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Yea, same. I stopped making music in 2022, still can’t bring myself to start making it again cus I’m tired all the time

I quite literally live in Russia and have experienced the horrors of it. It is far, far from “pretty solid”. The only solid thing they got is blocking everything their gaze falls upon. I can’t even access cratesio anymore without a VPN. Hell, I can’t access the majority of the internet anymore. My system won’t update, I can’t download libraries, nothing. The router that my isp gave me doesn’t allow for passwords longer than 8 characters and crashes if it’s longer than that. It is advertised as “made in Russia”. Vk - don’t even get me started. It won’t even open with connection under 10mbit/s. It will lag, try to load of minutes, and in the end won’t do a thing while hogging the battery. It alone straight up makes my desktop browser use 100% CPU and a few gigs of ram. I would continue, if I had a better memory, but living in this country literally kills my brain with stress.

Having government apps on my phone physically makes me ill, it feels like I have worms in my butt. I can’t describe it with other words. I hate my government with passion.

Probably gonna have to buy a burner phone though, and do what you said. Seems like there is no escaping it…

I hope this garbage fails and gets hacked. Not using it even with a gun pointed at my head. Russian “kulibins” can’t innovate, all they do is create broken garbage.

Yea. It’s a whole workstation, but since I’m doing audio shenanigans in it already, it was a simpler choice to just use what I already had than trying something else. Maybe it works out for you, maybe you’ll find it complicated. Wouldn’t hurt to try if you got no better choice though.

I usually do my effects on Reaper, pitching with ReaPitch plugin. I open JACK2 gui and use wiring graph, route audio input to reaper, then I route live output elsewhere, either voice chat or obs for recording. Works like a charm with anything, anywhere.

Nice, all my smut is safe