IcedRaktajino

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 11 points 4 months ago

This theory is making more and more sense. Which also implies there's no Who Tony Stark to make him the uber-stretchy pants.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 25 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Or maybe he's like the Hulk and turns back into a regular Who when he's in a better mood?

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 22 points 4 months ago (4 children)

https://github.com/marytts/marytts

I've used MaryTTS semi-recently. It's older but works well enough for my cases. I have it running on a server (locally) and my endpoints make a call to it and playback the returned audio file.

On Android, I use SherpaTTS which has good voices, but I'm not aware of a desktop/Linux option. It mentions using voices from Coqui which you linked, so I would guess that would be the way to go for desktop.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Dunno how I missed this, but I referenced this post as a reply to another and am just now seeing it.

The box I ssh into is headless, and AFAIK, use of /media/{user}/{mountpoint} is just a desktop environment convention. When I plug in any kind of removable media to this box, I manually mount it under /mnt. I mount my NAS's media share to /media mostly for convenience since that's the main purpose of this box in my workshop.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My personal record is ~17 sneezes in a row. Hashtag "allergy life".

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, boy, that brings back memories of being a teenager in the early 90s. Grandpa gifted me his old CB, got it setup and tuned in, and immediately turned it off.

It's just that back then, those people weren't glamorized with fancy titles like "podcaster" or "influencer". They were just garden variety cranks everyone knew to just ignore.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

Truth.

And given all that's happened between the original run of KoTH and the present, I found Dale a lot less charming in the reboot.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 13 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I'm not saying the concept didn't exist then. There was just a higher barrier to entry than buying a microphone.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nedry was literally a computer scientist and systems designer / programmer from Cambridge. Arnold was a theme park engineer (designing rides and control systems; some programming involved but a whole different paradigm than developing large systems).

Source: Have read the novel 50+ times.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 37 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Arnold was an engineer, though. He was competent in using the system and not totally lost when poking around the code, but he's no computer scientist. Basically, he was a power user / sysadmin rather than a developer.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fucking with and/or interfering with someone trying to bring their lost pet home is in the top 3 dick moves you can do as a human.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 8 points 5 months ago

Just a plain, simple tailor 😎

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