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I'm putting my tin foil hat on and want to join the world of Linux, however I make music in Ableton. Do I just need to dual boot or does anyone have a better solution?
  • I am a hobbyist and was using ableton live before. As mentioned by others, unless you dual boot - try bitwig studio for similar experience. It is from people who worked in ableton. Have a trial, pirate if can't afford now.

    Foss alternative - ardour is great, but you will have to bring your own plug in suit.

    Yabridge tool can help you to run windows vsts on Linux, but not everything works. And beware - it does not work with flatpak version Bitwig, at least it did not.

  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back
  • "The company" is Klarna.

    Wtf with titles this days 🤦.

  • Which headphone should I get?
  • That sucks, did not know, happy I am that both my Beyerdynamics and audio technica headphones are still repairable though. At least majority of parts.

  • Which headphone should I get?
  • If you already have another pair or buds, I would just use them instead for scenarios outside of your working/gaming place, because there will be compromises.

    I can't recommend much, but I also have Anker Space Q45, they are closed, have optional jack cable connection, Bluetooth with LDAC (high Bitrate Bluetooth codec), quality is OK and sound is not bad, they do have very good active noise canceling. If I had to choose only one pair, I would check them out. It's just that if you mostly game an Kosten music by computer, Beyerdynamics DT 990 a lre on another level of l quality, longevity and), comfort and sound.

  • Which headphone should I get?
  • Beyerdynamic DT 990 are about 150, nice open headphones. Both people with requests to sound and casual listeners enjoy (me and my wife as example). They are built very well. My pair is 12 years old and as new when I replace ear pads. They do have very high level of sound quality and detail, hard to beat in leven double price range. I play games, listen and create music in them, due to mindful construction and open back they can be worn for a long time. Sound is open, crisp, with a lot of highs and pretty detailed. If you don't have anything to drive them, take 80ohm. If you need more volume or better sound, consider cheap, good sounding digital audio converter (DAC) and amplifier - check FIIO brand for example, ka11 (40$) is good and very portable, I also use it with my steam deck. But there are other models cheaper.

    Sennheisers have a lot of good pairs, but I cannot recommend anything from expirience, Audio Technica is Japanese company and their headphones are good sounding, but a lot of their headphones are fragile.

    Overall aim for open headphones as they are better when you wear them for long periods like during gaming. And use return policy to your advantage.

  • Retro games worth picking up on Android?
  • I still question myself why did not I try it before as it changed my quality of waiting on different places like public transport by large margin:

    Try turn based games with Lemuroid (frontend for emulators on android). No gamepad required, always in your pocket, everything works out of the box.


    I'm playing psp Valkyria Chronicles and it is great. Such games are perfect format for phone, as anything where reaction and precision is necessary needs gamepad. And you either need to own a retro dedicated handheld and take it with you, or (if you have one) take cumbersome Steamdeck like handheld, which is not feasible for 30 minutes ride.

  • Nested Desktop: What it is, and how to set it up
  • Did not know about such possibility, very useful. Thank you!

  • Ranking the best vintage video games (25 years or older)
  • Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1995), was on Sega Genesis for me.

  • What is the best post sort for Lemmy?
  • As some other people suggested, I can also add vote to scaled, especially on subscribed communities.

    I don't spend that much time on lemmy and smaller communities don't get attention in my feed otherwise. With scaled they pop up pretty often.

  • Power bank to Steam Deck full chrages.

    For others trying to find how many charges you actually get from power banks, because it turned out to be not that easy to find, especially with all these variables (see below) and a lot of misleading comments/posts/review from people who are mistaken. Sharing is caring, so please add your devices in comments.

    Some thoughts for other lurkers:

    • Amper-hours depend on voltage, so 20000mAh (why not 20Ah, god damn marketing and our monkey brains) might differ from power bank to another.
    • Watt-hours (Wh) might also be a lie, according to some reviewer even known brands might sin.
    • On top you have conversion loss 80-90% roughly speaking.

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    I bought INIU 20000mah 65w mini P62-E1 for ~50$. It says it is 73Wh. I got exactly one charge 0-100% for my Steam Deck OLED (50Wh) while it being off.

    It was as fast as wall charger and thing is small and weights 320g, which is perfect for me. Also design/surface is above what I expected. Included cable is crap and does not support 65w charging, don't ask me why. Steam deck will on repeat go full charging and then stop with that cable. I can recommend it I guess, but for sure there is something better, depends on discounts, too.

