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  • I recently went down that same rabbit hole.

    I ended up buying Bitwig Producer and I’m running it in an Arch install.

    I tried a number of different distros which all caused different headaches. Arch ended up being the best fit for my Linux audio needs and was way easier to set up than Lubuntu, Debian, PopOS.

    With the right setup, latency is better than I was getting in Ableton on Windows and Mac. I can even record live audio without any perceivable latency.

    Bitwig made me realize how convoluted and stupid Ableton’s UI is. The team behind Bitwig holds good values, so I felt they deserved my money. However I have seen torrents available for it. I suggest you try a 30 day trial first that way you can check if you even like Bitwig before going through the hassle of getting a pirated version working.

    My current pain point is Serum in Wine has GUI rendering issues making it unusable. Luckily Vital for Linux works perfectly.

    Fabfilter plugins work with some minor tweaks.

    My Waves license is on an ilok, which I know doesn’t work in Wine. So eventually I’ll pirate the cracked version and try that.

    So far I’m really happy with the setup. Another benefit of Linux audio over Windows or Mac is the routing abilities. I can route any program as an input, allowing me to stream YouTube or Spotify into Bitwig so I can play live music over the songs without having to download them first or rig up some weird aux cable nonsense.








  • Partly true but Amazon has been known to make dupes of a product and sell it at a loss to drive the competitor out of business. I’m sure that threat lingers in some peoples’ minds.

    They probably also promise the management team “you’ll still have creative control after we buy you”. Then turn around and replace each of them one by one


  • This has been such a depressing trend over the last few decades.

    Fresh bright-eyed startup with a passionate creator develops some interesting and innovative product.

    Gets bought out by FAANG, turns to shit and stops working properly or gets discontinued, and primarily functions as a spyware device.



  • Personally I use other platforms for uncensored discussions.

    Unfortunately they’re filled with insufferable twats like yourself, but that’s the price we pay for free speech.

    It’s obvious for everybody except for you, that Lemmy isn’t intended as a free speech platform, but a means to form your own community based on shared interests and values. That inherently comes with some amount of censorship at the discretion of instance operators. I’m a free speech advocate, but I value and respect individuals’ right to maintain their property (Lemmy instance) as they see fit.

    If you want free speech, hop on Simplex where you can yell racial slurs until you’ve satisfied yourself.

    Or spin up your own lemmy instance. I’d be happy to join and engage in some debates.







  • I’m not sure whether you’re asking why to use a frontend vs YouTube rawdog or conflating Odysee/Peertube with a YouTube frontend. I thought they were frontends as well for a long time.

    If you’re asking why to use a frontend proxy for YouTube, there could be a few reasons. The obvious being privacy concerns, but other people prefer the less cluttered interface, no ads, no YouTube premium or sign in with google popups, no manipulative algorithm.



  • To play devil’s advocate, I could argue the monetization of YouTube has lead to all of the quirks of the platform people like us hate.

    • Shilling scams and shitty products
    • Biased reviews
    • Corporate pressured censorship
    • Age restriction
    • Algorithm optimized content
    • The general corporatization of YT (see YouTube Rewind feature Will Smith and a bunch if other celebrities)

    The list goes on.

    Although I agree there should at least be some way for creators to recoup the expenses they put towards producing videos. An ad-free patreon style donation system seems the most practical and balanced from what Ive experienced.


  • Fair point. I’m sure many would disagree with me, but for web video anything more than HD is pointless except for very niche content. But even HD streaming at scale is taxing and expensive.

    Airlines make the majority of their money from a small percentage of flyers paying business and 1st class. I think there’s a world where this principal can be applied to something like peertube hosting in some form.