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if you're gonna pirate VST plugins, make sure you have all the essential windows dependencies installed (.NET Framework, Visual C++ Runtime off of the top of my head), but other than that it's mostly fine. ironically in some cases pirating things are actually the better experience on linux rather than buying the thing legit and trying to install it using hacky workarounds cause the devs of the software did hacky bs. heck i even pirated a vst just to listen to its keygen music. worth it

Even if a story is a bit dull, it's much better written by a human than an AI. Humans have intent. AI just has a big black box trained on scraped data being churned by a datacenter. Even the dullest stories written by a human can at least have some character into them. AI couldn't even come close to someone's first draft of their first work.

Also if AI truly does excel at stories, name a few best-selling books that critics love that's written by AI (bonus points if it's not someone's scraped work).

But hey if you like mediocre manufactured soulless slop whipped out by the thousands, you do you.

GSnap and MAutoPitch are 2 good freeware alternatives imho. If you're looking for autotune's midi functionality then there's not many that come close but if you're only planning to move notes around in small places, then the midi functions of GSnap or MAutoPitch should be good enough. The 2 plugins both have different tracking and sensitivity so you may prefer one over hte other in some cases, but personally i like the sound of GSnap, it has a human/alive quality to it, while MAutoPitch is a little more precise.

i've been waiting for an ease effect for the notif swipe in. makes it a lot more seamless

To expand upon the point of running Windows VSTs in Linux in FL via WINE, teh initial setup is very, very tedious, as you have ot install all the essential windows dependencies/bloat in order to make all of them run. off the top of my head i can think of .net framework and visual c++ (yes, you will need to install most.all of them, takes quite a while you cna imagine). and enve after that, once you have all your VSTs working (or most of them), one odd WINE update can either cause the GUI of a plugin to not render, leaving you to either go in blind or control the plugin by browsing its parameters (which pray the dev has made them automatable), or less likely but more devastating it just won't work anymore, either by instafreezing your daw, or straight up crashing it. had that happen with Spectral Compressor, it will forever be missed. Lucily subsequent WINE updates can fix the UI break issue, but it'll feel like forever until that update lmao

TLDR if you can deal with maybe a few of your plugins breaking, hopefully getting ifxed after a WINE update, and a chance that one or two plugins just don't run (classic WINE jank), it's pretty much smooth sailing cause FL actually runs pretty damn good in WINE, i'd say shockingly close to native. Only things that don't work for me are the WebView rendered stuff (like diagnostics and gophr but i don't use gophr. A friend of mine got diagnostics to work by installing dotnet and webview2, i already had them installed and it didn't work). WINE can vary from system to system.

imo i always saw it as an advanced multitrack tape editor style program. idk what update it was, but it was after the buyout where the accuracy of the change speed effect got worse, especially for longer clips (like an hour or 2) where it would just desync entirely. last time i checked they have it on the backend of priorities. tells everything you need to know.

yeah i recall that the connector would melt, let alone that i think there wouldn't be any sort of feedback to ensure that the cable was connected all the way.

self-contained, offline

While on one part i do like the all-ini-one ui and services, i feel as though it could have been done a little better without hosting a mini web-server just to use localhost on it.

Most if not all of the tools here are based on snapshots of online websites running in a browser, along with Docker ontop of it. While the intention is good and there are some neat ideas in here, why not just bundle native, offline FOSS programs that do the job already? for instance, cyberchef can be replaced with respective linux programs (eg base64, hexdump, grep, awk/sed, and gpg, just to name a few. graphical versions of these programs exist as well, so it's not like you need to use the terminal, it's just the most versatile environment for this type of stuff). No need for a webserver or anything.

However i will say, the offline wikipedia and maps are cool, unfortunately they're the only neat things in this project.

Now let's get to the point, an AI chatbot. What, does the dev think we have money to burn? Much less if SHTF and NVDIA RTX GPUs are scrapped for metal? (which they should be anyways). Now i know it's local, and that it most likely has data already trained on it so that it has the 100% guarantee of not huffing its own fumes and hallucinating, but compared to the absolute power usage that'll bring because of the sheer amount of resources it's hogging out trying to spit out an answer, a search engine could do just as good, and it won't hog up your GPU while at it. That's not even getting into the current ssd/gpu/ram situation right now. On its front page, its own recommended spec sheet says 32 gigs of ram. yeah that's a bit steep. 1TB SSD, i could kinda see why, but if i assume that most of the information is just text, you don't really need 1TB, but it is better safe than sorry. Still, that'll be pretty expensive if we're going by today's prices. When SHTF do you really think that most people are going to be rocking killer rigs with 8/16core CPUs, 32+ gigs of RAM and an RTX GPU? For the millionares and spoiled gamers who already have those? Sure, but for the masses? They'll mostly be using laptops with 4-6 cores, 8 gigs of ram, and a mid-range gpu if they're lucky, or integrated graphics.

Sure, you can say that having AI in it is somehow beneficial and tout how "everyone is using it", but don't get all pissy when your power bank runs out of juice at the worst time, let alone word gets out and your place gets raided and your 20-year-old 5090 is turned into scrap. All because you thought AI is good enough.

All in all it's a good premise, but it could be executed way better than just snapshotting websites, then slapping AI onto it and calling it a day.

That logo is already giving me AI vibes. I'm sticking with floorp.

as far as VST plugins/audio software are concerned, it's great over here, albeit with the usual WINE quirks once in a blue moon. the only thing stopping certain VSTs from working correctly (or in rare cases at all) is WINE. WINE ain't perfect, but is it glorious.

RX10 and SpectraLayers Pro 11 run like a dream too.

the only thing i miss is having every vst work (i've learned ot live without the broken ones which are only a couple in my collection, besides that all of them work beautifully, aside from a few that have flickery UIs). FL Studio on Linux is awesome.

he actually did nothing wrong

The left 4 dead 2 thing could have been fixed by running the game through Proton, as the native Linux port of thegame is less than stellar. Helldivers 2 is Helldivers 2, and honestly I wish LS just did a bit more research on PopOS to know that it switched to COSMIC (or just right out the bat didn't make ChatGPT choose a distro for him by regurgitating those awful listicles with outdated info), and maybe, just maybe, reconsidered installing an OS at a LAN party. I'm sorry but if you're installing an OS at a LAN party and let alone trying to troubleshoot things while people are waiting for you on a match, everyone will laugh at you.

However I will give LS the benefit of the doubt on Cosmic, that windows duplication bug was insane. idk how System76 decided Cosmic is ready for release now. They could have at least put it up as a second download option with a short disclaimer alongside the GNOME version or something.

Elijah and Luke did way better imho. They actually went onto the internet, chose the distro after a little bit of thread hunting and a little research, and tried their best to troubleshoot their problems.