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    Marilyn Manson - Cruci-fiction In Space (2000)

    I was going through albums I liked before and my eyes stopped on Marilyn Manson's Holy Wood. It sounds (kudos to Dave Sardy skills I guess) incredible 25 years later. To my ears it is as fresh as it was back when I heard it first time, somewhere in 2000-2001. Almost all songs do feel great to me and this album is definitely on of my all time favorites.

    I might post other songs from it later, because I like almost all of them.

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    RetroArch on Fedora has blank screen through Steam Link only
  • I tried steam link for several games in last weeks and it seems that black screen issue exists in quite some of them. My case is Nvidia on Wayland and it seems to me that could be a culprit in my case. If it's the case for you, too - try xorg first.

    Sorry, can't help you, but interested in solution, too.

  • Do you overthink your Steam categories or are you normal?
  • I was playing this game too much, with complex system which never actually encouraged me to play any of the games I have categorized (and I had similar system as OP). Please dear fellow gamers - don't fall into same trap =)

    Now I have only 4:

    • WTP - want to play games, be them new or on repeat.
    • VR - same as WTP, but for VR.
    • Done - for games which are finished, but I have a feeling that I would like to recall them several years later.
    • Done-done - for games which I'm not going to ever play again. Either bad games, or which have fully fulfilled their purpose and there is nothing to do anymore.

    I use recent sorting, which help a lot to mitigate any kind of lock on what to play today. It's more like recommendation

    I am trying to free myself from finishing games 100% and avoid all side/boring activities, also now I'm free to pick whichever game I want, instead of planned (like work) consumption with previous system.

    It has really brighten my playtime, now it feels more like joy than before.

  • Traditional - 十面埋伏 (16th century/19th century)
  • It looks correct now.

  • AI Generated X
  • If society tries to suppress something that will find it's way, you will get it back, but hidden, harder to detect and maybe even changed in a harmful way.

    We had it as humanity with alcohol bans, war on drugs, hateful speech bans and etc. We need systematic regulations for unavoidable, not prohibitions which will leak from all places.

    Leaving it be while being explicit is reasonable.

  • Good all around tablet?
  • Can't help here, not even tried. But I don't know if it should matter for tablet, installed stuff does not disturb you in any way and regarding your data leaking to manufacturer - same goes to other brands, too. Xiaomi launcher is fine, simple like an iPad, I would prefer it differently, but comparing tablet usage to phone - in tablet I only need to start my app (tachiyomi, draw app or jellyfin) and launcher does not matter anymore. Phone is used heavier and in more diversed way.

    If you are looking for something to tinker with, it's better to look at list of supported devices of OS you are going to install. I have stopped looking into such things, can't help here either, sorry.

  • Good all around tablet?
  • Xiaomi pad 6 is great, I bought two for me and my wife to read manga and draw occasionally, rarely we watch something, it has very nice screen and sound. It's reasonably priced and is overall nothing to complain about if you are OK with bloatware.

  • Traditional - 十面埋伏 (16th century/19th century)
  • Century is fine, it's more about format, thst date goes into brackets. It helps to crawl titles via code and search for songs.

  • Traditional - 十面埋伏 (16th century/19th century)
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    Artist - Title (year)
    
  • 汤显祖 [Tang Xianzu] -《牡丹亭·游园惊梦》[The Peony Pavilion: Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream] (1598)
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  • 黑麒 [Black Kirin] - 黄河 [Yellow River] (2015)
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    Also not my cup of tea, but band looks curious (^^)b

  • Song I Love And Want To Share - a place to share love for your favorite songs and discover new music.

    As a big music lover I always enjoy an opportunity to share music I love and discover something new to listen.

    Song I Love (other link !song_i_love@lemmy.world) has a set of simple rules of how to create new posts to avoid deviation from the general idea:

    1. Title must be Artist - Title (year)
    2. Post must contain link to some legal source, which should be easily accessible like Youtube or Soundcloud. Original sources and clips are better.
    3. Post must contain explanation why you love it. Additional information about artist or song history is always appreciated and a plus.

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    WARGASM - Do It So Good (2023)

    I have not ever heard this band until today. Fell in love in Prodigy influenced sound and Die Antwoord vibes.

    Music, setup, pace and style sounds just right to my ears, it's Like I'm playing Need for Speed: Underground again for the first time if you know what I'm talking about =)

    If you like Prodigy, Deftones, Maxim, Hyper, Beastie Boys and maybe some Hed P.E. or something from Rob Zombie or Kidneythieves - it might be right for you. That's the feeling I got.

