At this point, I’m just looking at all this as an interesting social experiment on sunk cost fallacy

I wonder how long they can go without delivering on anything

Genuinely surprised to see this exists, SOLIDWORKS seems to always be in the same “hard no” category as Adobe software in every one of these kinds of threads I’ve seen over the years. This is literally the first time I’ve ever seen a response with a potential solution.

I wonder how well it works (Just out of curiosity, I don’t do CAD myself)

If it is a computer, it is compatible

You may just need some extra bits in addition to the base ISO

IIRC the Broadcom website has the latest Linux drivers on there if the kernel doesn’t support it out of the box, so grab a copy of those and put them on a USB.

As others have said, you could get a live distro to test it out before you install

Kinda wild what became of the engineer behind it

Love the art style of this

Wishlisted

By all means try it out, it might have been something down to the drivers for my audio interface (focusrite scarlett) at the time

If you have better luck than I did, I’d love to know!

Can’t comment on everything, but given you mentioned audio production: a couple of years ago I tried to get ASIO working from within a VM on a Linux host OS and wasn’t having a whole lot of luck.

I think I read somewhere that someone had come up with a special ASIO driver to send the audio directly into the host Linux OS audio subsystem, but I’ve not tried that or measured latency yet.

Isn’t Microsoft about to block kernel modules like this entirely? I thought I read that somewhere

For anyone that doesn’t somehow already know, SOS is pretty simple to learn

It’s just three threes of dots dashes dots.

. . . - - - . . .

Sentences finish with a full stop (or period if you’re American), so you can remember it’s the dots last (and therefore first)

Hopefully you never need to use it, but better to know it and not need it than the alternative

I believe there’s an automated filter used by some of the biggest instances to detect and nuke child abuse stuff before a human has to see it

Everything else is human moderation though AFAIK

There’s also a maintained fork called Swanstation that is related to the retroarch project

!!!

I had no idea this was a thing!

Big fan of LMNC, so I’ve immediately gone and bought it, looks fun though

It shouldn’t be, no. But one of the big problems with phones currently is that the radio firmware is almost always a closed-source binary blob.

Airplane mode is probably better understood as the OS asking the radio nicely to not attempt to communicate with the outside world. The antenna is still there able to receive signals, and the radio technically doesn’t have to listen to the OS if it doesn’t want to.

It’s incredibly unlikely (researchers look for this kind of thing), so make sure your tin foil is on tight, but not impossible that a radio could store cell tower identifiers it has seen whilst on airplane mode and do something with them when it is allowed to communicate again. There’s also the possibility there’s some secret signal that can be sent to force a phone in airplane mode to respond.

Unless you’re up to some Edward Snowdon level stuff though, even if that last one exists, it’s probably not being used on you.

The radios are the parts of your phone that communicate wirelessly. Most phones will only turn the cell radio off entirely during airplane mode, disabling mobile data does not typically turn that radio off.

Airplane mode should turn everything off (unless you re-enable things like WiFi, but that should still keep the cell radio off)

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

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

Sound fonts are effectively sample banks, a lot of earlier soundcards are basically full synthesisers just without a control panel or keys.

There will be various elements of how the operators and effects work or any nonlinearity introduced by the circuits that will not necessarily be reflected in a sound font

Most aren’t no, but the thing with synth nerds is that if they want a specific sound, they’ll dive through a flaming hoop wearing a barbed wire straitjacket to make it happen.

There are 100% a few people people fucking around with old ISA cards for musical purposes

Musicians still use MIDI