of the “up to” rate on VDSL before they switched to fibre. It used to be more like 50% on regular ADSL/2/2+

I think you have to be kinda rural before you’re much further than that from a green cabinet (which of course isn’t an insignificant number of people, but I believe per capita it’s not typical)

Satellite TV was much more popular compared to cable generally in European countries, so phone lines make up the bulk of wired networking in a lot of places, making DSL a pretty practical option without having to lay a whole network. I get the feeling in countries where cable is much more common, DSL is reserved for the last resort level of service, whereas in Europe many of the telecoms make sure to deploy the latest standards.

I finally swapped to 1gbps fibre a year or two ago, but before that I was on about 250mbps with G.Fast DSL that honestly wasn’t bad at all. I believe the theoretical limits go much higher than that too

Helps if you read past the headline