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    Molchat Doma - Sudno (2017)

    First of all look at the album cover with soviet brutalism - I really like it. Not soviet union though, but the cover. ^^

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    Overall band's music is not something I would listen, but I liked this particular song and text. I find it hilarious that I got acquainted with this song because one youtuber mentioned it as weird choice for being a "TikTok dressing videos theme song" (what!?). And it actually is. It was funny/weird to look at silly videos while hearing these lyrics (translation from random website is below, it is quite close to the original):

    > Судно > >Эмалированное судно Окошко, тумбочка, кровать Жить тяжело и неуютно Зато уютно умирать Эмалированное судно Окошко, тумбочка, кровать Жить тяжело и неуютно Зато уютно умирать > > И тихо капает из крана И жизнь растрёпана, как блядь Выходит, как бы, из тумана И видит: тумбочка, кровать И я пытаюсь приподняться Хочу в глаза ей поглядеть Взглянуть в глаза и разрыдаться И никогда не умереть, никогда не умереть Никогда не умереть, никогда не умереть Никогда не умереть, никогда не умереть

    --- > A bedpan > >A window, a nightstand, a bed Living is hard and uncomfortable But it is comfortable to die An enamel bedpan A window, a nightstand, a bed Living is hard and uncomfortable But it is comfortable to die > >And it is quietly dripping from a faucet And life is unkempt like a whore It appears like out of a fog And it sees: a nightstand, a bed And I try to stand up I want to look into its eyes Look into its eyes and cry And never die, never die Never die, never die, Never die, never die

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    Greta Van Fleet - Sacred The Thread (2023)

    I'm (was) not into such music, but these guys did it on another level. I still wonder where such level of sound work is coming from.

    I love everything about this song - vibe, quality of source musical material, record and sound work, voice, texture of guitar, bass, drums, vocal and it's awesome usage of extensive tremolo effect.

    It was a great song, but the way it's done in the recording in my opinion makes it awesome.

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    TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me (2006)

    I still remember how I played Need for Speed and heard this one. This song has such an interesting "lone road night vibe" for me, still listen to it pretty often. I do recommend to listen to the band if this song is something you enjoyed. They are very good.

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    Song I Love And Want To Share - a place to share love for your favorite songs and discover new music.
    lemmy.world Song I Love And Want To Share - Lemmy.World

    This community is about songs you love and want to share. One post - one song. Hope it will help to spread love towards your favorite artists or great songs, will help to discover something new beyond your subscription algorithms. Please follow rules, posts which do not follow rules will be removed....

    As a big music lover I always enjoy an opportunity to share music I love and discover something new to listen.

    Song I Love (other link !song_i_love@lemmy.world) has a simple rules of how to create new posts to avoid deviation of the general idea:

    1. Title must be Artist - Title (year)
    2. Post must contain link to some legal source, which should be easily accessible like Youtube or Soundcloud. Original sources and clips are better.
    3. Post must contain explanation why you love it. Additional information about artist or song history is always appreciated and a plus.

    --- Join! Discover new music! Share your love!

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    P.O.D. feat. Randy Blythe - "DROP" (2023)

    I did not expect P.O.D. to make two songs I would like this year - AFRAID TO DIE AND DROP.

    Though I liked them both DROP is my favorite of two - it's more of their style from first albums. But on the other hand I do love AFRAID TO DIE and Tatiana Shmayluk from Jinjer is a really great singer. And clip is also quite enjoyable.

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    P.O.D. (featuring Tatiana Shmayluk) - "AFRAID TO DIE" (2023)

    I did not expect P.O.D. to make two songs I would like this year - AFRAID TO DIE AND DROP.

    Though I liked them both DROP is my favorite of two - it's more of their style from first albums. But on the other hand I do love AFRAID TO DIE and Tatiana Shmayluk from Jinjer is a really great singer. And clip is also quite enjoyable.

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    Steam deck keyboard and mouse input from PC via KDE Connect

    For anyone who did not think about it beforehand and struggled as me. You can run KDE Connect on your machine and send keyboard and mouse inputs using kde connect. Almost 0 input lag. So you can do all you need.

    For me it was terminal and some work with files on dolphin (for emudeck). I'm not used to steam deck touch pads yet and using shortcuts on keyboard made everything a breeze.

    You can transfer files, too, of course.

