Yeah exactly. Although it’s also totally understandable that OP is unhappy with their decision. At the end of the day any reasonably large workplace just wants all their IT to be as manageable as possible, which means as uniform as possible in hardware and OS. But using windows for many jobs just kinda sucks.

Too little too late. I’m already over to Linux now. Shit’s been going downhill even before this whole AI craze went off the rails. I hope Microsoft Windows crashes and burns

I used to feel the same. At some point I put some time into setting up KDE how I wanted it and then I just kinda kept using it. Still use it today. I do find the editing tools of the toolbars etc to be extremely chaotic. But once that’s in place it’s actually nicer than Gnome imo

I’d say it’s still accurate for quite a lot of us. Personally I avoid any “smart” device like the plague. I’m kinda done with tech outside of programming. I’d have a dumb phone if it wasn’t such a hassle in today’s society, none of my appliances is connected to the internet (apart from PC and phone), I like using old DSLRs and film cameras because I don’t want to look at another screen when out and about, I read physical books instead of digital, etc. I don’t own a car but if I had one it’d probably be some old piece of shit that just works, without all the smart shit if I can at all avoid it.

I have printers that connect to the WiFi, but they’re turned off all the time unless I need them. There’s no way in hell my washing machine gets WiFi, nor any other applicance like it. And I’m also very distrustful of video doorbells or even worse, those kind of digital locks that unlock with a phone or something. I’m just tired of everything being connected, everything being a subscription, everything being a security nightmare, everything needing power or having to be charged.

We should sprinkle IT people around the offices like wifi routers. To project their aura of auto-resolving constantly throughout the workplace. As a programmer I have more of an aura of auto-breaking any system that I’m near so hopefully they cancel out

:3

I’m a nightmare for any IT department and software developer. I know enough to do damage, but don’t have the patience and knowledge to wield this power. I go around editing shit in random config files in order to “temporarily fix” an issue and then forget that I ever did it, slowly turning and system I touch into a ticking time bomb. This also combined with my unique ability to seemingly break any piece of software by merely interacting with it, especially on Linux, before I even had the chance to install anything. I’ve installed and used Linux on countless devices and haven’t ever had a smooth ride, yet still I’m completely daily driving Linux at this point.

I use Arch by the way :3 (and Fedora, and Ubuntu, and Raspbian, and God knows what else)

For some issues, especially related to programming and Linux, I feel like I kinda have to at this point. Google seems to have become useless, and DDG was never great to begin with but is arguably better than Google now. I’ve had some very obscure issues that I spent quite some time searching for, only to drop it into ChatGPT and get a link to some random forum post that discusses it. The biggest one was a Linux kernel regression that was posted on the same day in the Arch Linux forums somewhere. Despite having a hunch about what it could be and searching/struggling for over an hour, I couldn’t find anything. ChatGPT then managed to link me the post (and a suggested fix: switching to LTS kernel) in less than minute.

For general purpose search tho, hell no. If I want to know factual data that’s easy to find I’ll rely on the good old search engine. And even if I have to use an LLM, I don’t really trust it unless it gives me links to the information or I can verify that what it says is true.

Damn what the hell. I’m Dutch and I pay less than €12 euros. For that I get 100 call minutes/messages and 6 GB. Neither of which I ever really get close to. Calling is mostly just in case of emergency or when we need to align something right now. And data is always useful because I definitely do not have free wifi anywhere. Do you never leave a big city or something? If I slip with my bike on an icy road and break something in the middle of nowhere it’s kinda good to have some way of communicating.

Uhhh, I, uhhh

I use Arch by the way :3

Sorry I couldn’t help it. Technically I started this install as Antegos, but since that project ended I used some voodoo to convince my OS that it’s Arch now with moderate succes.

Oh I do dislike Manjaro. I tried it a few times on some PCs and every time it ended in a dumpster fire. Can’t remember exactly what it was, but it has something to do with pitting me pick the kernel but also completely going to shit if I didn’t pick the right one at the right moment. Constant errors, pain and suffering. When I switched that machine to Fedora it was suddenly happily purring like a kitten without any issues.

