Infuse is the magic ingredient that avoids the codec/transcoding issues other people sometimes experience. It supports direct play of pretty much every possible video thx to its built-in codecs. I’ve been using it for 2 years and I don’t think I had a single case of transcoding. It is paid, but worth it IMO.
Too bad there’s no single „this is what this project is” anywhere in the repo description, readme or docs. There’s „X is next generation of Y”, and even the whitepaper goes straight into weeds instead of explaining what the thing is. I tried hard but I still don’t fully understand.
Agreed. From a quick skim (especially of the CLI interface) it looks to be a device to impersonate an NFC card, so you can then put it on a reader (eg. A hotel room door) and try to reverse engineer the handshake.
But I came here too, to understand what it is about and we are probably just not the audience :-)
Now, I'd be curious to know how good these devices are and/or how insecure these RFID chips are - because 500 USD is quite cheap for a device supposed to impersonate you or open your car or your hotel room.
> "no single „this is what this project is” anywhere in the repo description, readme or docs. "
That sounds like he read through the docs to me and make a perfectly valid observation that that the maintainers might find valuable. He didn't criticize them for not doing it he just pointed out that it wasn't there. You then told him to RTFM when you didn't seem to spend much time reading what he had written.
If you can't figure out what the project is, while the description says "...card emulation more stable. And gave the chameleon the ability to read, write, and decrypt cards...." then I'm not sure you should be playing with software that can easily cross the line of breaking laws. Grey-hat software like this rarely screams "NFC CRACKER" since it hurts the credibility, is more likely to get it flagged by automated scans, and attracts skids. Look what happened to the flipper...
Also, my comment was in reply to 'What if I want to learn more about it'. RTFM is the objectively correct response, no short description is going to help there. Maybe we have different ideas of what "learn more" means
„Built on Windows”. That’s like anti-ad these days. Maybe, maybe worth looking at if you can run other OS than Windows on it, but that will probably take some time.
Can't believe they led with that in the promo video. They potentially have whats finally a competitor to an apple silicon MBP, and they lead with fans?? I love my macbooks precisely because they are silent (among other things, obviously).
When I clicked, I thought that it was going to smash the turbine blades from the animation to suggest something like "all the performance without the thermals," but nope, they just became laptop fans. And seconds later, it started blowing heat/steam out of them!
That's the most uncanny marketing for an ARM laptop I've ever seen.
They are. But the experience of using a MacBook Pro for pretty much any purpose other than gaming is that they’re entirely silent. To the point that it’s an exceptional circumstance when a build job is so intense and so long running that fans kick in.
As such, when you’re marketing your competing product, maybe don’t lead with the fans.
Understandable. But if you were attempting to do the same thing as the RTX Spark on a MacBook (i.e. run local models), you would also definitely be hearing those fans. Perhaps not the best marketing play, but it is true to the real experience of using the product for this use case.
fwiw, I have a snapdragon X laptop running with windows. It basically never runs the fans (at least at audible levels), and I sometimes sit with it on a blanket in bed
Some of us like our hardware to last, we don't go out and buy the latest and greatest unrepairable MBP for the sole reason of flexing on our friends and peers while making a big deal about how its silent and can run large local llms at 0.5 tok/sec.
Ya, i dont know of anyone wanting to run very large AI models in a windows environment. Or, frankly, on a laptop. Why not just VPN into a dedicated server?
With BUILD happening tomorrow, I suspect Microsoft is going to have some stuff about local AI there with MS Foundry on Windows/Foundry Local. The timing of this announcement a day before BUILD is obviously intentional.
Suddenly all the Windows K2 stuff makes sense, but I doubt it'll be enough. Its too little too late for Microsoft.
I do. I can take my laptop anywhere I want, for example to a coffee shop and run a coding model while eating a croissant without worrying about an internet connection, as the term local model implies.
I could be wrong but my understanding is that 24/7 dedicated servers are wildly economically unviable. The reason cloud tends to cost less than local today (other than the subsidization) is because you aren't running models 24/7. So like 6 hours of cloud per weekday might beat the yearly cost of building local machines, but it's not in the same universe if you're running 24/7, as evidenced by two months of H200 rental costing more than the DGX Spark this Laptop is built out of.
Similar story here. Before vim I used Kate, Gedit, Eclipse, JEdit and NetBeans IDE. Got into vim in 2009 and since then it's the editor I always come back to.
Neovim really gave it a new life - LSPs, Treesitter, scripting with Lua (which I suck at) and many more. Over last 15 years I had shorter and longer periods where I tried/used something else (VS Code, Emacs/Spacemacs, helix) but it's always been vim/neovim. I don't really enjoy vim config maintenance though, but it doesn't happen too often to look elsewhere.
Giving evil-helix a try is on my editors-to-try-when-i-have-mental-capacity-for-switch list :)
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