jan.ai would be the ideal route to take here then. its open source, has a simple chat interface, it uses llama.cpp, it lets you search for models and downloads them, and it supports .gguf so youre not locked in if you want to use the models with another program later on

is davinci fusion not an after effects alternative? or is it not at the same level?

There’s crossover in that they both do compositing but AE uniquely has a lot of other things from the motion graphics side that just doesn’t exist anywhere else.

Does the integration of Krokodove into Resolve 21 close that gap at all?

In my experience, it's not easy as After Effects. Though for simple VFX, motion or animation is doable.

For me best alternative to AE is Blender.

Yeah this is the way. Blender has a higher learning curve than AE but it’s ultimately much better at actual 3d than AE is, and the recent improvements to the interface have made it a lot more usable.

well, just based off that group photo of the openclaw developer and the staff at openai, i wouldnt be surprised if there was some truth to this

tailscale has a feature called "funnel" that will let others connect to a service running on your tailnet, even if they dont use tailscale themselves

you can at least block some of it out with ublock origin?

  news.ycombinator.com##td.title:has-text(/LLM|AI/i)

I use a bookmarklet for this: https://github.com/dan-lovelace/hn-blocklist

It doesn’t matter if nobody votes interesting stuff out of /new because the rest of HN only cares about AI posts.

is Bitwig not as good as Ableton? ive never used Ableton so i wouldnt know, but Bitwig seems crazy good to me, especially compared to other DAWs on linux like Ardour or Reaper

If you already have an ableton license the thought of paying the same amount again sucks. Reaper is nice for all things recording though

just to piggyback off of this, theres also Pikapods (based in malta i think) that have about 100 or so self-hosted apps that can be installed with one-click and then you just pay depending on what you use. im more into self-hosting on my own hardware but its a nice option for people who want to get their feet wet or that dont have the time to manage a VPS themselves

i thought the same but ive actually moved twice now. first to protonmail whenever that came out, then again a few years ago to posteo. it actually didnt feel like that much work in the end. i set up forwarding and switched over a few accounts every week. i still kept my gmail account around for years just in case but there will be a point where you just know you have all the important things switched over

thunderbird (formerly k9 mail) is a decent enough android app, but im not very picky when it comes to email either so keep that in mind. ive been using it with posteo for about 2 years now

fennec (firefox mobile fork) lets you install ublock origin

newpipe or tubular for youtube. ive also been using freetube lately. its just the desktop ui ported to an android app so its not as good as newpipe, but im using syncthing to sync freetube's settings/subscriptions between desktop and mobile

comaps is better fork of organicmaps and has better people running it

the fossify apps are great for the basics, sms, phone/contacts, gallery, calculator etc

droidify is a nicer front end for the fdroid store imo

keepassdx for passwords

kde connect or localsend for one-off file transfers between devices, or syncthing for things you need to sync all the time

and hacki for hackernews!

Plain old Firefox on Android lets you install uBlock Origin too.

There's also IronFox.

What makes comaps better?

its only a fork since a year ago so there isnt a major difference between to two in terms of features. see: https://www.comaps.app/support/how-do-the-features-differ-fr...

but i mainly meant its better just because its more community based now

Better governance, hopefully:

https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

https://lwn.net/Articles/1024387/