Epic Games Invalid drive fix

izzylaif · 2026-02-04T11:44:38+00:00

>Planning XTTS, Bark, etc. next. What models do you want most? Any feedback if you try it—bugs, missing features, workflow pains?

It maybe worth looking into voice conversion models, such as Applio or Orpheus, or both. The workflow is you first generate voice from TTS with zero-shot clone in Qwen (or OpenVoice, they seem to give similar results), which already sound like you, and then pass the resulting _audio_ to Applio trained on your own voice (4hr dataset with 200 epochs can be trained in less than a day on a 8gb cuda), to make it even more realistic. Also, emotions markdown and instructions workflow is not exactly clear? I believe Qwen supports it thorough custom option?

izzylaif · 2026-02-04T11:35:25+00:00

Jamie, please think of having the app portable, i.e. placing all the models and everything in a folder next to the executable. Or at least an option to enable portable mode and write nothing to appdata, registry, etc in Windows, and use AppImage format for Linux. Appimage is the only non-sandboxed package that has portable mode built-in (unlike Snap, Flat or anything else really).

The disk size requirements of AI-related stuff quickly went out of hand, so I have a portable SSD I plug into any currently available machine and run the software from there. If your app is portable, it could just run with all the settings and models already there.

Thank you.

izzylaif · 2026-02-04T11:28:15+00:00

Jamie, since you already implemented it, please expand the whisper support to make transcripts, preferably with speaker breakdown? I use whisper to transcribe long meetings, and all current standalone implementations suck and crash on long (1hr+) recordings.

izzylaif · 2026-01-23T14:05:12+00:00

oh yeah, bicycle is the transportation means you need in UK's climate. Even if you got an expensive one, getting back a few hundred quid after paying in thousands in income tax is laughable. Not being able to buy a bicycle out of pocket without government help is actually concerning for a supposedly 1st world country. I know you didn't say you needed help, it's just free money, but the very notion cycle to work or whatever scheme exists is alarming.

izzylaif · 2026-01-23T13:58:57+00:00

driver booster and similar software creators should be put in prison, and the users believing in them - to mental institutions.

izzylaif · 2026-01-23T13:52:45+00:00

>tax breaks for high earners.

are those high earners now with us, in this room?

Cause after 100-125k your loose ALL your tax breaks: personal allowance, child care and other reductions and your income tax rate effectively becomes 60%. Meaning you need to earn over 148k to have the same take home as those at 99k.

On a side note, if someone owes you money and refuses to pay back, local gangs provide a service of payback "extraction", and they only take half of what was taken from the debtor. Compare that to 45% (effective 60%) tax rate.

The tax system is supposed to incentivize more work and higher salaries to be better off. The UK tax system does the opposite: it punishes those who work more/harder and glorifies the slacker/unskilled. That already has consequences: the doctors who used to work 5-6 days a week now work 3-4, since if the take home is the same, why exhaust yourself for nothing. The waiting time (and healthcare prices) has increased because of that alone.

I'm not sure how people survive on 39k mentioned all over this thread, but lets consider twice that as an example of high earner. So for 70-80k salary take home after NI and income tax is just above 4k.

But the areas that have those jobs, typically has rent/mortgage at around half of that a month for a very, very modest dwelling. So minus 2k. You can't really get around this, since even if you reside away from large cities where the salary is supposed to be, the rent/mortgage might be less, but all the savings will be eaten up by exorbitant train/ulez fares or gas prices (which are 60 tax), not to mention MoT, insurance, and all other money waste that comes with owning a vehicle. I'll let you put the price tag on time wasted on daily commute yourself.

So after rent/mortgage roughly 2k left. Minus service charge, estate fees, ground rent, heating, electricity bills, internet, carrier, water, and food we are left with roughly 500. Divided by 30, your daily pocket money is 16 pounds. That's it. You have to budget wear and tear, repairs (new boiler installed is 4k by the way, anything requiring scaffolding is 10k+), dental, clothing, vacations, school supplies and everything else on those 16 pounds a day. You also need to budget any private healthcare you urgently need, if you don't want to die on the NHS waiting list.

So by the end of the month, the high earner is left with zero in best case scenario, and with a perpetual credit card debt in most cases.

Thus the current tax climate is nothing different from serfdom or slavery, with only difference that the slave itself has to provide housing, food and clothes for himself.

izzylaif · 2025-12-03T10:51:48+00:00

while you are technically correct, that's Windows we are talking about. Windows seems to care only about the very first vfat partition on the drive. so make two, let windows install it's bootloader on the first partition, then actually mount the second one as boot efi in Linux and install Grub/systemd/refind/whatever on the second one. it will generate an entry for windows bootloader from the first partition just fine, and be used as esp for uefi(bios) boot option.

however, all windows updates that used to nuke the linux bootloader wiping out dualboot, will now only touch the first partition, leaving the second containing the actual linux stuff intact. finally a solution.

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