Even if you extracted the APK, apps can tell how they were installed and may refuse to work if it wasn't via the Play Store.

but rather than just cranking up the exposure or brightness, it seems to do the equivalent of bringing the detail from shadows in Photoshop.

Maybe the levels slider? If you place the black point pointer further to the left shoulder of the curve, the shadows won't be as dark.

I use XSane for scanning photos and I get good results. It has plenty of options and auto-names files like you said. I'm not sure what Descreening and Backlight Correction are for, though.

i hate musk as much as anyone but he's under no obligation to provide internet for weapons of war, and if you're the AFU i don't know why you'd rely on it for your tactics

I could understand requiring an account with Jitsi itself, but needing that account to be Facebook, Google, or MS seems to be at odds with the type of person who would use an encrypted video chat in the first place.

i understand that our level of activity tends to overwhelm smaller instances, but what others call "brigading" is literally just us clicking on what's on the front page.

what do you think imperialism is? the island of taiwan has historically been part of china, the KMT just held onto it after losing the civil war. it's like if the CSA somehow kept florida

There are "boomer" forums I know of where they also generally deny AI is possible anytime soon, claim GPT-n is a stochastic parrot, and make fun of tech bros as being hypesters who collect 300k to edit javascript and drive Teslas*.

i hate rationalists too but this is literally a correct take

You should be good to go, I've used various AMD cards in Linux and have never had to go out of my way to install drivers.

Bought and paid for by the all-powerful Climate Science Industry?

Facebook is both spyware and evil but it seems strange to call it "corrupt". It wasn't corrupted, this is what the zuck wanted.

Communist Party of China, CPC. The country that they are in is China (PRC). A billion people do not live in the "CCP", that's like saying Japanese people live in the LDP, and your imprecise use of these terms makes you look uninformed. Unless, of course, you just constantly say "CCP" because you don't want to recognize that they are the legitimate and popular government of China, you know, a country.

I speak of russia generally so I can include USSR and the current state of affairs. I realize they are different but they are both authoritarian. They be capitalist but they call themselves communists.

This is a meaningless statement. Any government that wields power to accomplish things is "authoritarian". It's silly to equate the USSR with the Russian Federation when they are two very different administrations with distinct ideology and policies. Russia for the past 30 years is a capitalist country with an administration originally installed by the US. Putin is a right-wing figure and an anti-communist. I don't like Putin and the other rightists in charge of Russia, but I hope NATO doesn't win out in the East because I don't want the US Empire ruling over the whole world.