@Overlander_[email protected] Naw. Subject selection has always been a tedious chore. No one's artistic skills are being challenged in the market JUST because we can identify a subject and draw a border around it a little faster. ๐
@[email protected] Oh definitely not open source, but Qualcomm has an SDK for devs https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/software/neural-processing-sdk-for-ai
Trying out the Affinity 2 Beta, which has NPU support for a couple new plugins. The object selector is CRAZY fast...
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Cable companies want a stay on the FTC's new Click To Cancel rule. The McFlurry machine can now be repaired! Videos games can not be archived for history. Redditors are working to pollute Google search results. Intel's chips are underwhelming AND showing issues.
And we should probably chat about these new phone chips from Qualcomm and MediaTek...
Let's get our tech week started right!
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@eddeeMN @politics @uspolitics @realTuckFrumper
And even if it is true, we're all still gonna work like she's 10 points down.
@[email protected] Figured it would be faster than writing an article about it or shooting a short on YouTube ๐
@[email protected] If we had regulators with any teeth, we'd have a system to push back against issues like these...
For LinkedIn users, go to your settings, go to the Data Privacy Menu, select the option "Data for Generative AI Improvement".
Flip that switch to off.
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Huh. I think you have to go a ways back for T-Mobile support. Like the X Compact?
I think the last carrier they worked with was VZW for mmWave on the XPERIA pro. Other than that, theyve only been unlocked devices over the last six years.
@[email protected] It's kind of a running theme on tech YouTube these days. Tech "enthusiasts" motivated to comment on videos only appreciate the popularity of product.
If a company is less popular, it doesn't matter if they have useful or fun features, those features are never "worth it". Especially if those features aren't on a more popular phone.
So an XPERIA is often made fun of for having a headphone jack and memory card expansion, and a shutter button has to be mocked.
It's all fanbois and bias confirmation. The rational people aren't leaving comments like they used to, because why would they?
Where are all those smartphone camera "experts" who kept telling me a shutter button on an XPERIA was a bad idea because shutter buttons shake your photos too much?
I mean that was never true, and it was a silly criticism of an awesomely useful hardware feature, but I'm SURE we can expect all those slobs to be internally consistent and recommend against using Apple's version of the shutter button.
Right?
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Early Access on the Patreon! Is this gesture RUINING the photos from your phone??? https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-gesture-111504091
[Spoiler: Yes. It is.]
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@Overlander_[email protected] Oh I'm with you on generative AI slop, but I will admit to enjoying the output of NPUs since the Huawei Kirin chips back in the day.
THat's how we got cameras that could identify subjects, then later we got Sony's amazing eye tracking autofocus, and now subject detection in photo editing apps.
That kind of on-device practical NPU performance is really interesting.
Making soulless "art" out of prompts? A lot less interesting...