Oh I’d somehow forgotten this era

That shit was in everything non solid for like 2 years

Oh so you’re telling me that my storage unit is actually incredibly well optimised for space efficiency?

Nice!

I assume this is coming at some point, tbh

I personally reckon they’re working on something YAbridge-esque to allow people to bring their VSTs to the push in standalone mode. If they can actually nail that, it’s an absolute no brainer to then release a full Linux version of the DAW and finally allow people like me to make the switch

Every time I’ve tried to run Ableton on Linux over the years (most recently about Christmas last year), it’s the VST support that lets me down. I’ve got hundreds of VSTs I’ve used in various projects over the past couple of decades and I can’t switch unless I know they all work properly—projects not loading or sounding different is unacceptable. I need to be able to open anything I’ve worked on over the years and be able to get right into the creativity without tinkering, as that is what I already have today.

Until that day, I’ve got to begrudgingly keep windows around.

You would not want to do this for latency reasons

Edit: Ew I didn’t see the watermark, sorry

A lot of Arnie and no “hasta la vista, baby”

Baffling

The problem you have is you care which disk gets wiped, russian roulette is the best design pattern!

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=$(ls /dev/sd* | shuf | head -n1)

…I shouldn’t need to say, but don’t run that unless you want to make your day a bit worse

I wonder how universal it is that my brain can’t read “calm down, calm down” without it being in a Scouse accent

Depends what you want to spend and how much you want to do with it.

If you’ve got the technical ability and interest, look into building one yourself (they’re just computers, just usually with a lot of storage) and running FreeNAS or UnRAID as the OS.

If you want a bit more of a plug and play solution, both Synology and QNAP are good brands. I’d also recommend over-provisioning the NAS in terms of bays. Sure 2 drives might be fine today, but it’s nice to have room for expansion down the line.

Whatever you choose, you’ll be able to run nextcloud and similar

(Also your English is great, don’t sweat it!)

Deadmau5 did some tracks called coelacanth

The original was always my favourite: https://youtu.be/FfT3-RmgKs8

Once you’ve got a job in your chosen career, 99% of situations don’t give any shit about what happened before that.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Proton for ARM is not (currently) a thing, if that’s a factor

What does this tell us of the teeth that your average escargot enjoyer has?

I’m in the same boat as you, with decades of projects I want to be able to open.

However, OP mentioned Reaper, which has a native Linux version! So as long as they’re not using a load of VSTs, and the ones they do play nicely with Linux, it could work out for them

The only way is to give it a go and find out though

Most Java engineers I’ve ever met have Stockholm syndrome with the framework du jour.

Flashbacks to one of my early freelance PHP gigs I did about 2 decades ago where I opened up the existing backend source code to find a load of unsanitised user input directly from the query string getting interpolated into the various SQL queries the application made. Part of me also feels like the “bobby tables” xkcd already existed by this point, so I’ve got no idea how that website managed to not get nuked before I refactored it.

To top it all off, of course the application authenticated with the database using the root user…

Thankfully I think that was the worst I ever discovered in the wild

Well that’s why I prefaced what I said with the point about not having enough detail for specifics. I went off a rough idea of what any typical smart home gadget I’ve come across would require.

Many consumers care about ongoing maintenance of the stuff they buy, especially smart home stuff. I know I personally wouldn’t touch a new product if I got any impression it would stop working or be abandoned in the future.

Apps sometimes break in some way with new OS versions and need changes to continue working correctly. New devices come out and the app might operate on assumptions that are no longer true, requiring improvements.

Security researchers might find a bug in your app/API/gadget and now suddenly you’re hosting a botnet whilst potentially being on the hook legally and financially. That’s gonna need engineer time to diagnose and fix, ideally proactively.

And yes you’re right, one engineer could do it all, I addressed that in my original comment. If one engineer can do it all well they are going to be expensive, the implication being you could get it done badly for cheap. If OP’s idea is just a scam product then sure, but I’m assuming they actually want whatever their idea is to be successful and not give off a half-arsed vibe to potential customers.

Given we don’t know what your idea is it’s kinda hard to speak in specifics, but just on the software side you’re probably looking at three engineers minimum—app engineer (probably x2, one iOS one android), api/infra engineer & an embedded software guy for the device itself. At least the first two will need to be permanent as those things will need to be maintained over time. Any engineer that says they can do all three roles to a high standard is either lying or going to be very expensive.

Then you may start to need someone handling project management around those guys to make sure things stay on track and that’s before we get into the hardware side of things.

Depending where you are, an engineering team like that could easily get quite expensive quickly and some of these will be ongoing costs. So I guess I’m saying make sure you know what all of your costs are going to be and that your finances cover it comfortably before you commit to anything

Oh hey, who’s this spider in the corner of my house

House spider

Oh okay.