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    Bloodywood - Gaddaar (2022)

    Some Indian metal for you. I love vibes/energy of this song, it reminds me of late 90s, early 2000s, where most of my music taste formed.

    Still looking for other great tracks I would like from the band.

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    Nigel Stanford - AUTOMATICA (2017)

    I guess it's pretty well known and seen by many, but it turned out I forgot about it completely and ranbomly found it on youtube couple of days ago. Decided to show to my wife - we have watched it twice and added to our playlists right away.

    Not only clip is astonishing and interesting to watch (I would really like to go to an industrial robot concert in live if there were any), but also music is pretty straightforward electronics I love it.

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    Song I Love And Want To Share - a place to share love for your favorite songs and discover new music.

    As a big music lover I always enjoy an opportunity to share music I love and discover something new to listen.

    Song I Love (other link !song_i_love@lemmy.world) has a simple rules of how to create new posts to avoid deviation of the general idea:

    Title must be Artist - Title (year)

    Post must contain link to some legal source, which should be easily accessible like Youtube/Pipe or Soundcloud. Original sources and clips are better. And must contain explanation why you love it. Additional information about artist or song history is always appreciated and a plus.

    --- Join! Discover new music! Share your love!

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    W.A.S.P. - Hallowed Ground (2002)

    I was very surprised when discovered that band as late as in 2021. Not only it sounds great, quality of recording and mastering in this one is awesome (I do recommend listening to it in better quality than youtube offers).

    I was like - WTF, it sounds like sound lift of some heavy/glam metal bands from late 80s, and it turned out to be band from that time. ^^

    Though I do like some albums from back then, sometimes I wish they sounded more polished, more complex when it comes to recording. It's a matter of taste of course.

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    Migrated from Windows to Linux. Decided to share list of answers/statements I was looking for before did it (and could not find).

    Finally migrated from Windows to Linux. For anyone wondering, what is the state of Linux as your primary OS for home PC\laptop in 2023.

    I've finalised my Archlinux installation yesterday, I dropped of Linux more than 10 years ago and experience in 2023 in comparison is awesome and beyond even wildest dreams back then:

    • For average user looking for more out of the box experience I would suggest something Arch based (people in comments suggest EndeavourOS, please do your research). Archlinux installation took me quite some time
    • Almost everything works out of the box, by just installing corresponding package
    • KDE Plasma environment is fast and beautiful
    • Pipewire audio server (Jack\Pulseaudio replacement) works great
    • Wayland window server is not there yet, especially if you have Nvidia with proprietary drivers and want to use VR. Waking up, session restoration and other scenarios have issues. Use X11.
    • Wine is great!
    • Music making - Bitwig Studio DAW has linux native version, yabridge allow you to use windows VSTs, which are easily installed via wine
    • Gaming works out of the box with Steam for majority of titles, some games have native linux version. Performance is great. In worst case windows game might loose 5-15% in performance. Was not case for my titles
    • Gaming outside steam is fine too. Use Wine, Lutris, Proton
    • VR is a mixed bag. Not everything is there (Desktop view, sound control and mirroring, camera, motions smooth, lighthouses do not wake up os go to sleep. I use my phone to turn them on/off). But if its not the problem for you, quite some titles work. Tried: native HF Alyx, Lab, windows: Beat Saber and Boneworks. For me it's a surprise, I did not count on it. Performance is great.

    So overall my experience is great. Eventually I'm going to get rid of WIndows on other computers and laptops at howe. I can finally wave goodbye to Windows, with lots of ads and bloatware. Alway glad to help with answers regarding installation while my memory and history logs are fresh. ^^

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    Migrated from Windows to Linux. Decided to share list of answers/statements I was looking for before did it (and could not find).

    Finally migrated from Windows to Linux. For anyone wondering, what is the state of Linux as your primary OS for home PC\laptop in 2023.

    I've finalised my Archlinux installation yesterday, I dropped of Linux more than 10 years ago and experience in 2023 in comparison is awesome and beyond even wildest dreams back then:

