I find that my Sony RX100 produces better photos than my Pixel phone. It has an auto mode that generally picks the right settings.
The pictures are more detailed and less blurry, especially in low light.
The only post processing necessary is copying the pictures from the SD card, which is admittedly a pretty big hassle.
You’re right about buying one second hand, since they’re incredibly expensive.
I’m still using an original Sony RX100. I think it’s something like ten or twelve years old.
The photos it produces look better than smartphone pictures, especially in low light.
It’s the kind of thing that’s a hassle to carry around, so I usually just bring it to family gatherings or my kids milestone events. Otherwise, I use phone pics.
Nonsuccessful attempts are exhausting and can be kind of soul destroying. After a certain point you realize you’re not so much learning as reconfirming what you already know.
I agree with the sentiment to keep trying, but the end of each try hurts.
I expect cultural references that make sense.
They could have just said “I love the smell of burning fascists in the morning”.
“I love the smell of fascists in the morning…”
That doesn’t even make sense. Napalm, yes. Fascists tho?
Google was ordered to make it possible to install new app stores as apps, so you could go into Google Play, search for a different app store, and, with a single click, install it on your phone, and switch to getting your apps from that store, rather than Google’s.
That’s what’s behind Google’s new ban on “sideloading”: this is a form of malicious compliance with the court orders stemming from its losses to Epic Games. In fact, it’s not even malicious compliance – it’s malicious noncompliance, a move that so obviously fails to satisfy the court order that I think it’s only a matter of time until Google gets hit with fines so large that they’ll actually affect Google’s operations.
The plant will generate about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year—enough to help run a nearby desalination facility and supply around 220 homes. That equals the output of two soccer fields of solar panels, but osmotic power keeps running day and night, in any weather.
What’s with the toxicity? Don’t make Lemmy a shitty place.
I last played a Rogue. As fun as the sneaky stuff is, I prefer Wizard. Probably take a wiz next time through.
The princess is neither Sync nor Send.
I’ve heard it likened to the dot-com boom: yeah, we’ve got a tonne of e-commerce today, but the stars hadn’t aligned in early 2k.
Seems a bit early tbh. But I’ll take it.
In total, the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of the range of energy demand—consumes 0.24 watt-hours of electricity, the equivalent of running a standard microwave for about one second. The company also provided average estimates for the water consumption and carbon emissions associated with a text prompt to Gemini.
What about Monsanto (Roundup) and Philip-Morris (lol)? You could probably include Dole. As well as the East India Company.
Hell yeah, intern! DO IT!
Typed! Back in my day we just got a wire that you had to lick in binary to tell the computer what to do.
It would be fantastic if our other GHG-producing activities were held to the same level of criticism as AI.
You’re gonna get downvotes defending AI on Lemmy - our Overton window is *tiny*.
A ChatGPT prompt uses 3 Wh. This is enough energy to:
Leave a single incandescent light bulb on for 3 minutes.
Leave a wireless router on for 30 minutes.
Play a gaming console for 1 minute.
Run a vacuum cleaner for 10 seconds.
Run a microwave for 10 seconds
Run a toaster for 8 seconds
Brew coffee for 10 seconds
Use a laptop for 3 minutes. ChatGPT could write this post using less energy than your laptop uses over the time you read it.
The SD card? I have to track down my SD card reader, copy the pictures over, and then upload them to my photo service. It’s not a huge amount of work, but I’m pretty lazy.
My rx100 doesn’t have Wi-Fi. I assume newer cameras would do that automatically, but I don’t want to spend $600+ to get another good point n shoot.