have you looked at simplex? at a glance it seems robust and it actually works without much fiddling which is nice.

this is how all anarchists should write their email addresses

is checking the thing’s fucking spec sheet intensive research? do you get AI summaries of your own shopping list?

i have to wonder if people even research the things they buy or if they just walk into the store with 2000€ and say “give me a washing machine”, and never see the machine until the crew comes home to install it.

It’s an expensive piece of machinery that is going to be a core part of your home for like 10 years, check the manual and online reviews to make sure it doesn’t have a major flaw you’d be unhappy with, please.

i don’t get why people use web services for rss, it can be done completely clientside, that’s… kind of the whole point of rss…

huh? any serious marketplace has cheap or free basic insurance for purchases.

sherpaTTS has some decent voices, not studio quality but it’s good enough that you don’t think about it.

the ~ doesn’t belong there

it’s perfectly fine at e2e encryption, especially if you’re not federating.

“Open IRC federation is basically never used anymore”

so you admit IRC isn’t federated, lmfao

to counter the “gotta appease normies”, think of how good firefox could be for accessibility if they put all the effort spent on llm integration and whatnot into making the useful AI features even better

like firefox is obviously not going to win in the normie department, but it could be so hilariously superior for disabled users that no one in that demographic even considers using chrome any more, and i think that would be quite effective at getting firefox onto public service computers.

i have very fond memories of sitting with windows computers and them just… ignoring the internet connection, the fuck does “unidentified network” mean? Do you fucking see the connection or not you silicon garbage heap?

every time i read it there’s a violently mexican man that pops into my head and shouts FORCHEHO SEÑOR and starts furiously playing the guitar as the rest of the mariachi band dances onto the stage

the irony is that LLMs are basically just calculators, horrendously complex calculators that operate purely on statistics…

the internet isn’t the issue, the issue is people wanting to make everything a webapp. If people could be satisfied with simple HTML pages none of this would be an issue.

all of this “internet 5.0” talk is completely pointless.

i want to go back to when “Linux drama” was torvalds calling someone a tosspot for submitting bad code

it’s not snake oil, but it’s like buying horribly expensive infused oils

just fucking put a sprig of rosemary in a bottle of oil, it’s not that difficult to do it yourself and it will be hilariously cheaper

i’m presuming it’ll be big picture mode but less shiiiiiiit

like yeah big picture mode works well enough but it’s definitely rough around the edges, for instance it doesn’t much like it when you switch to and from steam in big picture mode.

i’m sure the downvotes are for your opinion and definitely not because you said “retardation”. totally.

is everyone forgetting that they made half life alyx? valve hasn’t lost their edge, they just operate on doing things they want to do, and they don’t want to make “half life 2 episode 15”