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fastasleep said:

AppleInsider said:

Workloads that rely on things like Blender, Ryujinx, and Citra now have a compatible and conformant GPU driver for Apple Silicon Macs.

Blender has had Metal support for some time now. It's been covered on this site many times.

This is under Linux running on Apple hardware, Metal is under macOS. Blender for Mac uses Metal, Blender for Linux uses OpenGL and Vulkan.

StrangeDays said:

Why do these all seem like silly tech demos to me? I have zero intention to ask an app to write a letter or create a fable. Or to build a grocery list for a meal I can’t be bothered to decide on myself. Oh but this is innovation and Apple is late to the game! lol

Someone at the following link used ChatGPT to make millions. It was via crypto marketing but ChatGPT made the code in a day:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/05/11/new-memecoin-77-million-market-cap-gpt-4/

It can write code templates for most things, including complex examples. There's a demo site here (it's limited in responses due to being free so needs refreshed):

https://gpt4free.io/chat/

It can be useful for getting started with a new development language. It can be asked the same type of questions that get asked on StackOverflow.

Example questions:
How do I setup a Rust development environment on Mac?
Write a Rust application to draw a graphic.
Write a Javascript app to get the current weather using a web API.
Build a database schema in SQLite for a book collection.

Eventually, these AI tools will be able to build full apps and games. Someone will be able to ask them to build a game like Call of Duty Mobile in Unity Engine and it will build a game foundation that would otherwise take months of work.

This will be useful for working with Swift. Swift frequently points out errors but isn't good at saying what the best practises are. It can migrate code from another language.

Apple doesn't have to make a chat app but Siri would be much more useful if it did things like this. People experiment with AppleScript and Shortcuts and these could be built with voice descriptions.

Siri, build a Shortcut that gives me directions to my next Calendar event and sends a text if I'm late.
Siri, give me a list of my unread emails in order of importance.

Respite said:

I’m glad that there is a more manual way of establishing the connection, it will be pretty cool to be able to connect a VP to a MacBook that’s stashed in a bag while on the train.

According to the video on the following page (at 1:50), the tracking doesn't work reliably on a train for some reason:

https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/235305/apple-vision-pro-can-be-used-in-public-but-mind-your-manners

The video slides out of view when the train starts moving. It might be a software bug that will be fixed because it should be able to track from the cameras and ignore the movement from the train.

michelb76 said:

Curious what his break-even point in views is for the cost of an Apple Vision Pro. Also eagerly waiting for the ifixit article

His whole channel has 127m views. $5 per 1000 views = $635k / 13 years = $48k / year.

Typical views per video are around 100k.

If he makes this rate, the single video so far would make $500 and would need closer to 1m views. The following video gives examples of earnings for 1m views and it varies a lot but was roughly around $2k:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do1VLjNg6AE

People always call Youtubers dumb but they are making serious amounts of money posting a video or two per week and often it's the dumb videos that get the views because people react to them. MKBHD only made two videos on Vision Pro and has 22m views between them = $50-100k.

rax_mark said:

Apparently, Berkshire Hathaway is higher than Alphabet (Google) and Nvidia, I don't think most people even know about them.

Also, Meta and Netflix are the only two companies from FAANG who are not in the top 10.

This is a survey of executives at the top companies in the world (rich people) and which companies they admire most:

https://fortune.com/franchise-list-page/methodology-worlds-most-admired-companies-2024/

It ranks the 9 criteria listed on the company page, which are all centered around how much money the company can make for an investor, the ranking isn't far removed from their market cap for most of them:

https://fortune.com/company/microsoft/worlds-most-admired-companies/

It gets presented as though it's a survey of public admiration (mostly poor people). This is something rich people do frequently, trying to portray their own interests as though they reflect the interests of everyone, like when they talk about how good the economy is, they measure it by stock prices.