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Unfortunately there are some communities (especially gaming ones) that just don’t have a Lemmy equivently or don’t have enough critical mass to be useful. I would say Lemmy is a great addition, but not a drop in replacement.

What’s the other choice these days?

Edit: Did some research, sounds like a few apps got API exceptions because they are consider accessibility apps. Am currently test driving RedReader. It’s not bad and so far ad free.

I’m kinda not mad that he’s crazy AND vocal. What I’m more worried about is when maybe when he older and wiser he shuts up and just starts funneling all that money towards his nutto crazy talk. At least now you can hear him coming.

Not sure who’s down voting you, but socks are meant to be in shoes and shoes are meant to be in contact with the ground. Shoes have rubber soles, socks are cloth. One of these things is much more durable than the other.

I have 90% hardwood floors and my socks get destroyed if I don’t wear slippers of some sort.

Pandoc wad gonna be my recommendation for anything document based, but like ImageMagick, it’s command line, that sent me looking. Looks like https://panwriter.com/ is a good front end for it, probably gonna give it a try myself.

For documents, nothing quite like pandoc, I would be surprised if it’s not what most of those sketchy websites use on the backend anyway.

I’m pretty close to this, I still don’t keep 4k, I re-encode to 2k and save buckets of space for the things I want a really nice copy of. Even on my big screen I’m hard pressed to tell the difference.

Whisper AI is pretty darn good. I’ve used it to make subtitles for MST3K vids where nothing good exists and maybe only had to spend 10 minutes doing some clean up. It even recognizes when different people are speaking and breaks up the subs accordingly.

SwiftKey does that if you give it access to your emails.

It would have to be pretty specific and small to work on a phone and I think a side effect would be everyone’s conversations start to sound a lot more homogeneous.

I use Debian because it was the easiest to get Docker GPU pass through working on.

I just heard the unlocking sound in my head.

Hard agree. For me Sync was Reddit. Once it stopped working I had no reason to put up with a substandard experience. I do miss the content and would probably even go back if they reversed their stance.

Came from using Sync for probably close to a decade on Reddit, so I’m definitely a creature of habit switching back for it on Lemmy. That being said, I tried ALL the apps looking for a solid experience and nothing delivers like Sync (opinion). All of them were missing something that completed my experience, was that experience coloured by my time with Sync on Reddit, sure. For all the options Sync gives me I’m willing to pay the dev half the cost of a steak dinner. I’ve already spent 100x longer on Sync for Lemmy than it would take me to eat said steak.

As for FOSS, let’s just say it’s not the be all / end all. Look at all the options that Sync brought to the table in a month that Lemmy hasn’t added in the whole of its development.

Personally I feel like most of the folks complaining about Ads in Sync are just complaining to complain. The FOSS crowd is also the most likely to use ad blocking, filtered dns providers, pi-hole, adguard etc and if that’s the case they won’t even see a single Ad.

Latter

Had a college buddy Christopher, we just called him Stopher.

You should check out the book “Jesus and John Wayne”.

It’s a great book that describes the changing history of how evangelicals have interacted in politics for about the past 100 years. Worth the read.

It’s more about the devices they use it on and the reliability. Sony TV, iPhone, android, Chromecast etc.

I’ve got some inlaws that use my Plex, the device coverage really can’t be beat. Would consider Jellyfin if I didn’t have old people requirements.

What area if I can ask? I’m in the Midwest.