I’ve tried all of them except Zrythm. In fact, REAPER is my DAW of choice. But while that works on Linux, a lot of the plugins I require do not (or well, I guess it depends on how people define “work”), and REAPER in itself is not FOSS.

I guess that list could be helpful for some, but for me (and IMO, music production in general), it’s woefully inadequate to the point of hilarity.

Pro audio has been a complete mess in Linux for ages, and it’s not even close to where it should be in order to be generally usable. Every 7-8 years or so when my old music computer starts to die I try and check if it has made substantial improvement, but apart from Musescore actually being good, it is hard to find any tangible progress from 15 years ago. Pipewire gives me some hope, but it’s far from production-ready in Pro audio world. And I’m not really going to get rid of all the VST stuff I’ve bought in the last 20 years (all of which still works out of the box on a new computer!)

In addition, making music is the one hobby I have to get me away from tinkering with computers. I am not interested if I could make my Linux setup equally good if I spent weeks tinkering on it, when it’s literally easier for me to work for a week and buy a Macbook Air (or whatever crappy windows PC), where I get all of my old work ready for action in under a day, and I can trust that everything I do will just work, and work well at that. And it does it while allowing me to work remotely with other musicians since we can all use the same stuff.

I’m pretty sure I’ll be in my grave before FOSS Pro Audio ever gets there, unfortunately.

Edit: Ironically, the one FOSS thing I would love to use in my audio stuff is Guitarix, which is then the thing that doesn’t interop well with anything else. And I would love to have easy way to do all that I do on (Win/Mac Os) on Linux, but 20 years of disappointment is pretty hard to overcome at this point.

I don’t think many people have good understanding of what living standard even actually means, which in turn causes fear and anxiety when they are told it would drop. And I think it is much overexaggerated how much this drop would actually affect daily life for majorty of the people around the world.

Well I have separate computer for music production which I don’t think has any FOSS software on it, so everything that has to do with that.

"But the Finnish position is clear: We are not right now sending any troops and not willing to discuss that.”

This is why you read the articles, folks.

You don’t even need to go to the 90’s. E.g. RSS feeds were pretty much killed by EEE in mid-2000s. XMPP is another more recent victim.

Sweeney has had a chip on his shoulder with Linux for at least 15 years. It’s honestly a bit weird since if you look at stuff before around 2005, he had quite a different tone.

According to nearly each and every climate scientist: No.

According to every IPCC report so far: No.

According to fossil fuel lobby: You bet!

I’ll retract the second part of my comment then, half of man-made methane emissions I can easily believe.

Also, sorry for assuming the worst from the start.

I’m not the greatest fan of Thunderf00t presentations either, but this comment of yours is almost comically missing the point.

Believing that we can change culture of nearly 200 nations is not going to happen “now”. And that is right there in the video as well.

Also, your numbers are way off the mark, far into the absolute bullshit sector. And that is according to pretty much all the climate science we currently have. Not even all of our agriculure amounts to “half of the man-made emissions”, much less animal agriculture.

Comment I was replying to was speaking of half of the man-made methane emissions, my bad. I’ll leave the numbers part below for anyone interested.

Agriculture in total is around 24% to 26% of the global emissions, depending on the source, but both numbers are still easily within error bars. That is a signifcant amount, but still not even close to the “half” you are claiming. But that’s still all agriculture, livestock, fisheries and pasture management are the largest part of that, sure. But that is still at around 30%-31% of the agriculture total. Taken the worst case, that is still 26% of 31% of 100%, which amounts to 9% (rounded up for good measure) of our GHG emissions in CO2 equivalent.

That is pretty fucking far from your “half”, which, for the uninitiated is 50%.

All this kind of completely bonkers numbers-fudging is doing is making it harder for people who actually do the math and understand the numbers to forward the message. The more people keep lying, the harder it is for actual scientists to convince politicians about the issue, since some asshole is ready to throw “they claim this kind of bullshit too!” -argument.

