astrsk

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[–] astrsk@fedia.io -2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

So don’t use iCloud and the photos app? What’s the problem here? There are plenty of third party camera apps and photo managers that could all use the same apis to access your directly integrated nextcloud storage the same way the photos app works. Hell, Plex offers automatic photo backups to your plex server! Y'all need to actually explain what this monopoly claim is in better detail. What am I not understanding here?

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

BFU has always been useful, it’s nice there’s a bit of autonomy to it now.

It’s also a good time to mention Shortcuts app has lots of useful functions that can automate your phone for security reasons. There are several community made / managed shortcuts that can do things like lock down the phone, enable certain features, and even start recording audio/video on the off chance you’ve been pulled over or are in some sort of situation. You can also tell the phone to power off / reboot via shortcuts which can be a final step after recording and uploading content to the cloud.

Stay safe out there.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you don’t need to host but can run locally, GPT4ALL is nice, has several models to download and plug and play with different purposes and descriptions, and doesn’t require a GPU.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

Quarterly is very common. It’s absurd.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 7 points 2 weeks ago

Please buy it used.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

For ableton, you can run it in wine and it can work well enough to do things. It’s an OK experience at best and flat out doesn’t work at worst. Kiss your VST plugins goodbye with that though, gotta stick to the built ins which do all work when it’s working overall.

Otherwise, check out bitwig studio, made by ex ableton devs and natively runs in Linux. Still gonna be hit or miss on 3rd party plugins but the app is on par with ableton as an experience. Price in the same range too. Best short explainer is ableton meets logic in terms of usability.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

[Cries in Dragalia Lost]

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 24 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

It’s the Linux version of steam taking advantage of idle time to process shaders. It’s a critical part of making all those proton launched games working right. I wish it had better control for when to run it but it is what it is.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 7 points 3 weeks ago

I disagree, Sony’s feature is fundamentally different. It allows developers to create quick-load shortcuts for different activities in a given game. Like having multiple open world objectives/missions where you can choose which one to continue from the system menu. Microsoft’s feature is all about resuming where you were directly as if you put the system to sleep with that game running.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That’s a different feature. Resume Activity is just a developer-dependent shortcut that’s integrated into the system menu. Quick resume is saving a snapshot of ram to disk and loading it up as needed per-application. Different goals entirely.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 37 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Pretty easy steps; get app you are interested in. Deny it access to things it doesn’t need when asked. If the app proceeds to not work until you enable, delete. Otherwise, enjoy app without the unnecessary permissions.

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