Looking for a self hosting solution or some free alternatives for either chatgpt 4 or ideally sudowrite.

The latter does most of what I want it to do, but the free trial is super limiting and the paid tier is asking too much for not much of a word bump.

The former is only available with a sub but it requires way too much fiddling considering I'd be paying 20$ a month to do what I want but is an option. Sadly, I need gpt4 if I go that route and can't cruise on 3.5 for free.

I'm writing a novel and while I don't care about AI doing the actual writing for me, I do want something to help me organize my ideas or even brainstorm. gpt 3.5 just doesn't have the token bandwidth to do that. Sudowrite does an excellent job with it, but the pricing is stupid at 10$ for 30k words. I went through the 4k free trial just trying to figure out how it works.

I know there's a slew of self hosting chatbots but I haven't seen anyone use them for writing and searching huggingface is a pita.

Google bard could be an option but haven't found a way to jailbreak it and Claude is not available in my country.

Any ideas?

Is there an app (Foss preferably) that's good for podcasts? So far I use Spotify but it's ass backwards with playlists. I downloaded podverse but I can't find any of the three podcasts I listen to on Spotify.

I used to use Retroarch in the past, but on a degoogled phone I can't get it to work, download cores etc.

On Retroarch, I used to play a lot with gambatte and a few shaders that made it look really close to how it was on gameboy/GBC. Now I find myself having to use pizzaboy instead and it looks quite bad in comparison, and the shaders make it even worse.

Anyone knows of a way to get back to my old usecase? Even Retroarch from fdroid refuses to work for me. On pc I am using standalone emulators for everything, but on the phone I really feel like Retroarch is the only good option for old systems/handhelds especially.

So I wanted to give carpet skyadditions a try after watching a couple videos from Ilmango. However, while I agree with him about not using the Oak tree at the start, I really dislike the orange tint of Acacia. How would I go about changing it to say..spruce?

I know I can join in creative break the Oak down, plant and bonemeal a spruce and rejoin normally, however that messes up my advancements. Any way to reset them completely? Also, i see one of the first advancements is to get an oak log. Do I need a custom datapack to change it to spruce log?

So I wanted to give carpet skyadditions a try after watching a couple videos from Ilmango. However, while I agree with him about not using the Oak tree at the start, I really dislike the orange tint of Acacia. How would I go about changing it to say..spruce?

I know I can join in creative break the Oak down, plant and bonemeal a spruce and rejoin normally, however that messes up my advancements. Any way to reset them completely? Also, i see one of the first advancements is to get an oak log. Do I need a custom datapack to change it to spruce log?

If cross posting is not allowed, let me know and I'll delete it. Juat wanted some visibility.

If cross posting is not allowed, let me know and I'll delete it. Juat wanted some visibility.

I've been looking for this album for months now. I jave the mp3s of it but what I want is a lossless version, either as album or the tracks themselves one by one if need be.

I know it was never released in a physical medium (otherwise I'd just buy it off of discogs or something). But I doubt their initial upload was in bad quality mp3s.

I've looked into soulseek and torrents plus a few private trackers without results, if that helps the search. I decided to put it in the hands of the public however, since a few heads are better than one. And while I'm not going to stop the search and wait, I'd appreciate any help here.

App had me on anonymous with no option to change it. I logged out and my account was not saved.

I tried logging in again and now the app crashes every time I open it. I reinstalled, deleted data and cache, app opens. Try to login, it starts crashing again. Any ideas how to fix it? It worked well for the past week or so.

Excuse the bad quality, trying to snap a photo of a crt is a Royal PITA.

Mednafen set for full accuracy with no scaling or anything to the crt. Next steps either a better crt, mister fpga or a modded ps1. Will take a while.

I never was a big social media guy. Never had a Facebook or anything, except what google forced on me like Google+ and on reddit, I just used it for very specific tasks, when I couldn't find answers anywhere else.

With the current shitstorm on reddit I decided that enough is enough and wanted to give this Fediverse I keep hearing about a try. With a little bit of searching around, I made an account, got the mobile app and things seemed settled. Until I tried finding stuff more targeted than a wall of posts on jerbil.

Granted, I haven't read, let alone tried everything yet, but it seems limited, or most likely, I have no idea what I'm doing. Take for example emulation. One of the subreddits I was in, was about emulation since that's a topic I'm passionate about. Good, went to the link provided to search for communities and got 11 results. As expected for the most part.

What was not expected was most of them being in the double digits of users with the biggest ones showing 3 posts and like..6 comments total.

I know that while the fediverse is not new by any means, there's a large growth now with the shit happening over at reddit and is in by no means as populated or interacted with as the latter. But those numbers seem so small to me that I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.

Please help out an illiterate idiot?

PS. Emulation was just an example I was interested with. It's not the point of my post.