There's a lot of necessity there. Our natural speaking voices use the throat and lungs in a different way than any singing techniques. And, there's multiple ways of using them to get a desired sound.
So there's some degree of style involved, but past a certain point you have to change your voice to sing rather than just speak in tune (which is still a valid thing of its own)
There's a lot of similarities, that's for damn sure.
However, since dogs are way smarter than kids, they take less time to learn things
Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.
Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn't a slight against any of them.
Eternity is another one that I've had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that's a useful option.
Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren't likely to enjoy that ui.
On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren't great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.
that's sync
I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all
boost
eternity
connect
and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I've tried, and still does lemmy just fine.
Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual
thunder
annnd summit
As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they're even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They're reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.
That was my thought exactly, with the addition of something along the lines of: "gee, it must have flown through Thanksgiving dinner"
You hear about the dwarf psychic that escaped prison?
He's a small medium at large
Tintinabulation!
It's not as direct an onomatopoeia as your example, but it so perfectly encapsulates the experience of hearing the bells, bells, bells, that it counts imo
I mean, dude does seem pretty rapey. I wouldn't leave my chickens alone with him.
Nah, it's only gay if you like it
I think the app ecosystem of Smart Cats is good enough to make up for the loss in simplicity from Stupid Cats
One problem
Batteries.
I've used old devices as many things: security cameras, a form of intercom, digital picture frames, etc. The real problem is that the batteries eventually go bad, and become dangerous.
For the few devices that have realistically replaceable batteries, that's no big deal, but how many of those are left now?
No thanks to the potential fire, I'll pass. The few devices I have left that I can swap batteries out are becoming harder to find new batteries for as well, so that's an issue beyond their anemic hardware (I'm talking really old tablets at this point)
It's the astroturfing that's objectionable.