From everything I’ve seen so far about Wicked the movie(s), yes that’s exactly what it is.

The show is still touring folks, go see the show if you can

Shocking. Satisfactory, which you let develop at their own pace, listened to fans for years, and were upfront and honest with expectations did extremely well. Vs the other online crap they forced.

Gonna have to change that. There’s no such thing as karma here so there’s no whoring. Be the change you want to be. I was the only poster in many communities before they started taking off. Lemmy follows the 90-9-1 rule, and you have to be the 1

Is mayonnaise an Xbox?

Seeing how Android adopted it 4 years later, it’s pretty obvious that Apple made it the de-facto standard. I agree with you, something like JPEG XT or really any other open format would have been a great choice, but they made HEIC the standard, which requires a license. Dick move.

What other image format supports HDR and modern compression algorithms that don’t require a license?

There, ftfy. You answer the question.

I literally said it was easy to do.

Yeah it’s a bit of a tossup between them. Apple definitely chose it to be a dick. However, Microsoft could rectify it easily if they wanted to.

Both HEVC and HEIC thought cost money, and the vast majority of windows users will never use the codecs. Including the license with every copy of Windows is added cost to the end user that they receive no benefit from, so I understand why they would leave it out. HEVC prompts you if you try to play to go to the store and buy the license, which is good for your entire account. Honestly it’s not a terrible thing to do. I was one of the 1% of people who would play HEVC natively on Windows, so yeah the $3 license made sense

I’m with you bud. I honestly tried. Lesser of two evils, help everyone, people deserve safety nets. Well the people I was fighting to help overwhelmingly voted against all of those. I honestly feel for anyone who voted for the same things I did and lost, but anyone who didn’t vote or voted to remove those protections I’m done feeling bad for.

Sorry grandma, you voted in the man who openly wanted to get rid of Medicare. Don’t care anymore. You needed Obamacare but voted for the people who openly said they’d repeal it? Too bad, get some bootstraps.

Again, those who voted to protect those things I feel for and I still want to help, but I’m done trying to help those who openly push against me.

I’ll say hot take here, but I’m not sure this is the right solution, or at least it should be decided on a case by case basis and depends on how unsafe it is. They should be removed from society for a time absolutely, but not prison.

Stalking is a mental health issue, a fascination and obsession. I think it warrants being put into a mental health institution for rehabilitation. Prison isn’t going to help, it just removes the problem, but rehabilitation might

“cripple your brand new shiny computer, why would you do that, you’re an idiot for turning this off”

You won’t regret it!

Oh sorry, I got so hyped about chairs I completely missed that part

Same as you. Trust me when I say this is the best chair I’ve ever used. 5 years on and still a solid chair.
https://www.staples.com/union-scale-flexfit-hyken-ergonomic-mesh-swivel-task-chair-black-un59460/product_990119

Gaming chairs are scams. Overpriced and just have fancy colors on plywood. Get a solid officechair. They make their chairs sturdy and ready to have someone sit in them for 8 hours a day 5 days a week.

Mesh is another huge +1, this chair keeps you much cooler. People think they want leather or something. No, it gets too hot, and if you’re sweaty at all it’s sticky, and they don’t last well. A solid mesh keeps you cool, supported, and your bony ass can sit comfortably for long periods of time. (Just remember to stand up every once in a while, for health)

Generally there are not LLMs that do this, but you start building up a workflow. You speak, one service reads in the audio and translates it to text. Then you feed that into an LLM, it responds in text, and you have another service translate that into audio.

Home Assistant is the easiest way to get them all put together.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/assist_pipeline

Edit agree with others below. Use the apps that are made for it.

• Whisper for STT
• Any hosted LLM can work, text-generation-webui or tabbyapi
• I use xttsv2 for TTS

Could you at least change the title so we know what it’s about, like “my develops suggestions”

I had a friend who I was close with for many years, she always had high aspirations, talked to me almost daily about all of the things she wanted to do. Things were like having large career aspirations, moving to a big city, seeing the world, traveling.

Then she got married, and bought a house 15 minutes from her parents, and had 3 kids, all within 5 years. Her career is a standard midwest white woman job and her travel consists of visiting family one state over and going to Disney World once every 5 years or so. We drifted apart, I did end up moving to a big city, I chose a career and travel over having kids, but I think about her every once in a while.

Were those choices hers? Were they compromises? Did society pressure her into a certain life, or did she truly want to change her life for it? Were the things she talked about just dreams, or did she not believe she could accomplish them. I don’t feel pity or anger, but I do wonder why she made the choices she did. I guess I hope she’s happy and that she lives her life without regrets. Everyone who chooses that life says adamantly they never regretted it, but do they really mean it? No regrets at all?

It’s a banana, what could it cost? $10?

And then Sutler will do the only thing he knows how to do

That’s the funny thing, on paper his policies work out quite well for myself. I just have this stupid thing where I care about what happens to other people. If I could turn that off then it would be great! Instead I voted to, you know, help the poor, help those in need, to minimize inequality. They apparently voted to give me tax cuts. It’s honestly insane, did they really think he was going to help them?