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Living at the base of Cape Cod. Enjoying the ocean life.

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Little Rody? The crookedest little state in the nation?

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Look - the reality is it’s not going to be clear cut. How much faster it is will depend on the individual task you’re working on.

For sure. I don’t doubt it will be a faster machine. Most of my issue are about the costs for the incremental upgrades. The base machines all come with to little memory and ssd. The upgrades cost way too much for what you’re getting. My high end 2019 macbook pro cost ~ $2500. A high end macbook pro now cost ~ $4000. I would expect the new machine to last for four years like the last one did. I have a 1TB ssd now. It’s 3/4 full. The biggest consumer of space is my primary photo catalog. If I upgrade my camera in the next four years the megapixels will probably double and space will fill up even faster. The upgrade from a 1TB ssd to a 2TB ssd is $400. That’s way out of line with ssd costs anywhere else. And yes, I only keep my primary data on the laptop and push everything else of to my NAS.

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digiKam, KDE's powerful photo management application, releases version 8.2.0.

This version brings better support for more languages (up to 61 in the works), and an improved version on Windows.

Look forward to automatic tagging based on content analysis and deep-learning. This feature is currently in pre-production.

https://www.digikam.org/news/2023-12-03-8.2.0_release_announcement/

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DigiKam has come a long way, but it’s still missing some really basic DAM features. I’d love to stop using Lightroom and there are plenty of good raw converter replacements, but it’s the DAM features that there are no replacement for. In DigiKam an album is a directory on disk. A photo can’t be in two albums at once. They recommend using tags for more groupings, but that just seems clunky.

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In my workflow tags == keywords which are orthogonal to albums. Keywords describe a photo and get published with the photo. One photo can be in multiple albums like Flickr Photosteam (published to Flickr), “Zion Vacation” (event album, published to Piwigo for friends and family consumption), “2022 Year in Photos” (yearly highlight album), “Favorite Landscapes”. Photos are in a date hierchary on disk.

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I’d be fine with tags in the digiKam DB including all of the above, but the values written to the images IPTC keywords field would have to be limited to the subkeys of what you listed above as type and content hierarchies. Here’s an example of one of my images: www.flickr.com/photos/tcgoetz/53265234720 you can see what I use for keywords in the info below the image.

My workflow also includes grouping similar images, using compare to grade them best to worst, marking the best with the pick flag, and rejecting the worst. I also group subimages of panoramics with the generated panoramic as the top of the stack and the pick image. didKam has a group feature but it seems different. Grouping in LR hides members of the group other than the pick image.

Chuymatt, to music

I have a question for you all. What is your favorite cover or covers? No, I’m not talking about where we have another band singing the exact same song. What songs have you heard that were taken by an artist and completely made their’s?

An example would be hurt by Nine Inch Nails Covered by Johnny Cash

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Lemonheads Mrs Robinson

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Expect to spend as much or more on the lens than the body. A quality lens is more important than the body. Personally I use a Fuji XT-4 and 16-55 f2.8, 10-24 f4. Here’s some example pics: www.Flickr.com/photos/tcgoetz

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That spinning logo overlayed over the video is really annoying.

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TLDR:

“A bug in the version of macOS Ventura released on July 24, 2023, has left some users seeing no apps listed in the section at all. They are also unable to see which apps are now or have recently been using their location data.”

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Think so? Seems more likely that they will just deploy the tanks without optics.

How to use central scenes on Zwave?

I have several Zooz Dimmer light switches in my house and I’ve noticed in the documentation that they support certain action actions (e.g. double-tap, triple-tap, tap&hold) through something called ‘central scenes’. I use the Zwave JS Integration for my devices, is it possible to somehow setup these scenes through this...

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Create an automation to map the central scene events to actions. In triggers, choose the device, then the choose a trigger something like “Central Scene action on endpoint 0 Scene 001”, and value something like “keyPressed 2x”.

I use automation like this to make double press and triple press on one switch activate multiple devices.

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TLDR: “Billionaire Elon Musk’s decision to rebrand Twitter as X could face legal challenges due to existing trademark rights held by companies like Meta and Microsoft for the letter X.”

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How about giving a TLDR? I’m not going to go watch a youtube video without some idea of what its about.

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Of the two, I would go with D3. I loved D2 when it came out and tried going back with D2 Resurrected, but it wasn’t the same. D3 is a fun game, but after playing D4 in beta and release, I don’t see me ever going back. POE 2 maybe.

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Seems like an ad: "Try Ground News today and get 30% off your subscription"

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I'm sure they pass on the savings to the students...

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Definitely. Soon enough you will be picking up only ancestral or better and only flawless gems or better.

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Unfortunately, some of those users are bringing the worst of Reddit with them. Their is an explosion of low value cutesy comments.

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For something like this a simple web page with a table seems like a much better way to present the data than a video. Don't really want to watch a six minute video where a simple table could be viewed in 30 secs.

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I was on Reddit for content. Both content aggregation and small communities for interest like home Assistant, Garmin watches, etc. Both os those require more people than Lemmy currently has to function well.

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To be clear, they are saying Russia is furious with their military:

"Russian milbloggers have said their army is “at war with our own stupidity and sloppiness”, after reports emerged that as many as 100 of Moscow’s troops were killed when a Ukrainian strike struck a gathering of soldiers waiting for their commander to give a speech. "

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