Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for but I found this a few weeks ago https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx and I haven’t really seen anyone talk about it
I’ve been using the tts on android for navigation and its way better than rhvoice and espeak.
I did try stt on android and it worked great but I’ve never used stt before so I don’t know how good it is compared to other stt
He’d peel an orange in his pocket
He has two brains cells and they’re both fighting for third place
He’s a face like he’s trying to eat an apple through a tennis racket
The tide wouldn’t take her out
Scarlet for your mam for having you
Your arse is jealous of your mouth
Snipers dream
Spanner
Thank you for putting this together, this is great!
Mull is my go to browser, based on Firefox with proprietary blobs removed and since its Firefox uBlock Origin can be installed
Mulch is chromium based for when websites ~ break ~ with Mull. Both are by the same Dev that makes DivestOS
I’m not really sure what is meant by utilities but these are some apps that I utilise pretty much every day
URLCheck for easily removing tracking from URLs either manually or automatically
Bitwarden is my go to password manager, you can add their repo to your fdroid client to get auto updates
Aegis for 2FA with easy backup and restore to and from files and supports importing files from so many other 2FA clients
Insular utilises the work profile to separate out apps. Some people in my life still use WhatsApp so I have a whole profile just for it, I can’t wait for the DMA to fully kick in so I can get rid of WhatsApp
Librera opens all of my documents for me and I can choose between scroller mode for PDF type stuff or reader mode for ebooks. It also has amoled black which I love.
QbitController to easily manage all of my qbittorrent instances. It also automatically opens magnet links I tap on so I can add them to one of my instances easily
RHVoice TTS that integrates with OSMand, I find I have better voice results with this compared to espeak
Syncthing Fork to auto sync folders on my phone, PC and NAS
Termux terminal emulator I use for SSH, it also runs Zotify and YT-DLP
KDE Connect for controlling my cursor on my PC, quickly sharing files to and from my PC and for seamlessly sharing clipboards between them
Showly OSS Integrates with trakt(.)tv to keep track of shows and also has a discover tab for TV and movies
Unexpected Keyboard I missed the keyboard discussion so I’m going to mention it here. It supports function keys! So I can use htop in SSH to kill processes on my PC when I break something and my screen freezes
https://divestos.org/pages/our_apps
It is compiled from source and proprietary blobs are removed using scripts by Relan from here.
Yep, Veracrypt is my go to
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/encryption this has some other options you might be interested in
Ah my favourite topic to rant about lol
https://aus.social/users/ajsadauskas/statuses/110483562412884529 I saw this post the other day about apple and I left this comment https://sopuli.xyz/comment/137641
Wow, thanks for sharing, I didn’t realise Apple has been doing this for so long
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/07/apple-geep-iphone-recycle-shred/
They sued a recycling company for reselling old iPhones instead of destroying them and now they force recycling companies to shred the phones so that they can’t be reused.
Apple has fantastic marketing on a surface level they manage to convince their users that they are a green company but when you push a little bit and ask for more info they just shut you down.
Louis Rossman has shown how anti repair Apple is by not providing basic replacement parts for their Macs and how secretive they are about their clearly subpar repair program
Hugh Jeffreys has shown how anti repair Apple is by locking components like the screen and camera of new Apple devices to their motherboard so that even if you repair and iPhone screen, they take away features like true tone or certain camera modes for no reason.
Apple is trying its best to kill 3rd party repair of its products and at the same time try to convince people that they are pro repair by offering screen replacements for nearly the same price as a new iPhone.
Also if a user sells on their old iPhone but doesn’t unlink the device from their Apple account, the new user won’t be able to use the phone.
The only positive thing Apple has done for consumers is offer software updates for years longer than any Android OEM offers.
Android OEMs really lacks in software support but at least with some phones, less in more recent years, users have the option to install custom ROMs to prolong the life of their devices. Projects like LineageOS, GrapheneOS and DivestOS are so important from delaying phones from becoming ewaste.
Unfortunately, Apple pushes the limit of what they can get away with in the name of the environment and other companies follow suit.
Bare minimum after market support is the name of the game and every company in the industry is happy to play.
Imagine how different the consumer electronic market could be if Apple had grown their relationship with Bob and extended that to people like him all over the world. We could have had a much better ecosystem.
But like I always say, you can’t become a trillion dollar company without exploiting everything and everyone you possibly can in the name of profit
When it comes to privacy, Apple has attempted to block other companies like Facebook from tracking iPhone users, they say its because they care about their users privacy but really all Apple cares about is controlling their users data and monopolizing on it.
They also have wanted to implement scanning software to scan their users files for CSAM, again marketing it as protecting their users and children but I’m sure they’ll figure how to monopolize that too.
Apple has been trying to prevent 3rd party app stores and side loading of apps on iOS for years, they say its because its a security risk, but in reality they’re just calling their users stupid while attempting to keep complete control over the software you can use on the device you paid way too much money for. Recently the EU has forced Apples hand on this and they can no longer prevent users from doing it, or at least when the law comes into place.
Apple is also being forced to switch to type-C chargers, I think next year, by the EU because it is more consumer friendly and helps to prevent e-waste, which is something Apple’s marketing loves to claim they are by removing chargers from phone boxes and forcing its customers to buy over priced chargers that come in more packaging…
I always say this, You can’t become a trillion dollar company without exploiting everything and everyone you possibly can in the name of profit.
Apple doesn’t care about you or its workers or the environment, the only thing Apple cares about is profit. It does everything it can to lock down its products, force its users into its ecosystem and block any other companies from even attempting to function and profit within its ecosystem, Apple is ruthless and will not stop until they have squeeze as much money out of everything they possible can.
Apple is the epitome of capitalism and parasite on society, it offers nothing of value for a premium price.
Like you, I agree the internet should be open and the wealth of knowledge that humans have accumulated shouldn’t be locked behind paywalls.
A lot of scientific research is publically funded but then its locked behind a paywall so the public has to pay again. For people that think you are stealing others work by using sci-hub, tell them to email one of the authors of the papers and ask them if they can get a copy. The majority of authors would be happy to send them one.
Pretty sure Reddit can’t ban people for promoting/linking to competitors sites as there is EU regulations in place to prevent this.
This issue was raised when Twitter tried to stop people from linking to their Mastodon accounts. Twitter put the policy in place and then quietly removed it soon after.
If you really believe that you were banned for promoting Lemmy then you should mention this in your appeal but as others have mentioned it seems like the issue was spam.
And sure maybe they were waiting for any reason they could get to ban you because you were promoting Lemmy and they got you on spam, always gotta read the contract/TOS to make sure the other party doesn’t get you on a technicality
I’ve used https://github.com/Softcatala/whisper-ctranslate2 before for transcribing English and translating non English audio into srt files and its been pretty good for TV shows for me. Its not perfect but it usually gets me about 95% of the way there