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This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, June 25th, 2025. We tell you what you need to know, follow up on context, and by gosh, help each other understand. Today, Bart Bouchard tells us about a pocket alternative and Fairphone brings out a lighter, repairable phone with a longer battery life. Oh, the geeks are going to like this episode. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm Jen Cutter. Let's start with what you need to know with The Big Story.

Amsterdam's Fairphone has launched its first new phone in two years, the Fairphone Gen 6. You'll see it called the Fairphone 6. The Fairphone people are trying to get away from using the version numbers all the time. They're like, you should keep your phone as long as you want. That's the whole idea with Fairphone. So we're just going to call it the Fairphone. But yes, this is the sixth generation of it.

Has a bigger battery. That was a concern with the fifth gen. The sixth has a 4,415 milliamp hour battery that they say should last you up to 53 hours. So if you're bad at math, that's more than two days. And it can charge to 50% in 25 minutes on a 30 watt charger. When and if that battery life degrades, however, of course, it's a Fairphone. So you can swap it out for a new one because the Fairphone is made to be repairable. Everything is put together with screws. Nothing is glued.

Has a 6.31 inch 1116 by 2484 OLED screen with a 120 hertz refresh rate. And yes, you can replace that screen if you need to. Starts with 256 gigabytes of storage, one of the few components not replaceable since it's on the motherboard, but

You can get it up to two terabytes with an SD card in the repairable SD card slot. That's a 50 megapixel main lens with 10 X digital zoom and a 13 megapixel ultra wide. The selfie camera is 32 Mexico megapixels. And yes, both of those are replaceable. You can also replace the back plate, uh,

And they offer you some custom alternatives, like one that has a finger loop built in or one that has a card holder, so you don't have to use a case. And you can replace the flash, the SIM and the SD card slots. Those are both part of the top unit. The ear cup, the speaker, and the USB-C port.

The trade-off for all that repairability is that the Fairphone 6 is only IP55 water and dust resistance. You can splash it. You could probably even hit it with a little bit of a jet of water, but don't drop it in water. It runs Android 15 with updates guaranteed until 2033. That's

So,

Fairphone 6 is available now for £499 sterling, €599. And it does not sell to the U.S. directly, but you can get it through a French company called Murena with a de-Googled version of Android called EOS. That'll cost U.S. folks $899. Jen, it's a decent specced, decent priced phone that you can repair and upgrade and keep for longer. Why do you think this isn't more popular?

Well, I am part of the problem. My iPhone was dying and I didn't even look at other phones because I was like, I don't feel like learning a new ecosystem. I didn't feel like going to Android. I just went to a new phone. And then, of course, now I'm reading this. I was like, ah, no.

This repairability is so good because I'm fixing a friend's iPhone with battery issues, another 11, and Apple wants $400, Canadian, and a local shop wants $40. Yeah.

Quite a disparity. It's a large disparity. I need to vet this local shop. Sure. It's like, you know, I've got some follow-up questions. Yeah. But, you know, things need to go the way the Fairphone is going. Yeah. And Fairphone, the company makes other things like earbuds and stuff like that as well. They obviously will sell you the replacement parts, but they don't lock you into that. If you can find another usable part that works with it, you can do that. They encourage that.

The reason it's called Fairphone, I think, gets lost in all the repairability is that they also vet the makers of all of the parts for their phones to be fair to their employees, to be ethically sourced, all of that sort of stuff as much as they can. Yeah, I think they're actually at least partially responsible for a lot of companies being upfront about how long they'll support a phone. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. This is certainly one of the things that people can point to to say like, hey, you know, long support, environmentally responsibly sourced materials, get it from factories that pay people a living wage, all of that sort of thing, and repairable. So it's a little thicker. This one's lighter than the last one, but it might be a little heavier than another phone you might find at the same price point. But the tradeoff is, you know, you can keep this one longer if parts break or wear out.

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There's more we need to know today. Let's get right to the briefs. Windows 10 support ends on October 14th, but you can still get security updates for another year for free. You just have to agree to sync your PC settings to Microsoft's cloud using a Microsoft account and the Windows backup app.

Normally this plan called the extended security update or ESU program is $30 per device. Now there's probably a bouquet of reasons why they're doing this. Uh, the, the negative minded, uh, we'll jump to the conclusion that they just want your data. Uh,

and I'm not going to deny that maybe that's part of it. Uh, I'm guessing the majority reason for this is that if you start using windows backup and you're using one drive, they have a chance to upsell you on other things like photo backup and Azure and adding storage and all of that. And they think that that would end up paying, uh, for giving it to you for free. Uh, they're hoping to upsell you. So if you want to stick it to Microsoft, do this and then refuse to buy anything. They try to sell you.

