Half the movies released in 3D during the last wave were poorly done conversions not even shot for 3D.

Only half? -_-

I’ve only seen a few movies that were actually filmed in 3D. Even Gravity was filmed in 2D.

The problem is that actually filming in 3D requires using different (and expensive) hardware, and different creative direction all across the board. You can’t just upgrade to a 3D camera and call it a day. Not many studios will put in that kind of effort for something that is not proven in the market. And not many filmmakers are actually skilled at working in 3D, simply due to lack of direct experience.

I saw the Hobbit movies in high framerate 3D in the theater, and while they were not good movies, they looked absolutely amazing because they were committed 100% to the format from start to finish — not just with the hardware, but with the lighting, makeup, set design, everything. It’s a shame the movies sucked, and it’s a shame that there has never been a way to watch them in HFR 3D outside of select theaters.

As far as I can see #ollama and #lmstudio do not provide privacy statements.

That’s because they are not online services (which is a good thing!). Online services like ChatGPT and desktop applications like LM Studio are not in the same product category.

LM Studio is more akin to, say, VLC or Notepad++ (which also do not have privacy policies). These are desktop applications that have some limited network functions (like autoupdates).

That said, LM Studio does offer details of which features require internet access and which are fully offline here: https://lmstudio.ai/docs/offline . In short: everything important is offline. It has built-in search features so you can find and download models from Huggingface, and it also has an autoupdate feature to find and download new versions. You could run it on an airgapped system (or more likely, set it up in a container/VM without network access), and simply load in model files manually if you prefer.

Personally I recommend LM Studio, because it’s super easy to set up and use but still quite powerful.

They’re like 20 years too late to start copying Apple here. Apple had their shit together with their product line for a good while after Steve Jobs returned and eliminated the absolute insanity of Apple’s mid-90s lineup, which had at least three times more models than any sane person would find useful.

But recently, Apple went off the deep end. Boggles the mind that “Pro Max” ever made it past the brain-mouth barrier in a boardroom, let alone into an official product lineup.

I don’t have this chart in my review, I guess because I was 100% Linux. Kind of surprised I didn’t have a little Mac time in there, since I do sometimes use Steam on Mac while traveling. But thinking back, I guess it’s been a while.