Here’s a song about tardigrades that I often get stuck in my head

https://youtu.be/aCkSr0ugTIM

Oh cool, I can’t think of any potential issues with oil companies prioritising AI over human customers

You’re also SOL if you have a couple of decades of music projects in various DAWs (though predominantly Ableton, plus a decent number of Maschine & Reason projects, for me) using all sorts of VSTs from over the years. I keep several versions of some VSTs installed so I can open older projects, and those older versions are never getting patched to fix broken Linux support by the developer, even if a more modern version does get fixed. It’s all got to come from wine devs, which frankly probably have more important issues to focus on.

I’ve tried a few times to get Ableton working with all my plugins and MIDI hardware and it’s always been an exercise in madness ultimately resulting in failure and usually a lost weekend. It particularly doesn’t like anything with my iLok key involved, last I tried a couple of years ago.

I happily run Linux elsewhere, but my main desktop is going to mainly run Windows for the foreseeable future unless something drastically changes. At least my projects aren’t all in Logic!

There’s also some software I use for my photography that didn’t properly work on Linux when I last tried (e.g. GPU features in PureRAW are the main thing I remember), but I think there’re some alternatives there I’d look at if I could get the audio production stuff working perfectly.

If only there was a way to make billions in tax from these operations, reduce money going to funding violent gangs, improve the safety of the people near the farms and solve the energy theft problem all while reducing police enforcement costs and spaces needed in prisons all at the same time.

I mean if there was a single solution that would do all of that we’d be pretty fucking stupid to not be pursuing it, right? I wonder if any other countries have figured out the answer…

The thing to remind any clown that says “you don’t have to choose it, it will be labelled” is that they don’t know where the meat in any of their restaurant meals, takeaways and ready meals/Lunch deals comes from because the label is long in the bin before they see the food.

I mean Hungary exited the ICC as he arrived.

The only thing to say about the EU here is how Hungary is still a member

Sounds like you’re after hackaday and similar specialist blogs

General tech sites will mostly cater to the tech the general public care about, enthusiasts don’t bring in the ad money comparatively

FWIW, it mentions in the link that the method was via overpowering the analogue microwave link between the station and the broadcast transmitter

Ikea had a range of fairly good phone chargers a number of years ago, I wonder if they kept that line up to date

Edit: yep:

45w usb-c https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/sjoess-45w-2-port-usb-charger-fast-charging-80574457/

17w USB-A https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/smahagel-3-port-usb-charger-white-40539183/

They have a wireless charger too

Though it’s not necessarily clear where they’re made

Reddit died June 2023

I don’t know why people are still playing with the corpse

Do we actually have clowns buying them over here? I didn’t even think they were road legal anywhere

Ticketmaster only exists to reduce the income of musicians.

The musicians would exist without Ticketmaster

The venues would exist without Ticketmaster

The crowd would exist without Ticketmaster

They only extract value

I was about to remark how this data backs up the events we’ve been watching unfold in America recently

Was just thinking this

A single LiDAR sensor prevents this kind of issue

It’s a pretty good film, worth a watch if it’s the kind of thing you’re into

Hmmmm, a password manager being sold feels like it burns through any trust that has been built. This new owner doesn’t get to demand our trust, it has to be built up.

It’s a real shame because it’s a very good application.

Why? If they’ve not done anything wrong, they’ve got nothing to hide

I don’t think I’ll be renewing

Yeah that was kinda my point

Techy people are a lot more likely to jump through a couple of hoops for something better, compared to your average Joe who isn’t even aware of the problem