Or just pay the $30 per device and don't do it if you're like, I don't trust them to have my data. But it's another option for people who want to keep their Windows 10 machine going a little longer. Yeah, I think percentage-wise, a lot of people will do this. I am not one of them.

And I suspect other people who have very carefully set up their PCs to not use a Microsoft account will be in the exact same boat. I am fighting with my Windows 10 install on my oldest laptop right now because I ran just a normal Windows update. And the campaign manager telling me support is ending popped up in the middle of it right before the reboot for things to work.

And I am now an hour like 60 of trying to get it to boot and out of the boot loop that it is currently in. Oh, my gosh. Which is so frustrating. I'm thinking a BIOS trip is happening next for me. I thought I would try to let it finish normally. They say, you know, let it run overnight and it'll sort itself out. And that's not where I'm at. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. That's tantamount to putting auto exec bat in the auto exec bat level of frustration. Yeah.

If you know, you know. Well, yeah. And so do you think you'd end up paying $30? Oh, yeah. I had planned to just pay for it. And then on a different laptop, I'm testing out some Linux distributions. Like Pop! OS is the one I'm kind of leaning to right now. I'm going to keep Windows for my work because I need DaVinci Resolve and all those programs to just work. But for my everyday browsing and stuff...

Just anything's fine. Just, yeah, keep it in a different operating system altogether. I can see a lot of people wanting to do that.

Google announced the launch of Gemini CLI, an agentic model that can run locally from your terminal. It lets Gemini look at your local code base, answer natural language questions about your code, but it can also write, debug and run code. It's basically the same thing as OpenAI's Codex CLI or Anthropix Claude code. Developers also often are using third party tools.

like cursor or get hub copilot with Gemini 2.5 pro to do the same thing. So this wraps it all up in one package from Google. Uh, Google says Gemini CLI can also create videos with VO three VO three generate reports with deep research and access search, uh, as well as use MCP. Remember I was talking about MCP before it's kind of the USB of AI APIs. Uh, you can use MCP to connect to external databases and, uh,

Gemini CLI is released under the Apache 2.0 license. That's one of the more permissive open source licenses out there. Of course, you still need to connect to Gemini to make use of it. But free users get 60 model requests a minute and a thousand per day. So Google aggressively trying to keep or get developers to use their CLI.

Now, I know I have joked slash threatened about this before, but man, it's going to take me like more than a week to put together a chart of which thing does what and where and how just to keep all of these things straight. Yeah.

Yeah, this one might be a little easier to categories if you think of it as a developer tool. There are there are code assistance tools, CLIs, and now Google has their own. And then you can box that off and say, well, if I'm not a developer and I don't need a coding assistant, then I don't have to worry about that one because it's not a model. It's a way it's an agent for helping you with something.

Does that help? I feel like it does a little. Yeah. Uh, I, I, something that I've definitely noticed is that, uh, the makers of these tools have definitely been a little, um, more permissive than I would have expected with the, uh,

free uses. They want people to get kind of hooked. And I was thinking like, boy, I'd have a hard time coming up with enough things that I would need in my day-to-day work life to use all these minutes. So I guess they're really just trying to get you in on it. Yeah. Well, it's an example of knowing that there is a good reason for people to pay you to use your cloud service version.

of Gemini because it's more powerful. But what you want them to do is use it at all. So make it really easy for them to use it and then more of them will want to use it and pay for the cloud version.

Google also launched Imogen 4 and Imogen 4 Ultra image generators. The Ultra version costs a little more but can, quote, precisely follow instructions. Both are available in limited free testing in AI Studio and as a paid preview in the Gemini API. Imogen 4 access will arrive for paid Gemini users in the coming weeks.

This is, Jim, this is Google catching up a little. The Ultra is actually pretty good and got some good reviews, but the 4 seems like it's just catching up with Dolly and Midjourney and those out there, which is good for Google to be able to do that. But as Engadget put it, significantly improved boring images coming in ImageInform.

Exactly.

Examples of tasks it saved time on were making worksheets, making assessments, quizzes, administrative work. Some used it to help modify student materials or even help them construct feedback. Several teachers found that when they started to use the tools, they got better at spotting when their students were using the tools. We're going to have a closer look at the downsides of these tools for teachers and students in part two of our interview with Kevin Metcalf. That's coming into the feed this weekend.

