hedgehog

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[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I literally just put Dead Cells down before opening up Lemmy. Just now I died to a javelin attack (thanks to having just opened a cursed chest) in the Fractured Shrines.

I’m not especially good at it; I’ve only finished one run. I think that run was a Survival run using Frost Blast and the Nutcracker. That was on my phone (using a Backbone gamepad, not touch controls), oddly enough, even though I have it on my Steam Deck and on the Switch and have way more playtime and way more unlocked on both of those.

Which Retroid do you have?

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Depends on your e-reader! If you have a Kindle, Kobo, or Nook, yes, that’s true. However:

Boox has e-readers that run Android and you can install Hoopla. The Palma 2 is phone sized which is great. The Page, Leaf2, and Go 7 are all in the 7” form factor, plus they have 6” versions. And they have tablet sizes, too. They have both traditional black&white and color e-ink displays.

I have the Boox Air 3C and the original Palma and both are great. I’ll likely get a Boox as my next standard sized e-reader, too (whenever I replace my Kindle Oasis). Though unless the technology drastically improves before then, it’ll be one with a black and white screen. (The color is nice in the tablet sizes, though, especially for comics from Hoopla.)

Some other options that I’m less familiar with include:

  • Bigme has Android 7” color e-readers, as well as tablets and e-ink smartphones.
  • Meebook has e-readers that run Android (and Android e-ink tablets)
  • The MuSnap Aura C is a 10” Android e-ink tablet
  • XPPen has an 11” Android e-ink tablet
[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 points 21 hours ago

Okay, and? What nontechnical user cares enough to use it specifically when they could use Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Polaris Office, MobiOffice, WPS Office, Collabora, etc., instead?

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 points 21 hours ago

But do nontechnical users care about the “missing” features? A lot of nontechnical users prefer simpler apps.

There is a version of Blender that was made for Android. It’s quite old, though. But if you’re competent enough with Blender that you’ve memorized all its keyboard shortcuts and workflows, you’re likely technical enough to get it working via Termux. But if not, Nomad Sculpt (on both iOS and Android), SpaceDraw (Android only), and several other apps can serve the same purposes.

Not sure why you listed video editing software and two different specific video editors, but Android and iOS both have Lumafusion. I’m sure there are other decent editors but I haven’t used them because Lumafusion is great. iPads do have DaVinci Resolve, though, for what that’s worth. If you care about using a FOSS video editor then you should care enough to install it via Termux. But let’s be real, most nontechnical users are probably happy using CapCut.

DJ software - Cross DJ is free. There are other alternatives. And there are web based DJ software apps like YouDJ.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 days ago

It’s incredibly compatible. Capitalists want laborers to work hard. It encourages laborers to work hard so they can one day be capitalists themselves.

It also encourages them to vote for politicians who don’t serve them, but politicians, because someday they’ll benefit from their pro-business policies.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The American Dream is capitalist propaganda, not anticapitalist.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 days ago

The products currently on the marketplace have architectures that are far more sophisticated than just an LLM. Even something as simple as “Deep Research,” which both Anthropic and Claude have available, is using multiple interconnected systems to provide a single response.

Consider Agentic AI, like Claude Code, where they’re using tools, analyzing the results of those tools, iterating, possibly calling out to MCP servers to do other things, etc.. The tools allow them to do things like read or modify files in the working directory, execute programs (i.e., your linter, installing dependencies, running your app), querying against your app itself, and so on.

And of course note that the single “Claude” box in that diagram has an architecture that’s more sophisticated than just being an LLM. At minimum, consumer facing LLMs generally have a supervisor that censors problematic inputs and outputs; this doesn’t make the system more competent but the same concept can be applied to any other sort of transparent wrapper.

It seems to me that we already have consumer systems that are doing what you described, and we’re already working on enhancing their architectures further.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

OnlyOffice is available on Android already.

“any linux app” - I don’t think any nontechnical users want GParted on their Android phones, and it wouldn’t work anyway.

