Already halfway to even ratio :D

If you are using an OS that allows you to isolate apps from internet/network access you can just install googles app for that from aurora store, download the offline packages for the languages you want and then cut it off from internet access. I havent had any issues with that and it works for both TTS and STT.

If thats not to your liking your can try finding and downloading other models to use with the SherpaTTS app.

I convinced my workplace to host this one and it works well for us.

Yeep there are quite a few of these that get them into the hands of disadvanteged people or underfunded schools and such.

How did you solve it?

Some phones do still work without, but i think most dont.

some devices will bypass the battery when permanently plugged in. I have an old phone i use as a syncthing node and i log the battery current on it. It never actually gets used by the phone, it only suffers from some very slight internal discharge.

has me reconsidering my use of syncthing

This is about a third party piece of software that isnt directly related to syncthing. The devs of syncthing have however been recommending syncthing-fork as their choice for android, so it definitely needs clearing up.

It doesnt really feel “slow” to me but just buggy and like its trying to do too many things at once.

Thats just 14h tho, not too bad.

They have a page about that: https://watchy.sqfmi.com/docs/battery-life

With only time keeping, Watchy should have a battery life of 5-7 days, while with fetching data over WiFi, it should last between 2-3 days. These numbers can be extended through further optimizations (e.g. sleep during off hours, waking up only on motion/tilt, etc.).

By default it wakes up the CPU and updates the display every 60 seconds, but you could totally change this to make it only update on demand (the most efficient would be by button press) which should extend the battery life waaay beyond 7 days.

I havent used it yet, so cant really say much, but ive been looking at watchy. https://watchy.sqfmi.com/

ESP32 based with a epaper display

If just this one OS, that i havent even really heard of, hit 100k downloads in two days, then there must have been like 100M downloads in the last week or so for all linux distros combined. Now i wanna see someone try to aggregate all download numbers from the major distros into a time plot to see if there is a noticeable change.

The lenovo is super cheap (sub 100€) and probably does most things you usually need yeah.

It wont, but it will create uncertainty for small developers and modders.

No, not really. A company being able to prevent people from doing what they want with software they paid for on their own device by using copyright law is in fact not good news at all.

Its not a sentence for hacking or something like that. Cheat software usually runs entirely on your device, the fact that its an online game isnt even part of the case from what i can see.

This line of legal logic can and will totally be used to do evil things like banning modding or local cheating.

Cheating just needs to be accepted as part of reality in games. The solution is better server side checks and faster bans, not interfering with peoples freedom to do what they want with their machine.

Basically this just gives game companies a pass to behave like book/movie companies with DRM. Suing anyone that enables people to decrypt or modify the files that they paid for.

Slightly over dramatized. This happens basically every month or so. They break it, we fix it. For me newpipe and yt-dlp havent even stopped working despite not updating anything.

This isnt news tho, its been banned for years.

There is privacytools.io aswell

I would have thought that ubuntu does proper stability testing before pushing out updates. Well im glad you were able to get it working again.