if you mainly play Switch 1 games, it's not worth the upgrade. I've got both and Switch 1 games are not dramatically better. The screen is certainly not as good as the Switch OLED, so if you have that and aren't interested in Switch 2 games you've made a good choice!
They already have corporate sponsorships from Google, Meta, Nvidia, and other big companies. Anthropic is just joining the list. This is actually good for Blender.
Yes, Claude is the AI doing my denoising. I keep running out of tokens with my 4k renders.
AI is a nebulous term. AI denoisers are not the same thing as an LLM or image gen model, the ire is directed at LLMs and not AI denoisers because they are completely different things.
Wasn't this one called "machine learning" for denoising and upscaling? That's completely different from an LLM replacing your job (after being trained on your work without permission).
In my country 95% of people don't mind Meta tracking their location with WhatsApp, so I think the days of people caring about tracking are long gone!
I am the exception and believe in privacy, and I've not used a Meta app since I tested Facebook/WhatsApp back in 2010 and soon uninstalled them as I don't want a digital portfolio to be developed on me for advertisers. Same with Google, they can whistle for my personal information, but they won't get it!
I'm sure surveillance companies have an even easier time buying data from Meta/WhatsApp so that's even more worrying as people use different ISPs so 95% of people won't be traced by any one ISP, but Meta and Google have the location information of anyone gullible enough to use their services.
>In my country 95% of people don't mind Meta tracking their location with WhatsApp
Source? Seems unlikely given that both android and ios has location permissions and keeps track of whether it's used. Non-consensual (ie. you're not specifically using some location sharing feature or whatever) is very likely to be caught and cause a publicity shitstorm.
One of the first bits of infosec advice I give to my non-technical friends and family, when they ask for it, is to turn off background location access for all apps on their phones.
Needless to say, I know plenty of technical people who don't care about it.
This brought back some memories. So nice to see art from an era where you really needed talent to be able to produce it. Such a nice contrast to the AI slop which takes no talent to produce!
In an interesting twist of fate, one of the master copyists featured prominently in the Scener section of that site has come back in the last few years to win graphics competitions again with both
- directly ripping newer, lesser known artists instead of the classic Vallejo/Sorayama from the 90s. https://ibb.co/GpDVf2r
- switching to midjourney from ~2023 to now, so the sources are near untraceable (this was also supposedly leaked).
It still takes some talent to do a good looking copy, but it's not the same talent - and very dishonest when such literal use of reference is not credited.
In fact it's been an issue in the 16bit demoscene with graphics (standalone and in demos) suddenly getting more plentiful, with subjects constructed and lit a lot better, etc. and people being called out for suspicious works (and usually getting away with it, "because the whole point was to support our insane image compression code with a ton of images" etc.)
GenAI is a bubble, but that’s not the same as the broader field of AI, which is completely different. We will probably not even be using chat bots in a few years, better interfaces will be developed with real intelligence, not just predictive statistics.
It’s a good thing that most people don’t buy Macs for gaming, as they suck compared to any other platform. Anyone who expects a good experience is fooling themselves as they won’t get it! If you want to experience games as the developer intends, don’t play ports that use compatibility layers, just buy a console and play natively!
> If you want to experience games as the developer intends, don’t play ports that use compatibility layers
A few months ago I would have assumed you're correct.
But recently I've played some games on my laptop with Lutris on Ubuntu which uses Wine or Proton under the hood.
The performance and stability is excellent. Although I haven't done any testing, subjectively it feels superior or at least equal to Windows. I've played several intense titles which are pushing my laptop's GPU (Nvidia 3070m) to it's limit, most recently the new Indiana Jones game (which is excellent FYI).
It depends on the game, the distro, the version of the game, the kernel and the windowing system as to how well it performs. I am using Debian and while a lot of games work well, some games are an absolute PITA to setup properly.
A lot of games are ported to Mac / Linux by a third party. The quality of that port is dependant on the company and the budget for porting it. If I was a game developers I would never do a Mac port.
I object to the 1.3 million people that are killed by human drivers every year. They should be banned and autonomous vehicles only allowed on the road, without steering wheels.
Why not ban individually owned and operated cars, and create a focus pedestrian infrastructure and trains then? This technology already exists, it’s healthier, and cheaper!
The technology exists to have only trains get close enough to everywhere that you can only use train and feet? Honest question, can you get by with only trains even in Japan?
I think the hybrid approach here might work well. Allow self-driving cars, but limit their speed to one in which they are very clearly safe, maybe something like 10 to 20 mph currently. This would cause most people most of the time to use mass transit, and if the last mile(or first, getting to the train station) of their trip required it they could opt for it.
Even for people who have a perfect, unblemished safety record at driving? Which, btw, is the majority of drivers on the road?
Basically, you're saying you're fine with punishing the responsible people who take driving seriously and do it safely, because of the mistakes of a few irresponsible people who don't. That's backasswards. You should be focusing on the irresponsible people and leave the responsible ones alone.
Maybe the industry will realize that most vegetarians and vegans find anything like meat revolting. They much prefer vegetarian meals that are not ultra-processed and still resemble the vegetable used to make them.
Personally, the taste and look of beyond meat make me urge and feel like vomiting. It looks and tastes too much like a dead animal. I never miss the taste of meat, in fact, I hate the idea of eating anything that used to be alive.
Even in one of the countries with the highest percentage of vegetarians (India; though you can argue that poverty has an impact, since we know that meat consumption goes up with revenue), vegetarians and vegans only make up about 30% of the population. In the rest of the world it's generally max 10%, if not 5% or lower.
So for any of these companies go make it big, they need to cater to the 90%+ of people who like meat.
While 30% of Indians are strictly vegetarian, I would suggest that probably another 40% are largely vegetarian, only eating meat occasionally. Growing up in a major city in India, we ate maybe a single chicken based meal a week, and this was largely the norm in my social cohort. While a major reason was definitely money (poultry and red meat is ridiculously expensive in comparison to the vegetarian staples), it's also just cultural. My family grew up seeing meat as a special treat, and most of our meat dishes are very rich and can only be eaten occasionally.