    • For average user looking for more out of the box experience I would suggest something Arch based (people in comments suggest EndeavourOS, please do your research). Archlinux installation took me quite some time
    • Almost everything works out of the box, by just installing corresponding package
    • KDE Plasma environment is fast and beautiful
    • Pipewire audio server (Jack\Pulseaudio replacement) works great
    • Wayland window server is not there yet, especially if you have Nvidia with proprietary drivers and want to use VR. Waking up, session restoration and other scenarios have issues. Use X11.
    • Wine is great!
    • Music making - Bitwig Studio DAW has linux native version, yabridge allow you to use windows VSTs, which are easily installed via wine
    • Gaming works out of the box with Steam for majority of titles, some games have native linux version. Performance is great. In worst case windows game might loose 5-15% in performance. Was not case for my titles
    • Gaming outside steam is fine too. Use Wine, Lutris, Proton
    • VR is a mixed bag. Not everything is there (Desktop view, sound control and mirroring, camera, motions smooth, lighthouses do not wake up os go to sleep. I use my phone to turn them on/off). But if its not the problem for you, quite some titles work. Tried: native HF Alyx, Lab, windows: Beat Saber and Boneworks. For me it's a surprise, I did not count on it. Performance is great.

    So overall my experience is great. Eventually I'm going to get rid of WIndows on other computers and laptops at howe. I can finally wave goodbye to Windows, with lots of ads and bloatware. Alway glad to help with answers regarding installation while my memory and history logs are fresh. ^^

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    Migrated from Windows to Linux. Decided to share list of answers/statements I was looking for before did it (and could not find).

    Finally migrated from Windows to Linux. For anyone wondering, what is the state of Linux as your primary OS for home PC\laptop in 2023.

    I've finalised my Archlinux installation yesterday, I dropped of Linux more than 10 years ago and experience in 2023 in comparison is awesome and beyond even wildest dreams back then:

    • For average user looking for more out of the box experience I would suggest something Arch based (people in comments suggest EndeavourOS, please do your research). Archlinux installation took me quite some time
    • Almost everything works out of the box, by just installing corresponding package
    • KDE Plasma environment is fast and beautiful
    • Pipewire audio server (Jack\Pulseaudio replacement) works great
    • Wayland window server is not there yet, especially if you have Nvidia with proprietary drivers and want to use VR. Waking up, session restoration and other scenarios have issues. Use X11.
    • Wine is great!
    • Music making - Bitwig Studio DAW has linux native version, yabridge allow you to use windows VSTs, which are easily installed via wine
    • Gaming works out of the box with Steam for majority of titles, some games have native linux version. Performance is great. In worst case windows game might loose 5-15% in performance. Was not case for my titles
    • Gaming outside steam is fine too. Use Wine, Lutris, Proton
    • VR is a mixed bag. Not everything is there (Desktop view, sound control and mirroring, camera, motions smooth, lighthouses do not wake up os go to sleep. I use my phone to turn them on/off). But if its not the problem for you, quite some titles work. Tried: native HF Alyx, Lab, windows: Beat Saber and Boneworks. For me it's a surprise, I did not count on it. Performance is great.

    So overall my experience is great. Eventually I'm going to get rid of WIndows on other computers and laptops at howe. I can finally wave goodbye to Windows, with lots of ads and bloatware. Alway glad to help with answers regarding installation while my memory and history logs are fresh. ^^

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    NINGEN ISU - Heartless Scat (2019)

    Never heard of these guys before, they do rock! Besides great intro part - both music and clean vocal sound great, clip is also actually nice. And here are lyrics, which turned out to be great, meaningful and resonating in my case:

    --- If you, Holy Angels, do exist in this universe, Will you bless me on the cheeks? With my painful effort never paid off. I've just been standing in the shadow, Will the day come someday when I can fly high in the sky? Will the day come when I can see the sun? Tell me, Holy Angels.

    Shabadabadia Shabadabadia Babababa

    Shabadabadia Shabadabadia Babababa

    If you, Divine Goddess, are staying hidden somewhere, Why don't you smile at me on my forehead? I've never tasted the nectar of victory. I’ve never succeeded in love. Will the day come when I can get intoxicated by the victory? Will the day come when I can embrace love? Tell me, Divine Goddess.

    Shabadabadia Shabadabadia Babababa

    Shabadabadia Shabadabadia Babababa

    Countless stars are twinkling in the sky. Every one of us is under them, with a thousand wishes in each heart.

    Lululu Lululu…

    If you, Lord Buddha, really exist in some place, Please have mercy on me, too. Having nothing precious in my possession, Desolated, Isolated, I've been living my life with a series of failures. Will the day come when I can totally be satisfied? Will the day come when my dreams come true? Tell me, Lord Buddha.

    Shabadabadia Shabadabadia Babababa

    Shabadabadia Shabadabadia Babababa

    Shine a light on my life Shine a light on my future Shine a light on every creature Shine a light on tomorrow for all

    ---- Still not on Tidal =(

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