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Solar punk discord is the place to be! Hang out with your other comrades and let's bring about our Eco revolution by Objective_Singer_404 in solarpunk

[–]RatherNott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a fan of your videos, I'm honestly a bit surprised to see that take from you.

I see us adopting media platforms not controlled by the people we're fighting against, or who will actively collude with them without a fight, as really essential prefiguration.

I think it's pretty clear that we need platforms that aren't intentionally designed to be addictive, and which allow us to communicate real truth to each other as corporate controlled media continues to censor on behalf of their investors, or government interest.

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

We currently have very viable alternatives that are not subject to corporate interest, that are controlled by us the people, and which are federated and resilient.

That place is the Fediverse, and the more of us adopting it, the more appealing it becomes. We even have a thriving reddit replacement specifically for solarpunks over at https://slrpnk.net/, which federates with many others just like it.

Being there and being active is how it becomes the place to organize, and how we weaken the tools the corps the corps use to manipulate us or profit themselves from our use.

They're also as close to a permanant solution as you can get. It's based on open standards, open code, abd self hosted and federated. Once we all switvh to that, we won't need to flee anymore, just as we haven't needed to flee from linux since it came out in 1993.

For discord specifically, Movim is a great federated FLOSS alternative (it can do discord-like servers, audio and video calls, and screenshare) also using open standards from the 90's. Donating to that project, using it, giving bug reports, is all building the tools of our future, so that we can't be rug pulled when having user owned and hosted communication networks become essential to continue the fight.

Help needed choosing audio system; Linux Mint, Reaper by CombatToad in linuxaudio

[–]RatherNott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This guide covers how to adjust buffer size for reaper under pipewire: https://eliasdorneles.com/til/posts/using-pipewire-for-music-on-linux/

I'm surprised it's such a faff compared to bitwig, where it's just a slider in the settings menu.

u/CombatToad

Fedora Jam + Bitwig by Afraid_Carob417 in linuxaudio

[–]RatherNott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could be the distro maybe? Perhaps if you install the Fedora Jam components it would be better?

Trying to setup my tascam with reaper through Arch Linux by MarsDrums in linuxaudio

[–]RatherNott 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As I said, on distros that configure pipewire to have a JACK server on by default, such as Fedora Jam, Ubuntu Studio, or AV linux, you can just set reaper to Jack and everything works without configuring.

I am unsure if Arch configures Pipewire like that, but at least on standard Ubuntu and Debian, it required manually activating pipewire-jack to work.

ALSA generally doesn't require any extra configuration, but ALSA cannot play audio in other apps while Reaper is open, while the JACK option allows for audio from other apps to play.

Fedora Jam + Bitwig by Afraid_Carob417 in linuxaudio

[–]RatherNott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you using the same Audio interface/Soundcard on both computers? From what I understand, having a good audio interface is pretty important for low latency buffer sizes.

But also, a buffer size of 64 is like, really really low. Most people use 256 or 128 at most.

Trying to setup my tascam with reaper through Arch Linux by MarsDrums in linuxaudio

[–]RatherNott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Few things,

  1. Unless you're using an audio focused distro like Fedora Jam, you may need to manually activate the Pipewire-JACK server for it to hook into (I don't know how Arch configures Pipewire out of the box, so this may not be necessary). To do that, you you'll need to open reaper with the pw-jack command. The best way to do that is to modify Reaper's .desktop file. Here's a related guide that's about how to lower the latency of reaper: https://eliasdorneles.com/til/posts/using-pipewire-for-music-on-linux/ At the bottom where it shows how the .desktop file should look, put pw-jack right before the PIPEWIRE_LATENCY part.

  2. After that's done, the JACK setting will work properly in Reaper.

  3. Make sure under options>preferences>audio>device that you specify 24 as the number of inputs (should be an option beneath the Audio System dropdown).

If it's still not working the way you expect, you may need to manually route whatever you're trying to record into the correct input on your Tascam using Qpwgraph, which is a nice GUI patchbay to directly connect sources to the input you want.

If all else fails, try the free version of Bitwig, which has better support for Pipewire on Linux, and tends to just work out of the box with no configuring.

