KDE Connect for the win.

This will differ greatly from instance to instance. The people running lemmy.world have published some info on their infrastructure. My instance is running on a rather small VPS with 100GB storage, but I will have to rethink my solution rather soon as images and videos from my subbed communities [Edit: which are stored on outside sites] are eating around a gigabyte per day and I think this is likely to increase.

Edit: I want to clarify that I was partially wrong - Lemmy only locally caches content which is hosted on outside sites (e.g. imgur). It does not cache content that was directly uploaded to another Lemmy instance and just embeds the source media.

Terms like ‘steak’, ‘grill’

I get the reasoning behind wanting a clear distinction between animal products and alternative products, but 'grill'? In my understanding, a grill is the appliance you cook (or, in this case, grill) your food with. You can grill vegetables. So why would they ban 'grill'?

You clearly haven't met a real alcoholic yet.

Ah yes, the remote desktop protocol protocol

WineD3D translates to OpenGL. Assuming you're using Linux, it's as easy as running your programs in wine without DXVK.

Don't expect stellar performance though.

"support Lemmy" only covers the project itself. If you want to support the people hosting your instance, you have to contact them. Individual instances may have links for donating in their sidebars.

As you're on lemmy.ml, an instance hosted by the Lemmy developers, I guess in your specific case using the linked page would be the right way to support your instance.

I've seen many people use Codeberg recently.

If you are willing to self-host and are scared of the gitea license shake-up, use forgejo.

That is not true. As long as a user on your instance is subscribed to a community, the media content of posts [Edit: only posts linking to outside sources, e.g imgur] of that community is stored locally on your instance as well.

This, of course, only applies to media which is uploaded to Lemmy, links to media hosted externally are not downloaded.

See this issue for more context.

Edit: I want to clarify that I was partially wrong - Lemmy only locally caches content which is hosted on outside sites. It does (should?) not cache content that was directly uploaded to a Lemmy instance and just embeds the source media.

Yeah it has more to do with it being a native Android app, not using flutter / react native / electron (🤮) or other bloat.

Unciv is a decent Civilization clone. And it's open source.

Can we not post YouTube links and other (video/audio) commentaries in news communities?

Somewhat off-topic: those who are just looking for a decent navigation app based on OSM with a much smoother rendering than OSMAnd, try "Organic Maps", it's amazing.

No need to thank me, currently I am the only non-bot-user of my instance and do not allow registrations 😅

Many of the bigger instances have links to donate to their operators, but I am doubtful that relying solely on donations will be enough in the long run.

The linked repo is the "offline mode", if you want to run the models locally.

See the bottom of this page for an example.

Unciv is a decent Civilization clone

Also probably ITT: many non-Americans to whom that draconian law thankfully does not apply

While not community-developed per se, the RISC-V processor architecture is completely open, in contrast to all other architectures which are widely deployed, such as x86, AMD64 or ARM.

In addition to the online platforms linked by the other commenters, it's also pretty straightforward to run Stable Diffusion locally, if your hardware is beefy enough: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

Various fine-tunes checkpoints for different content and art styles can be downloaded at civitai.

Out of interest - which tool(s) did you use to generate this outline?

If your guest OS is Linux, you can use Virgl to get much better OpenGL performance in the VM.

Depending on what you mean by "AI", this bot doesn't fit the criteria. It works by extracting and ranking sentences and does not apply a LLM.

Apex works flawlessly, without having to do any manual tweaking.

Afaik there is a patched wine version that still lets you play LoL, but with Fortnite you're sol.

As an European, I always find it funny how iMessage seems to be so prevalent in the US that the "bubble colors" issue is even a thing. Here, almost everyone uses WhatsApp. Better for communication across different device types, probably worse for privacy. But at least no artificial discrimination because apple hates open standards ¯\(ツ)/¯

Sorry, I must've missed that somehow, then my comment only applies to llama and its direct derivates.

Note that when using llama-derived models, such as vicuna, you are bound by their license to only use them for "research" purposes.

If you want an unrestricted version, go for open-llama or RedPajama.

Falcon is less restrictive and only wants a cut of profits if they exceed 1 million dollars, but I'd wager that fully unrestricted is the way to go.

The obvious way would be to just not cache content locally and always link to the source instance. While this would concentrate the strain immensely, it would also greatly decrease the storage space used by all other instances.

There might also be other viable alternatives such as using a CDN and having it selectively cache content which is requested often etc.

~~As of now, Lemmy does not support either, though. ~~

Edit: I want to clarify that I was partially wrong - Lemmy only locally caches content which is hosted on outside sites. It does (should?) not cache content that was directly uploaded to a Lemmy instance and just embeds the source media.

While I won't judge OP for using SMS, if you're looking for a better alternative, don't use WhatsApp (owned by meta) or telegram (not really secure at all), rather use signal.

If you mean the embedded pdf viewer: that exists in the android Version as well. I think they added it a few weeks ago.

Great to hear! ArXiv is such an important resource if you're in anything IT-related

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The 4XL had the best face detection in the industry, employing an additional infrared camera with its own invisible light.

While I don't agree with OP's view that the world as a whole is anti-intellectual, I also wouldn't assume that these people don't exist at all. I've personally had interactions with people who thought less of me or others for having a higher level of education, and (at least overtly) not in the sense that they were jealous. It was more of a general antipathy against people who know things / enjoy to learn, because they saw them as arrogant etc.

But this is probably more an example of tribalism.

I wonder if the rate switching will change anything for those of us who like to have their sample rate at 48k and currently suffer from gradually growing audio delay in CS2.

The official online community of a multiplayer game. E.g. there are numerous private WoW servers, but the biggest and most relevant community plays on the official servers.

I didn't mean those games specifically, just wanted to underline my point that multiplayer games are popular in Russia.

Afaik the free version has no support for h264 whatsoever on Linux. I think you will have to transcode.

Everything. It does some re-encoding when it retrieves content from other instances and you can set limits for pictrs (the software Lemmy uses to host media) regarding file sizes etc.

Edit: I was partially wrong about what is cached, see my original comment

From the exorbitant numbers of Russians playing DotA and CS:GO I would assume there is a significant part who enjoys playing online games.

And while, sure, there are numerous examples of alternative networks / cracked servers etc., If you want to participate in "real" community of one of these games, you'll have to use an official client.

For the tv app part:

You can use jellyfin to host your media, it has apps for many types of television. The jellyfin-specific fork of overseer is called jellyseer.

There's an open issue somewhere on GitHub (Valve's CS2 repo), it seems to be an issue with SDL, which Counter Strike uses to interface with pipewire. Afaik no one is quite sure why the delay builds up, but it doesn't seem like an issue with pipewire itself.