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Yeah, if the video was less conflictory and was framed in a way that didn’t scream polarisation to me, I wouldn’t be as quick to dismiss it as a propaganda piece.

As a side note, I’m actually surprised that Germany has such divide within the left.

Yeah, my mother is an evacuaee from Karelia (though she was a small kid back then), so definitely relatively fresh - at least for my generation.

I’ve seen some of that America bad so Russia good - line of thinking in Finnish Internet forums too. But from what I’ve gathered, in our left wing it’s usually more “both suck”, which was certainly visible in our NATO discussion, but even then most of the Left Alliance (our most leftist party that isn’t a complete joke, we have communist party too, but they’ve never held seats in parliament) supported joining NATO. When it comes to financing Ukraine I’d say it’s way more unanimous “yeah, fuck Russia with this one”.

Of course, the commie party is pretty much “yea, surely Russia not that bad, we need peace” from what I’ve seen, but well, they hardly have enough people to be able to keep the party an official party (requires 5000 signatures every 2 elections with no seats).

And if the video didn’t make sweeping generalisations this would be a fine point to tackle. But it’s not saying “half of the german left”, it is saying “the western left”.

It’s not OK to leave this kind of stuff as a side note in small print, that is one of the prime tactics propaganda in general uses.

Sorry. I’m not American and I don’t know anything about that except what quick google search told me.

There’s a certain kind of reactionary-left personality that I think is more common in parts of the west that used to be colonial powers, where if you’re far enough along the political spectrum that the mainstream parties all look like different variations on corporatist-fascists, you’re particularly vulnerable to messaging from geopolitical enemies of your own country for the simple reason that they’re opposed to the political structure you’re also opposed to.

Makes a lot of sense to me.

Here in the US I’ve run into a few such people, and it’s also clear that Russia’s soft-power operations have made efforts to cultivate relationships with the American left wing (people like Jill Stein and others in the Green Party). It’s pretty obvious, though, that they’ve had less success than they have on the right. It takes a particular kind of useful idiot to think, as a anti-colonial socialist or communist, that an oligarchic and socially-repressive right-wing autocracy is actually in your political corner.

I have to admit I know very little about the US politics. I’m fairly certain Russia tries that here in Finland as well, but well, our communist party is pretty much dead (and good riddance). Aside from the usual far-right wackos, their best bet here is probably to try to affect the peace movement people. Though even most of those I’ve talked with, with some exceptions, know that aggressors in wars should not be rewarded in order to keep the peace.

I have to say that Russian soft-power ops are scary. A lot of people here think that they are just the few wackos who everybody laughs at, and then think that when a certain popular right-wing party repeats Russian talking points they are completely unaffected by all that.

Finland. Living next to Russian border might bring some reality checks here.

And yea, I can imagine you could dig some nutjob podcaster here too, but can’t imagine finding those people walking around IRL.

But the thing I’m most against is “western left”, which is the point where I call out the BS. Vice seat of our right-wing party literally went to a Putin propaganda camp in Russia in around 2015 (by his own admission, no less), yet it is somehow “western left” that gets the blame for few tankies who are nowhere to be found.

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I have yet to meet a single pro-Russian leftist in my country. Or a tankie. Sure, shit like lemmygrad, r/communism, etc. exists, but you have to go digging pretty deep to find those people.

Most leftists I know, even those who identify as socialists are pretty much in the “yeah, fuck Russia” camp. To the point that they openly advocate financing Ukraine.

This video is blatant propaganda piece, and not even truthful at what it tries to be.

I applaud the stubbornness. If enough people are stubborn enough, maybe linux pro audio some day becomes less of a mess.

I’ve tried every couple of years since 2006 to see if I could finally ditch my windows/mac box, since making music is my last hurdle, but it’s still been too much of a chore for me. I make music to get rid of computer-induced stress, so it’s the one place where I’m not interested in configuring for days.