The internet has broken my brain.
scnr is a new one on me and in an attempt to figure it out, my brain did not land on the now rather obvious “sorry, could not resist” but “skibidi cap no rizz” as some kind of ironic initialism
I’m gonna go and find some grass now
I’ll add to the other person who replied:
Most work in this industry is done in teams, if you can’t effectively communicate and get on with your team members, you’re gonna have a bad time.
It’s even baked into the hiring process everywhere I’ve worked, most of the time an organisation would prefer to take a lower skill candidate if they seem like they’d get on well with everyone Vs a highly skilled candidate that would rub people up the wrong way.
It’s a lot easier to fill gaps in engineering ability compared to coaching someone how to behave around people
I’m a software engineer
You’re not getting anywhere above entry level in this industry without social skills
Holy shit, a week delay is mad
Well, I can see your post on l.w, so it’s not a total disconnect!
I wonder if there are any bugs in the new version of lemmy—do you know if mander has updated yet? The l.w admins tend to drag their heels updating because of some previously rough update experiences (I think mostly down to the size of the instance compared to others)
There were some issues with federation last time, perhaps it’s something similar
VPN at all times
I have not, but I know what I’m going to be doing this weekend now
So citadelum looks like a Caesar 3 regen—I could be interested
Briefly some form of DOS on an Amstrad PC when I was very young, then Windows 95
My first Linux was a few years later with Mandrake IIRC, which I dual booted with Windows 98SE
Been running combinations of Linux and windows since then, with MacOS getting involved in the 2010’s too
FIFA 22 seems oddly recent to be shutting down compared to the rest
Hardware transcoding on SBCs is generally not fantastic, you’re gonna want to look for one that has VAAPI/VDPAU support or you’re gonna be looking at 100% CPU for half a day to transcode a film, which will make your other services effectively unavailable at the time.
I used to run my Plex server on a Pi4 with 4GB of ram and it basically crashed any time transcoding kicked in, I swapped to an intel NUC so I could get QuickSync for transcoding.
I’ll point out though, every SBC you’ve listed has usb, which is all you need for an external disk. If you’re worried about size, I’ve got a 5tb external drive that’s about 5cm², which is basically the footprint of any SBC you could use in this scenario
Okay fair play, if you’re doing this super short term it could make sense. Though I question what SBC you’re using that’s capable of transcoding video but not the ability to plug in an external drive.
$12/m for your 2TB of usage would make sense for maybe 5 months before it would be cheaper to buy an external disk—and of course that storage is gone once that time is up, Vs a hard disk which will probably last you a decade or so
I’m not sure about transparently, that’s more in the tdarr wheelhouse I’d say. You’d dump the files into a monitored folder and it will replace it with a version transcoded to your specification.
Transcoding video takes a fair bit of time and energy too FWIW, so you’re going to need enough local storage to handle both the full size and smaller one.
I have to question the idea though, cloud storage is always more expensive than local for anything remotely non-temporary, and transcoding a load of video all the time is going to increase your energy bills. If you have any kind of internet bandwidth restrictions that’s gonna factor in too.
I’d say it would be better to save up for a cheap external hard drive to store your video on. For a year’s subscription to a cloud storage service that would provide enough space for a media library, you could probably get twice the amount of storage forever.
Unless you’ve got raw uncompressed video, any kind of transparent compression like you describe is only going to cost you in energy bills for no benefit. Most video is already compressed with specialised video compression as part of the file format, you can’t keep compressing stuff and getting smaller files.
The alternative is a lossy compression, which you could automate with some scripts or a transcoding tool like tdarr. This would reduce the quality of the video in order to reduce the file size
I would say federation doesn’t necessitate the use of a single protocol across the network.
Imagine the scenario where very slowly each protocol aligns on features and just requires simple translation? What if one or both start to implement parts of the other spec?
Would you only call it federation if they used identical protocols?
I’d say federation is about the actual content being shared across decentralised services and not the technical means by which it’s shared
Firstly, thanks for the detailed response!
It’s promising to hear that Ableton has a lot of support from the community. I suppose given the versioning issues something like nix could be used to manage the wine versioning more deliberately.
I’ve got a focusrite interface, so if your latency is low, I imagine I’d probably get the same experience. I know I’ll probably lose the iPad remote control features too as I think that’s baked into the windows driver.
Given I do have a pretty extensive VST collection, it’s a shame, but you’re probably right. Do you know how heavily developed Yabridge is? Do you think the industry moving slowly to CLAP plugins might improve this situation?
Maybe dual-boot is a better option to start with, I guess that way if I feel like trying to get it working I can give it a go.
Do you have any plugins that use iLok? Either software or a hardware key
Damn I’m somewhat indifferent to windows as my main PC os, mostly because I’ve got all my weird music hardware and a couple of decades worth of plugins working nicely. But this shit is getting annoying, so…
I have extensive experience with Linux on servers and I keep umming and ahhing about switching to it as my main desktop OS—let’s see if anyone here is in the venn diagram that can answer this:
I’m a software engineer, all of that is cool, but I’m also pretty into music production
I would need to run Ableton with a Push 3 and Maschine with my M+. I’ve got simpler controllers like a beatstep pro, but I’m expecting those to be fine. And then would I be able to use my expert sleepers modular interfaces properly? Obviously I want this all with low latency.
After hardware I’ve got all sorts of vsts across tens of companies, some need my ilok key, I’ve got my Steinberg stuff too, but they’ve moved to online licensing finally.
Alternatives to the software are great (I know I can use bitwig natively, for example), but it’s a non starter unless I can run it all, I’ve got years of projects that I would want to be able to open and start messing with the music, rather than spending most of my time messing with the software and losing what inspiration made me open the software in the first place
From someone with experience in this area, how viable is this?
I think even the worst sensors in new phones today are only as bad as the best ones a few years ago now, fwiw.
High quality fingerprint scanners are almost a commodity part at this point
…I feel like openssh has a much larger attack surface than a simple binary.
If you’re going to this extent already, you may as well jump on the run0 approach systemd is introducing.
oh no, I can hear rumbling