I want to remember this later on so now it is documented :-) Not pissed at all, I'm used to hmm... anything? ;-) Maybe I should try to sell my scripts to Mike. He does not have to know that it is documented reality...

I might fly to Berlin next week because post office lost my wet ink contract.

There was 2x successful delivery in the priority mail that originally sent, which can only happen, if you have found ways bend the space time continuum in a way not known to the current laws of physics.

See for yourself:

https://www.posti.fi/en/tracking#/lahetys/RR117310579FI

Successfully delivered. Twice. I know Berlin is weird but I did not know that it is quantum weird 🍄 And this was with priority letter that cost almost 30 EUR. Yeah.

I neither have much trust to courier companies, unless you are multi-billion corporate customer (like Intel, Google and similar size company). E.g. corporate DHL is totally different story than consumer DHL.

I went to UPS Access Point yesterday, and the dealer said literally that you should reconsider because your contract might get wet (it was raining). I asked WTF are you talking about. "Boys sometimes might forget them outside for a while so they might get wet."

"UPS - We wet your mail"

This is literally true - according to UPS. How I ended up to this awful sitcom 🤷 I'm a Mike Judge fan (Beavis and Butt-Head, Silicon Valley, Tales from the Tour Bus etc.) but do not want live inside his script for God's sake.

So yeah. Better to just pay for plane tickets, say hi to some friends and hand over the wet ink (*not* wet contract) by myself. I might be weird not crack smoking and glue sniffing weird like these delivery services 🤖

It's less than 200 EUR to get Berlin and back. I like the place, and I do like also Döner so better to start looking for tickets :-) Optimal would late next week but have to check also with people I need to meet etc. :-)

Not even pissed. Post and courier services fucking up consumers is a universal standard. Keeping your letters wet... Just had to write this down because this is beyond mental 🙂

#Berlin #Germany #trip

Is there any non-Apple laptop of which 3,5mm connector does not suck? For playing not producing... And usually you have a sound card, controller or something but having such port is just a great backup.

I have no laptop ATM and planning to get a gig laptop and for that doing some configuration would pay off, given that it is then super stable and random "push notification" etc. crap does not appear randomly.

Right and for recording hardware, Linux might be these days best possible environment given how you can guarantee that there is no irrelevant tasks etc. running. MacOS is as crap as Windows for doing anything latency sensitive. MacOS was cool last time about 2010 or something :-) Reaper and Bitwig is superbly good for these types of audio tasks i.e. record clips from hardware and craft from them something interesting :-)

Apple hardware has one advantage that has not been surpassed by any other laptop so far that I've ever tried: the almost zero noise 3,5" audio port if you play any of your music ever anywhere. If you want to destroy your ears, try connecting ThinkPad audio port to a real stage sound system (applies to any other laptop).

U-he is the choice of e.g. Hans Zimmer ;-) I'm a huge fan of @uheplugins work. One of a kind company.

Another great option is "Bitwig and get all U-he plugins". I'm not fan of cross-over (e.g. yabridge and Windows VSTs). Rather have less plugins but all live in the same universum. Just feels more clean to me. Getting all U-he plugins is anyway a good idea because they are the reference for any other software synths. I don't use really any other these days.

With pure Linux and PipeWire you can do all that CoreAudio plus Loopback can do: https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/.

Just random note (and I think I stick to my mac for the time being e.g. because RME soundcards are proprietary as hell unfortunately).

One could make these quite easily a wine focused distribution for audio with wineasio for wiring into pipewire.

I.e. not Bitwig or other (available for) Linux DAW and yabridge but full-on everything inside wine. E.g. FL Studio performs better wine and is more stable than in Windows. For audio, wine is better Windows than current Windows. Even things like iLok (ugh) work these days without glitches (you need gnutls 32-bit for this, I found it by accident).

It has many other benefits:

1. One can snapshot the production environment because Windows is just a folder. This is useful for e.g. testing new plugins and making perfect clean ups after.
2. One can have multiple environments.

Making this an app ("manager' alike or something, this what Linux Steam is really) or a spin of distribution would be interesting idea. Pipewire was from get go a game changer in audio, it is actually just as a stack better than CoreAudio, but now that it has stabilized it is diamond.

Also, all RT just went to mainline, not sure if there is something that could improve from plain PREEMPT. And the biggest performance glitch was WaitForMultipleObjects (Win32 API), which was recently (either 6.10 or 6.11) recently fixed by having a driver and device just for this call, which bypasses nasty wineserver completely.

Personally I stick mac in audio (because I have RME BabyFace Pro FS) but Wine (with WineASIO) would actually be my option number 2, not because it is a "Linux way" but more like it has better user experience than Windows.

Just writing this down so that won't be forgotten :-)

#linux #audio #wine #note #musicproduction

Ooo, it's Mike Blumenkrantz's new post "My Wayland Your Wayland Our Wayland" https://www.supergoodcode.com/My-Wayland-Your-Wayland-Our-Wayland/ ✨

https://www.systeminit.com/

I want but does Telegram support SMS only binding? I can scrape Signal if it comes down to that ;-) Rad as hell.

https://www.hmd.com/en_int/hmd-barbie-phone?sku=1GF030APC1L01

@duanin2 I acked the patch, since it uses verify_pkcs7_signature() correctly :-)

@kernellogger Well it worked, thank you! Saved me few hours of time ;-)

@kernellogger So once I get that, I think the vanilla kernel copr will be very much useful.

@kernellogger Actually I did a typo, I was supposed to do system upgrade from 40 to 41 but typed by mistake 42 :-)

Oh well, I guess I will make fresh 41 beta install https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/download?beta

@kernellogger good to know thanks!

@duanin2 unsurprisingly yet another merkle tree ;-) read-only except system update so make sense in that context...

#GNOME 47 https://release.gnome.org/47/

I was asked to ack/nack a patch for it and I've just read LWN article about it in 2011. Netflix contributed it but AFAIK as of today Netflix uses FreeBSD not Linux.

Does anyone use dm-verity for anything? Looks almost like abaddonware.

#linux #kernel