Preach brother. One of the best uses of generative AI for me would be transcribing videos into an article or tutorial depending on the content.

it will attempt anything. just search around for anyone else whose tried the app. odds are pretty good.

I’m guessing those pieces of software won’t run in wine? Its pretty good these days.

Its unfortunately true. I’m not sure how to get more engagement from businesses and municipalities, but if they got involved to maintain their locations then it would be a great help. Just have to make it attractive enough in terms of tourism and money. Or just easy enough. Like a POI database that would update entries across many of the map platforms at once. No idea how feasible that is, but I’m sure business owners would love to have one simple tool to update their data rather than 10.

Just remember that these community efforts are only maintained by the community. If the data is inaccurate then the area needs more help.

As Darth Vader said, you have to be the change you want to see in the world.

If you appreciate OpenStreetMaps then check out StreetComplete. Its “like” Pokemon Go but for improving maps.

I’ve been using Magic Earth for a while and it is quite good. Better interface than OsmAnd and Organic, but I keep all three installed.

Very cool

I like this idea so much. Do the public libraries not have some kind of video service already? Seems like a network of library-powered PeerTube instances would serve that niche really well.

Ah. I still have a “gmail” account but it’s entirely for the places that require a Google account now.

As for YouTube, I just stumbled across this thread: https://lemmy.zip/post/16741291

I highly recommend looking at something like Proton for 3 and 4. Or backblaze for 4 if it’s truly for backup.

I have mine working with Navidrone without any issues.

There is a Home Assistant app for Garmin watches that is pretty usable. The flashlight is surpassingly, hilariously, one of my favorite features though.

Home Assistant is a great alternative. It gets better and better as all Google and Alexa get worse and worse.

What phone functions are you interested in? In theory if you can control it from HA you can control it from Assist. Sometimes it requires a bit more elbow grease though. I don’t use timers much, so I haven’t tried that. I don’t see why you couldn’t create a custom sentence and intent for it though.

I’ve already replaced It with Home Assistant. Wake words are still shaky, but everything else is at least as good if you’re willing to configure it. At least for my use cases.