Android has its own games, same as iOS. Nontechnical users are way more likely to want Windows games than Linux games anyway.

Wine used to be developed natively for Android but they stopped a few years back. You can still download it at winehq though. I think Box64 with wine is a decent option?

Overall the thing I’m confused about is why you think Google or any major Android phone manufacturer have a motivation to make native Linux apps more accessible. Google certainly doesn’t want to make it easier for you to use the better versions of their competitors’ apps. Google is moving further away from Linux, not closer. Providing a usable, good enough desktop experience that’s still Android underneath makes far more sense for them.

Fortunately, like I said earlier, there are workarounds to get access to those Linux apps.

The thing that is more likely to change is for the creators of Android apps to build apps that function better when used in a phone-as-desktop format. And even if they don’t, there are enough competent web apps out there that just being able to use your browser full screen on a monitor solves 90% of people’s actual use cases - and probably over 95% when you include the other apps that have decent desktop experiences that can be run alongside them.

The Steam Deck approach is much closer to what you seem to want. The Steam Deck is an actually competent Linux machine that has a Valve-supported compatibility layer in Proton for running non-Linux games. It plugs into a USB-C hub connected to a monitor, mouse, and keyboard just fine, can install any Linux app, etc.. It’s completely usable handheld as well. But it isn’t a phone, and even though it’s quite portable, it’s not “stick into your pocket” portable.

I don’t expect a major manufacturer to make a Linux phone any time soon, and I don’t think the Linux phones that are out already have - or will have in the next 5 years - a smooth enough experience to convince any nontechnical user to switch.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There are mobile versions for all of those?

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 0 points 3 days ago (10 children)

What are the gaps in functionality for nontechnical people? And “apps that exist on Linux but not Android” doesn’t count, because such people are unlikely to have ever even used a Linux desktop in the first place. The improvement that matters won’t be Linux apps; it’ll be Android apps that are more usable in desktop mode.

That said, what are the issues with the apps that are currently available?

If a user installed Chrome, an office suite (whether that be Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, the Microsoft equivalent, or something else), an email client, and other commonly available apps, what tasks would they be unable to complete, if any?

Are these, or other commonly used apps, substantially less usable than on desktop? If so, how so?

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 days ago (12 children)

Can’t you just use GNURoot Debian and XServer SDL to get a Linux desktop env on any Android phone?

There’s an xda-developers guide on this and the two apps are still in the Google Play Store, so I assume it’s still feasible.

I’m not sure how well it plays with DeX and other similar solutions, though.

That’s assuming the apps aren’t capable enough to handle being used on a desktop on their own, of course. What sorts of gaps did you see, and in which sorts of apps?

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 2 points 4 days ago

From the article:

The court documents don't indicate that any rare books were destroyed in this process—Anthropic purchased its books in bulk from major retailers

 

This only applies when the homophone is spoken or part of an audible phrase, so written text is safe.

It doesn’t change reality, just how people interpret something said aloud. You could change “Bare hands” to be interpreted as “Bear hands,” for example, but the person wouldn’t suddenly grow bear hands.

You can only change the meaning of the homophones.

It’s not all or nothing. You can change how a phrase is interpreted for everyone, or:

  • You can affect only a specific instance of a phrase - including all recordings of it, if you want - but you need to hear that instance - or a recording of it - to do so. If you hear it live, you can affect everyone else’s interpretation as it’s spoken.
  • You can choose not to affect how it is perceived by people when they say it aloud, and only when they hear it.
  • You can affect only the perception of particular people for a given phrase, but you must either be point at them (pictures work) or be able to refer to them with five or fewer words, at least one of which is a homophone. For example, “my aunt.” Note that if you do this, both interpretations of the homophone are affected, if relevant, (e.g., “my ant”).
  • You can make it so there’s a random chance (in 5% intervals, from 5% to 95%) that a phrase is misinterpreted.
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19716272

Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007

 

The video teaser yesterday about this was already DMCAed by Nintendo, so I don’t think this video will be up long.

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