foregoneconclusion

hexclock said:

mark fearing said:

darbus69 said:

anyone who kisses the orange monsters ring is not doing the world any good, no matter what, period.

I would rather pay more for my all my creepy capitalistic goods than bow down to him.

I agree but the industrial entities always cave to fascists first. Germany, Italy, they fall in line.

What hyperbolic nonsense. Get over it, you lost. Try again in 4 years. 

FYI...Trump still doesn't believe he lost the 2020 election.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/12/to-work-in-the-trump-administration-you-must-correctly-answer-these-3-questions.html

9secondkox2 said:

Cook gets it. Recognize a competent leader and team up. 

If Trump was competent he wouldn't be threatening tariffs over his own trade deals. Remember, the 1st Trump administration backed the US out of NAFTA and TPP and negotiated new deals to replace them. So his current complaints about trade with China, Canada and Mexico are complaints about himself. 

charlesn said:

Question: is the current webcam in Apple's Studio Display an upgrade over what was originally used when it debuted? I recall a lot of complaints about image quality of the webcam, especially at the $1600 price point for a 27" display, and I'm wondering if Apple ever addressed that. Thanks for answering if you know.  

Apple released a firmware update for the Studio Display but didn't update the hardware. IMO, a lot of the complaints that I saw online would have image examples with intentionally bad lighting. Example: "natural" lighting where they would have a bright, unshaded window directly to the side of the person sitting in front of the camera and no other interior lights. In other words, normal lighting situations that would work well for an iPhone photo are also going to work well with the Studio Display camera. And vice versa. It's not going to magically make bad lighting look good. 

You can also use your iPhone camera as a substitute for the Studio Display camera if you choose. 

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-iphone-as-a-webcam-mchl77879b8a/mac

danox said:

Someone with artistic talent is still gonna come out with a better end result if they take the time to compose an image for import into playground images.  Robbie the robot isn’t gonna make up for that…. and the same applies to using the AI writing tools. They’re not gonna make you Shakespeare no matter what you do.

Agree. It's like taking photos and video with the iPhone: they're going to look pretty good but not on the level that you see in Apple's professionally created advertising.

hmurchison said:

CSAM is a privacy nightmare.   I'm sorry that a small group of people have experienced abuse but I'm just not into a future where people want to store my data as long as I give them carte blanche to check for whatever they want.  

That's not the future. That's the past. Cloud storage companies always have language in their user agreements that allow scans for illegal content. Apple's terms have included that for many years.