There are different types of "smart" though.
Appliances with required accounts and connections, yeah it's all a corporate enshittification surveillance garbage.
But a smart light bulb that connects over Zigbee to a locally hosted setup so that I can easily dim the lights or set them on a timer or whatever I feel like doing? It's a convenience that nobody needs, but at least it isn't as severely compromised as the "ecosystem" wannabes.
I think this one is just true, but the more life experience you have the easier it is to understand. And it surely depends on your personality and all that.
Doing things "digitally" is cool and futuristic and efficient, and it's totally fine for many types of calls and meetings, especially at work. But it's undeniable how low-bandwidth and restricted of an interface it is compared with in-person interaction.
That is the easiest image to hear that I've seen in a while.
I wonder if it's a white balance thing, as in the setting you'd see on a camera or in a post processing tool.
For instance, consider that "soft" or "warm" light bulbs (say 3000K and below) are common in cozy indoor areas. They cast a much more yellow color of light compared with a daylight bulb or actual daylight, which will look very blue in comparison.
It's like the model detected that the image was people in a living room and it applied a warm white balance to the whole picture because most images of a family in the living room have warm lighting globally.
But since it is a machine and apparently has not yet been explicitly taught that comics generally have bright colors and no strange tints, then it does not adjust accordingly.
I wonder if that is even giving it too much credit. Maybe it's just the deterioration from all the iterations of garbage in, garbage out.
Turtles are kind of in between with their wedge-shaped heads. They need the awareness to hide from predators, but some of them are also predators themselves or they at least snap at fruits and veggies to eat them.
Here's my tortoise doing his best disappointed-in-you baby yoda:
And here's the yellow belly slider locking target on to some shrimp.
But it sounds like the rules aren't as consistent in the water, judging from other comments. Even something like an alligator snapping turtle's eyes are no further forward than these pics.
This image also just called a bunch of random cats to my location.
I appreciate your concern for the quality of your contributions, and I think this place has a higher proportion of that type of user than just about any other platform.
This place is small and it's generally friendly and inclusive. Most comments won't get any replies, but the ones that do will generally be constructive. The users here are into the whole idea of the social contract and that we can have something nice if we are just excellent to one another.
I repeatedly say "generally" because this is an open platform and assholes are allowed to join. The assholes can even have their own instance dedicated to asshole topics! But fortunately the instances and communities are generally moderated by actual decent humans who are much like the users!
So let that knowledge help you comment more, not less! Even if you get no comments and like 5 upvotes, it actually feels like something of value even if it's just a nod from a few decent people.
Edit: part of the conclusion was supposed to be that you can consider comments more like a discussion with people and not some strict message board.