[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

the other decent options are matrix and simplex chat, and mayyyybe session. matrix seems to have the most users and kick to it right now. out of those options. but yeah youre not gonna get the average tech illiterate person to get on a more complicated alternative to discord, essentially

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 days ago

Only reason I'd recommend signal to anyone is that its one of the few encrypted apps that doesnt have awful onboarding. A boomer can figure it out.

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml -2 points 4 days ago

the boob jiggle physics are genuinely ridiculous on this mod, i just watched the preview. gamers are brain broken

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by marcie@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

Lately I've been suggesting Mint or PopOS for laymans looking to swap to linux, but do any of you know of any good gaming distros with a driver manager GUI built in ala Mint?

I've tested most gaming distros with latest (nvidia) hardware and they do not run most major titles out of the box due to driver issues. If there were a gui for driver rollbacks while having great general performance, I could see it beating out Mint/PopOS for my recommendation. Being able to install .deb files is quite nice for laymans too, though I don't know of any other deb based OSes that run well out of the box.

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submitted 3 months ago by marcie@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Privacy benefits aside, does qubes run better than a typical vm like virtualbox? I tend to fiddle with distros a lot and I feel qubes might be a good choice, though I'm wondering about how efficient it is

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago

matrix stays winning

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submitted 4 months ago by marcie@lemmy.ml to c/trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone

i know people here have a sour taste over hexbear but im so happy to see trans spaces on the fediverse popping off, im so done with corporate social media and its great to see.

love seeing hundreds of trans people vibing

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by marcie@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I'm looking for ones that ideally don't log IP. Is there a guide somewhere that looks into each of these instances and whether or not they fulfill the privacy promise?

I'm most interested in Invidious.

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 27 points 5 months ago

i will eat a gallon of peanut butter

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by marcie@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

I want to ungoogle myself as much as possible, but I've found that Google Maps is by far the best dataset for maps. I can search 'fast food' and it'll pull up anything related to that near me. I've tried things like OrganicMaps, and while it is blazing fast and very private in comparison to Google Maps, it unfortunately does not have the best information.

Are there any apps that are kind of like a proxy/nitter like frontend for Google Maps and it respects privacy? Are there any ways to just straight up rip data from Google Maps and pull it into another app?

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

AI actually can be very good at translating things locally while keeping tone and intent, and thats what mozilla mentions here. I'm fully down with AI powered local translation tools native to firefox, it'll put it way above the competition

Some LLMs are low enough in resource usage to do this on weak and older PCs

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by marcie@lemmy.ml to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml

Dug up their survey for it out of curiosity, you can find their original post here https://hexbear.net/post/2226865

Interesting note on cis women https://hexbear.net/comment/4782033

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Idk how the guy with photoshop knowledge hasn't learned about inpainting, clone stamp, and content aware fill. feels fake off of that bit.

Imo the biggest benefit of AI is artists using it to speed up their workflow. I for example use it to mimic brushstrokes found in real oil paint art that would be insanely difficult to replicate in photoshop, fill in backgrounds, or to make a sketch I made while I was bored more than a sketch I forget about in a week

There are lots of people that do this prompting stuff with zero knowledge of computers or art and its very telling. If you train your own loras, use controlnet, inpaint with various tools, these things are all easy to fix. For me though, I hate taking orders when it comes to art, even when I'm doing it by hand, so obviously it will never be a job for me, just a hobby and sometimes people buy my shit.

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 38 points 7 months ago

those first 3 months or so of covid were bliss. every office drone was off the road. it was so fucking easy to get everywhere, and it was quick too

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago

for real. im new to lemmy but places like hexbear seem really good for trans stuff. i hate how so many trans places are dependent upon facebook or reddit to exist. facebook itself is problematic because those fuckers already assisted a genocide in myanmar, whats to stop them from helping to massacre trans people here?

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 31 points 7 months ago
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