PaintDotNet is perfect if you only need some commonly used “pro” features. It’s a relatively easy transition from paint.

OpenAI x Digg 2.0 is a bit too unwieldy so how about OpenDiggAI?

This came as the global EV market grew by 29% in Q1 2025 compared to the same period last year, with total global sales reaching 4.1 million units in the first quarter.

I was curious what the distribution was for global EV sales (the article mostly refers to YoY growth). Turns out that:

• Global: 4.1 million, +29%
• China: 2.4 million, +36%
• Europe: 0.9 million, +22%
• North America: 0.5 million, +16%
• Rest of World: 0.3 million, +27%

Gives a bit more context on China’s role in the EV boom.

Ah I see, yeah was likely the consumer cards.

They seem to be available on AliExpress and a few (very few) local distributors in my country.

I find the recent fascination with headline grabbing large, round sums of “investment” (or even spend) among the US admin to be unconvincing.

US oligarchs can come up with any number they need for such PR copytext. It’s borderline meaningless.

Nvidia is probably too busy with their enterprise GPU business. For them, gaming is a mere Plan B; a backup market they can return to (and dominate with minimal competitive pressure) in case of a black swan type event (from Nvidia’s perspective) where enterprise GPU sales see a significant decline.

The package includes funding for infrastucture development, including underground transmission lines at semiconductor clusters which are currently being built.

A very specific requirement. I guess it’s better that the SK government is considering infrastructure investment (the benefits of which can more broad) as opposed dtonjust giving companies money.

Some interesting backrooms dealings and some suspect distribution deals; it’s refreshing to hear this after mostly PR friendly news about Ampere.

If they had challenges with getting 4,000 units for a distributor cost of $4M with upfront payments, things couldn’t have been going all that well.

This is how you know that polemics about “free markets” and competition require a critical eye. One would think that in a truly competitive market there would be no profits to fund a $45 billion passion project of the CEO,

Perhaps one of the most egregious is the Amazon Halo Rise, a $140 smart alarm clock and sleep tracker, which according to PIRG lasted for less than a year before Amazon pulled the plug on the cloud service the device depended on.

That’s pretty rough.

But then again we have MS trying to brick 400 million PC (as the article does point out.

That would be an interesting project, I am assuming it works out to be rather pricey,

China called the US administrations bluff.

Are there any DIY projects that could benefit from LiDAR? Ones that you can build with a SBC/Raspberry Pi.

Agree. I am just spitballing.

From what I’ve read 8K seems to be the limit in terms of historical content (35 mm benefits from 8K, but not from 16K) and general usage in terms of monitors and TV and somewhat typical scenarios.

How do you request additions to starter packs?

Give me 1080p 120fps mainstream TV any day of the week

Is that even possible? Is the source video stream (from the cameras used in production) at 120 fps?

Alternative article that references The Information: https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-lays-off-hundreds-employees-android-pixel-group-information-reports-2025-04-11/

You are on less than 1080x1920? That’s a pretty old monitor/laptop screen.

I’ve never tried 4K streaming (don’t have the premium subscription), but 17.5 Mbps for 4K sounds like a joke. There are older 1080 sources (especially with grain) where you don’t want to go too much below 15 Mpbs on H264. Even H265 generally works better primarily on newer sources material (post 2005) and encoding high complexity older film with H265 is going to give marginal efficiency improvements relative to H264.