Yes I think I would have to call you old fashioned here. I’ve had my Apple Air Pods for years and have never had one fall out of my ear except when stupidly trying to put on / remove a shirt while wearing them. No issue running or anything like that. The Air Pod case does have a silly issue that if you drop it they will fly approximately 300 feet in opposite directions, but I don’t think that’s relevant to your point. All other things considered charging them is definitely an inconvenience but I am responsible enough to do so as needed. In my opinion there are many other conveniences gained. I think the wireless earbud form factor is here to stay.
Yup, just to echo this sentiment, I've had the Sony WF-SP800N for 4 years now. All of this anecdotal of course. They've fallen from my ear under intense workouts, I've dropped them with & without the case more times than I can count because I'm clumsy. They still work like Day 1, they're far more functional than having a flimsy wire dangle around.
And I guess it depends on your usage; people who use their headphones for 10 minutes a day probably don't care much about any of this. My earbuds stay plugged like half the day, every day. 7$ wired ones will get you abysmal audio quality, and even if you chip in for better, wires still break trivially - you won't even have to try. I've changed more of those in my life than shirts - meanwhile the wireless buds have lasted 4 years.
Now I'm looking to buy new ones, maybe try to get into that multipoint pairing action, that could be useful. I often find myself in situations were it'd be useful to receive audio from more than one source.
Do VSTs not work on Linux? I'm not being obtuse, I am in a situation where I'm about to build a new PC for writing / recording music and I saw that Reaper is supported in Linux, but was not sure about VST plugin support.
Conceptually the idea of a "VST" works on either platform, because VST is an API. However, VSTs are distributed as executables targeting a specific platform, and almost no VSTs are compiled natively for Linux.
If you're already content with Reaper as a DAW, use "yabridge" which runs VSTs in WINE. It's virtually perfect for most purposes. Getting Linux audio set up for low latency is another Linux rabbit hole, though.
I think software iLok used to work if it were licensed to the yabridge environment; whatever device identity parameters it read were implemented in WINE. For hardware iLok and other stuff, yeah, you're pretty stuck, they usually use goofy hacks or custom drivers that can't be handled in WINE. Someone would have to reverse engineer the DRM and figure out how to redirect the licensing methods. Or just remove the DRM from the plugins (crack them), which is the honest answer to people probably do it in the real world.
Check out LMMS [0], I just found it yesterday to run VSTs, I normally stay away from them and just needed a minimal VST host for one I couldn't resist, and I was blown away at what it could do for free. Between that and the synth Surge XT [1] (another free and open source project), you can make any sound you would want to, and use either the sequencer on LMMS or an external hardware sequencer (yes, USB MIDI works, even Bluetooth MIDI).
Thanks for the recommendation. Unfortunately I do mostly prog / metal stuff these days and while the occasional synth sound can be had for free, a lot of my sounds come from either Helix Native / Neural DSP for guitar / Kontakt for drums. I'll take a look at LMMS.
Not the answer anyone was expecting, but SharePoint Online. Wiki pages, every list you create is a SQL table with a robust API, and the power platform is one of the best no/low code solutions available. I create full react applications around this and host the SPA in a SharePoint document library.
... I'm not sure if this is the greatest idea I've ever heard, or if I want to immediately run away screaming.
I've always thought SharePoint was terribly slow, but that was just from experience interacting with the web interface itself. Does the API perform well? Or is there that same inherent latency to put up with?
And do you have any general tips/ideas/learnings to share about using SharePoint in this way? I definitely want to give this a try.
The first step might actually be a non-starter for most people. Notion is free, SharePoint is usually offered as a capability within a business or school's Office 365 subscription. I believe you can either subscribe yourself for $5.00 / month using this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/sharepoint/com..., or maybe you're lucky and already have an account with your school / work. If neither of these work for you, you can also sign up for the Microsoft Developer Program, which is actually pretty cool; here is a guide for setting up a SharePoint site through the developer program: https://www.sharepointdiary.com/2021/05/how-to-create-sharep...
I should take a moment to clarify that I'm not affiliated with Microsoft or any of the links I'm posting here in any way. I make a living building web sites and as mentioned above, many of them leverage SharePoint. I find it a pretty easy way to build intranet solutions for my customers.
Assuming you've got your SharePoint site created within SharePoint Online, creating a "List" is pretty simple. Here's an article from Microsoft explaining how to do so:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-list-0d3.... Think of a list as a database table. From there you can create various types of columns including "look-up" columns, which are basically joining to another table on the same site with a foreign key.
I think from there you could dive into the Power Platform, but there's so much out there, I think this would be a good start.
