I haven't heard of voice-changers that can replicate other people's voices that aren't made with machine learning.
The issue is impersonation. An AI voice generator that does not imitate anyone in specific and has a "unique" voice, I have no issue with that.
And obviously, a human voice imitator that uses it for impersonating others is also an issue. But that's far less common and accessible than a computer powered option.
yeah, the most shady part of this is that SimpleApps' code was available in Github. They could have just used that and upload it to the Play Store.
why did they buy it from the developer instead? because thousands of people already had these installed, so when buying it from the developer they get to push their new, ad infested versions to the unwary users had the apps installed.
Not even close. This has nothing to do with SimpleApps.
A crappy company bought them from the original creator and maintainer. This company is well known for buying mildly popular apps and inserting ads in them for monetisation.
People who downloaded them from F-Droid should be fine tho.
just let me encrypt my data locally. I don't trust their obfuscated JavaScript to handle my encryption keys. Give me IMAP and I'll use my good old client with my OpenPGP plugin.
no, not that many companies solder the SSD. The RAM? yeah, it's widespread now. But you can still find laptops with upgradeable RAM. The SSD has been replaceable in most laptops.
And yes, the 8GB RAM is very relevant to the discussion, because for the same price every other manufacturer is offering at the very least 16GB, in most cases 32GB and in some 64GB.
8GB macbooks will be rendered obsolete way sooner than 16GB laptops. That's ewaste for you.
they are also not the worst
I'd argue that they are very close to that title, given their marketshare.
Sure, you have years of software support. Great. Did the hardware survive that long? Do you need any repair? Because they won't allow third party spare parts so it would be a shame if you needed one.
Also, the software support desktop, Linux has not a limited amount of years of support, it could revive perfectly good hardware that Apple doesn't support anymore and they deliberately make it difficult to install.
yeah, that green company that artificially impedes reusing parts by firmware.
the very same company that sells premium laptops with not upgradeable 8 GB of RAM. The very same company which sells laptops in which even the SSD is soldered, so when it dies or when it is full (the base model is 256 GB and they make you pay a big premium for more) you have to replace the whole thing.
There are a bunch of good FOSS Lemmy clients, which I'd argue are as good as Sync or Boost (I can't know for sure since I don't use proprietary software, I judge by the screenshots).
Jerboa sucks, I'll give you that. But both Voyager and Eternity are high quality clients that work amazingly well and are constantly updated. They have plenty of features and are very configurable.
Interesting. I like the UI. I doubt the aesthetic people on Tumblr would like it but that's not the point.
it's always welcome to have more options in the fediverse.
How is federation working, BTW? I see you've commented from wafrn, are you able to follow Lemmy communities from there?