i’d guess that the digital processing is a well known change so you can account for it
after all, modern post processing on a phone afaik is done in the raw sensor data, so is using a lot more data than is actually stored in the JPEG: it probably leads to more information being available than if it weren’t done (more shadow detail rather than crushed blacks, etc)
The same applies to radio transmitters and every analogue medium like probably microphone or preamp or ADC.
exactly why when you buy any halfway decent mic there’s the option to buy them in sets: they’ll have come off the production line together so that their imperfections are as close to each other as possible so that they sound as identical as they can be
there will always be burner phones
of course you’re right! we should just shut down some of the largest mines in the world
i foresee no consequences from this
(related note: south australia where one of the largest underground mines in the world is, largely gets its power from renewables)
people should probably move from canada and most of the north of the USA too: far too cold up there during winter
the fact that it made you uncomfortable, or at least thought that it was too much is the point. in the future the author/designers are making a comment on sexual exploitation for profit is commonplace and has been normalised
it’s there to make the setting similar to those familiar to us from universes like blade runner, altered carbon, (to a lesser degree) firefly. it’s the standard sci-fi canon that future corporatocratic society is filled with these things: the money buys whatever you like - the basest of desires are on the table no matter what
and it’s also there in all of those universes as a comment on exploitation and morality: just because you (or rather a select few) can buy it doesn’t make it right
it may not often be part of the narrative per se, but it’s an integral part of universe building: you can’t have narrative in a void, so you need to build a convincing universe to tell the story inside
sounds reasonable… i’ll just go tell large parts of australia where it’s a workplace health and safety issue to be out of AC for more than 15min during the day that they should do their bit for climate change and suck it up… only a few people will die
perhaps for that particular group… though i had a friend whose old af macbook air had stopped updating literally years ago, and he still used it because it still worked… but then apps slowly stopped working
i installed linux on it, and he was actually really keen to give linux itself a go, and it worked great for him!
i gave him an old macbook a little while after that, and he’s back on macos now, but he said he’d switch back in a heartbeat if there were problems (slowness, update compatibility, etc)
i guess the thing being he’s not really technical enough to care about the OS other than outcomes, but also was actually interested in linux itself to learn for the sake of it… he’s a lab tech, and vibe codes data manipulation tools, so not a lot of IT-related skills, but always interested in learning
then you have to pay for it though
there are lots of different covers for license plates which block photography only, and allow humans to see the plate. i’m not sure how all of them work
for the tricks that mess up AI, yes
but i believe this comment was talking about things like IR blocking covers and such
and they’re probably highly illegal pretty much everywhere because they stop speed and red light cameras working and that’s exactly their marketed purposes
this is their patch for the whole disk data loss debacle
if you want it to be permanent you’ll probably want to mount via /etc/fstab (this is the list of things that are mounted every boot, so it’ll persist after a reboot)
that said, i’d guess it’ll be in /mnt
looks like jellyfin is running as the user “oriol”. does that sound right?
assuming you have your files mounted somewhere locally that jellyfin can access, their file permissions will need to allow access to that user
you should be able to find the user jellyfin is running as with:
ps aux | grep jellyfin
the first column is the user name or ID
you’re looking for a line something like this
biru 13576 0.1 9.6 281378280 3170688 ? Ssl Jul09 85:05 /usr/bin/jellyfin --ffmpeg=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg
you might be able to try a live version of a distro to see how your hardware functions before taking the plunge
yes. the comment was
Well one thing’s for sure, data centers are going to be insanely cheap in the near future.
which i think broadly agrees with your thinking… the hardware will be sold, but the building and utilities will remain… thus, data centres will be cheap to buy and repurpose as AI companies try and offload them… might possibly see some cheap AF colo or dedicated options in the future
yes, but we’re talking about hardware requirements… data centres aren’t really designed for the software that runs in them; they’re designed for the hardware… a “GPU optimised” data centre just has a lot more power running to each cabinet, and has to have a lot larger cooling capacity in a small area
the hardware inside the data centre can be swapped out: it’s not like GPUs are built into the foundation of the building
that’s actually okay… the only thing that’s different about GPU workloads is that they’ve very energy dense… as CPUs and other hardware progress, their energy requirements get more dense… 10 years in the future, today’s GPU optimised datacentres will be perfect for standard workloads
… unless they’re centrally liquid cooling the whole DC, which i’ve heard discussed but is a very new concept with a lot of unknowns
perhaps simply putting something like cling wrap over the lens and moving it for each photo would be enough: adding some scratches and roughness that slightly changes each time you move it