Oh neat!

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Yes I had this thought, however if possible I would like to be fully Linux. The other issue I would expect while this solves the VST problems would be latency with the audio interface.

I haven’t had a lot of time recently to look, but I know FL studio can mostly be set up to work through wine. The problems exist in the plugins/VST’s/ the VST management softwares/ the Audio interface drivers and latency.

I use FL, but yes, it’s less the DAW that is the issue and more so my VST libraries and audio interface.

It isn’t just a single application is the problem, it’s the VST plugins and their respective management softwares, drivers for audio interfaces, and some other such things. I use FL studio and I have seen people get it mostly working in wine, but its all the other stuff that creates an issue.

If you do so, I would be interested in hearing about the experience and any troubleshooting you had to perform to fix problems.

My workflow is in FL studio, however the bigger problem is my VST libraries. I have the entire Arturia V collection as well as many, many more plugins and I am unsure if they would run on Linux, or if they do, how well. This is unfortunately a big problem as my collection of VST’s total into the thousands of dollars. I suppose I could run a windows VM to make everything function, but then I would probably have problems with latency/connectivity on my audio interface when I want to patch any of my hardware in, if drivers are even available for the interface in on Linux (It’s just a scarlett 2i2 I believe).

Gaming was one of my reasons as well initially, but it has gotten a LOT better on Linux in recent times by the look of it so I just have music remaining on my list. I also don’t use CSP but I have many friends who do art and can understand not wanting to move away from it.

If you have a moment, could you enlighten me as to what this singular gateway LibreWolf uses refers to per the top level users comment? Thanks.

The moment I can verify a solution for my music production workflow on Linux, I know that I’m out as well.

Heliboard I believe, installed the google swiping .so, I believe you can set it to ignore saving inputs or forget them after a time. I like the customization options, I can have solarized dark everywhere including my phone.

Ah yes, the graph shows the demand of gas increasing from 2022 to 2024 despite EV’s becoming exceptionally cheap there in the last couple years, therefore the demand for gas will completely crash in the next couple of years, great projection.

No worries, know that the best way to learn in my opinion is from the OSI model. It breaks networking into 7 layers so that its easier to understand how stuff works and where it is. If you pursue it, learn starting at layer 1 (the physical layer), and then upwards from there.

Gotcha. DHCP is a pretty good start if you want to learn more about networking.

DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) is a pretty straightforward networking protocol which is responsible for giving machines on a network their IP addresses so that those machines can route their traffic to and from other networks.

On home networks, usually your router is acting as the DHCP server, but it could also be served from something like a regular computer.

The actual conversation between machines in the protocol is called DORA - Discover, Offer, Request, Acknowledge. The DHCP server (router for example) is always listening for a machine to send out a broadcast over the network asking “Discover”. When the server sees this, it sends an IP address it knows is available to that machine saying “Offer”. The machine looking to get the IP will usually then accept that IP saying “Request”, and finally the server replies back one more time to tell the machine it heard what it said with “Acknowledge”. At this point, the server marks that IP as in-use on the network, and the machine can begin using the IP to network.

When the machine gets the IP, it also gets a lease time after which the IP expires and the machine has to ask the server for a new one.

The server keeps track of available IP addresses that are not assigned to other machines, but any network has a limited number of IP addresses it can hand out. This delves out into a subject called subnetting, but just know that on most home networks, there are usually 253 IP addresses that can be leased. It would be 256, but on your average home network, 192.168.1.0 refers to the network itself, 192.168.1.255 is the address machines send to if they want to broadcast to all machines, and your router or DHCP server will be taking up one, and it usually sits at 192.168.1.254.

Now, before DHCP existed, you would just manually set an IP address yourself on each machine, but of course if you have 253 devices or something, its hard to manage and track, hence why DHCP is a necessity, but computers still let you manually set an unchanging (static) IP address, where an IP that changes (because it occasionally gets a new one from DHCP) is dynamic.

As a result, you can run into problems if you have a static IP on a machine that exists on a network running DHCP because the DHCP server does not necessarily know what static IP that machine has. It is possible that the DHCP server will hand out that same IP to another machine, and the result of this is that the 2 machines that ended up with the same IP both get knocked offline because traffic no longer routes correctly.

So what about servers and stuff where you really want the same IP on a machine all the time, but also want the benefits of DHCP?

There are a couple solutions to this, one of which is to shorten the IP scope DHCP can use so that it never leases a few addresses, and then you can use them as static IP addresses.

The more modern solution is a DHCP reservation which is where you give a machines hardware (MAC) address to the DHCP server along with an IP. That way, any time a machine sends out a “Discover”, the DHCP server can check if its MAC address is in its reservation list. If it is, it gives it the IP listed there every time, if not, it just gives it some other IP from the pool. The Server will never hand out the IP’s listed in the reservations list to any machine unless it is the matching machine, and you never have to deal with setting static IP’s manually on your machines.

Better than assigning a static IP on the system/router is probably to create a DHCP reservation instead, that way you can never run into an issue where 2 machines end up with the same IP, and you don’t have to mess around with the assignment pool scope.

This might be what you meant, but just to clarify for those who might not know.

The only reason I stopped using mine was because the membrane that makes the ABXY feel mushy eventually went and I couldn’t find a suitable replacement.

If they put in some sort of mechanical switches there so that this couldn’t happen, I would probably never use anything else.

Rails is really neat.

Working at a company that has a webapp product for a super wealthy industry, its mostly rails with some js framework as well.

Application runs fucking great - only real issues are UX/UI stuff.

Not a dev at this company but I want to learn it as they say they would probably like me to pivot to that role eventually.

Good revision, arguably the more popular version of the song.

Been on a Tears for Fears kick and love the original just as much.

No doubt, I’m floored.