Yeah I’m on a 5700 or something with 64 GB of DDR4 and I don’t see any issues with it yet. I went that route because I could keep my mobo and it was also way cheaper than DDR5 back then. I figured I’d rather have more older RAM than a full system upgrade.

Is RAM already at a price that it’s worth considering selling one of those sticks? :3

Yeah I’m on a 5700 or something with 64 GB of DDR4 and I don’t see any issues with it yet. I went that route because I could keep my mobo and it was also way cheaper than DDR5 back then. I figured I’d rather have more older RAM than a full system upgrade.

Is RAM already at a price that it’s worth considering selling one of those sticks? :3

Awesome! Yeah personally I’ll always buy via services like MPB or something. Just to know that I can send it back when there’s and issue. I’ve had 2 times now that there were some issue with what I ordered. In one case I sent it back for free and got a different copy of the lens that was perfect. In the other case the sensor of my new body was dirty and I was allowed to use a cleaning kit on it first without losing warranty. That fixed it, which saved me quite some time and effort with the whole sending back and getting a new one adventure.

Good to know that this lens is great. I also have a micro 4/3 camera and I might invest in one of the primes at some point. Currently I only have the 2 basic Olympus zooms, the 30mm macro (which is awesome) and some vintage glass, but a small modern prime would probably do wonders.

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A little update on this. I went back to the lab and they apparently developed it at the development times for 800 iso, because that was what the table of their developer listed as the normal for Ilford Delta 3200. In fact, it didn’t even list dev times for 3200, only 400, 800, and 1600.

This also checks out with this shot, because I vaguely remember messing up the math in my head, thinking that I went up and down a stop to cancel out, while I actually added 2 stops of exposure. Something I realized when cycling away. So ironically this is the only good shot precisely because it’s 2 stops overexposed when measuring the church wall, which counters the 2 stops of underexposure from development. This shot would’ve been completely nuked if it had been developed as I intended.

Anyway, some learning for me and the lab. Next time I’ll tell them the intended iso with b/w rolls.

Yeah that’s probably the best idea. If it’s widely regarded as a more sharp lens then it may just be a faulty copy.

Lovely shot. Very pleasing colours, kinda look like a film scans or something. I assume this is edited and not sooc?

As someone who had to deal with a dirty sensor recently I can’t help but notice that there are some spots on the sensor or lens tho. The biggest one is a blurry piece of dust or hair above the row of trees in the sky, between the reed and the transmission tower. nd there also appear to be some smaller spots in the ice. You can probably remove them with a rocket blower from the lens or sensor.

Awesome! I only noticed that it was happening just before I wanted to go to bed, and I wrongly assumed that I had to use long shutter speeds which ruined most of my shots. But I got something decent from my balcony at higher iso and faster shutter speeds. I also have some with red but I missed focus on all of them.

Ah okay, rookie mistake then. I’ve only done development myself once while using someone else’s facilities. This roll was bought and developed at my local lab, though I did scanning myself. I just assumed that the box iso of 3200 was to be trusted. I’m not sure how they developed it tbh, but I assumed it was okay because the edge markings looked way denser than the highlights in most photos. And I assumed that the edge markers are exposed for 3200 iso too.

I probably just overexposed the hell out of this picture, which is why it did turn out fine. Turns out that 3200 iso means that it becomes pretty hard to shoot in broad daylight with a fastest shutter speed of 1/1000th. There are quite a few photos which seem to be ridiculously underexposed.

This photo, for instance, was DSLR scanned and converted with the exact same settings as the one in the post:

It’s possible to get a bit more out of it by adjusting the settings, but obviously you can’t make information appear that was never recorded by the film. I even took a second shot with different settings because I wasn’t confident about my settings, but both shots are completely nuked. Even the sky isn’t middle gray

The first thing I remember from that time is sitting in the living room and playing Halo, then hearing that the economy was crashing and everything was going to shit. And it kinda did, I remember a lot of stress about my parents keeping their jobs. I’m from the mid 90s and this is the first moment that I can remember where I became aware of how fucked up the world really was. A shattering of the protective bubble that you experience as a kid.