this really needs more circulation because too goddamn many people still believe his PR

You love to see it

I thought the same thing initially but modern video codecs, plus the developer’s plan to limit the videos to 30 seconds actually seem feasible. Large Lemmy and mastodon servers are also pricy to run but the community finds a way, I think it’ll be the same for Loops.

Loops is a TikTok clone in the same way pixelfed is an Instagram clone. It’s an app and a backend server setup with activitypub. You can sign up now to the developer’s instance if you’re interested. After signup you get access to the beta app. It’ll probably hit the app store in a few weeks/months depending on how fast the developer can get it done.

Choosing is not so much about whether it’s internet facing or not. From the programmer’s perspective and an administrator’s perspective there are pros and cons to both. As someone looking to self-host, if you want to run a service that works with either, I would make the choice based on what seems the most supported, or which one you feel the most comfortable looking up and performing administrative tasks on. I tend to use postgresql more just because I have more experience with it and can recommend it if that’s what you need, but mysql can be just as good or better in many circumstances. Pick whichever one looks easier to you.

amazing

I just want to say I really appreciate this creator, asianometry covers lots of neat topics and does so really well imho

I see more engagement across my Lemmy feeds every week. It’s definitely smaller and slower here but there are real relationships and communities forming. I think the fediverse is strongly positioned to outlive and maybe even outgrow closed social ecosystems. If you’re frustrated with a lack of a certain kind of content on Lemmy make it your responsibility to go create or share some of that content.

Geocities, Myspace, Digg, Reddit all started somewhere. I think any good underlying framework (federated social networks) that enables strong communities will always stand a chance. I really do get early reddit vibes on here.

Seriously, this was pretty cool, thanks for sharing!

I don’t get this sentiment, not a m$ fan but the surface hardware always made sense to me. Full laptop specs in a tablet style shape with a unique and useful aspect ratio. Sure they gimped the processor but it’s still 4 times as much CPU as an ipad. It’s a shame that android or IOS seem to be the only truly usable tablet operating systems these days.

As a side note I’m pretty shocked still at how poorly windows 11 performs on my SP7. It’s weirdly bad considering it’s their own damn hardware. There have been improvements since these things ran Windows 8 but touch still feels like a gimmick rather than a first class experience.

I installed some arch variant with a custom kernel that included the drivers on my SP3 a few years ago. Performed great, stable. Battery was meh, lost maybe 30% capacity which was pretty par for the course but maybe could have improved with more tuning. Tried using it primarily as a tablet and that sucked. Ran scripts to do things like help with palm rejection but it was just a poor tablet experience overall. Not that Windows provides a significantly better one. But certainly more usable.

It’s been 5 years though so maybe everything is better 🤞 . Please tell me if it is, I am thinking about flashing that same SP3 back to linux to be a dashboard somewhere.

I understand this reference and I approve o7

Largish enterprise heavily using Debian, just 1 data point here but we do exist.

Largish enterprise heavily using Debian, just 1 data point here but we do exist.

I am a little biased because I’ve been using Debian professionally for many years now but we don’t deserve Debian. It is fantastically stable and reliable and makes an excellent platform for running your services off of. If you are at all interested in offering some time and energy to the open source community, consider adopting a Debian package!

Lol, been watching these emails for work for many years now and noted the weird number of CVEs too. I’d love more context if anyone knows. Something specific get cleaned up in the kernel that had a big impact?

Had me in the first half. I do use it (and love it) but I’m afraid I don’t know the answer to your question. Posting to try and help boost. Good luck

☹️ Mycroft ran out of money and closed down. I think you can still order a Mark2, but the cloud components they were hosting were taken down which essentially breaks the software. There is another company that picked up the ball and took over support but it’s a more limited experience at the moment and the whole ecosystem is in a bit of a rut. The OpenVoiceOS project that spun out of Mycroft looks like the best bet long-term but they haven’t finished a stable release yet. I bought a Mark2, which I still think is the best hardware available for an open source voice assistant, but finding and stitching together the software to make it work is a chore atm.

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I’ve tried to get a few different recipes out of it when I had a bunch of ingredients around and no ideas. The results aren’t very surprising if you’ve played around with it for a while. The recipes it generates are often very generic with either odd ingredient additions, odd amounts or missing/wrong cooking steps. Pushing back on the odd bits can help but I didn’t see many recipes I would make exactly as it described.

It’s certainly got a place generating ideas for misc ingredients, but about as useful as any of the websites that let you search by ingredients imho. I think it’s strengths are when you are uncertain about how to do certain cooking steps or are working with a recipe that doesn’t details all the steps. The LLM is quite good at understanding what it is you’re trying to accomplish and walking you through how to do it. It was very helpful with my breadmaking as it gave me lots of suggestions to improve issues in my loafs.