Apple likes being able to distribute apps and have users pay subscriptions to run them locally. This is what they already do; even 3rd party apps get a cut to Apple.

And its why iPhones are so powerful, other than their meager RAM capacity.

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize … I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” Trump’s message to Jonas Gahr Støre said. “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”

The Norwegian government has no control over how the Nobel Committee awards its prizes. Greenland is a territory of Denmark, not Norway.

I don’t understand how this is “normal.”

Like, I can bring this up to Trump-liking family, genuinely smart people, and it’s just brushed off.

If Biden so much as stuttered in a speech, it was like a national emergency. What do you think would happen if he started mixing up EU countries and impulse texting them over “your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize?”

Congress would impeach any other president on the spot. Democrat or Republican.

Even accounting for Fox News, I just don’t understand how this gets a pass.

Home security.

Get a basic gun. Practice at a range. If you can afford it, invest in security cameras.

I guess you could involve a lawyer if the situation becomes untenable.

Don’t panic; theres a 99%+ chance you’ll be fine.

But don’t ignore the 1%. To all the “it’s just an internet troll” folks: see Jonathan Ross, where one such angry troll shot him dead, just because:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Joss

May he rest in peace :(

You put that a bit abrasively, but yeah.

Don’t forget human civilization’s light horizon being a tiny blip, even within our own galaxy. We have about 24,000 years until the galactic core sees Jesus.

I had the incredible fortune of visiting Tanzania recently, and flying over Dar Es Salam was mind boggling. That city is huge.

Arusha is gorgeous too.

And they’re all growing crazy fast, as far as I can tell. Africa is gonna be leaving us in the dust some day.

Eh at least they presumably pay attention, moderate it, and tailor it to your country.

One of my issues with FB is that it mind as well be run from Alpha Centauri. There’s nothing “human” or local about, its a gaping maw mixed with tons of other predatory service.

local analog of FB

That sounds lovely!

Use a Google Voice phone number, and an AI generated photo/video.

You can even use augmentations to create different photos/videos of the same fake person. Or create an “altered” version of yourself close enough to match whatever Facebook has.

…Hopefully.

I’m in the same predicament. There’s always eBay, but they take a fat cut on top of whatever is paid for shipping.

Be aware that with eBay, shipping times can vary.

The seller has a grace period to pack stuff up, and even once it’s handed off, shipping can take longer than the estimate, especially with USPS.

The good thing is that we have a few giants with vested interests in resisting that. PC OEMs like Dell and HP, Clevo, Intel/AMD who still have huge consumer sales, and the big one:

Apple.

Apple is all-in on personal compute, and they have the muscle to resist the anticompetitive plays, hopefully.

Why the UK? They left the EU, and have nothing to do with Greenland, right?

Not conservative Millenials/Z. Apparently.

Judging by slices I see on Reddit/Facebook/Twitter, they are in alternate reality where all this is hysteria. The plan is to settle down with a tradwife and smile into their Rumble podcasts, I guess?

There’s nothing realistic about Star Trek.

This needs to be hammered more. It’s an awesome setting for exploring contemporary social issues; that’s the point. But no matter how technologically advanced we get, it’s just not based on even plausible physics/engineering. Neither is Terminator.

I think the most plausible ‘extrapolation’ I’ve seen is Orion’s Arm:

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/486e75a54a1ae

https://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-timeline

And, as an aside, I adore this Mass Effect story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42006774/chapters/105462066

They extrapolate alteration of human biology, nanotechnology, plantery engineering, STL space travel, and AI, and that future looks nothing like more-or-less unaltered baseline humans walking around on a space boat with glorified voice assistants. Consciousness is uploaded and downloaded. Artifical realities are vast. Whole celestial bodies are manipulated for all sorts of purposes. People can inhabit an array ‘bodies’ and realities that make stuff like starship bridges/hallways and colonies on planets seem silly. There are ‘stratas’ of consciousness literally orders of magnitude apart, states of being incomprehensible to each other, all coexisting in an expanding bubble of civilization thats still younger and (in some ways) more primitive than the TNG Federation.

And we aren’t that far from that. Including the “techpocalypse” it predicts.

