adham-omran

The service has been inconsistent and/or down for the last 12 hours..

Wish I could too. I ended up running Windows, Linux and MacOS. While gaming is getting there, tools in many many domains are still unsupported, e.g. Office, Adobe, Audio Production. No OS is perfect and running all three is the way for the most comprehensive experience for people with interests in multiple domains.

Last time I used Matrix for our internal team notifications were beyond broken and we moved to Zulip, verification and authentication were also very funky at the time, I don't dare to try it again.

What do you mean? There's 1 gigabit ethernet.

I tested three pieces of hardware with different chips: T480, X670E Taichi, USB Bluetooth dongle

All worked better with Windows than Linux. It may depend but I hoped at least one would be good..

Linux works great for gaming except some anti-cheat stuff which probably won't be legal anymore anyways in Europe under the PLD.

I tried to have a gaming setup with Linux (SteamOS and Bazzite) but both failed when I tried to connect more than one Bluetooth controller and they'd be unable to distinguish them or disconnect everything after a few minutes, it was a frustrating experience.

I find the /usage command most interesting as it's giving you a % towards your limits and when they reset rather than having to note all of that down and guess when you'll hit them.

I did this a few months back and never looked back. Linux failed me in music production and gaming, while the latter isn't important, I have invested heavily in audio VSTs and it's unacceptable that even with Wine, they do not work and no virtual machines are not enough. I hope MacOS treats you well.

What about other Emacs functions such as org-mode? Or did you never use them to begin with?

Kagi has been a great asset for the past year, their support team is phenomenal and responsive. The result quality is great and have seen co-workers eyeing the service because of what they've seen.

It is not just _running_ things that's the problem, authentication and authorization are massive, I've attempted to run various Audio plugins with Wine which either do not run at all or they run on a one-time basis which is not feasible for any long term setup. Oh if only you could run them under a vm..

The last 3 times I installed Windows 11 _and_ used an account were a nightmare as for some reason, Microsoft would disable my account for logging in during an install... I avoid Windows like the plague but it's the only place where I can use my audio virtual instruments (No audio production in VMs and I don't own Apple hardware and it'd be ironic for the Windows setup to push me to get an Apple device...)

Clojure was not "popular new" to be "boring" in a way, but it is boring in the sense that it works in a predictable manner, I use it for backend and data analysis, just works.

Wozniak is incredible, it saddens me that SuperMemo will probably drift into obscurity due to being closed source and the chances of seeing its source code drift away day by day, it took a few years to get anything beyond IE support after that died.

I wish to see a FOSS incremental reading application in the very least, such an underrated concept.

Unfortunately, they seem to have moved to a different vendor for payment processing in the past year or two and now I get "The product you selected is not available in your location." Lucky me I still have V1 from a few years back, it's a shame though.

A little too late for my team, we switched two weeks ago from Element to Zulip and the difference in communication is night and day. Features such as mentions, notifications and threads (topics in Zulip) are vastly more stable and consistent.

It could be said that all it does is one task, interpret Emacs Lisp, thus simple

I have found Clojure to be fantastic to run a backend service that requires data analysis and processing.

Currently I use Clojure as the backend to power iData[1], a website filled with data visualizations and processing. My biggest project was the survey[2] and its accompnyaing dashboard[3] as the first required a lot of db thinking in Datomic but was swift to excute and the later benefited from Clojure's concurrency and caching!

[1] https://www.iraqidata.com/en

[2] https://www.iraqidata.com/en/DigiCompSat

[3] https://www.iraqidata.com/en/DigiCompSatDashboard

Sadly I'm moving back to Windows by the end of the month due to the lack of audio production software, the only area where WINE, virtual machines with USB passthrough fail..

I'll still use Linux VMs for various services while my host is Windows and I'll develop in WSL but it's sad that a creative niche like audio production has practically no players in the Linux scene, I'm talking Native Instruments, Spitfire, EastWest, Dorico, even MuseScore with its MuseHub do not run under NixOS for example. Quite a shame.

Do people really dual boot a lot in 2024?

Yes.

there is virtually zero overhead in using VM nowadays

Not for real-time audio production. The state of audio plugins having Linux support from vendors like EastWest, Spitfire, Native Instruments, iZotope is abysmal and even Wine does not run them nowadays.

Even with a virtual machine that has pinned cores and USB pass-through of a dedicated audio interface, it practically locks you to one sample rate, any change causes crackles, try to load more than one plugin and you hear crackles. There is plenty of overhead.

I have a 7950X which I run in Eco mode with air cooling and it's amazingly quiet when not under load and rips when it needs to, I don't see a reason to upgrade any time soon.

The announcement on discourse can be found here https://discourse.nixos.org/t/wiki-nixos-org-is-now-live/425...

I'm using a T480 with NixOS, the only configuration I remember doing was related to using the iGPU and some power settings, you can find my flake here[1].

[1] https://github.com/adham-omran/flake

Why do you think the threaded discussion feature is awful? I find it useful to keep track of multiple running conversations with someone or have a topic discussion within say a #Help room.

Music from code is a very interesting idea, but it always struck me as a something to be done after a melody is made rather than a tool for creating music. The instantaneous translation of motion to music on an instrument is difficult if not impossible to replicate with code. Euclidean rhythms are a good application.

Before MuseScore being saved I had to run a Windows VM with Cubase/NotePerformer to get decent mock-ups. I'm waiting Debian Stable to receive a better Pipewire with the next version. Truly a phenomenal year!

Only did a cursory read and I love it already. I tried sharing my own thoughts a while back but it was a first pass kind of post, this is much more complete. I'll be digging into this later!

An article I've been writing for the past couple of weeks. I've read a lot about people switching and trying PKM systems but few writings on how the systems performed.

cdlatex and in-buffer previews with (org-latex-preview) are great too when not writing in a .tex file.

Emacs with various -TeX modes, mainly in Doom Emacs with the latex flag.