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Admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone

I can also be found on the microblog fediverse at @ada@blahaj.zone or on matrix at @ada:chat.blahaj.zone

  • Switched from GRUB to Limine today

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  • GRUB because of the snapper support. I'll probably try Liminie next time I do a rebuild

  • We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands)

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  • Another car free lifer here!

  • Do you backup your docker images?

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  • Nope. Data directories and compose files only.

  • Alternatives for Photoshop?

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  • What are you doing with photoshop? If it's mostly photo editing, it's darktable that you're looking for.

  • Looking for editing advice [OC]

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  • There's a few artefacts and things in there because I was working with a pre edited webp file, but that's what I'd do with it.

    This is my darktable module history.

    I used local contrast initially, but preferred how it looked without out, which is why it was turned off towards the end. The first color balance module was just using the "standard colorfulness" preset. The second color balance module boosted the luminance in the whole image, gave a bit more brightness to the shadows and mid tones, and increased the contrast. The final color balance module, I used a mask to isolate the background, and upped the contrast even more. This introduced artefacts in the background that wouldn't be there if you did the same thing from a RAW file.

    And this is the mask I used in the final color balance module. I manually drew an area over the bird to exclude it, and then adjusted it slightly using the hue slider. I added a bit of feathering on the mask to get rid of harsh borders and to smooth out the impacts the artefacts had on the mask. Because I was only editing contrast, and not colour, the border didn't need to be exact.

  • Looking for editing advice [OC]

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  • So if it were me, and assuming you've got an ORF (RAW) file for the photo, I'd use the color balance RGB module, and then play around with your shadows and power settings.

    If you're really keen, you can use a parametric mask on the hz (luminance) and/or hue channels to select the background, and then boost the contrast of the background separately from the bird. Possibly give the background a little more saturation too.

  • y'all wheren't satisfied with previous tierlist because it didnt have enough distros. i present: 100% legit tierlist 2: electric boogaloo

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  • If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere?

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  • We have the technology to manufacture materials that could make up a Dyson Swarm. We are not even close to having the technology to make materials that would be sufficient to make a Dyson Sphere.

    What we don't have is the resources, logistics, energy supply and manufacturing base to implement either...

  • CachyOS boot partition usage limit has exceeded (limine-snapper-notify)

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  • The quickest and easiest solution would be to update your snapper config and reduce the number of snapshots you keep.

  • If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere?

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  • Induced radioactivity is mostly the result of contamination from radioactive materials. Whilst it's possible to induce radioactivity from gamma rays directly, you're talking "background noise" levels of radiation. Which is to say, the cable isn't going to become notably radioactive, and even then, the part that does, will be the part that isn't protected by the atmosphere. And for people to navigate those areas of space safely, we already need shielding to protect us from the suns electromagnetic radiation, so a small increase in radiation from the cable isn't going to make much of a difference to anything.

  • Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine

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  • The only adobe software I used was photo editing, so Lightroom and Photoshop. I have no idea what their other apps do, or how they compare to linux equivalents

  • Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine

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  • Ah, no, I use darktable for all of my editing. But sorting my photos, rating, tagging and flagging them for future editing is all digikam.

  • Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine

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  • Digikam is built from the ground up to be a photo cataloger. Hierarchical tags that you can click on to expand or contract, the ability to jump from a given photo to all photos taken on the same date, or all photos in the same folder, or all photos that share a particular tag. Collapsible folders and tag structures, the ability to toggle child tag/folder recursive view on or off, image grouping (automated by filename/timestamp/burst). They also share metadata perfectly well through EXIF data, so anything I do in one is visible in the other right away.

    This is digikam

    This is the same folder in darktable

  • Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine

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  • My biggest issue with darktable was the masking. It's so different in darktable, but once I understood it, all the barriers fell away

    I can't find something that has a decent workflow. I'm not looking for anything fancy

    I import, sort and tag my photos with Digikam, and then open them with darktable for editing.

  • Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine

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  • I was one of the former. Photography isn't my job, but it's really important to me, and photo editing was a show stopper for me for a long time. Even after I moved to Linux full time, I was using remote desktops, VMs and whatever else I could manage to get Adobe stuff working, without having to switch back to Windows. I endured, because I'd finally hit a threshold where that pain was worth putting up with in preference to Windows and its built in ads and spyware.

    But when I finally gave up on getting Lightroom working on linux, I figured I had no choice but to learn a linux compatible workflow... It was either that, or go back to windows, and that wasn't happening...

  • Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine

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  • In hindsight, I'm so glad I couldn't get them working on linux, because it forced me to get my head around Darktable. I couldn't go back to Lightroom now...

  • Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...?

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  • The only thing I would add to your post is that whilst gender is a performance, that's not all it is. It can also be, and very often is, an internal sense of identity distinct from the social manifestation of that identity.

  • Some birds at the beach [OC]

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  • They look like Royal Terns!

  • Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...?

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  • Your gender is how society perceives you. It is a spectrum between masculine and feminine

    Not quite. It's got nothing to do with how people perceive you. A closeted trans woman is still a woman, even though she's perceived as a man.

    It's also not inherently defined by femininity or masculinity. You can be a masculine woman or a feminine man, or you can simply not give a shit about masculinity or femininity (this is me). Society defines what we consider masculine and feminine, and creates powerful associations between these behaviours and gender, but the association is "after the fact"