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Here's the recipe, I'm going to lay it out in totality for the click weasel snapgrammers who definitely always credit their sources. 1. Download Claude and stick it up your fucking arse. 2. Buy an S9, your first Lumix camera 3. (The real secret was Le Chonk, the French AI model) 4. Sit back and let the youtube ad revenue flow in

So now the S9 camera needs this S9 controller.

Pretty much anything you can dream of and can write in C code or Arm64. It even has a bluetooth host and USB HID capability which means all sorts of accessories can be accommodated with custom functionality. Steam Controller 2 as a follow focus anyone? 🙂

On a not totally unrelated topic… I decided to (try to) move away from the huge corporations and bought the Punkt. MC03 phone (Swiss, built in Germany), it runs aphyOS derived, as I understand it, from grapheneOS an AOSP build. And it is a great phone. Secure, relatively cheap (compared to Apple…) and does what a phone should do. So far so good. But… it doesn’t run my banking or airline or other travel apps. So it can only ever be a second phone. A statement piece or, if you prefer, virtue signalling. Doesn’t this encapsulate the essence and problems inherent to all “punk” software? It may be superior. It may be supporting small business or individuals working hard to produce great products. But it is unlikely to meet our expectations out of the box. Until society drops that sense of entitlement I fear genuine effort won’t be rewarded. And, of course, society has become conditioned by the Corporate mentality to such an extent that we think we want precisely what they can give us. That said… this is all astonishingly impressive!

Runs locally on 12GB VRAM... https://ltx.io/solution/vfx

Running locally on just 12GB VRAM is a remarkable feat in its own right. This could open up some interesting possibilities for indie filmmakers, especially when it comes to VFX. Being able to generate VFX elements and integrate them into actual footage, without spending a fortune on post-production, could be a real game changer. More creative freedom without sacrificing control over the final image. And at a fraction of the cost.

Local inference on 12GB VRAM, alpha mattes, 16-bit EXR, ACEScg and 3D-guided rendering are a different proposition from generating random clips from text prompts. If temporal consistency, edge quality and render times hold up in production, this could significantly change what smaller VFX teams can achieve without expensive infrastructure. The real question is no longer whether AI has a place in filmmaking, but how quickly production workflows will adapt to it.