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  • To use .dll VSTs on Linux with Reaper, i use yabridge. If i understood correctly it mixes the use of the linux .so VST format and Wine to trick the VSTs into thinking they run on Windows. So you can run Reaper outside of Wine, and automatically have access to Windows VSTs (once you setup yabridge properly).

    It has some huge limitations (most Waves plugins are a big no, getting Kontakt to work seems to involve black magic way beyond my understanding, etc) but i got some plugins to work very well!

    On the safety of Wine, i’m not sure at all. From what i understand of this forum, Wine itself is not really dangerous, but it does not block applications from communicating with Linux filesystem and environment so it’s not 100% safe. However you are slightly protected by the niche aspect of Linux, which makes it unlilely for attackers to take time to code a virus that handles Linux way of working. And from my small experience with hacked VSTs on Windows, most werent a threat, especially when i took them from the same hacking team




  • Toi aussi tu veux te payer le Groenland O.o ?

    Blague à part, je suis d’accord avec toi sur le principe “ce n’est pas l’argent en lui-même qui rend con”. Par contre, je pense qu’on peut faire survivre le problème si on considère que l’argent est entendu ici non pas comme une somme de monnaie concrète, mais comme un ensemble de transactions qui organise notre société. Ce n’est plus alors l’utilisation du billet de 1 dollar qui peut rendre con/méchant, mais ce qu’on ferait pour en obtenir d’autre, ou pour ne pas le perdre, etc. A ce titre, on peut agir de manières qui ne sont cohérentes que si on les prend du point de vue de l’argent (comme des achats compulsifs pendant les soldes), ce qui peut faire dire que l’argent rend con/méchant en introduisant des mécaniques qui nous font prendre des décisions cons/méchant.


  • Thanks for this very fair reply !

    I agree on the last point, the actual statistics have no real use in our discussion since we seem to be in a theoretical matter (i used to discuss this subject with people actually thinking that it would lead to under representation of cis women in winning women athletes, that’s where this argument came from).

    The two remaining points (differences and fairness) are kinda the same to my eyes. I’d say i do not focus on disadvantages rather than advantages, i just do not care for any of them, in my eyes they cancel each other out. Now, saying that those differences make the sport thing unfair, does not make sense to me : sport is unfair. We sometimes try to make it more fair with arbitrary categories based on gender, age, weight, etc, but in the end we cannot erase advantages. Some swimmers have genetically better lungs or bigger arms, and we do not make a special category for them, and we shouldn’t : that’s the point, seeing who’s better. There is an unending list of differences between athletes that can lead to (dis)advantages : i think there is no sense trying to erase them all, and even if you did, trans athletes is such a small sample as you said, with such little and debated differences, that even if there were actual advantages, it would be so long down the list of advantages to erase that it should not matter anyway.

    To sum up, in my opinion : trans athletes do not have advantages, and even if they had, they would be far less impacting than other advantages that we do not and should not account for.