I mean, just because it might not be generative AI doesn’t mean it isn’t photoshopped to hell and back. The height of the camera (as well as the subject) kind of points towards staged rather than a casual photo, so photoshopping something together doesn’t seem out of the question in that context.

On the other hand, gen ai could be trying to mimic a weirdly photoshopped picture but was surprisingly accurate in things it’s usually awful at. Who knows.

The original could be a real picture but the higher resolution could have been run through AI resampling to make up detail where there was little to no detail before. AI tends to have a really difficult time making sense of things like the legs of those chairs, which look fine to me.

I will always use “who” because “whom” gives off too much of a Reddit vibe.

One willing to do the bad thing while the other not willing to do anything about it (and resistant towards any change) is just voting between the Uvalde school shooter and the uvalde cops that prevented parents from going in and saving their children.

Sure you can… until you run out of memory and it throttles because there is no fan. Then it uses swap memory until it chews away at the 256Gb drive. It’s possible to run these things just long enough to say “look, I told you so”, but I would never try using it professionally, especially if you’re running Adobe bloatware. Power isn’t the issue.

I’d almost always recommend the base Mac mini instead of a MacBook Air specifically because you can actually upgrade the internal storage after you buy it and it has fans. I still wouldn’t load up on a bunch of huge programs at the same time because memory will eventually be the bottleneck like it is with the MBA, but it’s far more reasonable to use for work for about the same price. The value proposition for the MacBook Air just isn’t that great generally speaking as well as when compared to other options Apple has.

This isn’t coming out of slow motion. iOS slows down audio too and none of the audio here is ramped.

I don’t think it requires iCloud or anything else apple. I’m not sure how “casting” works if you have a non-Apple mobile device, but that’s the only issue I can think of. Jellyfin works (I think it is called swiftfin) as well as Infuse. I also use Tailscale to watch things on my Apple TV from my NAS.

Theres probably some Roku specific blocklists out there, but I got tired of playing whack a mole with all the new connections every week when I had my Roku. My partner also just wanted to watch tv without me fiddling with filters constantly, so I swapped to an Apple TV. It’s been nearly perfect with adguard (it even stops all ads on Hulu).

Just to prevent you from falling to your own outdated claim, here’s a correction or two:

Window snapping and arranging windows in the corners is a thing now (and with hotkeys too, a million years late- I had to look this up since I’ve been using Rectangle for a long time)

Some mac laptops have HDMI ports. If you get a mac without an HDMI port, it’s in apple’s “paperweight class” of machines and shouldn’t be bought. Macbook Airs are just expensive mac flavored chromebooks.

The repairability sucks, but I still use my 2014 macbook pro daily because it still works really well (though those old intel chips make the fans go wild even after repasting everything and cleaning the fans). I was able to buy a cheapo replacement battery off ebay and it’s working great after a fairly tedious process of using IPA and dental floss to release the old battery. It is no longer supported by apple through software, though I use OpenCore legacy patcher to update to the newest system so I don’t have to worry about an old system without security updates connecting to the internet. I’ve tried installing various Linux distros on it and none of them are very happy with the process. Most of the time it’s the stupid broadcom wifi chip and other times only a single speaker works and I’m too much of a dunce to troubleshoot things like that. Tails OS becomes nearly useless on an old macbook because of the broadcom issue. But also, I’m not about to go buy a thinkpad just so linux will work properly- I don’t need more devices in my house, I’ll just use what I already have.

Adguard on my router has apple services at 7% of all blocked domains in the last 24 hours (545 times). Adobe is 14% in that same window (1135 times). I hate it here.

I’ve never actually gotten the App Store “Tor browser” working tbh. I also don’t bother with Firefox because it doesn’t feel meaningfully different. I get by with privacy, malware, and advertisement blocking from my router while using SearXNG. It’s definitely not the best for privacy, but honestly, just getting rid of google maps from my life has been such a pain in the ass it’s hard to delve further.

Firefox and Tor browser exist (on the App Store) though they might both run on the safari “engine”, I’m not too sure. AltStore is technically an App Store alternative, though it is extremely limited and kind of a pain. File management is available with the default Files app.

After reading the lack of consensus in the comments, I’ll just be over here using decimal time, confusing everyone around me. ;)

Year is the most significant (read: big) unit in the list, but it is the least significant (pertinent to daily life) unless you’re a time traveler. Of month and day, month is more significant than day in both size and pertinence, so it gets ordered first. But when sorting things into folders or file naming conventions, biggest category descending down to smaller categories is always the best.

This just guarantees dropping nuclear bombs so long as it’s just the one guy who pressed the button who will go to court.

Tone deaf is pleading to people to vote for those directly responsible for genocide even though their families are being killed because you want to remain relatively comfy in your own country, reaping the benefits of the colonialism you desperately wished was pushed back into the shadows so you can go about your life unaware of the harm you cause.

For a 3rd party to win, another party has to die. (See Republicans taking over the Whigs for their silence on slave states).

So, if you can get on board with that premise, which modern party of the republicans or democrats do you believe closer to destruction due to their voters abandoning them?

Republican voters seem generally happy with the people they vote for unless some specific policy starts affecting them in a way that Fox News can’t sufficiently spin.

Democratic voters seem to be voting against republicans more than for someone they really believe in.

Now, I’m not into incrementalism or reformism, but if you are, it might make sense to try to put as much electoral pressure on democrats as possible to either try to make them massively shift OR to prove to millions of democratic voters that the party would rather lose than capitulate, causing a mass loss of trust in the party, causing change (presumably).

I’m not sure I’d assume 3rd party voters are all aligned on what they want or expect out of voting 3rd party. Maybe some of them think they could win, but I don’t think I’ve met anyone who thinks that.

I can agree with that general viewpoint even though (I assume) portrait painters got paid more relatively since they work more hours than photographers. I don’t even think I blame AI on the fact the post production was all cut, but instead blame it on the “hype” surrounding it. My industry at large is still operating at 40% of typical since covid which is unrelated to AI, but jobs getting cut for the explicit purpose of trying AI still stings. 1/3 of post was laid off prior to covid because workers in South America were much cheaper. AI is just the new excuse for an existing problem.

So anyway, I’m planning to become an electrician now.

I wouldn’t say “every time new technology appears” since portrait painters definitely got replaced by photography as a widespread industry and a structural shift did happen. Technology in general tries to reduce human effort because human effort is expensive. Any expense that can be shaved down year after year to make more profits will be made regardless of if the quality is consistent. AI doesn’t need to be as good as creatives to replace them (either in part or in whole) eventually. It just needs to be “good enough”. And the thing about technology is that it’s always trying to get to a point to replace people whether it’s there yet or not. Photography couldn’t replace portrait painters initially due to color and image quality, but it eventually got there.

The CEO of a company I worked for decided to fire all the people in post production because he was convinced AI could replace humans in that department. He then sold the company after realizing AI wasn’t the magic solution he thought it was.

So it likely doesn’t matter if AI is replacing jobs or not if the people in charge of the workforce believe it can so much that it impacts decisions. The results are the same.