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@be @nebunez oh I read that already, but now I see there are updates...

with care the screen can remain working though I feel its wobbling already yeah...

the battery is just... damn we know for sure it is not going to last forever so just have enough in stock... 😡

@nebunez Oh the laptop has its fair share of issues, build quality is quite subpar. I can no longer open it due to the backplate screws being all messed up, among other things...

But still usable even with its faults.

A bad battery totally kills its usefulness though. I already have a beefy desktop PC...

Purism responded to my query regarding laptop battery.

> I'm afraid we still do not have batteries for Librem 15 models, and even if did, you're right, it would be problematic to ship to Europe.

This is quite annoying. Laptop is only around 2 years old...
Soon enough it will be unusable as portable device :(

Kinda ridiculous in my opinion. So much for sustainability 😠

@lislegaard did you see the page I linked to? Maybe if you are in the USA it shows something different.

I am trying to find a replacement battery for a Librem 15 laptop, I know the model number is U753-TS44-111 but can't find it anywhere :(

The Purism site page for it https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-15-battery/ says it does not ship outside the USA, so seems like I am locked out of options...

Has anyone had similar issues before? How did you solve it?

It is release day!
Got 3 of those today, super fresh

Ildaeil (including the version in Cardinal) can load VST2 and CLAP binary files to host them.
The rest is pretty much just bugfixes.

Carla 2.5.2
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=carla-252-released

Ildaeil 1.2
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=ildaeil-v12-released

Cardinal 22.10
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=cardinal-2210-released

Enjoy!

@unperson yes. it is all depending on me adding a way for carla to do background scanning, with cache, db, checksums, etc etc.

@DavidMarzalC well the purpose of the video didnt suceed, we have clap now which is yet another standard.
but cant blame developers too much, dealing with steinberg and vst3 is so awful and bad, doing a whole new spec is faster than properly implementing vst3. 🤷

maybe NOW we have enough formats. right...?

The worst part about making releases is having to write about them. A little intro, a screenshot, changelog, perhaps some details and even future plans.
Sounds very bureaucratic and boring, and kinda is 😔

Must power through, tomorrow is release day! 💪

Testing loading VST2 plugins in Cardinal, a special one this time...

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oh just realized this allows to get bridged plugins too, simply by loading a DLL. neat 📸

Wondering of a quick way to get more plugins loading inside Ildaeil, doing background process scanning (with cache and timestamp invalidation etc) has to come at some point, but would be cool to have something a bit easier that can be enabled early...

What about having a "Load from file..." on the plugin type combo-box?

Will fail for "shell" plugins that contain more than 1 plugin per binary, but those are not too common.. So maybe this is enough for now?

@unfa maybe that is the case for developers too, so the non-working cases end up unfixed.

or it could be due to a bias.
if some folks already know a specific hw does not work great on linux, there is less incentive to buy it. which perpetuates the non-linux-support further..

or more likely, this is just too damn hard to get right and only a few people know enough in order fix this. and their time is being spent elsewhere.

@unfa You know what they say, YMMV (your mileage may vary).

Out of the many PCs I had/have, 0 of them had suspend issues.

Even have the main desktop PC connected to a UPS so that when PC is suspended, the speakers and other eletronics turn off.
Waking up the PC automatically turns these on again.

All just works! 🤷

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We got audio, midi, params, state and gui. I do not have a specific CLAP plugin for each thing, Ildaeil saves the day by bringing other formats as CLAP.

This still in a separate branch (named "reorganize").
But just need to fix the make-install step and merge all changes back to the main branch. Likely next week.

Then fun times with CLAP will begin 👏 😁 👏

@be coming once Ildaeil supports cached/db scanned plugins. Something that Carla needs to do first..

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