Ok so I’ll just focus on dual booting since there are other thorough replys here.

I really recommend that you DO dual boot but only in a specific way.

When people say “Dual Boot”, this can mean two very different things.

A common way to dual boot is to have windows and Linux exist on the same drive by partitioning the drive and installing a boot manager. I strongly advise against this. It’s not worth the risk and pain.

Just install linux on a totally new drive and select it as the boot drive from bios. Leave you windows drive untouched.

Linux is much better than it ever has been. There is a very good chance it can do everything you want. But, especially as someone running a business, there will be times when you just need to get something done and will want to fall back to what you know. These times often lead to people giving up and rolling back to windows in a panic.

Just leave yourself a way to instantly and effortlessly fall back into windows as needed and eventually you will end up doing that less and less. Until you don’t do it at all and the windows drive gets wiped for more Linux storage.

LM studio is not open source at all.

This is a thing. It just doesn’t work very reliably for the reasons you mentioned.

It does work kind of ok on some comics like the one OP shared and generally pretty well on manga since that tends to be more consistent with the boxes.

I don’t know of anything open source or self hosted that does this though.

So this is kind of going to be weird advice. Maybe not exactly what you are looking for.

You don’t need all those synths and plugins. You really don’t. You can get so, so far just by learning to use the tools that are built into Reaper or Bitwig.

There are really only a handful of audio effects that “really exist” a lot of FX plugins are just complex chains with fancy UIs. But if you understand what they’re doing “under the hood” you can reproduce almost any sound from from the basic building blocks you have.

The same is true for synthesisers. You truly only need one synth as long as it is a flexible, general purpose modern synth. Learning to use one specific synth to it’s full potential will let you make almost any sound you can imagine. Vital synth is a perfect candidate here btw.

Overall I kind of think part of the Linux mindset in general is kind of about doing things your self based on an understanding of the core principals at play.

That being said, there are tons of plugins coming out with native Linux support all the time and it’s getting better every day.

I’m actually about to drop some Linux builds of some plugins myself but I don’t want to dox myself here so that will have to remain a mystery for now.

Why does this look like an ancient android version?

This is for sure just an LLM running sentiment analysis on the reviews and sending this prewritten email to anyone who left a review it analyses as being negative.

Just confidently state the wrong answer. Works for free ever time.

You are a skilled writer fr. Excellent prose.

Why was it so hard to tell this is satire?

It was the “several pieces” part that gave it away. Implies a negative which an LLM wouldn’t do in this context. It would be like “a few pieces” even it really was “several”.

Why are the suggestions all things that should just be links to other pages on the site?

What value is copilot offering here? It’s just a nondeterministic wiki that you can’t bookmark or cite.

I use copilot every day btw. This just doesn’t add value to the interface in any way.

Depends on what you mean by “audit”.

I look at the GitHub repo.

• How many stars?
• Last commit?
• Open issues
• Contributer count

Do I read the whole code base? Of course not. But this is way more than I can do with closed source software.

Flatpaks have entered the chat.

/s

I wish Nvidia agreed.

Gemini doesn’t really have a cutoff date.

Fake: Tip isn’t calculated on top of tax.

Edit: this was a joke

Confirmed

Is your point that JS doesn’t really need semicolons at all any more?

Ehh it kinda does considering you can get a pretty full compiler tool chain running via termux.

Ironic because it’s not unusual for cops to not wear seatbelts but they are more likely to die in a single vehicle accident than a gun fight.

The bullet proof vests really get me. They are so heavy and unlikely to be nessesary but some cops wear them ever day just to LARP.