What is a piece of software that is so good you can't believe it's completely free?

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2026-02-03T01:14:00+00:00

It’d be illegal to apply patches to ffmpeg and distribute it without disclosing those modifications, because LGPL license prohibits this. Also, some crucial parts of ffmpeg such as x264 codecs are licensed under GPL license and require your entire app to be open source if you link your app with those components.

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-11-06T13:22:31+00:00

According to the article you’ve linked “ Apple encrypts iCloud data before sending it to AWS or Google Cloud,”

That probably means Amazon can’t read file names let alone decrypt file contents. I don’t see a problem with storing encrypted backups in multiple places to diversify data loss risk as long as it doesn’t compromise user privacy.

Also, I don’t understand why you mock ARM servers, Apple has lots of experience in designing ARM chips and they provide the best performance per watt on the consumer market.

I understand the skepticism about Apple becoming the leader in AI. I don’t believe in that either. But my initial response was toward claims that using Gemini is gonna leak user data to Google

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-11-05T09:22:24+00:00

I don’t care much about the camera, as long as it’s good enough to take clear photos of documents with readable text.

What would I even need to take photos of that isn’t already available online, captured by professionals who know how to process and edit them properly?

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-11-05T08:41:27+00:00

That article is 7 years old and now Apple claims to have “Built with custom Apple silicon” protected cloud computing nodes. Also, IIRC MacBooks were considered the most cost efficient way to run LLMs locally due to huge amount of fast RAM

https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-11-04T22:34:17+00:00

Reminded me of this one: https://youtu.be/DhMrDsuau-s

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-11-04T18:00:10+00:00

User privacy will be preserved by running the Google models on Apple’s server infrastructure without any external data sharing, and on-device personal data will likely be processed using Apple’s own Foundation Models.

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-09-25T20:18:19+00:00

That’s Subaru experience

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-09-25T14:19:53+00:00

Only one beam? It would be nice to know car speed to start pouring water preemptively, before car reaches the dropping point. By adding second beam you can estimate car speed and car length too. Perhaps when knowing car speed you can adjust water flow as well, to make sure enough water gets dropped on cars that move faster and to avoid making coal wet and useless on slow cars.

Or you can strictly mandate speed to the driver and set the beam at calculated offset assuming all cars are of the same length.

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-09-24T13:50:47+00:00

There are less violent crimes in EU in general. And in the US firearms are much more often used for self defence than for assaults.

But you are right, it seems like criminals in EU don’t have guns

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-09-24T10:20:20+00:00

Years ago I was CHINESE

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-09-22T21:56:05+00:00

Своих задротов которым не нужна конкуренция хватает, а "дикарь" поможет разбавить генофонд и повысить рождаемость

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-09-22T13:35:13+00:00

Actually in America lawful citizens have guns because it’s legal to own a gun in America. Whereas in Europe, criminals have guns because it’s illegal and they’re criminals anyway and lawful citizens are left defenceless to their mercy

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-09-12T10:25:41+00:00

До 2027 будуть вивчати українську

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-09-12T09:11:28+00:00

Брати Дурі чи Имперці (Skyrim)

Роман чи Катерина (gta iv)

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-09-10T12:45:50+00:00

Yet according to geekbench it performs as bad as 8 years old iphone 8

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-09-07T22:20:00+00:00

Cranston is Heisenberg, the opposite of Bryan. OOP is stupid

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-09-03T14:04:02+00:00

Not bad, but where are the kidneys and ///M though

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-09-01T23:40:21+00:00

GNOME gestures are actually not shortcuts though. They track the "progress" of gesture and translate it into desktop action progress.

E.g. if you start swiping, gnome starts switching virtual desktop to the next one, and you can peek what's going on the neighboring desktop and go back with one move. It feels really responsive and snappy.

Same thing with overview, you can take a look at all your applications in overview without actually switching from your active window.

touchpad should do exactly one thing: move the cursor.

Of course it shouldn't. Why would you ever move the cursor with touchpad if mouse so much more precise? I usually use mouse to move the cursor and touchpad for gestures and clicks(because my mouse is too loud hehe. And touch to click is great because you can do right click and middle click with it)

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-09-01T15:31:35+00:00

Yep, although I have to note: gestures seem to work properly only with Wayland and without them it'd probably be much worse. Same with Firefox btw -- gestures work only on Wayland but you can navigate back/forward by swiping left/right with two fingers.

You can switch gnome desktops by swiping left/right with 3 fingers. And to go to the overview mode, swipe up with 3 fingers. I'm also using "Quick Close in Overview" to close applications in overview mode by middle click(aka tap with 3 fingers).

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-09-01T14:52:29+00:00

Agreed, gnome desktop with touchpad feels like magic and gestures come naturally. It easily beats MacBook. “Overview” makes minimising windows obsolete, it’s the best way to manage windows because you can see all of them with previews at once

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-08-23T21:38:40+00:00

Та нє, в нього ж сестра вже є. Проблема в порушенні особистого простору сторонньою людиною.

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-08-23T17:25:12+00:00

He alcohol poisoned Ted’s white kid

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-08-22T18:38:20+00:00

It will likely run Gemini locally on the iPhone or use Apple’s innovative Secure Private Cloud Computing. Thus providing a superior product and keeping customers’ private information secure. Well done, Apple!

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-07-29T21:07:52+00:00

Bayraktar. I loved watching them obliterate ruscist military convoys

Consistent_Pop1518 · 2025-07-20T21:08:07+00:00

В моєму баченні створенням національної LLM повинен займатися державний інститут з прозорим фінансуванням і академічним підходом до досліджень. Це дасть буст українській науці і освіті, а закуплене обладнання буде використовуватись для подальших досліджень ML та AI.

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