There are already phone apps that try to do this with WiFi/Bluetooth scanning, object detection, red “filters” and so on.

Theoretically, it’d be really cheap to make a tiny “detector” camera; maybe a Bluetooth earbud looking thing on one ear? Every existing tiny camera can pick up infrared if you just take off and change the filter, and your phone can run tiny object detection algos with almost no power.

The problem is mass adoption.

As a real life example, the Canon 600mm F11 telephoto lens should be awful, on, say, a 32MP crop sensor R7. That’s insane pixel density somewhere in the ballpark of this Fuji.

…But look at real life shots of that exact combo, and they’re sharp as hell. Sharper than a Sigma at F6.3.

The diffraction limit is something to watch out for, but in reality, stuff like the lens imperfections, motion blur, atmospheric distortion and such are going to get you first. You don’t need to shoot at F4 on this thing to make use of the resolution, even if that is the ideal scenario.

See: https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/hyperfocal-distance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocal_distance

But TL;DR: for distant landscapes on a wide field of view lens, you can shoot at F5.6 and everything is in focus. I even do this at F1.4 on my lowly aps-c camera.

Put more concretely, the hyperfocal distance for a 35mm f5.6 lens on a medium format camera is 5 meters. Everything in the distance can be in focus.

For portraits, you want background blur anyway.

And if you’re doing anything else on a medium format camera, you’re kind of insane, heh.

A good hijack, thanks.

I’m in your boat.

I don’t play anything anymore, basically. Even “nostalgia” doesn’t feel fun because the dopamine hit from figuring the mechanics/lore out has passed.

My advice: co-op.

Playing a cooperative game with mates is fun. As an example, I got into Baldurs Gate 3 with family; never would have gotten so engrossed without them, and it sped up combat.

We started an Age of Wonders 4 game. One of them bounced off because it was too slow waiting for each other’s turns, but it was enough to get me engrossed with its systems and lore.

As for real life?

Gamification is a freaking menace.

Organizer apps are great. Apps/reminders that beat you in the head are excellent. But I’ve had just about enough manipulation from my phone, thank you.

Sony’s modern OLEDs are sick. There are a few between my family, and they have the best processing I’ve seen, they decode massive bluray rips no problem, and native options for a clean ad-free UI.

Why TF aren’t people buying them?

It would be embedded. Not on sticks.

It costs more to carefully cut the memory ICs off a motherboard and repackage them than to just buy RAM.

In rare cases it can be done (like how Chinese shops resolder GDDR to make 48GB RTX 4090s), but I don’t see EV RAM being worth it.

But to answer your question… some self driving systems or even infotainment systems do have a somewhat substantial amount of RAM.

Pro tip: go for the motor. Or the battery, if you can swing it.

Yyep. The Nazi gambit.

Just a little nationalist fascism to get the economy going.

Voters seem to always think “well, unlike the last hundred times, it might be alright this time?”

It’s one of those “reporting on social media without actually adding anything” articles, but in this case it’s pretty cool.

Actually, it appears to be worse. It’s sorta pitched as an “alternate” to the UN:

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/trump-davos-greenland-tariff-threats

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/19/kremlin-says-putin-invited-join-trump-gaza-board-of-peace

The source, 2024 apparently:

https://www.nikkei.com/telling/DGXZTS00011190R00C24A7000000/

Translation:

https://translate.kagi.com/www.nikkei.com/telling/DGXZTS00011190R00C24A7000000?ref=frankandsense.io

Yes, that Nikkei, like the stock exchange:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nikkei

Though it does feel like one of those “listicle” chum articles. The image feels a bit AI generated, whether it actually is or isn’t.

Apple likes being able to distribute apps and have users pay subscriptions to run them locally. This is what they already do; even 3rd party apps get a cut to Apple.

And its why iPhones are so powerful, other than their meager RAM capacity.

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize … I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” Trump’s message to Jonas Gahr Støre said. “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”

The Norwegian government has no control over how the Nobel Committee awards its prizes. Greenland is a territory of Denmark, not Norway.

I don’t understand how this is “normal.”

Like, I can bring this up to Trump-liking family, genuinely smart people, and it’s just brushed off.

If Biden so much as stuttered in a speech, it was like a national emergency. What do you think would happen if he started mixing up EU countries and impulse texting them over “your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize?”

Congress would impeach any other president on the spot. Democrat or Republican.

Even accounting for Fox News, I just don’t understand how this gets a pass.

Home security.

Get a basic gun. Practice at a range. If you can afford it, invest in security cameras.

I guess you could involve a lawyer if the situation becomes untenable.

Don’t panic; theres a 99%+ chance you’ll be fine.

But don’t ignore the 1%. To all the “it’s just an internet troll” folks: see Jonathan Ross, where one such angry troll shot him dead, just because:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Joss

May he rest in peace :(

You put that a bit abrasively, but yeah.

Don’t forget human civilization’s light horizon being a tiny blip, even within our own galaxy. We have about 24,000 years until the galactic core sees Jesus.

Be aware that with eBay, shipping times can vary.

The seller has a grace period to pack stuff up, and even once it’s handed off, shipping can take longer than the estimate, especially with USPS.

The good thing is that we have a few giants with vested interests in resisting that. PC OEMs like Dell and HP, Clevo, Intel/AMD who still have huge consumer sales, and the big one:

Apple.

Apple is all-in on personal compute, and they have the muscle to resist the anticompetitive plays, hopefully.

It’s all just show anyway. All the Nvidia chip restriction did is teach Chinese devs to do more with less, and now they’re running circles around other labs that have 100X the hardware. They don’t need the H200s.

You ask me? If the US wants to seed AI development: restrict Nvidia GPU sales in the US. It’d force labs to get smarter with less, and branch out to more diverse hardware, instead of monopolizing and scaling up.

Davinci works better in Linux. Vapoursynth mostly works better in Linux.

RAW photo editing is already horrible in Windows if you’re trying to do HDR. To be fair, it’s horrible in Linux too. As much as I hate it, they can’t touch Apple there.

See this post I just made: https://lemmy.world/post/41751454/21613633

iOS will render HDR JPEG-XL, AVIF and tiled HEIFs straight out of a camera; no problem. Heck, it will even display RAWs in the photo app. But it’s a struggle on Windows and Linux.

And if by “professional use” you mean “Adobe,” I view that in the same way as still being on Twitter. At this point, subjecting yourself to Adobe on Windows is something you should do through gritted teeth.

My issue is those “smaller communities” for my niches withered away, lost in the depths of SEO and attention machines.

I’m not innocent there. I stopped participating in many in lieu of Discord and Reddit which, in hindsight, I feel sick about. But the draw of phone pings and algorithms and critical mass is very powerful, and that temptation didn’t exist a long time ago.