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@ Durandal @lemmy.today

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Hate is always foolish and Love is always wise. 
Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind. 

Never be cruel.
Never be cowardly.
Never give up.
Never give in.

  • What games are you picking up March 19th?

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  • 🤷 I have all the stuff I'm watching on my waitlist over on https://isthereanydeal.com/ ... so if something goes on a deep sale, it'll let me know.

  • Portland, OR.

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  • Ah I forgot Hawthorne also has the towers on it. Steel bridge's would have been closer together. My bad.

  • So what color is Linux exactly? Is it black like Tux and the terminal? Purple like Debian? Blue like Arch?

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  • Love Linux sees no color. 🐧

  • Portland, OR.

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  • Hey Steel Bridge 👋

    Nice colors and comp.

  • [TheGamer] Final Fantasy 13 Remaster Hopes Have Gone Viral All Over Again

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  • wh... who is... hoping for this?!

  • Discord rolls out a nice improvement for video calls on Linux

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  • How about discord rolls out a window and right into the dumpster.

  • Reacting to LTT's 2026 Linux Challenge (part 1)! - The Bryant Review

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  • FFS... people need to stop platforming that shyster... 🤦

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Core Keeper. They just had a big patch with a new section and biome. Started fresh save to run through it. Fun game. Still desperately needs an option or mod for “prevent ability to kill farm animals”.

  • Recommended cameras for beginners?

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  • Those sites are where I get most of my lenses, FWIW. I really like that they check them and rank them on condition then give a several month warranty on most grades. UPP and MPB show actual lens you’re getting on each listing as well. KEH doesn’t but their descriptions and grades are usually accurate. UPP is my favorite for price and quality but have a much more limited rotating stock of gear. I’ve bought multiple things from all three though.

  • Recommended cameras for beginners?

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  • First and foremost... I would check into buying used from a reputable reseller that guarantees their equipment:

    https://usedphotopro.com/

    https://www.mpb.com/

    https://www.keh.com/

    IDK where you're located geographically, but a couple of those do ship to different countries so they should have you covered.

    As for your specific camera needs, it's going to depend on the setting you're taking these pics in. It's less about subject (nature, graffiti, consenting butts) and more about speed and and light levels.

    You're right that taking a frozen moment from a moving vehicle you need a fast shutter (this is different from a "fast lens"). Most modern digital cameras should have no problem getting a fast enough shutter speed... something that tops out at 1/2000 or 1/4000 should be plenty. The farther away it is, the easier it will be.

    Nature pictures like landscapes are generally pretty easy to shoot. They don't move around much so you have plenty of time to set things up and find your scene. Nature pictures like animals... that's a whole other story and takes specialized stuff usually, depending on the animal. The good thing is that with interchangeable lens cameras, some of that is just the lens and can be upgraded when you figure out which niche you're trying to fill.

    When you get into these types of cameras, you are really buying into a lens system... that is a good place to start thinking about it. Will you be able to get lenses you like for a price you can deal with. Often that means not only how are the first party lenses, but are there good third party lenses. So take canon for example... great first party pro lenses, crap entry level lenses. Their DLSR has access to stuff like Sigma which are really good... their mirrorless they more or less banned 3rd party so you're sol. So a little research on that is a good idea.

    So my suggestion, personally, is to look at micro-fourthirds flagship cameras from the last decade and flagship DLSR as well. You will get a lot more bang for your buck and quality from an older flagship pro camera for the same price as an entry level new camera. There is a hidden price advantage for M43 cameras as well... the lenses are cheaper, lighter, and since it's an open format there's lots of choices from multiple manufacturers. If you get an Olympus camera, the lenses work on Lumix. If you get a TTartisans M43 lens it works on both. So you have a lot of choices for very inexpensive. Basically all M43 cameras have In Body Image Stabilization as well... which is really nice for getting rid of camera shake while taking handheld shots in lower light.

    As for software. There is plenty of stuff that will work well on linux... and lots of them are likely in your repos already or have flatpak or appimage. I really like RawTherapee for processing RAW images. https://www.rawtherapee.com/ There are some good scripts to get Affinity Photo working on linux these days as well such as https://github.com/ryzendew/Linux-Affinity-Installer ... just read thru the info thoroughly, but it's basically run shell script and click buttons on the GUI.

  • Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC?

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  • Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC?

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  • I've had the weird black screen on wake issue on Cachy due to problems with nvidia daemon not behaving itself. If you have an nvidia card you might look into that. Recent updates have mitigated the issue a bit for me. Sometimes when it does have the issue I'm able to swap to another TTY and then back and it will cause it to rethink it's bad decisions and the login screen will be there.

  • Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC?

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  • I'm using an arch based distro so I get kernel and driver updates pretty frequently that need a reboot to load. There is some weird thing I haven't found a fix for yet, where sometimes a warm reboot forgets half my RAM (likely something to do with MCR)... but a cold start works fine. So I shutdown and restart and all is well. Once a week maybe?

  • How do you pronounce daemon?

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  • day mn

  • Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy

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  • If you're doing sync, you can tell it to remove items from your waitlist when they are added to collection. It won't work retroactively, but it will do it going forward.

  • Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy

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  • New Subnautica 2 video shows off a convenient and social dive elevator, while promising that multiplayer won't ruin single player

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  • Didn't they already take a dive in the socials when they removed the founders of the game and screwed the devs out of their pay?

  • Linux Mint isn't the answer for Windows refugees anymore

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  • Exactly. Like I said... it's a top recommendation for a reason. There's still tons of bleeding edge stuff to play with... but Mint has really nailed down "here... this will install painlessly, and your laptop is going to work fine".

  • Linux Mint isn't the answer for Windows refugees anymore

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  • "Linux Mint isn't the answer for Linux newbies switching from windows to Linux" -- someone that's obviously done distro hopping. They then go on to cite "professional work"... something that generally benefits from boring, stable, reliable OS... and "customization"... which is a great place to start breaking things.

    And their alternatives? Kubuntu, fedora, and opensuse. What? *buntu used to be a safe bet ... but they can't keep things even running these days. Fedora... a perfect newbie choice. No hand holding, half your features won't work as expected for a windows user because it focuses everything on foss only, out of the box. ... and opensuse. I wouldn't ever call opensuse "newbie friendly"... and they use their own packaging so all the common stuff you would want to look up for help won't be a simple one click fix since most guides and apps recommend apt, rpm, or pac.

  • Linux @lemmy.world
    Durandal @lemmy.today

    Looking for help setting up dual boot system for a mostly beginner user and specific distro suggestions.

  • Photography @lemmy.world
    Durandal @lemmy.today

    Opinions on new-to-me m43 camera