We just did this in the States. Family of 5 with a malamute that likes to road trip to places and do active things (read as, we need luggage space). In the "not crazy expensive" range was some mini vans, and suburban sized vehicles. Ended up with a Ford excursion max.

i still kind of miss mercurial.

You don't need to, Jujutsu[1] gives you most of mercurial with some additional stuff. And relevant for this subthread, Tangled appears to work with it[2].

[1] https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/

[2] https://blog.tangled.org/stacking

Now we just need to drop the phone number requirements and signal would be "done" for all practical purposes

Phone numbers aren't required now. But there are flaws in Signal. Your phone usage can be tracked in high resolution through constant pinging of malformed status messages. I can't find the paper right now but researchers found that they could track their own data about when the phone was on, unlocked, and had Signal on the screen. That can be correlated between users, to see who is talking to who. It can be used to try to ambush you while the phone is unlocked. You don't even have to have a connection to the spies, if I remember right. Signal devs have done nothing about this issue since being notified like a year ago.

Edit: Found it! "Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers" https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11194

> Phone numbers aren't required now.

Signal still requires a phone number for registration.

They also require running the app on a "real phone" for registration. Most emulators put you in captcha hell

Damn, what a shame... Another vote for Session, I guess. Idk what flaws that one has but it seems to be the leading alternative to Signal.

And you can use your Session ID to post or reply to posts at https://www.LokiList.com (best viewed with javascript disabled) for anonymous casual encounters.

Unfortunately...

For very limited practical purposes. Others would include proper multi device support

Lots of interesting rocket history at SSFL too https://flickr.com/photos/heads-up/14531361085/in/dateposted... . Fascinating place

Yes it is, all back in the day of anything goes engineering. For better or worse.

Are there reasonable foss WhatsApp clients?

You can dump any vdev you want in a special. I have 2x 3 way mirrors in both of my nas boxes right now

Really any option that has true dual compressors is going to be fairly solid. We just got a Bosch 800 and have been quiet happy with it

The fed tax credit ones are just part of your normal filing with the IRS (5695). The state ones vary

Is there anything like this comparison for nsfw images? I'm married to a boudoir photographer who sometimes wants to use ai tools for things, and they are all _awfull_ if there is nudity on photos. It's like some sort of neo puritanism has taken over.

I also do similar work and have run tests on many models. I have listed a few here with sample images using one prompt with a single run. I know it isn't a comprehensive review like OP, but it's something. My personal preference through experience is epicRealismXL.

https://imgchest.com/p/xny8e23jpyb

Thanks for the tip. Need to see how well these work for inpainting