thehatfox @ thehatfox @lemmy.world

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Looking at photos of the Pi5 board, the PCIe pins are a separate ribbon connector. I am guessing the M2 hat will just use the GPIO pins for power and hardware detection, and pass the others through.

I agree it would be have been useful to have an M2 slot (or maybe eMMC connector) integrated indirectly to the board. Other similar SBCs have done so. Perhaps the Pi designers were concerned about board space or thermal considerations. I imagine they want to keep the form factor as similar as possible each version, so they maybe can’t make drastic changes to the board layout.

Yes, I think the Foundation still favours SD cards because they are cheap and easy to use. Which suits the Pi’s original base of education, hobbyists etc.

Of course that doesn’t stop the market seeing things differently and dropping Pis straight in to production use cases instead of moving up to the Compute modules.

I think the SD card problems are a little exaggerated too. They may not be the fastest but they are reliable enough if reputable brands are used.

I started with HA, I haven’t had much experience with Homebridge.

From what I have heard migrating paired Zigbee devices between platforms can be unreliable. If you have a limited number of devices it might be worth repairing them manually.

I have a setup like this, and it has worked great so far. I have a home VPN but wanted to have Apple Home access as well for a simpler remote option, and some of my family prefer the Apple Home app. I use the HomeKit Bridge integration to expose various Home Assistant connected devices to Apple Home running on an Apple TV 4K. It has worked well with nearly every device I've set up, including lights and light switches, environmental sensors, SwitchBot bots and more. The syncing/updating is near instant for me.

The only trouble I've had so far have been with my thermostat, which initially always appeared as "on" in Apple Home, and a couple of breakages with updates. However the thermostat recently started to behave properly, and any update incompatibilities have always been quickly resolved.

Using the HomeKit Bridge also allows you to use Siri to interact with Home Assistant devices which can be useful, especially if you gave any HomePods etc.

On some devices I have the USB C ports seem to have a firmer "click" to them than Lightning ports, maybe that could make it feel harder to plug in.

Lightning ports can sometimes feel bit loose, especially when they are full of pocket lint.

Because prohibition has been such a great success for other drugs.

The New Zealand law is ridiculous and not something we should be emulating. Smoking is already steadily declining in the UK, we should be sticking with the current approach with the view that smoking can die a natural death.

One reason the letter exists in the first place is because the current leaders in AI would love to pull the ladder up behind them. That’s why they have fostered much of the doom mongering around the technology, which has lead to so many asking for a pause. A pause during which they can solidify their own positions and cut off competition by skewing AI regulation in their favour.

Some of the signatories of the letter are already openly calling for open source AI to be outright banned, because apparently only corporations like OpenAI can be trusted with it.

I agree that AI work should not have copyright protection. Even with human intervention it still collects data, without expressed permission, from numerous sources.

Generative AI models could be trained using only on public domain and royalty free images. Should the output of those be eligible for copyright, but not if they also had unlicensed training data?

It seems there two separate arguments being conflated in this debate. One is whether using copyrighted works as AI training data is fair use. The other is whether creative workers should be protected from displacement by AI.

Maybe he somehow fell and got stuck under the truck, and then got lost on his way back to the prison?

As far as I know you can enter a not guilty plea regardless of the circumstances. Maybe he wants to appear a martyr, and use the resulting trial to attract attention.

I wish more people realised this. It's much harder to create very specific images with the current image generation tools than most people seem to think, which is creating an inaccurate view of the technology in the public eye.

The generator will create something inspired by the prompt it is given, but it can be very hard to make it match the output the prompt writer imagines when writing the prompt. There are various tools that can refine and narrow the generator's output, to try and control things like posing, composition, style etc and to redraw details. But even then it's often pot luck as to the output. The generated images aren't necessarily bad, just not what was wanted.

I think the comparison to stock photo images is apt, current image generators are great for creating themed but somewhat generic images. The tools are going to continue to advance, and they are useful in for some applications already. But they are still a long way off from truly replacing human artistry.

Do any of these authors use a word processor? Because that would be displacing the job of a skilled typist.

Technological progress is disruptive and largely unavoidable. Loosing your livelihood to a machine isn't fun, I don't dispute that. But the fact of that didn't stop the industrial revolution, the automobile, the internet, or many other technological shifts. Those who embraced them reaped a lot benefits however.

Technology is also often unpredictable. The AI hype train should not be taken at face value, and at this point we can't say if generative AI systems will ever really "replace" human artistry at all, especially at the highest of levels. But technology such as LLMs do not have reach that level to still be useful for other applications, and if the tech is killed on unfounded fear mongering we could loose all of it.

Yes, this the setup for regulatory capture before regulation has even been conceived. The likes of OpenAI would like nothing more than to be legally declared the only stewards of this "dangerous" technology. The constant doom laden hype that people keep falling for is all part of the plan.

Podcast playback controls are now working for me, I closed the Watch app a few times and it then started working without issue.

Something must have got stuck during the upgrade process I guess.

The lack of discoverability is the biggest problem with long press interactions. If something looks like a button a user knows they can press it, but there’s no visual indication something can be long pressed.

I have multiple HomePod minis, the update appeared after a few hours for me. I have had the same issue with previous HomePod updates, checking for updates does nothing for a while and then they eventually catch up.

At least it’s not as hard as trying to summon an AirPods update.

I often travel in somewhat rural areas with spotty mobile coverage, so offline maps are useful for me.

It’s sometimes useful to pre-download maps of urban areas if attending busy events etc, because the cell towers can get overloaded causing slow speeds.

I’m not keen on how the watch Activity app is divided into separate screens, and requires swiping to see each graph. I preferred the previous style, where they were all on one screen which could be quickly scrolled.

I’m having some odd behaviour with podcasts and my Apple Watch. iPhone and Watch both updated to iOS 17 and watchOS 10. Whenever I play a podcast from the Podcasts app on my iPhone, the Podcasts app on the Watch opens, instead of the Now Playing app.

But the Podcasts app doesn’t show any controls or info about the currently playing podcast, just the podcasts menu. There is a small icon in the top right that looks a now playing indicator, but tapping it does nothing. I keep having to manually switch to Now Playing app, but even then sometime it switches back to the (useless) Podcast app.

I’m not sure if this is expected behaviour or a bug, whatever it is it’s not very useful.

I’ve had little to no luck with contact posters so far. I created one as soon as I installed iOS 17, but it is not showing up for anyone. I also can’t see anyone else’s when they have called. A couple do show up when I look the up in Contacts though.

I’ve seen a lot of people online complaining it doesn’t work for them either. Either the feature itself is broken or whatever part of Apple's backend syncs the contact posters is overloaded.

Not a great look whatever the cause as this was touted as one of the main iOS 17 features.

The transition won’t happen quickly enough without it, and there still needs to be some hard incentives to get infrastructure like charging networks up.

Delaying or stopping the ban will cost more time we can ill afford.