I never got a Micro Four Thirds camera: My first mirrorless was a Fujifilm X100S, and my first mirrorless ILC was an X-T2. Before those it was Nikon and Pentax dSLRs.
Lately YouTube has been serving me up a lot of stuff around bargain digital cameras from 6-10 years ago and the whole M43 ecosystem looks fascinating. The little street rigs people make seem pretty cool.
@mph "inexpensive" is always relative I guess :) Just curious.
I have a newer (well newer than that wonderful old Pentax you gave me) DSLR now, and I never use it, and I busted it out in the hopes of getting aurora photos. Did not get those but I've been feeling like I should be using the thing more since I have it. Took a couple really nice family pictures, including a good one of my mom and sister, when we went to the park for mother's day.
@mph (got this newer camera because my daughter was taking a photography class and needed something, so we both chipped in on a camera, and I have "our" camera at my disposal now)
People love clacky keyboards because we once lived in a world of satisfying clicks and clacks and the keyboards are all we've got left. Put your headphones on and experience sonic bliss.
The Oregonian runs an article about a new Covid variant urging you to "stock up on masks."
It includes a few decontextualized data points, copies and pastes a few words from the CDC website about viruses, then urges you to set up a Prime account (twice) so it can push affiliate link mask-buying options.
The linked text “Now, some are considering whether masking up may be a safe option,” which you'd presume is at least information about masking, is an affiliate link, too.
got Syncthing working on my play-around-with #OpenBSD machine. Painless. Installed the package, then ran it manually and got it configured. Wondered how to make it auto-start, like I would do with systemd; turns out I just needed to edit the startup script in /etc/rc.d/ so it used my own user instead of a dedicated Syncthing user; then enable/start it with "rcctl" (which works pretty much like "systemctl" on linux).
✍️ Enjoying the rare pleasure of "here's a hot take I can toot!" evolving into "I should elucidate in a full blog post" devolving into "No, a toot will do after all!" and landing on "Jesus Christ, nobody cares what I think about iPads."
@mph This article points out that if you already have a Pro, there's no way forward that isn't insanely priced. The new Pros are all crazypants expensive, and if you replace your Pro with a new Air you're losing the fancy screen technology the Pros have.
@mph Oh man. I just watched his take on the new iPads, and it was fine, but it ended with the revelation that he's working with the Ridge Wallets people to design and flog $150 wallets whose like you can get on aliexpress for $4. What the hell, man.
I was just listening to the #Omnibus podcast and host John Roderick mentioned interactions on Mastodon and I was thinking about following him and... I have no idea how to find him. His account isn't posted on his personal web page, or that of the show, and searches here didn't help. Wonder if he's just participating as a normal-ass user not a findable celebrity?
@mph it says it's a fan account. I'm fine not finding John's Masto, esp. if he's choosing not to be a public figure here, I was just curious and surprised at its non-findability
@mph I don't know what that was, and he might have ducked out of twitter after the time he accidentally made himself the Main Character by posting a facetious funny story about his daughter. For he was Bean Dad.
@mph my nephew has just graduated with a film degree, and his senior project was a short movie, shot on film, for reals. It was awesome, but hearing him talk about how you just have to meter it and shoot it and send all the film to get developed, and hope to God you metered it right and nothing went wrong, cause you wouldn't know till it came back... God, how harrowing.