Yeah, I play hockey and I'm friends with a lot of teachers who definitely have been using the AI tools to assist at spotting. But because a bunch of the teachers I know are working in French immersion, the tools are slightly less useful. Yeah.

Oh, because they're just not as good at spotting French language stuff? No, it's not great. It wants to translate it and work in that and translate it back. And then my friends have noticed that like, oh, when I'm doing this, the AI has introduced some grievous errors. Yeah.

I'm bad at French tenses too, so I sympathize with the AI on this. I wonder if different models would work better because there are some really good French models out there that are working natively in French. So I'm surprised that they have that much trouble. It may be just that the problem is these detection tools are not very good. Yeah.

And a lot of teachers anecdotally that I've talked to say they're better at detecting whether a student has used these tools than the detector tools are.

Yes, absolutely. My friends who are teaching high school, granted, like for the ones who have small enough class sizes, they don't need the tool to know who's using it. But they've been practicing using these tools because they figure it's going to be necessary in the future. But yeah, I'd say that the hit rate is up and down. But also, I love my friends. They're not the most technical people. So I think they're just using one,

I don't think they're testing through various. Like, I will tell my friends in the French immersion, like, hey, like, use an actual French one, and then they'll notice it better. But also, I don't know how much the grade six kids are using it at this point. It's probably not that high, but you never know. And there's one called Claude. It has a French name. Try that. Oh, there you go. Yeah.

Insta360 announced a new wearable wireless mic called the Mic Air. It's round and about the size of an Apple AirTag, wears 7.9 grams, gets up to 10 hours of battery life, and has a 300-meter range. A

A button on the mic can activate noise cancelling or start and stop recording. It connects to Insta360 cams over Bluetooth. Otherwise, you're going to need a receiver, though the company says wider Bluetooth compatibility is coming. You can get it for $70 bundled with a USB-C receiver and individual mics alone cost $50.

Yeah, this looks great. It's really tiny. It attaches with a magnet and it's fairly unobtrusive and easy to put on and off. I'm hoping to try it out because I know there's some really good ones out there. Obviously, Rode makes some really good ones. A bunch of other folks do, too. But this one looks pretty compelling. And Insta360 makes some good cams and gimbals and such.

Yeah. I'm going to say we're both slightly older. We're from the generation that was like, hide the mics. You have to hide the mics. If you show a mic, you're doing it wrong. And now you see everyone wearing these huge mics on TikTok and even YouTube these days. I do wish it looked a little better. You mean the...

The fact that it's small and round isn't what bothers you. It's just the way it looks itself. It's just the way it looks. Like, I understand you have to advertise your brand, but like that text looks really big to me. I wonder how big it'll be because it's supposed to be air tag size. So you may not be able to see that text when it's actually being worn as well. I don't know. Yeah, we're going to find out. Yeah, we'll find out. I'm from the generation that was like, never use wireless. You'll have interference and it'll ruin your recording. Of course, that's silly now too.

Here's another good piece of hardware news. Starting now, the Ring doorbell can add generated descriptions to the alerts you get when it detects motion. So, for example, person carrying a box.

box. That way you know, oh, it's someone delivering a package. Maybe I actually want to answer the door and get the package. Whereas a person carrying a clipboard might mean a salesperson and you can just pretend you're not home. Ring says the descriptions are intentionally concise and only describe the main subject that triggered the motion alert. So they're not going to try to overdo the descriptions. Feature is available if you're a Ring Home Premium.

So that's the top tier folks who pay about $200 a year. It's available on all models, though, although for now only in English. Well, I am looking forward to the compilations of the ring attempting to identify various animals in various regions. I think they did a good job of saying we are not going to try to identify everything. We're going to use these tools to say what it knows is there. A person, a dog, whatever.

or even an animal. And I'm like, yeah, that could be enough for me to decide whether I want to look at the camera or not. If you don't try to tell me all the... A brown furry raccoon with a lint in his eye or something, right? Like...

The only problem for me is that I have to pay the top tier subscription for this. And I have my Ring Doorbell locked down. I don't pay anything for the subscription. I don't have it live streaming at any time. I probably just need to replace it with a different model. So I don't want to pay for this, but this would be useful if I were to get it. Mm-hmm.

Solos announced new smart glasses, the AirGo A5 and V2. If you want the most normal-looking pair, the A5 does audio and voice controls with no camera. The V2 has a 16-megapixel camera that supports live video with image stabilization over low-power Wi-Fi. There is only one camera, and it's fairly unobtrusive when it's off.

