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”

won’t somebody think of those poor poor shareholders

a minority of the population voted for trump though, it’s not like 50+% of the total population voted for him, it’s 50+% of the voters, a lot of people just didn’t vote.

it’s very easy to frame it as “farmers should be able to repair their own equipment” or “car owners should be able to fiddle with their cars”

it’s a classic case of one implementation of a concept being really good, but for some utterly baffling reason everyone tries the shitty implementation of the concept instead and so everyone discounts the whole thing as a bad idea.

drinking water is a good idea, but for some reason everyone only tries drinking dirty puddle water and conclude that water gives you parasites.

okay, and? plant more trees then, or how superhuman is this dude that they can personally harvest every single tree?

thing is that you’re completely ignoring how culturally important meat is to a lot of people, and how much easier it is to cook a very tasty and nutritious meal with meat.

sure, rice and beans is cheaper, but you need to eat other things too and to most people “rice and beans” sounds like abject misery.

You can’t just say “go vegan” as if that’s just a switch you flip, the easy vegan alternatives are expensive and the cheap ones aren’t easy.
If you want people to go vegan, start producing cheap and easy vegan food that is indistinguishable from non-vegan stuff, we have a small amount of such products here and it’s helped me eat less meat.