Well this doesn’t sound appealing! And this just speaks to what I was trying to explain to the person at the start of this thread… Linux may be growing rapidly but there’s still giant holes in the driverset etc for many tasks.

I think prob the best solution will be to perform a hard reset / clean on the laptop, remove any bloatware, keep it offline once I’ve installed necessary updates / plugins, and only have live PA software installed.

This is interesting and concerning… I don’t need a lot of plugins for live stuff, but I was definitely planning to use my Maschine!

So is that confirmed completely inoperable in Linux? No idea how I’d trigger parts without it.

Yep I definitely took it wrong, one of the problems with text only communication… No body language or audio cues! No worries.

The devs of my audio interface have definitely been asked a fair bit about Linux compatibility… But considering they’ve not even bothered bringing their new DAW to PC, it seems they’re strongly focussed on mac ecosystems only for the foreseeable.

Personally I think compatibility should be a two way street pun not intended! But unfortunately companies tend to vote with our wallets, so until Linux becomes even more established I doubt they will dedicate much if any resources to making their devices work on it. Shame.

I bought a new audio interface for live work a few months back, went for an audient id24 partly because it’s Linux compatible (although no native drivers). So I will get stuck in at some point. I started using PCs back when floppy disks were actually floppy so I’m not afraid of command line stuff!

None of the main adobe suite works on Linux either, so let’s not pretend my use case is so narrow. Literally none of the programs I use to work (Cubase, Audition, After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere, yes I can install a virtual windows machine but that completely defeats the purpose) works with Linux. And from what I gather last time I researched this, hardly any audio interfaces are Linux compatible. Most of the games I want to play also are not Linux-compatible.

Fact of the matter is, despite the large dedicated userbase (which I appreciate), it still has a giant gap where many prosumers and casual users cannot utilise it. It’s no good saying “ahhh well YOU’RE not compatible with US! No u!”. I’d love to switch and tbh am strongly considering a setup for live PA that’s Linux based, in the hope that it brings greater stability. But it’s going to be a large investment of time, and I’ll have to buy a different audio interface if I have a hope of making it work.

Linux doesn’t support my DAW or audio interface. I’m not throwing away thousands of pounds of software and equipment to use Linux.

I would happily give it a go if cubase / uad interfaces were supported.

Whenever I release music myself, I actively block it in Russia, because they relentlessly steal my trance / freeform releases and upload them in warez sites.

Of course geoblocking can be circumvented by a determined pirate but it helps to not be on their radar in first place as a lesser known artist.

As an example, once I released a freeform album. Freeform is a very niche, small scene. It was on Russian forums within a couple of days. Fortunately one of my fans notified me, I had a Russian friend contact the site on my behalf to explain that I’m a poor struggling artist, and they’re literally taking money out of my pocket; to my surprise they agreed to take the links down.

Dark Reader. Not invulnerable to sudden blinding at night, I’d say one site in 200 seems to sneak through. But imo it beats all other dark mode addons I tried and certainly the default dark mode.

This was about to be my response. Sometimes, when a 5.1 surround mix is forced into stereo output, it causes the ‘speech’ channel to sound quieter than it should.

Try sticking to non-surrounds sources OP if you don’t have surround setup

You might find the occasional app that it ‘breaks’ (which you can then disable for) but generally everything works as intended. Apps I’ve disabled blocking for are:

• firefox
• google play store
• home
• signal
• banking / credit card

Try blocking trackers. You will be surprised at how much of a difference it makes to battery life, and horrified at how much you’re being tracked.

Yesterday I was at 50% after 24 hours, though admittedly not the heaviest use in the last 24 hrs.

It’s not stock, I have a custom launcher (Nova) and DuckDuckGo browser installed which blocks all trackers in other apps (tracking is pretty egregious in this phone and without tracking blocking I wouldn’t recommend it)

Can I ask what TV programme you’re trying to find? Between 1337, eztv and TPB it’s vanishingly rare I can’t find what I’m looking for. And for those rare occasions, I can find it to stream (or download using a firefox extension called VideoDownloadHelper)

I’ve got a pixel 7a. Disabled all trackers, custom launcher, with heavy use I get over 24 hours even using 5g.

This is not true. Artists who don’t make much money on spotify are either under very poor terms with their label / publisher, or simply aren’t generating many streams.

For example, in my main genre trance, upper-B to lower-A artists can expect to make ~600 euros per release, minimum if it’s on a decent label, assuming it’s promoted properly and reaches the right playlists. It takes me 3-4 days to finish a track (to a high standard). That’s a pretty good return on investment imo.

Obv the caveat is that if you don’t do very well with promo, or are on a label that doesn’t understand how to leverage playlists, then yeah you’re not going to make much.

Exactly. When you see someone whingeing about how little they earned from x amount of streams, go look up what spotify pays per stream, do the maths, it never adds up.

It’s because they signed a shitty publishing / label deal. I’ve got plenty of music on spotify and tbh have earned more in royalties from streams than I ever did via labels in this day and age (though there was a ‘golden age’ where digital downloads paid very well, assuming the label manager wasn’t on the fiddle). Spotify could prob pay a little more per stream at this point though.

I use Material File Browser. Replaced almost all the default google shit with FOSS alternatives, some of them may not have all the features of a slick google app but it’s a fair exchange given that they’re not relentlessly jacking my data.

Ah well it was worth a try.

I’m guessing then it’s a sample rate issue, unfortunately I don’t use Linux so don’t think I can be of much help there. I know I’ve had issue before where the interface and windows were both set to a different rate (44.1 / 48) and it caused all sorts of serious sound issues. Hope you figure it out, when I can’t figure out an issue with my music setup it drives me nuts!

This sounds very much like the problems I had recently with two different brand new interfaces, trying to connect over USB-C. Fortunately they were both bundled with a C-to-A USB cable, which had them both working perfectly.

Over USB-C it was disto city, like when a cable is half-unplugged. I thought maybe it was something to do with the type of USB-C ports my laptop has (one is thunderbolt, one is dual-C / thunderbolt). What sort of cable are you using?

In Austria and Germany (as far as I’m aware, I’m not a lawyer) when it’s criminal charges the state sues

To follow on from my previous comment… I’m sure you’ve seen multiple cases in your own country where the police / courts decline to charge or prosecute someone based on lack of physical evidence

She will almost certainly find it very, very hard to prove the offence. Police and courts are usually reluctant to prosecute something on a ‘he said, she said’ basis. I can see why she’d not go down the police route with that, without even taking into account the massive power imbalance in terms of wealth / influence