The V2 can use multiple chatbots, including Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek. It has swappable batteries as well. The A5 goes on sale in August for $249, and the V2 comes in Q4 for $299. And I am surprised at how borderline affordable these glasses are these days. Yeah.

This comes out of a smart glass summit that happened. It's a Hong Kong company, and it just goes to show we're getting more and more choices at decent price points these days.

A couple of updates on Apple's ongoing regulatory issues. Apple has filed its official challenge in U.S. Circuit Court over the order requiring it to let apps link out to third-party payment options in the U.S. Apple's asking the court to vacate the injunction that requires it to allow the links, strike down the restrictions on anti-steering, reverse the civil contempt finding, and reassign the case to a new judge if it gets sent back down. That was the only surprising part, is they're like, we don't even want that same judge if you send this back.

In Europe, they're playing a little nicer. Apple has a proposal due June 26th to make it easier for third-party developers there to direct customers to other ways to make payments and get apps. Apple was charged a fine in April for problems with its current implementation. It sounds like they are trying to work it out ahead of time and say,

Let's make it so that we don't get a further penalty, at least in Europe. Definitely, at least in Europe and possibly only the way these things shake out. But, oh man, I cannot wait to read this new proposal because they have to, they really have to eliminate these steps.

Well, what they're trying to do is work with the commission to say, what is it exactly that you object to and come to a reasonable compromise on that? Because, you know, one of the things, for example, that the commission had said is you can charge people for using an external store. You know, you can charge them a commission for that, but you charged too much. So that's just a matter of like, OK, well, what what number is not too much? And they can agree on that.

It's like, I'll know it when I see it is great, but you have to actually eventually tell them. Yeah, if the two sides can agree ahead of time, then that makes the proposal go more smoothly. YouTube will increase the minimum age for unaccompanied live streaming from 13 to 16, starting on July 22nd. Anyone found violating the new rule after that date will have the chat disabled and other features temporarily revoked. Eventually, YouTube will begin disabling the streams and possibly terminating accounts.

Younger users can still live stream as long as there's an adult account as the co-manager, editor, or owner of the channel. And an adult is, and this is key, visibly present on the stream. Yeah. And they even went so far as to say participating, like not just standing there watching. On the couch in the background, flipping around on their phone. Yeah.

You may be like, why aren't they just revoking these immediately? It's because the rules are changing. And so they want to be fair to people who are 15, 16 years old, who were live streaming before. Give them a chance to hear about this and take the appropriate actions. I think that's fine. Give them a little grace period to switch over. And after that, then it's like, hey, we're giving ample warning. Yeah. I think a lot of people kind of miss that terminating account is

tends to, I don't know if they're switching it for this new rule, terminates your Google account. So you will lose your email, your Google Drive, everything. It is a very, very big deal. So hopefully they're pushing this out in multiple emails to all of the streamers. Like, even if I get an email about this, I'm not going to be offended about it. Like, just blanket everyone because at least, you know, we can tell cousins and stuff. But

But the 13 to 16, again, as a person who from 16 to 20 did not look remotely 16 to 20, I feel awful for those people who are going to have to send in photo IDs and driver's licenses to prove. No, I swear I'm almost an adult. Yeah. Age verification is still not an exact science, is it? Not quite. No. All right. Those are the essentials for today. Let's dive a little deeper.

With Mozilla announcing it will shut down Bookmark Manager Pocket on July 8th, a lot of folks are looking for a replacement. Bart Bouchard's had an alternative you may want to consider. Bart, thanks for joining me, man.

My absolute pleasure. It's always good when I happen to do something you want to talk to me about. Well, I heard you talking to Alison about your alternative to Pocket. And so I thought we could pass that along to people. And of course, they should go listen to NoCillaCast if they want to get the full experience. But first of all, let's talk about bookmark managers. What do you use a bookmark manager for?

So the most important use, the use that would really break my productivity is I do two news-based podcasts. I do a bi-weekly one on cybersecurity and I do a monthly one on Apple News. So Let's Talk Apple and Security Bits on the NacillaCast. And I read, I'm still one of those people who use an RSS reader. I think that makes me rare in 2035. Yeah, well, there's two of us together. That may be a majority of them. I'm not sure. Yeah.

