My local grocery store takes batteries and light bulbs and a few other electronics/etc for recycling. May just be a local thing though

Krita has AI Gen now

Yes I love it!

I can use the same wall plug or portable battery for my laptop, phone, and soldering iron, and it has a bunch of nice qol features.

There’s an accelerometer built-in so it can detect when you put down/pick up the iron for sleeping the heater and also for orienting the display. The new version also has Bluetooth so you can monitor/control the iron from your phone/PC.

The heating element is in the tip so you are less likely to burn your fingers and it’s also far more efficient so it’s able to heat up very quickly and handle large pads for its size.

It can draw up to 85W through a barrel jack or USB-PD.

I paid $25 for it and have gotten a ton of use out of it.

I put away my expensive soldering iron and use this one exclusively now because it’s just more convenient to use.

I would definitely recommend it for new or experienced users, it’s a great value for the price.

Pinecil soldering iron

Nah Beeper/matrix have had this capability available FOSS for much longer

No matter how poorly Apple’s implementation works with Google’s, this will be a net positive for consumers.

Apple finally giving in allows RCS to become a true standard that works across any mobile devices. That will motivate developers and the industry as a whole to continue to improve upon it.

The initial release may be underwhelming but in the long run this week be good for everyone.

If Google’s implementation remained the defacto “RCS” that everyone used there would be no motivation to add things like encryption to the standard as everyone is using Google’s anyway

Matrix and the bridges can all be run in docker, yes.

Beeper, and the open-source Matrix bridges it uses have been around for a while now, including the iMessage bridge.

Definitely a better choice than Nothing’s “we don’t believe in open source” sketchware

The biggest thing is attachments like photos/videos.

While MMS pretty universally sucks, Apple is very aggressive with the compression they apply to attachments over MMS so the resulting user experience is garbage akin to what we used to have when MMS was new.

Modern phones from other manufacturers will make use of the full MMS attachment size available, typically 100MB or more (depending on your carrier) iPhones will compress that video down to a couple MB regardless of the higher capacity available.

I like that the pool is in the front and there’s still a little room in the back to shove a body

Price you pay…

Honestly I could live with paying.

It’s the subscription model that makes me want to vomit 🤮

I do use OpenSCAD a bit, when the situation warrants it.

Probably not ideal for all models though

I like CryptPad a lot.

Collabora Office is nice too but I prefer CryptPad for my purposes

They call it “Best Take”

Cordyceps infection

Don’t forget -no-preserve-root !

Curl!

I’m not really saying it is, I’m just unsure where that line is.

Modifying existing artwork to make something new has always been a thing.

Is there a point where Photoshop might become too easy to use and then anyone using it is no longer an artist?

One could certainly argue that creating anything of actual value with AI does require a certain level of skill. That skill may be less of an artistic one and more of a technical one, but software developers also have value, even when the tools they use make it much easier than it was in the past.

I guess what I’m getting at is while I agree with you there’s a large gap between having the skill to create art yourself with a paintbrush and coaxing an AI into doing most of the work for you, I’m not sure it’s so black and white and the line is only going to get blurrier.

And I imagine you are using some tools as well? Whether they be physical paint/brush/canvas/etc or digital ones?

Few artists are producing art out of thin air, using a tool to aid in the process is a natural part of creating art

Thunderbird works with email xmpp and matrix