renard_roux

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Really cool video, thanks for sharing! πŸ˜ƒ

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think that would release an awful lot of carbon πŸ˜“

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sneakernet is OK, but I still prefer IPoAC.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Full interface overhaul? Maybe . . . ? πŸ™

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, fuck Apple, but ...

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

β€” Hanlon's Razor (Wikipedia)

Still, though β€” fuck Apple.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never heard of Meshtastic before, quite the rabbit hole, and sounds super awesome!

Had a look at your other thread (not a member there so seems I can't comment, or maybe it's just my client), and trying to understand what you guys are using these for.

Official site says "Hiking safety GPS", something to that effect, but all this talk of "local topics" has me confused. What's your use-case?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago
  1. Most of the world uses Google.
  2. Everyone must accept Google EULA to use.
  3. Google adds arbitration rule to EULA.
  4. Google adds "EULA covers all Google subsidiaries and partners" to EULA.
  5. Google sells "partnerships" to every company that can afford it.
  6. Profit.

Partner killed by a faulty Ford truck? Never signed a Ford EULA? No worries, Ford is a Google Partnerβ„’! See you in arbitration, bitch! πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I'm struggling to make the slightest sense of this weird, incoherent rant. What are you trying to accomplish? What kind of answers are you expecting?

This whole thing reeks of the ramblings of an AI-fueled bot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No, no! You see, the specific combination of sounds that we use to identify and address a given person shapes that persons body, especially their facial features!

How else would you explain how every person over 50 named Henry looks exactly the sameβ€½ Or why people over 50 named Charles and Charlie look so similar?

I'm 44, and have a friend who is 43, and has the exact same name, and everyone we know always comments on how they're 100% certain we will look like twins in 7 years.

It's just science. Get your head out of the sand!

Hell, I wouldn't be the least amount surprised if everyone over 50 named Gretchen not only look identical, but are also the exact same height. I guess that's an idea for their next study. I can't wait to be proven right.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to read how my day tomorrow β€” and, incidentally, that of the other 1/12 (roughly) of the planet born with the same zodiac sign β€” is going to turn out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's actually pretty good. And then they're open to getting sued when caught.

I guess it could be done on an instance basis, although I'm not sure how happy fediverse users will be if their instance has an official policy of open-sourcing (or maybe it's public-domaining?) all their content by default.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I feel the same way about MeGusta β€” x265, always great size/quality ratio.

 

Sorry if it's too off-topic πŸ˜…

 

Hi all,

I'm a big fan of having ebooks read to me while I'm doing stuff that prevents me from reading them myself (driving, working, doing dishes, etc.).

I've been using Evie on my Android phone for a few years now, and while it does what I need, the interface is a bit cumbersome, and I wouldn't mind a better alternative.

Evie offers paid Amazon TTS, which I neither like nor use, but also has free support for Google's TTS service (~~not sure if this is his API or just using built-in services on the phone~~ β€” looks like the voices are Android TTS voices), which I've gotten very fond of. I've logged 200+ books like this in recent years, and I'm very content with the quality of the voices (I use en-us-x-tpc-network).

Ideally, a FOSS ebook reader would support Android TTS, as well as controlling playback/reading speed. Does anyone know of such an app? πŸ™‚

Incidentally, I was always "annoyed" that the only way to get money to Evie was through the Amazon TTS subscription, which I don't need or want. I'm a recent update, they added a new feature: paid background sounds to accompany your story, such as "rain", "train ride", etc. I bought them all, just to show my support, and actually ended up using one of the background rain sounds for the last book I went through, and quite enjoyed it. I think this is a very nice way for an app to allow users to spend a bit more to show their support; paid, non-critical features.

Also, just now discovered that they actually have a "donate" button πŸ˜… Sent a few more $ their way.

 

I'm a huge fan of changing playback speed when playing videos, and finally got fed up with the cumbersome interface in the official YouTube app on Android (as well as the ads...).

I thought I read that there was a shortcut or gesture that would do it, but can't get anything to work πŸ˜₯

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