I love how the channel is dedicated to just this experiment

Yup, see also the specimen preparation section of the linked Wikipedia article

We believe that the washing machine is the hearth of the modern laundry room

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation

The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages.

Ok now that’s cool. Since it’s often all doom and gloom here, celebrating good tech is a nice change :)

That seems like an optional feature that competing products have.

I’d rather the fediverse friendly open source version have features I won’t use, if it means it can continue to grow and compete with the proprietary ones

I get that as well, or when people care about the issues but not enough to change up how they are used to doing things.

It is getting better though, I’m finding more friends are moving to the better options. It’s even easier when the privacy respecting option is as good as the alternatives. I guess Garmin is a decent example since people were recommending the watches even without the privacy aspect.

While there are a lot of comments saying Garmin, I haven’t seen people mention the privacy aspect

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/wearables/

Garmin apps are much better for privacy. If I’m going to be wearing a biometric tracker 24/7, I don’t want that data being sold to advertisers. That’s more important to me than most other features