So I read news all the time in the background because you can't possibly do a whole month's worth of news in an afternoon. You can't do that, right? So as the month goes on, I just every day, I'm just keeping up with my RSS and I need to capture and somehow categorize

stories that are relevant to either or both. And the or both means you actually need quite a powerful tool because once based off folder structures, then it doesn't work so good. It's like, well, this Apple security news, what do I do? Which meant I used to physically put it into one folder and always try to remember, put it in the one I'm going to record next and then remember to bring it over to the other folder. It was fragile. It was terrible. But anyway, so I wanted better categorization and,

And then I just clean that folder out as I record the show notes. And then I fill it up again and I clean it out and I fill it up again. And that is how I podcast. Do you use it for things besides just the podcasting? Yes. So because I use it so much for the podcasting, I started to notice there were lots of other things. Oh, hang on this tool here that I'm using. Anyway, this hammer can hit other things. So a big one for me is sometimes you come across not a news story,

but a fantastic description of X. Like, really, what is a passkey? Or advice for people who know nothing about passwords for keeping safe. These kind of generic articles that you just want to have in your pocket. Excuse the pun. And then whenever a family member or a non-techie person says, I don't understand, you just go, here, hang on, I'll get you this link. And assuming you've tagged stuff or whatever, you just send them the link. And so I started to collect these articles

for reference is what I call those, right? Things I know I'll want again. And then I started to realize that I could use this for my cooking. So I decided in the pandemic, I was never going to waste food again. It just became clear to me that food is not something we should take for granted and I'm not going to waste it. So the day before shopping day, I have combinations of ingredients I have never cooked before. And I just go Googling for ideas.

And I will find five and cook one. And I used to just throw the other four away. But now what I started doing is anything interesting, just stick it in pocket or what used to be pocket. And then the next time, instead of going to Google, just go to my archive of stuff I already know I want to try someday and find something that matches the ingredients. And hey, presto, off we go. It's worked out really well.

And then the other one is I have a husband who is notoriously difficult to buy gifts for, and I used to panic every Christmas. And now throughout the year, I just capture gift ideas, capture, capture. And then when it's time for a gift, I just go to my folder and I go, Ooh, well, this choice. Hey, Presto. I may have to steal that last one particularly as a matter of fact, you know, because Amazon wishlists only take you so far, especially these days. Um,

So why did you settle on raindrop as your alternative to pocket? I got fed up of pocket a year ago, so I have a head start. So I have already been settled into my new home for some time. And so I can tell you the water really is nice in here because pocket started the smell of I'm dying. It's heard the smell of sinking ship. And I decided to be one of the early rats.

And I started off ahead of everyone else. But they killed the Mac app. And at that point, I was like, OK, these are not my people. This is not my thing. So I tried lots of different ones. And I ended up with one that has a long history. This is not an app that's going to go away because I briefly ended up on Omnivore, which was really promising and amazing. But it was a young company and they were bought up by Venture Capital. And that was the end of that. I was like, oh, well, sod. I've just done all this work to migrate from Pocket to Omnivore and they evaporated. So...

My second attempt was Raindrop and I tried everything and I nearly did the self-hosted wallabag because I got so fed up of trusting other people. I thought I might host it myself, but I don't want to do that. It's maintenance work. It's work. Yeah. And it's one more thing to, yeah, I just didn't want to do that. And eventually someone pointed me at raindrop.io and

And it's a one person shop, a bit like the Gus Muellers of this world, right? It's a one person, but they've been doing this for ages. And when you read the about page and stuff, you get a sense of this is this is not a fly by night. This is a person who has made this their way of putting food on the table. They have been doing this for years and they are quite serious about this.

And it's mature. It's not up and coming with great promises. It is built. It has been running for years. It works. And it's completely cross-platform. Windows, Linux. There's a Linux client. The Mac, iOS, Android, and a really nice web interface. Now, as Alison hypothesized, it's probably an Electron app. I don't care. It's a really nice app.

And it's the most cleverly thought out of them all. So you don't have to choose between the different options for taxonomies. Am I a categories person or am I a tags person? You can have both. We have the concept of collections and we have tags. And when you're searching, you can search for a tag across all of your bookmarks or within your current collection. So I used to have terrible trouble when I needed to cook with apples.

Oh, yeah. Right. Whereas now I have a collection for my four problems to be solved. And when I'm writing show notes, I search for tags within the show notes collection and I can tag security and Apple. No problem.

I can search within just my collection of useful tips and I can search for Apple related tips. No problem. And I can search just within my recipes for Apple related recipes and I will find only my recipes. So we have all the flexibility of tags and all the flexibility of folders. The share sheet is amazing. That is really important. Getting things into a bookmark manager is really important. And again,

Some of them started to give you the ability to add tags and so forth. They wouldn't auto search your existing tags or eventually that did come to pocket, but then it got a bit boogie. And what I can do with this share sheet is I can write a little note describing why I'm bookmarking this, which is very powerful.

