home assistant is amazing but it is not yet an alternative to Alexa, the assistant/voice is still in development and far from being usable. it’s impossible for me to remember the specific wording assist demands and voice to text is incorrect like nine out of ten times. And this includes giving up on terrible locally hosted models trying out their cloud which obviously is a huge privacy hole, but even then it was slow and inaccurate. It’s a mystery to me how the foss community is so behind on voice, Siri and Google Assistant started working offline years ago, and they work straight on a mobile device.

“walled garden” - how many 5.4” android phones can you name from the current decade?

Being Russian has never changed throughout my country’s history. We have been murdered and abused the same from the empire to the USSR to current Russia. The behavior has been same and consistent and far surpasses the context of current wars, so you can’t blame Ukrainian and Georgian people’s refusal to be re-invaded by Russia one more time and wanting to do nothing with them on “being polarized” by the war.

yeah you can’t weasle your way out like that since I got literally 0% of that information from western media - I am from one of the countries that were victims of USSR and current Russia

Read their comments. It is obvious they are a hardcore propagandist.

If anyone wants proof that this post is in absolutely bad faith and malicious, read ops comments defending USSR. The criticism of the other server could may as well be valid but it is impossible to know if your posts were taken down because the were critical of US or because it was obvious it was an alt for tankie propaganda. I do wish the admin of the instance knew the difference between commie and tankie though, as the first one does not warrant a defensive response and the other has an immoral agenda. Too bad many modern western communists totally swallow the authoritarian pill.

countries that used to be brothers in the USSR

my sides. This is genuinely one of the most ridiculous things I have heard, and that’s something coming from a person who is exposed to nausea inducing amount of USSR propaganda every day here. I am literally speechless. People tortured and killed, families torn apart, overwhelming protests for freedom crushed with tanks and young men and women poisoned with gas to the point of not being recognizable. BROTHERS? No man, no Georgian or Ukrainian sees Russians as brothers. We see you for the only thing you have done over and over again - invaded, killed, tortured and raped us.

Thank you for the write up! These snakes are so good at fooling most people into believing complete gibberish.

Many say they would stop using the app entirely if the ads become widespread.

oh don’t threaten me with good time. It would be amazing if my friends would be forced to stop using instagram so I would not be forced to log in just to catch up on stories or keep in touch

haha no, I took it as m2 ipad pro. Not sarcastic, just naive with some wishful thinking. Got super excited over the idea

yes I completely agree, especially on the development part - doing masters now and basically have to choose if I want to take notes or be able to code, and it’s annoying. The funny thing is I have both macbook and ipad, but I don’t want to carry both because I’m weak af.

It’s just wild that there are literal billions being poured into monkey parrot gpts while we can’t have the simplest issues resolved.

There’s procreate which introduced advanced animation and effects thanks to the new chip. I also know people use it heavily for 3D modeling. “Drawing with pen input” is the use case for the rest of the line up, Pro is specifically for computation heavy professions.

ipads have side by side window view and float over view, of course it should be much better but viewing two apps or tabs side by side hasn’t been an issue for me. Maybe excel just doesn’t support opening a second window or a separate tab.

Wow is the first time I heard about linux on iPad. Which guide did you use?

ipad pro is specifically marketed for artists and their software actually needs power and speed. Having OLED on mini would be great. It’s one of my most beloved devices.

looks interesting, thanks

yeah I tried it and it was incredibly lacking. Any advice on alternatives?