You'll have to wait for an American to chime in on that, I'm afraid
I can't remember anything similar off the top of my head, but I don't know much in any real detail about American politics beyond recent history and some of the broad strokes before that.
We had a bit of it in the UK over recent years. Generally it's for two reasons.
Firstly, and most commonly: it's because a leader is polling particularly well compared to the previous election and it's a gambit to go for a greater share of power
Secondly, the situation where a new leader has succeeded the previous one without election and wants to gain legitimacy by winning an election
A large part of the power comes from the cult of personality, they don't have someone they can just swap in.
That and he's surrounded himself with people who all think they're gonna be the one who comes out on top when he's gone. They're probably most likely to blow up very publicly and eat each other rather than actually succeed.
So apparently I'm averaging about 6GB on mobile data going by the past 3 months, and according to my router, 90GB the past 30 days on my phone via WiFi, though I imagine some of that is probably LAN traffic.
Gotta say the on WiFi number surprised me
I have unlimited data, so I don't usually look at this stuff haha
It's always possible, the bulk of the hardware Linux supports is proprietary stuff that someone had to reverse engineer at some point.
Whether a given niche piece of hardware, gets support for a non-essential-to-normal-operation feature such as firmware update support, is down to if someone is interested/motivated/determined enough to do the reverse engineering, write the driver and get it merged into the kernel.
Yeah I think there are a few Linux compiled VSTs out there but IIRC there's very little host support for them in native Linux, let alone into a host running under Wine. CLAP is probably what we should be banking on tbh since it was designed with Linux support in mind from the start.
I'm also not a big fan of iLok or any similar DRM, but if they're going to enforce draconian licensing restrictions anyway, being able to move my key between machines and use all my licenses is actually a pretty valuable feature. Compared that to (let's say Waves) stuff that will only let me license it on a single machine, and limits the number of times you can remote-revoke to a couple of times a year.
People don't know better because the system is geared towards ensuring the average person doesn't understand politics.
They look for the most visible change and place all the blame on that, and they don't understand that the most visible thing is usually a symptom of a deeper issue.
We all need to be making sure every time shit goes bad due to right wing politics, that we don't let them pin it on one guy. The whole school of thought is destitute. It's not always pleasant to have those conversations, but the alternative is it gets worse.
It can with the addition of WineASIO, but unless this release has focused on fixes for this setup (which it may have done!), we're still not ready.
I tried during the summer (albeit with Ableton rather than FL) and it's still quite high latency which turns into weird noise and artifacting if I try reducing the buffer size (with much larger buffers than I typically use on windows).
YABridge for native DAWs is getting better though at least, this time around I got a few more of my VSTs working, I still have zero luck with any of the VSTs with licenses that I have on my iLok key.
I can't wait for the day the guys working on this finally crack pro audio properly, it's literally the only reason I still run windows on my desktop.
And since every time I mention this problem, I end up having to say this in a reply to someone: To anyone suggesting I don't use Ableton or my VSTs that don't work (of which there are hundreds), I've got two decades of Ableton projects that I can open up in windows and pretty much carry on working on it as if I created it yesterday. That's before going into the fact I've spent a lot of money over the years on licences for this stuff, so being able to continue using it is more important to me than my operating system choice. Until I can do the same in Linux it's gonna have to be a dual boot situation.
That said when I next have a weekend with nothing on, I'll try this latest release
In a modern society, generation by generation, we choose what tradition is acceptable to keep and what is not. We've abandoned many more traditions than we have kept, so they aren't inherently sacred and unquestionable.
Anyone who wants to keep a tradition that causes harm is just malicious.
But there were plenty of traditions out there that just add richness to a culture, that stuff is good as long as no one gets hurt
Plenty of people are telling him to piss off, it doesn't matter anymore, he has the keys to the castle.
He's also surrounded by a cabal of the worst people humanity has to offer, who are taking this opportunity to get as much abhorrent shit done as they can before he kicks the bucket and this weird cult of personality they have dies with him.
None of them are interested in stopping this train, they're getting everything they dreamed of and more.
We just can't rule it out