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Wherein I vacate all Apple related chats because one annoying person can't stop complaining about how Apple is constantly rescanning his data for OCR and/or object identification purposes.
I can't explain why they do it, when the processes of scanning apparently never change, so therefore they should produce the same results given the same input data, so why does Apple ineptly re-scan your data nonstop, day-in, day-out?
I can't explain it. I don't want to explain it. I don't even want to concern myself with the reason.
I simply turn off Apple Photos syncing on my desktops and delete the local libraries so the desktops aren't constantly scanning my photos for changes that aren't happening.
I'm already annoyed enough that this person pointed out that they're running on an aging Intel machine. Guess what, intelligence models existed in CPU back then. It just wasn't called "Apple Intelligence". Intentionally running old versions of macOS to avoid "Apple Intelligence" doesn't buy you a reprieve from the OS trying to outsmart you and spend your electricity.
Maybe things like this are also why I can't find myself using my Mac most of the time any more, even though I swear I will come back to do dev work on my favorite audio player. Namely the one I maintain.
Linux has the close balance/tie/draw between DeaDBeeF and Fooyin for me, since Fooyin is a neat design, but some of the API things I don't really like. I need to bug its author about implementing or pointing me at how to do some of the things I'd like. Like Repeat One detection so that every input plugin doesn't have to have its own "Play Forever" checkbox for looping formats for those occasions where This One Weird Person (me) may want to listen to the same thing on loop for a while.