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you can already copy images, they show up in the clipboard in gboard, and you can paste them into a text box to send that image on most messaging apps already. this flow already exists. just nobody thought to make something where you can draw on it instead

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the only ways i can find now to send a quick drawing to someone else on a phone is by buying into a whole another messaging app and convince others to use it too. i don't want that! literally every other messaging app i already have is already perfectly capable of sending images, it's just that the pipeline of drawing an image and uploading it through to the app is way more convoluted than it needs to be! i should be able to just draw on my screen where the keyboard is and send it as an image!

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i miss the times when we did more with a 128mb RAM windows ME machine than we do today with 8gb RAM ARM microcomputers in our pockets

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it's fascinating how more boring, less creative and interactive, computing has been for the past 20 years. we used to be able to do this sort of thing (send quick doodles without having to open up 2-3 separate programs) in MSN messenger for crying out loud. now we're pocketing supercomputers that can barely open up and share an image without going through contrived pipelines

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next year we'll have been on hrt for a whole decade waow...

Oh yeah it was my 9th HRT anniversary a few days ago. Wow!

@aura tbh we came out as trans on facebook in 2014 (after being out to closer friends since 2011) simply not to deal with family face to face so you're valid

the one thing i miss from wire (messaging app) is being able to doodle things and send as messages

is there anything like that for other apps on android? maybe something that hooks into the file upload (where you can already pick "gallery" or "camera")

now that i have a phone with a stylus more than ever i want to effortlessly send doodles to discord and telegram

well this is quite possibly the most interaction i've ever had with a post. if you're able bodied and not living in poverty, please consider contributing to our gofundme to allow my partner/carer to move to the uk to live with me full time gofund.me/174a4791

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the one thing i miss from wire (messaging app) is being able to doodle things and send as messages

is there anything like that for other apps on android? maybe something that hooks into the file upload (where you can already pick "gallery" or "camera")

now that i have a phone with a stylus more than ever i want to effortlessly send doodles to discord and telegram

@Erika lol to be fair my website does that with any browser whose user agent matches *chrom*

@hazelnot VSTs are pretty much a Windows construct yeah but they should work over Wine, the Reaper DAW is good for mastering (whether you're recording instruments or voice) but what i was suggesting is just the filters. i don't know about the Linux version of audacity but i thought the Windows version supported VSTs.

either way not something you need to worry about, a VST type filter is only important for real time filtering, and i realise now you're doing it post-recording anyway

@hazelnot no i get what you mean, but if you can isolate those sounds and build a noise profile out of it, it might help eliminate some of the frequencies

at least that's the theory, it's the first thing that comes to mind that you can do for free short of changing microphones

@hazelnot in audacity you should be able to use, i think it calls it a noise removal, if you calibrate it with a track of just your mouth sounds and then apply the removal to your voice track, it could help some. though that kind of noise removal can also make the voice sound a bit muddy depending on how you use it

@hazelnot i found that mine helped at least a bit with those as well, but yeah not a full solution

oh also, if you get ReaPlugs you can try ReaFir, which you can use to build a noise profile and remove certain frequencies from the sound, i do that for mouse clicks which are in a range away from my voice, maybe you could try to calibrate it for mouth noises

i'm only suggesting VSTs in these cases because they're what i have experience with as i do this kind of filtering for real-time, not post

@hazelnot and yeah like others have said, a pop filter between you and the microphone is also essential

@hazelnot my usual pipeline for clearing up vocals like that is noise gate -> compressor -> EQ (a hard high-pass at 100hz is always good)

in VST land i use Cockos' ReaPlugs for noise gate and Melda Productions' free plugins for compressor and EQ, those should run fine in Wine, otherwise i'm not sure what you could use but those would be the "generic" terms for these filters

a de-esser would also help but i've yet to find a good free one, if you do give me a shout

suicide 

i don't fully understand people who still believe that crying out for help actually works

i could talk about killing myself up and down all day here without a single person noticing and if it actually happens everybody (if anyone notices) will go like "oh where'd that come from. i had no idea"

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