#nobridge

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • anamethatisnt@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•A few beginner questions about the differences between distros.
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    2 years ago

    1. Does the distro I pick matter?
      Packages
      When you install a distro it will have repositories of apps that you can easily install and easily keep updated using either the GUI (GNOME Software for GNOME, Discover for KDE) or the package manager in terminal (dnf in Fedora, apt in kubuntu and mint). It’s similar to how you install apps on a smartphone.
      The good thing about the apps from the default repository is that they’re (in theory) tested to work well with the distro.
      You can also install applications from other sources when necessary.
      Update Frequency and new tech
      Another difference is how new kernel and software you get from the repos.
      The latest Debian Stable runs kernel 6.1 while Fedora just updated to 6.12 and arch has been running 6.12 since december.
      If you’re running the newest hardware then the chance of having drivers available automatically increases with a newer kernel.

    2. Company-run distros and alternatives:
      In my opinion Ubuntu is the ones doing the most forcing as of now, and even they are angels compared to Microsoft.
      Fedora had discussions about including opt-out Telemetry to aid them getting data to improve the distro. They listened to community feedback and backpedaled that into opt-in metrics:
      https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Telemetry
      https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Metrics
      Debian and Arch are both examples of distros without enterprise involvement and that have no upstream distro that can affect their releases.
      Map of distros here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

    3. Stability of the distro:
      Of your frontrunners I’ve only run Fedora but that has been stable and been working well for me for my primary PC. So has Debian which I run on my servers (I have a Debian VM running Portainer for dockers, one for running Jellyfin and a third for Forgejo).

    4. Monitor support
      Multi monitor support
      I don’t have the desktop space for double monitors personally, but I’ve heard that KDE 6 (Plasma) handles multi monitor support well.
      HDR
      Should be working since November

    1. Both KDE and GNOME are customizable. KDE is more similar to Windows and I realized that most of my GNOME customizations was to make it more similar to Windows and KDE. I’ve since switched to KDE and must say I really enjoy having a proper file browser as default. Nautilus (default GNOME file browser) has been simplified to death and caused me to create a script to replace it with nemo.

    Nvidia is a whole lot simpler to use than people make it sound like, though I’ll stay team red:
    https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Current_GeForce.2FQuadro.2FTesla
    Fedora guide for Nvidia drivers unless you’re running a really old card:

    sudo dnf update -y # Update your machine and reboot
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia # Installs the driver
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda #optional for cuda/nvdec/nvenc support (required for Davinci Resolve)
    • Gaming including emulation
      First person shooters with kernel intrusive Anticheat won’t work in Linux as they expect to spy on a Windows OS.
      Other than that gaming on Linux is really getting there as I’m sure you’ve realized when using a Steamdeck.
      Outside of Steam you have Heroic Games Launcher, Lutris and Bottles for running windows games on Linux.
      I’m mostly using Lutris but I think Heroic Games launcher is the more popular one.
    • Firefox
      Default browser in most distros
    • VLC
      Available in most default distro repositories.
    • Spotify
      Available as a Flatpak on Flathub, haven’t used it myself.
    • Discord
      I know people has had some trouble with screen sharing but that the DiscordCanary (think Beta version) solves it.
      https://github.com/flathub/com.discordapp.Discord/issues/380
    • Godot
      Can be downloaded as a simple bin file from their own site: https://godotengine.org/download/linux/
      Also available as a Flatpak on Flathub
    • Visual Studio
      The closest you get is VSCode.
    • Git
      Not a problem.
    • Photoshop cs6, audacity, davinci resolve
      Photoshop might be trouble, Audacity and Davinci Resolve should work.
    • Misc “Tinkering” (Handbrake, dvd burners/rippers, Really any weird thing I come across that I want to tinker with)
      Handbrake is available as a Flatpak on Flathub, there’s dvd burner applications available too.
  • anamethatisnt@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•A woman made her AI voice clone say “arse.” Then she got banned.English
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    2 years ago

    Does that mean that you consider the temporary loss of her voice the same harm as if she would’ve lost access permanently?
    Do keep in mind I do not believe the banning to be ok either - but I’d rather have a company where the human factor sometimes fails that can properly undo their mistake and apologize than something like Meta where you cannot even get in touch with a human if something gets flagged.
    The extreme of a company that never does a mistake would of course be the best but that’s never going to happen.

    I hope for the self hosted solution that @singletona@lemmy.world mentioned to become reality, both for people like Joyce and because it would be a step towards self hosted voice assistants for those of us that refuse to use cloud based ones.

    When I first asked Sophia Noel, a company representative, about the incident, she directed me to the company’s prohibited use policy.

    There are rules against threatening child safety, engaging in illegal behavior, providing medical advice, impersonating others, interfering with elections, and more.
    But there’s nothing specifically about inappropriate language. I asked Noel about this, and she said that Joyce’s remark was most likely interpreted as a threat.

    […]

    Joyce doesn’t hold a grudge—and her experience is far from universal.
    Jules uses the same technology, but he hasn’t received any warnings about his language—even though a comedy routine he performs using his voice clone contains plenty of curse words, says his wife, Maria.
    He opened a recent set by yelling “Fuck you guys!” at the audience—his way of ensuring they don’t give him any pity laughs, he joked.
    That comedy set is even promoted on the ElevenLabs website.

    Blank says language like that used by Joyce is no longer restricted.
    “There is no specific swear ban that I know of,” says Noel.
    That’s just as well.