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https://ingenext.ca/products/boost-50

50 hp for $1k

I can’t find them right now, but there are similar things you can buy to unlock factory features at a discount.

Up front disclaimer: this is all conjure on my part.

I own an “AI” laptop (only because I was interested in a snapdragon x). Most of the AI enabled features don’t really require a NPU, such as a decent background camera blur, some paint and photo stuff, live captions, etc. Microsoft was looking for a headline feature that didn’t already have a CPU/GPU/cloud implementation. Enter: recal.

IMO this is very much about finding a novel feature, that doesn’t have an alternate implementation. The near term motive is to justify their “AI” PCs to customers in hops that customers adopt them. I suspect the long term goal is opening up a revenue stream for AI - get customers used to “AI enabled” features and then tack a subscription cost onto them, but I truly hope this won’t be the case - especially when the hardware you own has a NPU.

Pure conjure: stich it, but leave the stitches extremely loose until you turn it right side out.

Can’t help with the ID, but nice photo!

And a bunch of veggies too. Peppers are notorious for cross breeding.

Thanks!

We have a few cardinal pairs show up. I’ll have to pay more attention to the ladies to see if I can tell them apart!

We have a handful of Blue Jays, but they don’t show up that often. I’ll have to modify my feeder perches to better accommodate larger birds.

I haven’t spent much time looking at Linux support due to having a busy personal life, so I’ll live with Win 11 in the meantime.

That said, I don’t think anyone has Linux booting on any Snapdragon X machines yet. I think there’s a signing limitation (eg device OEM signing) and a graphics driver gap. It does seem like the first will be overcome eventually, otherwise no one will be able to build their own machine.

More people in the market means more people working on both of these things!

I certainly won’t complain about cheaper, but I’m pretty happy with my Lenovo 7x Slim. It has a 14.5" 3k OLED display, so it’s not the battery life champ, but it’s built well and priced pretty well at $1,200 MSRP. You can upgrade the ram to 32 GB and the SSD to 1 TB for $110 combined. Typical Lenovo experience for shipping a custom build, but the laptop itself is great. Uninstall McAfee and away you go. I’ve only heard the fan kick on once, it doesn’t heat up in any meaningful way, the screen and keyboard are great, windows hello is surprisingly nice with facial recognition, etc etc. No comparability issues so far, but I also didn’t buy it to game on.

Growing the ARM share of the market will only make the experience better for everyone - for both windows and hopefully also for Linux.

Jerboa user checking in. My biggest gripes with it are:

• not always showing me that I have things in my inbox when refreshing my feed
• links from a post to another post seem to render in my default browser (Firefox) vs Jerboa
• every once in a while gbord’s spell check stops working. I haven’t experienced this in other apps, so… maybe something is going on here?

Everything else is pretty solid though. The only nice to have feature would be saving draft replies locally automatically. Reddit is fun did that and spoiled me. Nothing is worse than starting a long reply, life getting in the way, coming back to Lemmy, and being greeted b my refreshed feed.

Your other post on this same topic, with a cross post to this one, renders this way when I clicked the cross post link:

Haha, you got me curious. Evidently red finches are house finches. Wikipedia called out a gold variant that we see around here. There’s also the goldfinch, which has a greater share of yellow. Ah, humans and your naming that allows for some variation, but not too too much variation.

I appreciate you taking the time to write out a detailed reply! It certainly helped me understand the process. I have young kids, so I don’t have the time right now to stake out a spot I know interesting birds will visit, but perhaps they will be more interested when they’re older.

As for gear itself, my old D40 and newer D5300 were just as capable of good photos as the cameras I’ve rotated through in the past two years (buying used and selling): a Z6II, a X-H2s, an A7III, and A9II, and an OM-1. In terms of ability to be focused on the confirmes focus point, both the OM-1 and Z6II are worse in this regard - especially if you’re trying to take advantage of things like human face/eye detection. The newer, and especially FF, bodies do let me push ISO way higher than I would in the past though. As you’ve found, your D3200 can take great photos. If you start thinking about upgrading, be sure to dig into where your improvements will (and won’t) be.

I think my question is one rooted in how close can you actually get, how much reach do you need, and how heavily are you cropping?

From my experience, if you want frame filling tack sharp photos you’re likely pretty close. Does than mean that you observe a good place to station yourself and then spend a decent amount of time for birds to acclimate to your presence? Or is there something else going on?

Get well framed photos, especially of smaller birds away from feeders.

I’m guessing they mate in spring? I took this photo about three or four weeks ago. Not sure how long gestation takes for Cardinals.

That was absolutely the case until very recently. Qualcomm bought Nuvia, a start-up that was stacked with former Apple engineers, a few years ago. These processors are just now coming to market. Laptops with these processors are benchmarking around MacBook levels (slightly behind single core, slightly ahead in multi core).

It’s very hard to argue against Apple hardware and battery life. Maybe with windows moving slowly toward ARM they’ll catch up some. It’s going to be very tough though - Apple has full control over their hardware, which meat they can optimize their OS for it.

I really hope the snapdragon x laptops gain some traction. I recently went laptop shopping and what I wanted (good to great display, stays cold, good battery life) line up really well with a MacBook/MB air. I just couldn’t stomach the stupid mark-ups for memory and storage. I wound up with a Lenovo 7x slim. Upgrading to 32 GB memory and 1 TB storage was around $115. The non-emulated performance on windows is solid. Emulated is generally ok for my usage. I’m probably going to try Linux on it when I have a light week, but I’m somewhat wary of the impact that will have on battery life.