@schwa I caved and signed up for the photo package with a small amount of online storage and the Classic options so I can edit on my local machine. There are strange differences between the iOS and MacOS versions, but I do like editing photos on my iPad with the pencil. Chews battery like crazy though.
The masking, and lens blur simulation are good. The repair tools on LR less so (much better in PS for some reason).
@schwa Not a huge fan of Adobe, but I have to admit PS and LR are where they shine. I haven't really used the online versions, and I wish LR Classic would read from Photos rather than making me export them to edit on my MBP (on the iPad it will load direct from the photos, even for ones sync'd from my Mac, imported from the R7).
@schwa Was the same in SF when I was walking from the ferry to the office. Could always tell which ones were going to ignore the red light and blast through the crossing despite the pedestrians trying to cross the street. Honestly, I had more close calls with cyclists in SF than with cars.
@schwa Just having ISO be something you can change between shots, or leave the camera to just dynamically select is amazing when you compare it to film. And I don't recall ever using anything higher than ISO 800 in film, and even that was rare. 100 and 400 were much more common.
Apparently, the Instax film camera my daughter has uses ISO 800 film (have to be careful with it at airports), and that surprised me (though given the use case ISO 800 makes sense).
@schwa I’ve been wondering about getting lenses from Japan. Often a lot cheaper than from US sellers. Interested to hear if you get any issues with getting it here.
@schwa The tug is starting to look more like her namesake in terms of condition! I remember seeing that one regularly when I was commuting on the ferry and she looked much smarter and cleaner back then!
@GeekAndDad@schwa I don't think you can be concerned about costs if you're looking at film these days. It has to be more for the hobby and satisfaction of taking and developing a great photo.
I did b&w processing at school, but never tried colour processing. Was something I'd have liked to have done back then. Now, not sure I could go back to film.
Climate scientists are angry, helpless, and overwhelmed as they watch humanity accelerate toward the climate cliff that will likely destroy much of our civilization. But they have no choice other than continuing to fight, as long as they can.
“The world’s response to date is reprehensible – we live in an age of fools.”
That pretty much captures it. We are living in an age of fools, and not just in regards to climate. Climate change has been an issue for quarter of a century and still there are politicians who refuse to accept it, and religions that preach it is unavoidable. All the while, oil companies make record profits racing to burn everything before they are finally banned.
I learned early on there isn’t an ‘objective best’ when it comes to #Food. American food media pretends there is but there isn’t. What you like, what makes you happy, what you dislike is as subjective as everything else about you.
Take bánh mì in my neighborhood (Tenderloin in SF). Everybody loves Saigon, and it is the best American sandwich with Vietnamese fillings. It’s huge, and it’s spilling over. I don’t love that in any sandwich so my spot is a Vietnam-sized sandwich with good fillings.
@skinnylatte I'm fine with places having options for those who don't like spicy food (e.g. my wife), but I don't see why you can't do both. Then everybody in a group can be happy.
@skinnylatte Everybody's idea of excessive heat is different though - my wife will be literally suffering, with her lips swelling up, eating a dish that for me is barely above bland. Two of her nieces were born and raised in Malaysia, one loves spicy food, the other is worse than my wife when it comes to spice levels.
We took my wife's Q5 down to LA, mainly because my 91 year old mother-in-law doesn't like getting in & out of the Taycan. Didn't need fuel for the car en route, but both ways we stopped twice for 30+ minutes each time anyway (for restrooms, lunch and just to stretch our legs). And in all the places we stopped (4 different ones in total), there were chargers (Electrify Americ, Tesla and sometimes ChargePoint too). No real time difference to take an EV vs ICE any longer.
@pixel@breakfastgolem Can’t speak to the whole country, but we’ve done a lot of long trips in the Taycan, and not had problems charging at EA sites. Recently, they’ve been busier, but I’ve only had to wait once in three years, and that was only for ~10 minutes.
I have heard that outside of California / west coast things might not be as good, but also note that the EV cannonball time was held by a Taycan using EA for a while (before s Tesla reclaimed it), so can’t be that bad.
How does one say, "I've been trying to tell you hydrogen was a scam for two decades now" in marketing speak?
Just give up on this oil company-led nightmare and go pure electric already. Being tied to the pump is so 𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘤𝘩. 😂
@KiwiEV They are still pushing the nonsense. YouTube put a video in my home page yesterday all about Toyota's new hydrogen combustion engine tech and how it delivers the same power and torque as a gasoline engine so it will destroy the EV market. I guess they didn't realize that power and torque numbers are not a winning metric for ICE...
They just cannot let go of hydrogen. First they failed with fuel cells, next they will fail with hydrogen ICE. What comes after that?