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Advocating for native plants only is a mistake in c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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Depends on the area. If it's somewhere that has already been destroyed by artificial agriculture, then I don't see a need to insist on only planting something that was native 200 years ago.

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    Jail life not very alpha... in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
    tesseract in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
    [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    uh, but then those mods and admins wouldn't be able to mod all the users on the list, right? Cause they wouldn't even load the posts?

    All the users who are allegedly the worst scum of the fediverse were made unmoddable by the list that's supposed to protect the normies from seeing those users?

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    • Music of the [decade] communities in c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
    Do elaborate on the accusations of "toxicity" in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
    Reddit stock drops 9% as Google AI content deal nears expiration in c/technology@lemmy.world
    People don't hate on plane travel enough in c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
    AOC says Mitch McConnell should resign if he cannot provide health update in c/politics@lemmy.world
    Vote for the design of future Euro banknotes in c/europe@feddit.org
    anti-math-math in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
    This Little Maneuver's Gonna Cost Us 51 Years in c/memes@lemmy.world
    [–] 0 points 4 days ago

    I think it's different from XP in that they made an already paid product entirely unusable.

    On XP I could at least continue using it many years past the EOL, offline, or online at my own risk. The EOL of Windows 10 removes my option to use the software that I paid for and also the hardware that I paid for, for the purposes that I bought it for in the first place. I paid for the license and I paid for the hardware. It's fine if they stop supporting it, but there's no reason for making it unusable for backward compatibility.

    They're basically forcing people to repurpose their almost new hardware, sold until recently as "Windows machines", for Linux.

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    Portable linux with DAW - my experience (feddit.dk)
    submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/musicproduction@sh.itjust.works
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    I recently got fed up with spending hours making my MIDI devices work in Windows. Everytime I plugged the USB hub with my controllers into Windows, it would reassign the ports and I'd have to use the ancient Korg utility to remove dead ports. This is a really old issue that Microsoft claims was fixed ten years ago, but never was. So I decided to test if Linux can handle MIDI devices better.

    It seemed to work fine on an old Mint laptop that I have around, but since I'd rather use the newer laptop and since I still need Windows on that for work, I decided to try out putting everything on a USB stick for portability. Also, the old laptop which I might use sometimes is a bit too slow for Mint, so I needed something smaller.

    So, the idea is to put the OS, the DAW, the plug-ins and samples on one single stick. I happened to have a 8gb USB that I found on a parking lot. It's kinda dirty and broken, so I figured it was perfect for the experiment. Yes, I do know that flash drives aren't good for this, and when I'm done playing around, I will probably get an external SSD for this purpose instead.

    8gb is not a lot for this, but I like the challenge.

    At first I wasted another evening trying to make Slax boot. I gave up and found Poppy Linux instead, since I do want the tiny and persistent kind of installation. It's a bit slow to boot into ram, but it's nice and quick once at the desktop.

    For a DAW I got Reaper working just fine simply by extracting the files from the official webpage. No install required.

    It recognized my MIDI devices and audio interface instantly. No issues at all, no missing dependencies or drivers or whatever, and better yet: It's still works after rebooting. I made a setup of the devices to control mixer actions in Reaper and that also saves fine as expected.

    Now getting plugins is a bit of an issue. It seems that most people run Wine to use VSTs, but I decided to stick with free native Linux plugins and those are somewhat more difficult to find.

    So far I've found Helm for a synth and LSP for a samples. I plan on recording real instruments mostly, so I only need the essential stuff.

    I was pleasantly surprised that the linux download for LSP also ships with a bunch of effect plug-ins. Highly recommended: https://lsp-plug.in/index.php

    I have yet to make any music other than test tracks, but it seems that my idea works so far. The installation is completely independent of which computer I have available, so I guess I will be using Linux in one way or the other to make music going forwards.

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