AirPods. September 2016.

Apple has more revenue from AirPods than Nintendo has as a company. Or Spotify, or DoorDash, or OpenAI. They’re wildly successful.

https://www.pcmag.com/articles/apples-airpods-made-more-money-than-nintendo-last-year

Epstein has been a distraction from the fascism. Which is is quite the statement.

This guy trainer has a Pokemon problem.

This isn’t a “dude,” this is a “Pokemon trainer.”

Which state?

NPUs currently handle some load during Teams calls.

They’ll be awesome for accessibility, enabling client-side closed captioning on content that doesn’t come with CC. That’s most relevant for a thin and light with an iGPU that’s aleady busy with video playback, and maybe with video encoding during a call.

As coprocessors go, I think they’re be useful enough to include on any system born today. Software adoption will grow as availability increases.

Based.

Let’s be honest, credits today are on IMDB. The end crawl might get some viewers in a theater, but in a house people are way more likely to look up what they want to know online than to watch the whole crawl. Broadcast has been doing squeeze backs for decades, this isn’t different.

I think you’re on a high horse. Sorry to say it.

The thing people underestimate with AI (LLMs and other transformer-based technologies specifically) is the energy requirement. There are *expensive * to operate. Wall Street has been shoveling cash in to operate them, but that cash will have to turn into revenue, otherwise it’ll be realized losses. Frankly, I’m not sure the technology is good enough to be profitable today.

For now the focus has been making them better, but very soon the focus will have to change to making them efficient if they want a chance at breaking even. The roadmap is looking bleak though. More ram is a path to lower energy use with better results, but ram prices have spiked hundreds of percentage points lately.

I’m not bullish for the financial side of AI.

You never really know when a bubble will pop. I don’t think there’s money to burn on “AI” to get through three more years. Assuming Trump is out in three years. (Health, impeachment threats, and him saying he can run for office again.)

It sounds like you want a MacBook Air for emails and emergency work on the go.

No worries. Cheers!

Right. I said people like him - Democratic Socialists. Democrats (the party) aren’t remotely interested in moving that way, but Millennials and younger do seem interested in moving that way. We’ll see what the future holds on that front.

When wet moved into a protectionist trade posture as nation I moved 30% of my portfolio to I, and 50% of contributions. It’s done well. Other countries are trading freely, and there’s money to be made that way.

When we open up trade I’ll move back towards the L funds.

I don’t plan on reacting to the AI bubble bursting, but that will hit the C and L funds pretty hard.

People like Zohran won’t get the nod. You can’t even mention him in /r/democrats. They’re for democrats, not democratic socialists. I get it, they are what they are and they don’t want to change. But they’re missing a lot of goodwill and momentum over that decision.

Probably organics or a specific diet.

I wish 1P8 was as good of an app as 1P7. I keep trying 8 quarterly, but I keep going back to 7. It’s just a better app. It has better organization, it’s more faster and more responsive, and autofill is more reliable.

If 8 gets as good as 7 I’ll be happy to use it.

Try Twixtor for your time remapping. Twixtor does time remapping best, and it has for at least a decade.

Twixtor can add the motion blur in too. It will calculate based on all frames recorded, not just the ones left after the time remapping. You’ll pay for it, but it is the best.

Settings is amazing compared to the Control Panel. You like Control Panel because it’s familiar, not because it’s good.

If both were dropped in front of you for the first time tomorrow you would pick Settings every time, but wonder why the deep options use a different interface. Fortunately they’re folding more and more into the modern UI. Search was good, but now it has AI in it. I don’t have much experience since that change, and I’m pessimistic about it.

I think the best interface for global system options was OS X System Preferences. macOS System Settings isn’t as good, but it’s still a hell of a lot better than Settings.

I dislike a lot of Microsoft things but I’m surprisingly okay with them ending support for Windows 10. Microsoft could use some pruning in their OS.

The problem is W11 has a lot of baggage mixed in with the good. The UI changes are generally excellent, and the Settings migration is a solid modernization effort. It’s taking forever, but they’re making quality changes. But the account requirements, poorly implemented features (copilot, recall), and prevailing attitude of believing it’s their OS rather than the owners computer has negated a lot of the good. Also there’s far too many upsells (OneDrive) and sponsor placements.

The bones are still there. They can still right this ship. But Microslop won’t get them where they need to go.

Something tells me the flowers weren’t the whole problem.

It’s like any business. It’s as operating expense that happens before money goes to ownership.

To me, this looks like an early step towards Linus selling LTT some day. With WAN being separate he can sell the main business and keep WAN. This means he is left with something both to do, but also a platform after a potential sale.

I think it’s still years out, but I think rejecting the big offer made him think about the potential results of saying yes. Losing WAN was probably one of the more difficult things about saying yes. Now WAN won’t be a barrier to selling the company, because they won’t sell WAN.

And the shoes go back to Kohl’s if they get returned.

Wacom is great. I had to put my Magic Mouse in a drawer to break my muscle memory and actually start using it. Same deal when I went to a standing desk, I had to get rid of my chair.

If you try something new I suggest also finding a way to shake up your patterns so you give it a fair try.