FACESNXT is fed from all Florida-issued photo IDs, including driver's licenses. So pretty much every Florida resident is in the database.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office submitted the poor image to a statewide facial recognition database maintained by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office (PCSO), running a facial recognitio program called Face Analysis Comparison and Examination System (FACESNXT). This draws from a mix of sources including booking photos and all Florida state issued IDs and driver's licenses.

So good luck keeping your face out of that database if you live in Florida.

Asahi Linux doesn't really support Apple Silicon in the first place. They have prototype-level quality support for the M1 and M2, and no support at all for the M3/M4/M5/A18. If you want to run Linux on a mac today, virtualization is the only realistic option.

I have mine set to Australian, works for me.

If your goal is the cheapest Mac, the cheapest way to get a new computer in that ecosystem, then they're comparable in that they are both Macintosh computers, and the Neo is significantly cheaper. If your goal is the cheapest Mac laptop, then the Mini isn't relevant regardless of the price.

Are you replying to the right person? The grandparent said you shouldn't buy a neo because a mac mini costs the same. And I pointed out that it doesn't cost the same, they discontinued the cheaper model. I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with.

The MacBook Neo at $599 is $200 cheaper than the entry-level Mac Mini at $799. They discontinued the cheaper Mini.

Build quality on the Dell is good, but from hands-ons, not *as* good. Touchscreen is not something most people want on a laptop, I think (I know a niche loves them, but most people don't), but it's 120 Hz, which is a major advantage over the Neo (and Air for that matter). The touchpad is not as good. The CPU is much slower (at least in bursty tasks). I'll speculate that speakers and battery life are much worse. Connectivity is a wash (faster second USB port, but no headphone jack). The backlit keyboard is nice. The entry price point is $100 higher. Worst of all, it comes with Windows 11.

Of course this is just based on specsheets, very brief hands-on previews, and speculation, we'll need to see what real reviews show.

"All input is evil"

Bambu Studio (from which Orca Slicer is forked, and which is itself forked from PrusaSlicer, which is forked from Slic3r) itself is likely in violation of the AGPL due to not releasing the source code for the "BambuStudio Network Plugin" that is used for communicating with their printers, which is a "plugin" purely in an attempt to avoid the AGPL, but may not actually qualify for such an exclusion due to its nature (as a required component to use the software for its intended purpose) and how its loaded (DLL files that are loaded into the program's memory space just like the rest of the program's code, which also lives in DLLs)

The developer of a fork of Orca Slicer that is designed to communicate directly with Bambu Labs printers is shutting down his fork. Orca Slicer, which supports many printers, is not shutting down.

There is an existing years-old and actively developed reimplementation of Notepad++ that runs on macOS, called NotepadNext:

https://github.com/dail8859/No...

So changing the name from "Notepad++" to "Nextpad++" is now confusing people to think it's related to NotepadNext...

There's more than just USB-C and HDMI and ethernet, though. There's SD card slots, microSD card slots, SSDs, USB-C cards (technically also thunderbolt), USB-A cards, audio cards, DisplayPort cards, HDMI cards, GigE cards, and 10GigE cards. I believe there's also a wireless mouse dongle garage card coming. The whole point of these is so that you don't need to carry any dongles, and for most people on the go (because if you're at home, use a dock), they're unlikely to need to plug in more than four things to a laptop at the same time.

That said, it'd be nice if the Framework 13 had six card slots instead of four like the 16.

$500-600 for a new entry-level Macintosh laptop (Neo) or desktop (Mini) is quite reasonable, and the hardware on offer is suitable for most people's needs.

Yes, you can get Windows laptop for $300, but the quality and specs of what you're getting at that price is... questionable.

As anybody "gifted" with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) can tell you, not being able to forget has major downsides.