The amazing thing is the share sheet is live, so it checks your history. And if you try to re-bookmark something you've already bookmarked, it will just show you its current status. Oh, you have this, it's in this folder with these tags with this note. And you might update the note, but you don't end up with two copies of the story, which is happening all the time. I just have like 15 copies of the same useful article or something that I just keep finding, right? And it's just real time. And...

Like, as I said, I can put my notes in the share sheet. So I used to be terrible at crediting listeners, right? A listener would send me this amazing story and I would end up saying to Alison, someone in the community who's amazing told me about this. And now I can literally say so-and-so in Slack or so-and-so on Mastodon or because I just, as I'm recording it right there and then. Or for Let's Talk Apple, it's a month's worth of news.

And why did I think this opinion piece was worthy? It could be a massive big piece over on Mac stories or something. That's God knows how long, why did I think this was worth highlighting to my audience? Well, as I'm reading it, I put in a note to myself saying, this is the most insightful post I've read so far about blah, blah, blah. And then six weeks or sorry, three weeks later or whatever, when I'm doing the notes, I know why, why did I bookmark this? It's,

Every little pain point I've had over the years with Pocket and everything else I've tried, they're all addressed because Raindrop is so bloody mature. All those rough edges have been ironed out. No need for me to go through it.

And if anybody is blanking, they're like, wait, what's the share sheet? That's just when you hit the like, I want to share this out of Safari. And then it gives you a sheet of options. And Raindrop, once you've installed it, is one of those. Yeah. Now, I should say there are browser plugins for browser people. But remember, I'm an RSS person. So a browser plugin is no good to me. I need to be able to hit that little square box with the arrow in my RSS reader.

To save my links. Yeah. This is fantastic. And I definitely recommend that everybody go listen to NoSilicast if you want to hear Bart talk a little more about raindrop.io. And of course, you can go to raindrop.io. It's right there in the name if you want to find out more about that. If they want to find out more about you, Bart, where should they go?

They should go to bartb.ie, be really gentle in critiquing my very creaky old webpage and follow the links to the stuff I actually do, which is at let's-talk.ie for my podcasts and, uh, glass, uh, glass.photo is where I do all of my photography these days. An amazing, amazing paid for social media that isn't sucky. Uh,

And you will find all of my photographs there. And because it's such a friendly community, I'm actually sharing. So you can actually go and see, like it's free for everyone to see. You just, you know, you can sign up to become a member. And you actually see my photography instead of it sitting on my iPhone gathering digital dust, which is nice. That's fantastic. Bart, thanks so much for talking to us. I appreciate it, man.

Always a pleasure. Thank you for having me. You can join in the conversation about all this stuff in our Discord. Just become a patron and link your Patreon account at patreon.com slash DTNS.

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We end every episode of DTNS with some shared wisdom. Today, Jeff has a thought about AI in animation. Yeah, Jeff says, I recently came across a series of short videos on YouTube, one of the several Stormtrooper vlog series that have been cropping up. I showed it to my teenage son. We both had a good laugh, but

But then he made some comment about it being AI generated. I hadn't given a thought about it. I enjoyed the production quality and humor enough that I just looked past the obvious AI artifacts and the fact that the AI tool used to create them is listed right in the description.

Like you were saying, the real value is in the creativity and the storytelling. There's lots of AI garbage being created right now, but there's also some very creative people who were limited by their technical abilities before, but for whom these AI tools may open a completely new avenue to express their creativity. It's going to be hard to shift through the rough, but I think we're going to find a lot of diamonds when we do. Jeff in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Yeah. Not to, like, I hope this does not come off as throwing my mom under the bus, but my mom likes cute animal videos and it turns out she is not picky about whether they are real or not. As long as they're cute. As long as they're cute. Like, she's not big on, like, animation, but, you know, there are some, like, real-looking animal videos and, yeah, they're in her feed and she's not bothered by it. She didn't notice. I just happened to be, like, looking over her shoulder one day and I was like, oh, that's not real. She was like, so? And? Your point? That's funny. Yeah.

As long as, yeah, that's to Jeff's point. Like they can be used well or badly. And when they're used well, maybe people just are like, no, that's fine. I'm glad I know, but I don't, it doesn't bother me. I guess part of it is no animals were harmed. There you go. Yeah.

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