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mjohanning

@mjohanning@birds.town

My name is Marvin and I live in Bielefeld (Germany) currently working as a #sysadmin at a small ISP. I also self-publish books from time to time.

Most of my free-time, however, is spent doing #photography — mostly of #birds and, sometimes, other types of wildlife.

I will mostly be posting photos of birds or other bird-related content on this account, but I will also — at times — post stuff about languages and computers. I post mainly in English and German.

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A bird I frequently hear but that I don't often get to see from up close, a European Green Finch!

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Eurasian Wren showing off its tiny tail.

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European Starling with some food in its beak. So shiny!

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I still cannot believe how far gaming on Linux has come. I still remember back in 2013 when Steam was first released for Linux and I was stoked that I could finally play some games on Ubuntu without having to mess around with PlayOnLinux and have abysmal performance. I could play Half-Life natively on Linux!

And now I can pretty much play my entire Steam and GOG libraries without any issues and, sometimes, even better performance than on Windows! And in the case of Steam, I don't even have to do anything, I just click "install" on any Windows-only game and the game just installs and runs perfectly afterward - most of the time, anyway.

I've attached two screenshots I took back in March 2013 of the then newly released Steam client for Linux because I thought it was interesting. Looks very similar to how it looks today 😅

Another screenshot of the program Steam running on an old version of Ubuntu. It is showing the store page in German.

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I've just finished my first ever PC! All other PCs I have had up until this point where mostly older office PCs, workstations or just laptops, but I have never built my own.

Nothing fancy, 16 GB of RAM, Ryzen 5 5600, RX 6600. I'll be getting some more RAM soon, though.

Here's a photo comparing it with the Z440 workstation I had been using. And also a photo of the rather messy interior, I am really bad at cable management 😅

Currently running Pop!_OS and it's working very nicely! Very nice not having to mess around with NVIDIA drivers anymore.

A photo of the interior of my new PC (one side panel has been removed so that the inside can be seen). There are fans, a graphics card and a GPU clearly visible.

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A very high-ISO photo (10,000) of a European Robin.

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European Robin being as cute as always.

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It’s my birthday today so we (well, mostly @psdi 😅) didn’t make cake but bread! First time making bread on our own and it turned out really nice!

One half of the loaf of bread so that you can see its cross section.

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Not really a good photo but a new lifer for me! Marsh Harrier, Rohrweihe.

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We didn‘t end up seeing the Red-Necked Grebe, but here‘s a photo of a Little Grebe trying to feed one of its chicks!

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Another photo of the male Common Merganser I saw today. I never know how to take photos of these guys, they’re too contrasty 😅

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Does anyone know of a good (preferably free) tool / script that can sort photos into folders for year and month automatically by using the photos’ metadata? Seems like something that should be relatively simple.

#photo #photography #photos #programming

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Surprise merganser visit! I was taking a walk because I’ve been having a headache and spotted this male Common Merganser at the artificial lake near my apartment.

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Blue Tit angry at my disturbing it during lunch.

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On our walk today, we managed to see four Common Buzzards flying overhead! I wonder if they're a family hunting together? I'm not sure. I managed to take a photo of only one of them, the others were too far away.

We also saw two Common Kestrels which can be seen over on the profile of @psdi

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Common Blackbird guarding his hedge.

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Portrait of a European Robin.

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One of the Long-Tailed Tits currently building a nest close by.

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Went to visit my parents today and took the train. Saw these strange green disks hanging on the wires at the train station. Thought it looked cool 😅

Anyone know what they‘re for?

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Lots of nuthatches around lately! Always hear their calls :-)

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A very acrobatic Song Thrush.

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Here's an old photo of mine that I took shortly after I got my first DSLR in 2016. The Kaiserpalais in the Kurpark of my hometown of Bad Oeynhausen.

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Eurasian Jay looking for some food on the ground.

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Finally managed to photograph a male Siskin! I usually only get to photograph the females for some reason. Such a cool bird.

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