Have you heard of the Nuremberg trials?

There is a very strong set precedent that “I was just following orders” does not come close to cutting it.

I assume this is coming at some point, tbh

I personally reckon they’re working on something YAbridge-esque to allow people to bring their VSTs to the push in standalone mode. If they can actually nail that, it’s an absolute no brainer to then release a full Linux version of the DAW and finally allow people like me to make the switch

Every time I’ve tried to run Ableton on Linux over the years (most recently about Christmas last year), it’s the VST support that lets me down. I’ve got hundreds of VSTs I’ve used in various projects over the past couple of decades and I can’t switch unless I know they all work properly—projects not loading or sounding different is unacceptable. I need to be able to open anything I’ve worked on over the years and be able to get right into the creativity without tinkering, as that is what I already have today.

Until that day, I’ve got to begrudgingly keep windows around.

You would not want to do this for latency reasons

People who knew what they were doing with computers used Netscape until it died, those people went to Mozilla suite and then Firefox (well, Phoenix then Firebird then Firefox). But that was a shrinking minority of people on the internet at the turn of the millennium.

Practically everyone else used IE (90%+ of web traffic at its peak) and continued to do so until Google released Chrome and shone a light on how little Microsoft had been doing for nearly a decade.

Dominance was dominance however they got it, and they pissed it away through complacency, somewhat similarly to what they’re doing now.

They had internet explorer dominance, they pissed that away

They had PC gaming OS dominance, they’re now pissing that away

Oh dear Microsoft, you had everything and you pissed it away again

Honestly for me yeah I prefer a bigger lunch and dinner weekdays usually.

I also skew kinda late with my meals, ideally breakfast about 10am, lunch between 1 & 2 and dinner I’m completely fine eating at 9pm and in summer actually prefer even later (heat just seems to kill my appetite for food)

Weetabix or weetos (though that’s a rare treat)

I’m just now realising the Weetabix company has my number

I don’t usually have cereal for breakfast though, usually just black coffee and maybe toast on a weekday and something a bit more extravagant like a fry up or salmon and cream cheese at the weekend

The lib Dems and Tories decided to fuck over our youth back in the early 2010s

Lib Dems campaigned on a promise of free uni (it had gotten to about £3k a year at the time, up from the less than £1k a year the previous generation had got) then did the exact opposite and tripled the price when awarded the power to do something about it.

I can’t bring myself to ever trust a word they say again. And anyone that says the Tories stopped them, they were the only thing keeping the Tories in power, they were a VoNC away from potentially preventing 15 years of Tory kleptocracy and all the damage they caused (and that’s without going into how those Tory governments repeatedly normalised increasingly far-right positions)

At best they’re entirely useless at worst they’re just another shade of Tory

A lot of Arnie and no “hasta la vista, baby”

Baffling

They should get nothing and be pleased about it

I’m fairly convinced this comment was generated by an AI too.

Something off here

Good, for whatever reason there’s a load of people that cannot comprehend the notion of transport not involving a car

At least now they have a cheaper option to stop burning petrol

The world service is one of the most important things the BBC does and is a big part of the reason the UK wields as much soft power as it does.

Frankly they should be ploughing more funding into it

I think you possibly intended to reply to a different comment

My comment was talking about heavily taxing 2nd properties (and implicitly any more after that)

Of course it’s not unreasonable, but if you want that luxury, you should pay from taking that supply from someone who needs it

Why should someone be allowed a 2nd home without penalty in a country with housing scarcity?

I’d say at least a 50% value tax on that as unnecessary consumption

But what if no empty house?!

😫😫😫

The Telegraph has been Tory fan fiction since about the same time as the BBC changes. Loads of scandals of them taking money from shady places to print favourable news for the questionable people in the world and turn the other way when the Tories do something shitty.

They even beat the all time biggest liar, the Daily fucking Mail in the annual making shit up awards recently (IPSO factuality violations where they are forced to issue corrections)

It’s been pure propaganda for a good while now

The guardian is far from flawless, but it’s one of the best news sources that we have available in the Anglosphere by an increasing margin—yes I’m including the BBC in that given everything that followed Mr Cameron’s changes to the charter in 2015.