IcedRaktajino

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I pre-ordered last June and got it toward the end of July. It seems to ship directly from the factory in Hong Kong, so you have to use the tracking link they send you until it clears customs in your country.

I did a first impressions post about it when I got it.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 7 points 9 months ago

I'm really starting to feel like Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

I had the LG Genesis that was the spiritual successor to the enV. Loved the form factor but the battery life was abysmal at like 2 hours of use. Yay Android 2.2 lol.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gemini PDA

Is that the one from PlanetCom? I've been looking at both their Gemini and Cosmo Communicator. Both were out of stock when I ended up going with the Minimal.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

Source

Looks pretty pocketable (and gorgeous) to me.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

I've been rocking a Minimal Phone for about 6 or 7 months now, and man am I excited to have options for QWERTY phones again.

just plain boredom with glass slabs

This. So much this. They're all boring, too tall, and too skinny with about as much personality as a used up dryer sheet. It's like they're designed solely for scrolling an endless feed of mind-numbing slop. I remember being able to actually do things on my older smartphones (RDP, SSH, editing documents/spreadsheets, etc). You can still do those things now, but you basically have to break out a bluetooth keyboard to do anything more than the most basic things and it feels like trying to look at a panorama through a keyhole.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Probably Nico Borie

Edit: Oh, goddamnit. My dyslexic ass read that as Michael Langdon. I'm gonna leave this up for a laugh at my expense but disregard.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 164 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

the segment has been shared widely on social media

Not widely enough.

https://files.catbox.moe/4kv1gt.mp4

Watch it Right Here in the Comment

See Also:

Even if they do eventually air it, it would be enlightening to play "spot the difference" between what they didn't want to air and what they finally do. My guess would be CBS doing something like sed s/Trump/Biden/g to the script.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)

https://github.com/marytts/marytts

I've used MaryTTS semi-recently. It's older but works well enough for my cases. I have it running on a server (locally) and my endpoints make a call to it and playback the returned audio file.

On Android, I use SherpaTTS which has good voices, but I'm not aware of a desktop/Linux option. It mentions using voices from Coqui which you linked, so I would guess that would be the way to go for desktop.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
  • "Up to..." when used to describe things like internet speeds
  • "Wholesome" when used to describe food. Not really a lie, per se, but "wholesome" has absolutely no meaning when it comes to nutrition and just sounds good
  • "Zero calories" or 0 grams of [blank] in the nutrition information. The regulations let them round down if it's less than 1 ~~gram~~ standard unit of measurement for that item (edited from grams).
  • Any time you see "free" there's always at least an implied asterisk
[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago

Not sure if ADHD specific or a symptom of being "on the spectrum" or a bit of both (have never been diagnosed either way but show all the signs), but I have a very low capacity "social battery" and am very sensitive to noise. The end result is I crave (relative) solitude and quiet or else I'm useless at getting anything done.

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