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A compiler is at least consistent if all things remain constant. Ask AI the same thing a few times and you’ll get different answers. Ask tomorrow?…different.

Yes

I have no sympathy for you if your $450 toaster isn’t working.

I had somewhat the opposite experience. I was moving and had something I didn’t want to forget so I stuck it somewhere. I just found it a few weeks ago stuffed under the passenger seat of my car. I moved 9 years ago…

A lot of my GoPros already have an overheating problem and battery issues(ballooning). Having them in direct sunlight on the dash or leaving them in the car on a summer day would make that worse. While the picture quality is nice I think they’d make terrible dash cams for day to day constant use.

Most(not all) dedicated dash cams use capacitors and not batteries due to the extreme cold/heat they’re subjected to. The capacitor should provide enough power to gracefully shutdown if you have the cam wired to an auxiliary power wire(turns off with ignition).

They doubled down hard on editing via the phone app with cloud storage via subscription. I have zero desire to edit video on my phone. Their desktop apps are frankly horrendous. They have cameras that capture footage at higher than 4K but their phone app only allowed export at 4K at least on an iPhone. This seemed to be a limit on the h265 libraries on the iPhone so it might be different on Android.

If you wanted to export their 5.6K 360 footage on a desktop from a GoPro Max you couldn’t do that in any sane way. You had to export it in their cine* whatever format and an hour of footage was over 400GB. This also used your graphics card to accelerate it. You could export the h265 files in 4K if memory serves which was obviously smaller and faster but you dropped the resolution as a trade off.

YouTube in a desktop browser supports 360 footage in 5K+ resolutions. I believe the mobile app is still 4K only.

If you already had an iPhone then the Neo makes a lot of sense. I love responding to text messages with a full keyboard. You can share browser tabs between the two, copy/paste across devices among other things(Apple’s handoff feature). You can also install and run phone/tablet apps directly on it or phone mirror other apps that don’t allow it(up to developer).

The Neo is a great laptop that I keep on the arm of the couch in my living room. Charge it about once a week or so and use it for my normal browsing instead of my phone. It starts instantly when you crack the lid. Faster even than a MacBook Pro I had for work several years ago(Intel based).

It plays simple games like Balatro or Mini Motorways great. It can play more demanding titles but the battery life does start to suffer.

For the price range the screen, size, and build are top tier. The only thing I kind of miss is an illuminated keyboard but that’s a minor nitpick.

I had another use case for a laptop which was kind of niche. I every so often need to make updates/changes to vehicle software and a laptop is ideal. The issue is that software is windows only. Yes, it runs in wine but it’s kind of a pain. The Neo supports UTM which is a virtual machine software specifically built for Apple Silicon and it runs windows great. So installing that app, windows, and syncing it up to my vehicle was normal fair. I didn’t want to have a cheap windows laptop around for only that purpose that I wouldn’t use otherwise. I found that people in the forum for that vehicle software had the same thought about the Neo that I did. So I knew it worked for this purpose before purchasing.

This is Benn Jordan aka ‘The Flashbulb’…he is doing exactly that because he got fed up with AI companies training off his albums.

https://youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA