/tech/ - Technology

maybe you can flash it with FOSS distro?

That's free market for you. So much choice! Now even monitors have AIDS in them.

>>33827
i think just passing it through a cheap kvm switch would be enough since it wipes EDID info, windows would detect it as a generic monitor and would not even attempt to download drivers. alternatively just disable the feature to download software automatically.

https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
Program that bridges API calls from Windows VST in Wine to DAW

I heavily recommend using u-he plugins if you don't care about using proprietary software, especially the new Zebra3 (a CPU hog but sounds sublime and insanely versatile), Repro-1 and 5 (Prophet-5 and Pro-One emulations) and Uhbik2 (great suite of effects).
A lot of people swear by Diva, and Bazille is also pretty interesting if you are into weird modular sounds.

TAL also make good plugins with Linux native versions. Haven't tried AudioDamage stuff, but I've heard it's good too.

Otherwise, with yabridge, ValhallaDSP plugins run perfectly for reverb and delay. I had good experiences with the FabFilter suite in the past too. Native Instruments stuff generally works okay. Lightweight plugins from small companies that don't use iLok kind of shit DRM tend to work pretty well too, like Madrona Labs' Aalto or AberrantDSP SketchCassette II and Digitalis.
However, I had no luck with Serum 2 and Lexicon plugins, but I can do without them.

The only thing that sucks is that yabridge hasn't been updated in a long while, and it has a mouse cursor glitch with the latest versions of wine-staging, but it works fine with the normal version in Mint's repos. Let's hope they eventually fix this problem, but so far, I think there is everything needed to make great sounding tracks on Linux.
No Ableton Live and Max For Live sadly (there is Bitwig and PlugData tho), and tinkering and random bugs can be pretty annoying sometimes, but I think there is something really satisfying about having an audio setup working fine on Linux. It used to be much more complicated and restrictive 10 or 15 years ago.

>This site requires Javascript to work
do webshits really? it's fucking text

How dose this look?

It has accounts

>>33731
no email requred create a million accounts

>>33732
What's stopping bots from flooding the place?

God I fucking hate how everything has a Discord now, It almost makes me wish the old php forums could make a comeback, regardless of how toxic they could be sometimes.

yeah i dont think its bad its just gonna make a second internet that doesnt suck or have the drawbacks of the darknet

>>33110
I mean if it is an open standard it shouldn't

>>33108
It's not yet certain that laws of one country will be applied to citizens of another country where such laws don't exist. They could do this with cookie notices required in EU because it doesn't break websites, but this would break them completely by definition.

>>33109
Western, particularly burger Internet has almost absolute monopoly outside of a few isolated countries like China and Russia. And it encompasses much more than just propaganda, there's a lot of technical and hobby stuff hosted on burger servers. If I want to look at source code or docs or submit a patch to a certain library hosted on a popular git hosting server, then in most cases I have no alternative but to visit to burger servers. Same goes for any other banal and hobby stuff, there's a lot of useful information out there hosted on burger servers. Cloudflare and Google captcha faggotry is already hellish enough.

>>33113
>Western, particularly burger Internet has almost absolute monopoly outside of a few isolated countries like China and Russia. And it encompasses much more than just propaganda, there's a lot of technical and hobby stuff hosted on burger servers. If I want to look at source code or docs or submit a patch to a certain library hosted on a popular git hosting server, then in most cases I have no alternative but to visit to burger servers. Same goes for any other banal and hobby stuff, there's a lot of useful information out there hosted on burger servers. Cloudflare and Google captcha faggotry is already hellish enough.
I know, but those will be archived (or not, maybe you shouldn't use discord as a forum) and then moved to alternatives. Like lemmygrad did with the genzedong subreddit

>>32924
Some of us like color management

its not just tech workers and it's naught to do with autism, it's just self-centered behavior, assuming that your mind is all that exists in the entire world and everyone thinks the way you think and knows what you know and cares about what you care about. it just happens to be particularly prominent in tech workers because they tend to not get out much.

>>33713
we know theory of mind doesn't have to be taught. children as young as 3 have it… yet it seems that adults often lose it

>>33710
if you point this out about marxism people accuse you of thinking proles are dumb

>>33719

it's nothing to do with expertise or being an expert on something, and very often the kinds of people who act this way aren't even really experts on the subject they pretend to be experts on. it's just egocentrism reaching its ultimate conclusion, where a person can no longer see where their own mind ends and the world begins, they're so up their own asses that they think they are some kind of godlike entity who is above everyone else and therefore they don't find it embarrassing to bloviate at great length about some arcane trivia in front of confused unfamiliar audiences whom they view as lesser peons rather than equals. it's a side effect of being insulated from everyday material reality, being in your own little curated private world where you never have ego-deflating interactions with random people who are smarter than you and can really tear you apart and humiliate you directly to your face. introvert dorks who spend all their time on the internet often become this way due to being alienated from reality by their social ineptitude, and extremely famous celebrities such as kanye west tend to get this way due being so famous and wealthy that they never really have normal social interactions anymore and they are just surrounded by bootlickers who worship them 24/7 and nobody ever dares criticize them in-person. people need to be roasted and humbled from time to time or else they get weird and crazy and forget how to just be a person and talk to other people.

Like leftcoms?

>>33528
You can still get celeron tier laptops for $100-200, plus they will often sell old thinkpads that aren't a meme second hand at even lower prices, plus i know a guy who will buy the PC parts from multiple sources and sell me a build without VAT. Burger treatlerites might no longer have access to the same cheap PC and part imports, but that doesn't matter as much, when those still have the superior economies of scale.

even if it's not linux, id still use a unix os over windows slop

>>33532
even those will get scalped as soon as some youtuber hypes them up as cheap alternatives

>>33532
Those 4GB N150 shitbooks are going to chug like crazy running windows lmao.

a mac isn't even a computer, it's just a really expensive desk lamp.