I really, really like the logo you have for it. It’s snazzy AF :)

Hm, I thought he mentioned it in his 6.4 juicy video, but I can’t find it either. Apologies, I must have confused it with something else.

I did manage to find this rounded corners proposal, and unfortunately it doesn’t look like it’ll be in kwin anytime soon.

I think native rounded corners were introduced in one of the latest versions, Nicco Loves Linux did a video on it, I believe.

Older desktops can have a somewhat hefty idle power draw due to the overall system consumption contributing more than expected, such as the southbridge. According to this old review of the i7-2600k, the system idles at 74w, which at $0.12 per KWh, would cost you roughly $77 per year. Though you might want to confirm that with a Kill-a-watt meter if you can (libraries sometimes lend them out), since I’m pretty sure that total system power chart includes a discrete GPU, so the real number for a GPU-less system is probably around 40 or 50w at idle.

If that is accurate, you could potentially replace your i7-2600 with a used Dell Wyse 5070 thin client from ebay for about $40 (in the US), and that idles at 5w, which would only cost you $5 a year at the same rate.

Older thin clients and laptops tend to have much better idle power draws compared to desktops. For other people reading this, if you’re using a desktop for a low-power use case, it’s probably worth finding out what its idle power consumption is and doing the calculation to determine if it’d be worth replacing it with a more efficient used thin-client or office mini-pc.

If you’d be interested in a tracker-like DAW, Renoise has a native Linux version.

For more traditional DAWS, Bitwig and Reaper are the two best Linux native options. Reaper is quite cheap, and also offers a trial version that just nags you like winrar.

I think you’re right, and they may be exaggerating a bit. From what I can tell, this would be almost act like a 4th setting between power-save and on-demand mode, so you still get most of the benefits of power-save mode, but without the need to switch back to on-demand when you do something intense.

also @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone.

I suspect a VM would introduce latency (big no no for music production), and I can’t imagine getting ASIO working would be easy (though I’ve never tried it).

According to WineHQ, Ableton’s compatibility with wine isn’t stellar. FL Studio works quite well in it, but switching DAWs can be a pretty major undertaking.

For Linux native DAWs, Reaper and Bitwig are the two best options. Reaper is the most affordable at 60 bucks, with an infinite free trial.

TrilliumNext Notes is a great one.

If they become a worker owned cooperative, they may be able to find a credit union that will give them a loan to grow. Likely not as much as VC money, but far more sustainable, and for the workers who work there, far more equitable and ethical.

Extremely cool process he discovered, very solarpunk.

It’s so damn cool!

Just a heads up though, I’m taking this post down since I realized someone else beat me to it :p

Glad to be of help and that you’re up and running! :D

I had to go to the F-droid setting, click on Include Anti-Features, then enable ‘Tethered Network Services’ for it to show up in the F-droid search.

Most of the downvotes came from off-instance accounts, so perhaps drive-by downvotes?

But it’s possible some of the downvotes are from people only reading the post body description “why i left the left the left the left”, which makes it seem like could be a right-wing video without watching it.

Or, it could be due to not being specifically solarpunk related and more generally just about leftism itself (perhaps it’d be a better fit in the !Breadtube@slrpnk.net community?)

Should mention that Slrpnk.net hosts an XMPP instance which any Slrpnk member can access using their existing slrpnk lemmy login. You can access it via our Movim instance in the browser, or from any other XMPP client :D

I believe you should be able to create a room there that other people could connect to.

It’s different from Discord in that you can’t have a whole server with various different categories and rooms, though. It just has individual group chats (possible create multiple group chats of different subjects).

If having a single big server with different rooms is needed, I think Element (Matrix protocol) can do that.

Hosting chats of the books on XMPP could be another option, which would allow for group calls as well (which I think they do).

An excellent suggestion!

Modern cars are nightmares for privacy, which unfortunately includes 99% of EV’s, with the only possible exception being the Slate, which has stated that they will not include any data harvesting tech in the car (hopefully they actually follow through on that claim).

I’ve personally avoided new cars for this very reason.

I’m not sure how electricity works in the USA and whether you can buy an inverter and feed the solar energy into mains and help your fridge and AC during the day

Unfortunately, most of us here cannot yet. Only the state of Utah passed a law very recently that makes that type of solar legal and possible. Hopefully more will follow suit!