Gonna have to change that. There’s no such thing as karma here so there’s no whoring. Be the change you want to be. I was the only poster in many communities before they started taking off. Lemmy follows the 90-9-1 rule, and you have to be the 1

Seeing how Android adopted it 4 years later, it’s pretty obvious that Apple made it the de-facto standard. I agree with you, something like JPEG XT or really any other open format would have been a great choice, but they made HEIC the standard, which requires a license. Dick move.

What other image format supports HDR and modern compression algorithms that don’t require a license?

There, ftfy. You answer the question.

I literally said it was easy to do.

Yeah it’s a bit of a tossup between them. Apple definitely chose it to be a dick. However, Microsoft could rectify it easily if they wanted to.

Both HEVC and HEIC thought cost money, and the vast majority of windows users will never use the codecs. Including the license with every copy of Windows is added cost to the end user that they receive no benefit from, so I understand why they would leave it out. HEVC prompts you if you try to play to go to the store and buy the license, which is good for your entire account. Honestly it’s not a terrible thing to do. I was one of the 1% of people who would play HEVC natively on Windows, so yeah the $3 license made sense

Apple changed to the app store model years ago and people preferred it. Hell my grandma uses Linux now

Situation - You run a discord server for alt right and weirdly obsessed about the military dudes. You have a secret clearance. Do you -

[ ] Share secret intel with people who have no need to see or know about it

[ ] Do nothing

Note: There are no political or military reasons to share this info, only ego boosting yourself. 30 seconds on the clock.

The surface is one of my go-to examples of Microsoft’s ineptitude. The surface is honestly an amazing tablet. It works very well, great battery life, and you can either use a standard tablet mode or it as a full Windows machine. For businesses too it was a slam-dunk, where since it’s Windows it already interfaces with most IT systems out of the box, no special setup or store integrations or Apple stuff, it’d work with Microsoft AD. Unfortunately it followed the pattern.

• They gave up on tablets before fully vetting the market
• Apple lands the iPad, and it takes off, is groundbreaking
• Microsoft got butthurt that Apple made profit on a thing they gave up on
• They take years coming up with the Surface, in the meantime every 3rd party came out with an Android one that was slow and choppy so the people have all decided iPad was the winner
• Microsoft hired thousands of engineers and pivoted the entire world to touch, forcing Windows 8 down everyone’s throats, making the public hate it
• Surface finally lands, but everyone already hates the interface, and anyone who wants a tablet already has one
• Microsoft quietly lays off everyone. Surface is still around, but on life support.

Microsoft following the same pattern.

• There is a need in the market they are aware of, but don’t care
• Someone else makes a huge splash by doing a great job
• Microsoft gets butthurt that someone else is making profit
• They take way too long coming up with a rival
• Microsoft hires thousands of engineers to work on the product
• The rival is way too late to market, and everyone has already chosen the cool product
• Microsoft quietly lays people off and kills off the product

For their protection of course!

oh freaking awesome, this looks amazing! Thank you so much for this!

I can always tell with food. In the Midwest you don’t dare use any spice except salt and maybe some rosemary on Christmas. Anything else is too fancy. The West Coast has their own style, northeast has chowder and seafood, except salmon which is the PNW. Interesting how they all separate.

I remember driving through the Midwest and I just wanted a sparkling water. Anything bubbly. They had coolers and coolers of soda and added sugar drinks, two small things of actual water, and one thing of liquid death, with added sugar. Wild place

TES6 isn’t real. It isn’t real. Do you see it? Is it in the room with us here?

Compare it to a game like AC Valhalla and you’ll think it’s smaller

God of war and Jedi have done great jobs of finally showing AAA they can make a smaller game and still have a great following. I’m so sick of giant Ubisoft worlds that have nothing to do in them. They’re boring.

Got it, so alcohol and hard drugs are different and we shouldn’t directly compare them like that

So hiding it and not telling kids about it is a solution, which makes them curious, and then go eat overboard. Which is what I did.

What is much better is what Europeans do, where they have a much healthier view of alcohol, grow up around it, know what it is and does, and don’t have nearly the unhealthy binging Americans do. On top of that they also aren’t having an opioid crisis.

For most of you suggesting hosting a repository - yes but,

Host forgejo. Just host the git mirror. It comes with a package repo out of the box. Then you have the source code and the docker images

Hiding it from kids obviously will prevent them from ever using it or being curious!

God forbid we have open and honest conversations with kids so they learn how to use things responsibly.

Generally there are not LLMs that do this, but you start building up a workflow. You speak, one service reads in the audio and translates it to text. Then you feed that into an LLM, it responds in text, and you have another service translate that into audio.

Home Assistant is the easiest way to get them all put together.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/assist_pipeline

Edit agree with others below. Use the apps that are made for it.

• Whisper for STT
• Any hosted LLM can work, text-generation-webui or tabbyapi
• I use xttsv2 for TTS