With MotoGP it’s a similar situation… Moto 3 is always madness and a highlight of the weekend. I’m glad Moto 3 and 2 race every time, not like with F1.

I really watch F1 for F2 this year. If it’s not on, I don’t think I’ll bother often anymore. Even if the event is sometimes unpredictable, it’s more often based on team strategy or luck. The best actual racing usually happens in the bottom half of the lineup, which may be entertaining, but not exactly why I wanna watch motorsports for.

You people need to watch F2.

These have been a few but I can’t find them in my blocklist, so maybe they have died.

I hate the modern world.

On the other hand, I’d like to know if any successful love stories came from this.

Ok I don’t really have an opinion on this particular thing, but in general - if the US forces people to do something and the UK doesn’t, I’m willing to give UK the benefit of the doubt.

And more in general, if in doubt, then giving people more freedom is not a bad thing. It never happens these days though - citizen rights keep being constantly eroded everywhere, so it may be worth fighting even for little things like this to keep the idea in mind.

I dunno. The way it works for my old phone, is that it listens for a while, then goes into “processing” and then outputs the text. Faster phones should work on the fly, but I really don’t know anything else.

In the app there’s a field to test, so try that I guess.

Launch the FUTO Voice Input app first. It’ll give you prompts you need to set it up.

I don’t know, isn’t TTS an AOSP feature in Android? As in, a foss part rather than a proprietary Google thing? Look into what alternatives like Graphene do about this.

Yea it’s totally dope, I re-found it just today. Sadly my old phone is hopelessly outgunned.

There’s a FUTO project, I think it’s this? https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions

There’s an Android version that became available recently https://voiceinput.futo.org/ I’m just not sure which repo is the Linux original

Btw I have a small Android keypad phone (Qin 1s I think?) and I caught it like this once:

Without a SIM it doesn’t use much power at all. Even an Android phone will last a month on standby if you just leave it on the table with all connectivity disabled.

I remember back in 1998 when Philips introduced GSM phones with 300+ hours standby battery life (with a bigger battery). Until then it wasn’t uncommon for phones to last 8 to 20 hours. Then others figured out the same, but long standby was never practical unless you really just leave a phone on a table.

They don’t have to subscribe, but somebody has to have searched specifically for that community, so kinda yes.

People here promote scripts and bots so that an instance gets automatically subbed to new communities - which ok, but then which small instances really want to mirror the whole Fediverse? Most will run out of hard drive space, and we’re back at square one.

I don’t get it why you’re downvoted. It’s 100% true. I’m here to discover new things, not to be in an echo chamber of my 5 subscribed comms.

You may need to search for the community first for your instance to know about it. That hampers discovery a lot imo.

I keep saying that the US needs to have its own big instance (or several) to host all those communities about US cities and sports teams that nobody else needs to care about, as well as potentially a good chunk of users and to exist as a large server alternative to lw.

One problem I foresee with smaller instances is discovery. As we know, if someone creates a new community somewhere else, your instance will onlyrecognise it once someone searches for it.

On a large instance like lemmy.world, there’s a good chance that someone else did, and you can stumble upon it by browsing /all. On a smaller instance this may not happen unless it’s set up to discover and thus mirror every community everywhere.

I’d still prefer a separate server even if it’s only for myself:

1. power efficiency, you don’t need to keep a power-hungry PC on when you don’t need it, but only an old laptop or a rasp Pi or whatever

2. if your PC is down - broken, needs reinstall, having an issue that needs troubleshooting - you can still have your server stuff running

3. expandability. Media server alone is good to stream movies to a TV, or to a phone over the web, and again the PC can be off

I wonder how donations for nsfw instances are going