I spend time in central Florida every year (Orlando/Kissimmee). Many of the ride share drivers I come across are retiree, often also immigrants, looking to socialize. Last guy I rode with was originally from Nicaragua, in his seventies, got his citizenship in the 1980’s, and just does ride share for two hours three times per week, simply to chat with the passengers. Slowest ride from the airport ever given that he never went past 45mph, but the chat was pleasant.

I get your point but the truth is that Apple’s M processors do a far better job than Intel and AMD processors do when it comes to this type of work. I started on Linux with Reaper and BitWig but the Macs performance was significantly better. Also, software and hardware support is key. All music gear manufacturers and software vendors support apple, including Apple silicone. You can run many VSTs through comparability layers but the latency is a huge problem and the alteady high CPU demands get exacerbated.

I have been on Linux since very early days and have always been a proponent of it. Music production is just not an niche that is currently as well covered by Linux as it is by Mac. We need a Linux push in music like the one Valve did in gaming. If Abelton and Native Instruments went all in on Linux, I think much of the industry would follow.

The point @someguy3@lemmy.world was making is that the federal government can pull any state charges to a federal agent into federal court. If the federal judge finds that the federal agent was not acting in their capacity as a federal agent when the crime was committed, then the state prosecution can continue. That’s a tough obstacle to overcome under the current administration.

My point is that murder has no statute of limitations and Minnesota can wait to file charges until a non-fascist administration is in power. That could be in four years or in twenty. Again, no statute of limitations.

The state of Minnesota can wait until there is a more friendly administration before bringing charges, since there is not statute of limitations on murder. Also, the supremacy clause does not protect murderer Johnathan Ross from civil litigation.

You attached that TikTok-like video without properly reading the comment you were responding to.

EDIT:

Let’s address @someguy3@lemmy.world 's edit below. He is not wrong, but he is being overly defeatist and thus ignoring several key points.

• Administrations do matter. As we have seen with Trump and his failed prosecution, administrations get to install federal judges and it is up to the federal judge whether or not this becomes a federal case.
• A presidential pardon carries an admission of guilt, which is part of your permanent criminal record, which definitely affects your ability to find employment, travel, etc.
• Civil suits can be a terrible fate and should not be dismissed as Someguy3 is doing. A severe judgment against you can be an insurmountable and lifelong financial burdern. Even if as a convicted, yet pardoned murderer you happen to find a job, the civil suit will garner your wages. Own a house? Not anymore. People like OJ and Alex Jones have/had the means to avoid a lot of this, but murderer Johnathan Ross? Not likely without a very rich benefactor, in which case Mrs Good’s widow and children would be set for life while murderer Ross would still carry that albatross around his neck for life. Ideal? No, but things rarely are.

The right tool for the job is what I always say. Macs, especially on Apple Silicone, are next to impossible to beat for music production. The performance of those chips and the universal support from hardware and software manufacturers make it the best tool. What I find is that the number of scenarios in which Windows is the best tool is rapidly approaching zero.

I have not tried it. Once I upgrade my M2 MBP (might be a while), I will.

For sure. I actually detailed our VDI setup in another thread. We use linux minipcs running VMWare and Win10 IOT LTSC VMs to connect to clients that require Windows or “secured Windows” where they install all sorts of bloatware.

EDIT: I should note that the vast majority of our clients have since moved to VDIs, which can be accessed from Macs. Unfortunately, they mostly use Citrix and I have not found a way to get that citrix client to work well on Linux.

Yes. That’s a VDI.

All they donis perform as virtual PCs to connect to clients. The VMs are backed up to the NAS, so evennif I lose one, mini-PC I can copy it back from the NAS, boot, and keep on trucking. Remember, we are talking about VDIs, not home servers. Also, our Minis are geographically distributed between Texas, Florida and Wyoming. Two sites have Starlink network backup, each PC has a dedicated UPS and remote KVM, and each site has a Jackery power system and smart switch that can run the computer room for a few days on battery.

Two reasons. First, it’s just good policy. You want your representative government to remain representative, especially to those who support the existence of the government, ie those who work and pay taxes. The ideas and the facts of every day life are very different for a 45 year old and a 75 year old. “What about the 25 year old?” you might ask. It is far more likely for a 45 or 55 year old to interact on a regular basis, socially, and at the work place, than it is for a 75/year old to do so. You want people who either live or know people that live the everyday circumstances that affect us all.

Second. The brain shrinkage goes into high gear after the age of 60. Even if you are not obviously cognitively impaired, you are also not at your best, and you never will.

This is a quick search result but there are a lot of other sources. It is well documented.

https://www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sensing-and-behaving/aging/2019/how-the-brain-changes-with-age-083019

This next thing is my life experience, and not in any way meant as proof. My father is a well known and formerly brilliant legal mind. He’s argued im front of the Supreme Court multiple times. He has beenan athlete since well before I was born and even though he was also born in the 1940’s, he still runs five miles every day. Every, fucking day. He does not have dementia. He does not have Alzheimer’s. He will likely outlive me. And yet, I noticed some years ago that he is not sharp. The decline has been especially pronounced in the past decade. Is he still smarter than many? Sure. But he is not the man (had he been in office) that I voted for 20 years ago. He is also, as much as he tries to stay informed with current events, painfully out of touch with the needs of anyone younger than 60 (including me).

We tried. Unfortunately, M chips require ARM operating systems as VMs, and they perform very poorly.

Linux servers are still the best option.

That’s the rub.

Presidential pardons only work for Federal crimes. It also does not protect the murderer from a civil suit (see OJ Simpson).

This is already happening in the corporate sector. Up until a few years ago, our clients would ship us laptops that were ties to their security systems and authorized to VPN into their networks. Today, every single one of them have us doing our work through VDIs (cloud based virtual desktops).

We considered cloud based VDIs for about an afternoon and immediately realized that a half dozen mini-PCs running VMWare, each capable of running 6-10 VMs would more than cover our needs, and all for less than $5,000.

He literally went on The View and said he’d totally bang Ivanka.

True

There is no way to tell who voted for who. That’s not how the voter systems work.

The main reason I registered Republican was to cast my vote for moderate candidates in the primaries. Sadly, those are becoming harder to find since 9/11.