Well I wasn’t expecting to get called out quite like this today

He didn’t say over how many games—I just spent half that on a good 10 games

Even more odd is there being a Brit in charge of Amtrak

Isn’t there a single qualified American that cares about trains?

Everyone keeps telling me “you’ll understand when you’ve got one”

I’m thinking that’s a pretty irresponsible gamble

…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

Have you ever seen those videos of arbitrary code execution on a Gameboy with TAS tools? Where it spams every button for like 10 mins?

I’m now imagining a hypnotist flicking his pendulum around like it’s a yoyo

This always messed with me as a kid because for no reason I can come up with, xylophone made sense as the metal one and glockenspiel made sense as the wood one

It took more effort than it should to unlearn this

That’s not even true is it? I’m pretty sure you can buy DLC for various steam games on places like humble bundle and they activate on steam

America could either tax its wealthy or defund the military a small amount and it would be looking at historically significant course changing windfall

Yet it does the opposite.

Of both.

Every

Single

Time

Never go full APL

Isn’t that pretty close to an unsafe wet bulb temperature at any humidity?

It’s not even peak summer yet.

Well I didn’t say anything about perfectly clean, but I agree, it’s very nice to work on my current projects which we’ve set up our observability to modern standards when compared to any of the log vomiting services I’ve worked on in the past.

Obviously easier to start with everything set up nicely in a Greenfield project, but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good—iterative improvements on badly designed observability nearly always pays off.

Good tracing & monitoring means you should basically never need to look at logs.

Pipe them all into a dumb S3 bucket with less than a week retention and grep away for that one time out of 1000 when you didn’t put enough info on the trace or fire enough metrics. Remove redundant logs that are covered by traces and metrics to keep costs down (or at least drop them to debug log level and only store info & up if they’re helpful during local dev).

EA is worth several times that and they don’t have the #1 PC games platform or any hardware

Valve should at least be in the same ballpark

That… weirdly… seems like a lowball given the recent success of the steam deck

I’m pretty sure the public can’t attend.

I’ve seen a few petitions get to this stage before and it’s nearly always to a mostly empty room

As with most of these petitions, this will very likely be heard in a mostly empty room unfortunately

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?

Ventoy, as everyone else says, is your friend here.

Though I saw something similar in a video recently which I’m gonna call out for completeness, the IODD devices that let you change the image on the fly:

http://en.iodd.kr/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Obviously not as cheap as a usb stick and ventoy, but a pretty cool alternative for those with the additional use cases