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Cooling an iPhone 12 Mini for Face Tracking
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Fio's 2025 Notable Watches
Jan 8, 2026While software face tracking is always making improvements, hardware (iPhone) tracking is still generally recognized as the best, and frees your CPU utilization while letting you avoid the privacy implications of webcams. Before buying a used iPhone specifically for tracking, I did a bunch of research, and there was a lot of talk about how the iPhone X has overheating issues, but it was supposedly solved with iPhone 11. So basically: get anything but the X. Supposedly. I found an iPhone 12 Mini ...
2025 is over and it was shit, but I watched some really good stuff at least (and a few giga dookies). Here are the ones that stood out, for one reason or another (I keep a log of every movie I watch on Letterboxd). Man. Almost every scene in this would sound so mundane on paper. It was my best film watched in 2025, and one of my top films of all time. I haven't seen another film that was so abstract without feeling like it was only trying to stand out. An otherwise basic premise becomes an off-t...