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ZkhqrD5o

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  • Looking for a Good Spanish TTS Engine on Manjaro (Offline / Local)

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  • Speech note. Support a whole lot of models and you can even do some voice cloning.

  • Linus Tech Tips “disappointed” Steam Machine won’t be priced like a console - Dexerto

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  • I dislike Linus Drop Tips, his "reviews" and questionable attitudes.

  • Switch to a Fully free Operating System

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  • For that goal, really stick by the FSF recommendations, for that, they are perfect as they have strict requirements.

    But I think calling other GNU/Linux distros black box only because some drivers are proprietary is a bit too far, some people just prefer a "minimum damage" approach and that's a compromise everyone needs to decide for themselves. If I were living in China or Iran, however, then I would exclusively run distros like that as well.

    Edit: typo

  • Windows users be like

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  • "I can't switch, there's this one function of this one programme that I may need in the next 50 years."

  • I just wanted to compare FOSS Linux budgeting software

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  • Maybe not what you're looking for, but there's a program called "Money Wallet" on Android. It's on F-Droid and free software. Maybe my favourite because every time I spend cash I just open it up and I enter what I just spent.

    For professional use, I'd recommend GNU Cash, though.

  • If you care, then I guess you'll just have to keep giving Microsoft your money and data.

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  • Oh no! It only plays the CoD games that were good.

    IMO: let windows have that, as these games do some SCP-level containment for everyone sane in this hobby.

  • [Gamers Nexus] RAM: WTF?

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  • Man, prices are going to be so nice once the bubble bursts.

  • Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?

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  • The GPL doesn't force to contribute. But if you make changes to it, you need to have these changes reflect the liberties you yourself received. Megacorporations use the so-called "Explore, Expand, Exterminate" model, the GPL stops this from happening.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    ZkhqrD5o @lemmy.world

    Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?

  • Has bad branding ever turned you off from software, FOSS or not?

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  • Also, I have a rudimentary idea how to fix this. So if anyone who's more competent than me would like to have a go at it, please do so.

    Basically found a non-profit ad agency for free software. Basically the agency would create turnkey ad and branding concepts for certain free software projects that would like to have it and in return they get 5% of their donations, for example. All of the money gets reinvested back into the advertising for the member software projects. Also, it could be very easy, the ad agency would, in broad strokes, just have a competition parity strategy where they essentially do whatever the competition does, in broad strokes, for their advertising and "just" adapt it to what the free software project needs.

    Yes, it's some random "idea guy" on the internet coming up with something that's coherent and smart sounding. So take it for what you will.

  • Has bad branding ever turned you off from software, FOSS or not?

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  • Oh my, YES. Before I entered the world of free software, I was turned off by it. Reason is, I thought to myself, hold on: "If it's gratis, then it's going to be at the level of quality of all of these malware-ridden, barely functional, shareware programs." Luckily I'm smarter now, but free software has a branding problem. It results from these programs often being developed by incredibly competent turbo nerds, the result of this is the advertisement reads like a technical manual or a spec sheet.

    Proper advertising is helpful. It informs users about what they can do with the programme. They don't care about it being programmed in hyper-efficient C, optimised with hardware acceleration or the underlying mathematical principles of how something is being processed. They care about getting the results they want. Instead of darktable, for example, talking about "4x32-bit floating point pixel buffers", instead, they should talk about what users can use Darktable for. Sell the fantasy of belonging to the best, only thanks to Darktable and getting superior results from the programme. Show people the stunning results that real pros got by using Darktable. Show that there is a real community around the programme, and not just a GitHub repo. These things matter.

    Darktable, in my opinion, is the best raw editor out there, and yes, the "4x32-bit floating point pixel buffers" and other incredibly well thought out features are the reason why that is. But 99% of users wouldn't know why these things listed as their features are so massively useful and make Darktable so ridiculously superior compared to the competition.

    I genuinely think that if more free software projects would invest in proper advertising and branding, that GNU/Linux and free software on it wouldn't have 3% market share, but would be the monopoly in the computing market.

    Edit: GIMP is another perfect example. It has another problem, and not just the name. The website is completely barren. "High Quality Photo Manipulation: GIMP provides the tools needed for high quality image manipulation."

    Gimp has not only more features than Adobe Photoshop, but most of them are significantly better. IMO, they need to communicate this and just bundle the extensions. Gimmic is basically tripling the amount of things you can do with it and resynthesiser is a massively useful function to have. "Normies" don't want to fiddle around with plugins. IMHO: The extensions are very good, highly stable and should just be integrated.

  • Simple Real-Time TTS on Manjaro Linux?

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  • Now, while not exclusively text-to-speech, but my favourite programme for that would be Speech Note.

  • How to start as a not very tech savy person

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  • For these requirements, I'd recommend PopOS. Thanks to its app centre being very well designed, you never need to touch the terminal for anything. Package managers are apt and Flatpak, so you get full access to basically anything that GNU/Linux has to offer. The install itself is super easy as well. I think it may be one of the best beginner distros.

  • Saved my parents 2015 MBA

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  • Congrats on saving your parents' master of business administration!

  • PC Gaming @lemmy.ca
    ZkhqrD5o @lemmy.world

    Question: Does a higher refresh rate monitor make sense?

  • What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?

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  • My recommendation would be Tor and use bridges. Bridges connect to Tor for you, and the IPs of bridges are secret. So no one really knows that you're connecting to Tor. They can only see you connect to a random IP. For extra security you can use the "tails" OS.

    While not foolproof, should be good enough for any sort of "normal" people under mass surveillance. If you're special enough to have human attention on you, I don't know sadly.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    ZkhqrD5o @lemmy.world

    What's the experience for using AMD GPUs for COMPUTE on GNU/Linux?

  • 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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  • What? New software doesn't have the same level of battle testing that 30 year old software, with billions of deployments had? What does that matter? It's memory safe, guys! That means it can't have any bugs!

  • Intro to nftables: Protecting Incoming Traffic

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  • Finally, pictures of firewalls I can get scammed by!

  • meme

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  • Started with PopOS and stayed ever since.

  • The Linux Kernel Looks To "Bite The Bullet" In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions

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  • If I understood correctly, it's free software anyway, so why the discussion?

  • Recommendations for a small used laptop

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  • I love the Panasonic toughbooks. Most of them have a handle so they're great to carry around like a briefcase. Had mine in the boot during driver safety training, it got knocked around voilently, not a single scratch. Also put a SSD in, running it with pop OS since many years.

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
    ZkhqrD5o @lemmy.world

    Arch users when they discover they contain 98% "bloated" Junk DNA:

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    ZkhqrD5o @lemmy.world

    When to upgrade hardware?

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
    ZkhqrD5o @lemmy.world

    Winblows

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    ZkhqrD5o @lemmy.world

    What do you guys use LLMs for, that is proven to work well with them?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    ZkhqrD5o @lemmy.world

    What is the point of sharing something on social media?