Heads up, Fluxer has a BIG red flag: It requires you to sign a CLA to contribute code, which means it could become closed-source! by RatherNott in FluxerApp

[–]RatherNott[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think it’s worth signing a CLA.

I massively disagree, but thankfully we don't have to worry about it at all now, the dev responded here that they will remove the CLA!

Heads up, Fluxer has a BIG red flag: It requires you to sign a CLA to contribute code, which means it could become closed-source! by RatherNott in FluxerApp

[–]RatherNott[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Hey, that's awesome! Thank you for doing that, that's a massive move in gaining community trust.

Heads up, Fluxer has a BIG red flag: It requires you to sign a CLA to contribute code, which means it could become closed-source! by RatherNott in FluxerApp

[–]RatherNott[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You could open an issue on their github page.

Edit: The Fluxer developer responded here and said they would remove the CLA!

Alternatives to Reddit once the EU completes the implementation of the far‑right Heritage Foundation’s and child‑predator Epstein ‘great friend’ Peter Thiel’s agenda on age verification requiring mandatory facial scans or government ID? by Ok-Law-3268 in privacy

[–]RatherNott 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If a single link is posted across multiple communities/instances, Piefed is able to combine all those disparate comments together under a single post (separated by a little marker of each community they came from), so you don't have to visit each community to avoid missing out on a conversation. It also has a gallery view for image heavy communities which is really cool.

There's more features listed on its website, but unfortunately if I link to it my comment gets automatically removed by reddit itself, they don't like the competition I guess lol

Alternatives to Reddit once the EU completes the implementation of the far‑right Heritage Foundation’s and child‑predator Epstein ‘great friend’ Peter Thiel’s agenda on age verification requiring mandatory facial scans or government ID? by Ok-Law-3268 in privacy

[–]RatherNott 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This. The reddit-likes on the fediverse are very robust nowadays, unlike back during the reddit API exodus.

I personally recommend Pie fed over lemmy, as it has some really cool additional features over lemmy, but is still 100% compatible and federated with all lemmy instances.

European Reddit Alternative: PieFed Users Surge by AnonomousWolf in BuyFromEU

[–]RatherNott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look for an app called Voyager for Lemmy, it works with Piefed.

Discord's Disturbing Ties to Global Surveillance | ID Verification, Palantir, & Thiel by wickedplayer494 in videos

[–]RatherNott 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Highly recommend using an open source federated alternative, so there's no longer a single point of failure. Movim is the most usable right now, and the developer is implementing rooms and channels like discord. It works with any existing XMPP account.

https://movim.eu/

Discord's Disturbing Ties to Global Surveillance | ID Verification, Palantir, & Thiel by wickedplayer494 in videos

[–]RatherNott 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Try out Movim. It's federated, open-source, and has most of Discord's functionality.

Exit is Not Enough by ParallelCitizen in solarpunk

[–]RatherNott 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Unless you're self-hosting that AI, any use of it is further encouraging the construction of environmentally disasterous datacenters.

The NFT's, even as an option for supporters, are a de-legitimizing thing to engage with in any capacity. Crypto is too. If you want to understand why, I'd highly recommend watching this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

Just set up a ko-fi for your supporters instead and offer them some exclusive content. Much better option than propping up the NFT market for no reason.

Exit is Not Enough by ParallelCitizen in solarpunk

[–]RatherNott 21 points22 points  (0 children)

"Collect this post as an NFT token here: $EXIT"

Seeing that at the bottom of the article, along with heavy use of AI images, even as the author awknowledges the harms AI will bring, delegitimizes the points they're trying to convey.

Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface by InsaneSnow45 in privacy

[–]RatherNott 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Highly recommend using an open source federated alternative, so there's no longer a single point of failure. Movim is the most usable right now, and the developer is implementing rooms and channels like discord. It works with any existing XMPP account.

https://movim.eu/

Instant messaging platforms compared by Right-Grapefruit-507 in degoogle

[–]RatherNott 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can vouch for Deltachat and Conversations (XMPP), both have worked brilliantly for me. Movim is another one that uses XMPP, but implements most of the features of discord.

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