Do you know if it’s supported on Mac too, with whatever platform specific optimizations like running it on the gpu / with MPS ?

You mean Vulkan? In the blog post there is reference to all vulkan supported platforms

If you mean ffmpeg build with whisper - from memory I didn't see ffmpeg-builds for mac, so you will probably need to compile yourself

> iPhone Pocket features a singular 3D-knitted construction

What does that mean? What would be an example of 2D knitted construction ?

Imagine being the copywriters tasked with making this sound cool.

I would personally be afraid of using that in case it causes damage long-term to the screen either due to temperature or power draw or something. Idk if there are significant hardware differences but in this case I would guess there’s a real hardware reason for it?

I've used vivid nearly every day since the week the first m1 MacBook Pro came out, no damage to my screen at all.

I bought last year a device like that I think - was from some company named TexasPoE I think, and it took Ethernet cable, and output has usb-c with 1GbE and power. I sometimes use it with my iphone or iPad and do get the wired Ethernet connection and charging

Fwiw, I’ve had a few different PoE switches from Ubiquity and at least so far haven’t had any problems with the switches. My current one is the 48 Pro-Max etherlighting , and I have around fifteen PoE devices and it’s pretty much plug and play always.

I did have issues with some of their other products - eg an old CloudKey gen1 that I had remotely in my parents place that I think ran out of space to the point it can’t update itself and can’t compact some old mongodb.

I didn't know about that. I don't use windows at all, but have a Synology with a bunch of drives and use it with SMB for my multiple Macs and apple devices, haven't had any larger issues and things seem to work fine. Should I be switching to NFS ?

I wouldn't connect to SMB from Mac or Linux by choice on devices I control and could have them use another scheme.

I'd use SMB only if I had to connect to some corporate server on Windows, or if whetever system I connected to didn't support anything else.

It seems to be OK when there is plenty of free space but once Time Machine needs to prune older files it starts having problems (at least in my experience).

Is jpeg the only format which can be “rotated losslessly” in this way, ie without exif metadata (and excluding any obvious formats like bitmaps or whatever can be trivially rotated) ?

From what I know it can't be "rotated losslessly" in all cases, only if the dimensions of the images are multiples of the MCU which are block of pixels whose size is determined by the chroma subsampling. Ex.: With the common "4:2:0" subsampling the MCU is 16x16 the image's height and width must be exactly multiples of 16, otherwise I think it's just visually lossless and uses some tricks that I'm still not sure how they work.

Both PNG and Webp exist in lossless formats which can be easily rotated without loss of quality. Jpeg is different, because its internal structure consists of 8x8 blocks (which, BTW, can be rotated lossless if both sides of the image are multiples of 8, iirc.

For photos all these assumptions are rather theoretical IMO, because modern cameras create images in sizes which almost always have to be reduced in size for viewing, unless one wants to pixel-peep.

In Poland we’ll most often use the 24hr time even when casually speaking and setting up meeting times, or people talking on tv/radio etc. Imo much simpler and less confusing

Have you already tried tinkering with the smb settings on both the local and nas config like here:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102064 https://support.apple.com/en-us/101442 https://gist.github.com/jbfriedrich/49b186473486ac72c4fe194a...

It’s actually already available in iOS 18! On the main Photos page, click the little filtering icon and select something like “Not in any album”