Terminator and Star Trek, and classic sci fi, don’t depict this because they’re stories aimed at humans living right now, and their interpersonal relationships and contemporary social/political issues. More realistic extrapolations are tougher settings for that.

So the question is… would you want a perfect AI that was incapable of lying or harbouring anything untrue? Basically you could ask it anything and it would give you the correct answer.

Where I’m going with this is that this is that, to me, this not a realistic question. Practically, it’d be silly to relegate a “true” AI as a dumb voice assistant on a space boat; they’re conscious beings, even if they’re shackled or so highly specialized.

They’re not so different from human beings at that point. In a more realistic situation, you could be uploaded and repurposed as the Enterprise voice assistant, and have your consiousness duplicated and mashed with complex systems; pondering if you’d want to be Siri seems kind of silly.

Lemmy/Piefed is an echo chamber, and has some structural issues like Reddit. But there’s no algo, no advertising, nor constant phone notifications.

And, uh, no billionaires warping “open” discourse.

To me, it’s a time black hole, worse than old forums. But it’s not nearly as bad as (say) Discord or anything Facebook owned.

Davinci works better in Linux. Vapoursynth mostly works better in Linux.

RAW photo editing is already horrible in Windows if you’re trying to do HDR. To be fair, it’s horrible in Linux too. As much as I hate it, they can’t touch Apple there.

See this post I just made: https://lemmy.world/post/41751454/21613633

iOS will render HDR JPEG-XL, AVIF and tiled HEIFs straight out of a camera; no problem. Heck, it will even display RAWs in the photo app. But it’s a struggle on Windows and Linux.

And if by “professional use” you mean “Adobe,” I view that in the same way as still being on Twitter. At this point, subjecting yourself to Adobe on Windows is something you should do through gritted teeth.

You’d gain HDR!

Windows is nearly effortless to maintain if you only use it for entertainment.

Maybe we just have different priorities, but right now, I’d be miserable and wasting so much time if I was stuck on Linux only, even though I use Linux like 90% of the time. Some media and some games just won’t look right.

And to emphasize, it would take sooo much time to massage this issue on Linux. Dual booting saves me a ton of maintenance and tweaking.

Here’s an interesting test:

Say what you will about Safari and iOS, but it rocks with image format support. HDR JPEG XL and AVIF render correctly, and look like the original HEIF file from the camera.

Helium (a Chrome fork) is on the left, Firefox on the right, running CachyOS Linux with KDE on a TV, HDR enabled from AMD output.

Firefox fails miserably :(

Chrome sorta gets the AVIF right, though it seems to lose some dynamic range with the sun.

I don’t really see the logic to that, as switching is near effortless. It takes a couple of seconds to reboot and select the other OS. Ditching HDR, on the other hand, is painful.

Each to their own though.

Completely disagree.

Even setting gaming aside, I’ve started taking family/fun photos in HDR instead of JPEG, and on things that can render them (like smartphones and TVs), they are gorgeous. I can’t imagine going back now.

I took this on a walk this week, completely unedited:

If your browser doesn’t render that, here’s my best attempt at an AVIF conversion:

And JPEG-XL:

On my iPhone or a TV, the sun is so bright it makes you squint, and as yellow-orange as real life. The bridge in shadow is dark but clear. It looks just like I’m standing there, with my eyes adjusting to different parts of the picture.

I love this! It feels like a cold, cozy memory.

Now if I crush it down to an SDR JPEG:

It just doesn’t* look* right. The sun is a paper-white blob, and washed out. And while this is technically not the fault of encoding it as SDR, simply being an 8 bit JPEG crushed all the shadows into blocky grey blobs.

…This is the kicker with HDR. It’s not that it doesn’t look incredible. But the software/display support is just not there.

I bet most browsers viewing this post aren’t rendering those images right, if at all.

Lemmy, a brand new platform, doesn’t even support JXL, HEIF, or AVIF! It doesn’t support any HDR format at all; I had to embed them from catbox.

Paid mods are a whole thing on top. You get stuff like hardcoded incompatibilities just to sabotage other mods, obfuscated code to sabotage compatibility, weird interpersonal spats, and what I can only describe as “Discord development cults.”

But all that’s beside the point. If the publisher sanctions paid mods in some kind of marketplace, okay. But you can’t sneak under their nose then complain when they notice you.