There are some other projects in this space already, with varying levels of open source / selfhostability / features

https://zulip.com/

https://revolt.chat/

https://mattermost.com/

https://www.rocket.chat/

Zulip and Revolt looked the most promising for Slack and Discord replacements respectively

They do make it possible to adjust the ratings on your own account for the ones you disagree on. It doesn’t affect the newsletters, but I find those to be too american-specific anyway

That sounds rough

If you don’t mind sharing, what is your hardware setup? Maybe someone can recommend a distro that’s more likely to work out of the box with your computer. While I haven’t tried it myself, Bazzite might be better for you if it can get you gaming without having to do too much additional work:

https://bazzite.gg/

It depends on how you want to sync. If you’re selfhosting freshrss for example, my personal preference is Capy RSS

I also recommend Foliate as the other comment said. Frog is great for extracting text quickly, especially with the screenshot tool

I’ve been following this project

https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/tree/main/apps/whispering

They recently got a bunch of investment and hired some staff, and so they’re developing fairly quickly. I saw an update about local Whisper support the other day

Assuming it stays user friendly (currently open source - MIT), it might be a good option for you. Previously it was here:

https://github.com/braden-w/whispering

Sounds good! There’s also !linux4noobs@programming.dev and similar communities to ask questions for all the specific issues you are working on

recently i just finished building a new pc. mostly for gaming since my only exposure to linux is steam os and i heard its uses arch with kde plasma so i try to emulate it as close as i can. however soon i realized how different it is and it requires more setup than i initially thought.

It sounds like you’re thinking of Arch + KDE as similar to building a PC, where if you get the same parts you can hook them up for the same experience.

I think their team chose Arch to build their distro off of because it’s very customizable and made it easy for them to add their configurations, interface layers, hardware optimizations etc. That doesn’t make it the best choice for a beginner unless you want to be thrown into the deep end and spend some time to learn a bunch.

IMO you should look into something like Bazzite or some other atomic Fedora, or OpenSuse, so that you can have a running operating system you can game on. Then you can spend some time learning about Linux with the functioning PC. There are ways to run other Linux distros inside your main one if you want to play with them and learn about them.

Unless you have another machine to use day to day, I find it annoying to be learning with the same machine I need for other things.

The developer and the project have profiles in Mastodon, it should be possible to tag the accounts in this thread directly

Neat! Looking forward to trying out the new changes.

By the way, you can use one account to post to all the communities. For example, if you wanted to use your lemmy.world account, the links would be something like the following:

• https://lemmy.world/c/opensource@lemmy.ml
• https://lemmy.world/c/foss@beehaw.org

Some guides here:

• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-open-in-my-instance

You could also keep using multiple accounts, but I find that to be more tedious.

It should be possible to grab the license key before you wipe it. You could also copy it into an external drive and store it away as is

If the company is gone now then, I guess it would harm whoever bought the rights to the apps or the name? In which case they can contact that entity to sort it out

Neat

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Cool!

I love the UI for this one, it’s unique compared to the others

I think they’re looking for local “AI” anyway. Since those work directly on your machine, there’s no concern around trust (nothing leaves your device) and the resource cost is whatever your hardware uses, or was already using.

There are some concerns still with local models, such as any biases in the training data that was used, but for image classification it wouldn’t be that bad.

There is also !localllama@sh.itjust.works :)

crossposting between the communities can help grow both

Being able to compare between options would help me pick which one I want to use :)

Alternatively, a way to filter the full list would be helpful. That way I can select the items that I need and see everything that has what I need.

This for example:

https://www.lemmyapps.com/

It would be cool if there was a table to compare them with, since right now you’d have to open each of them to check.

Thank you for putting it together though!

You can add an image to the thumbnail field to get the best of both options :)

April 9

https://globalnews.ca/news/11123627/nintendo-pause-switch-2-pre-orders-tariffs-gaming/

April 12

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-electronics-retaliatory-tariffs-exemption-1.7508923