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Update: "How do people find micro four thirds for wildlife photography?" (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 7 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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6 months ago, I asked about m43 for wildlife photography (https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/5660675)

Today, I use an OM-1 MkII, and it is easily the best birding/wildlife camera I've ever owned. Would absolutely recommend it!

Why Super for Housing is a Bad Idea - Purplepingers by ada in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You could take the 1 trillion dollars it would cost the Australia government and spend it on any number of things to make ownership easier.

That's true. The issue is, they're not going going to do any of those ideas...

So people who can't enter the housing market remain fucked over, because the imperfect ideas that might actually get off the ground get set aside in favour of better ideas that will never see the light of day.

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New voice training community (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/16848687

This is the new home for help with trans voice training. I'm excited to go on this journey with all of you <3

Why Super for Housing is a Bad Idea - Purplepingers by ada in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sure, but by the time those solutions are in place, another generation of people will have been denied the chance to own property, which has generational consequences on economic and educational outcomes for those families.

The answer is short term relief combined with long term change. Denial of short term relief because of hypothetical long term strategies that aren't going to be implemented helps no one.

Why Super for Housing is a Bad Idea - Purplepingers by ada in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Sorry, I was being a bit tongue in cheek there. The economy will continue to be shit for people who struggle to afford home ownership whether or not they can use superannuation to help get their foot in the door.

Why Super for Housing is a Bad Idea - Purplepingers by ada in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

So people remain excluded from property ownership, but hey, at least the economy will be ok

Trans joy story time + emotional dissonance + advice sought by ada in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

You are working on undoing a lifetime of negative indoctrination and internalised shame about yourself. Finally knowing who you are, claiming ownership of yourself and forging the life you want is a powerful and amazing experience, but it doesn't undo that previous lifetime of experience overnight.

It's going to take time to work through the conflicting and sometimes contradictory feelings. The best thing you can do is give yourself permission to work through it. Don't beat yourself up or blame yourself for those moments, because they're not your fault, they're the end result of a lifetime of negativity targeting folk like us, and you're walking the path towards undoing that negativity. But it takes time. Give yourself permission to take that time to work through it

Officially Coming out to Lemmy, And Looking to Make a Community for Help with Trans Voices by ada in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

You're more than welcome to create a community on blahaj.zone if you like. You'd need an account here, but you can create it, create the community, mod your main account, and do all of the maintenance/management from your main account

Of, you could set it up on your current instance, and let people know about it.

Whatever you do, I think it's a good idea to get a voice training community up and running!

The annual gender census of 2024 is now open by ada in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Heads up for those that aren't familiar with the census. It is specifically for folk who don't fit in the gender binary. That means it's not aimed at cis folk or binary trans folk

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New Photon front end (phtn.lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We have a new front end for our users to try out. Photon is my favourite of the three front ends we have enabled. It's clean and modern, and for those of you who moderate communities, it has good access to moderation tools!

Give it a try at https://phtn.lemmy.blahaj.zone/

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New gear acquired (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11851475

Just got my hands on an OM-1 MKII and an m.zuiko ED 100-400. No bird will be safe from me ever again!

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New gear acquired (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just got my hands on an OM-1 MKII and an m.zuiko ED 100-400. No bird will be safe from me ever again!

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(Arch) Question on updating dependencies from a newbie (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11540913

How do non explicitly installed package dependencies get updated in Arch? Do they update independently of the package that is dependent on them, or do they get updated when the parent package updates? Or is it some secret third thing?

Thanks!

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Question on updating dependencies in Arch from a newbie (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How do non explicitly installed package dependencies get updated in Arch? Do they update independently of the package that is dependent on them, or do they get updated when the parent package updates? Or is it some secret third thing?

Thanks!

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Looking for linux workflow ideas (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11308547

Linux photogs, help me out. What does your workflow look like? What apps do you use?

I've found that digikam is really good for managing my keywords and metadata, and organising photos post shoot, but the image editing is limited.

And using separate image editing software leads to problems, because my camera's raw files (.cr3) aren't very well supported.

I can make it work, by using Lightroom online, but it's not exactly an integrated system due to its cloud based design.

I've tried running Lightroom in a VM, but ran in to trouble giving the VM access to my GPU...

So those who have made it work, what does it look like for you?

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Looking for linux workflow ideas (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Linux photogs, help me out. What does your workflow look like? What apps do you use?

I've found that digikam is really good for managing my keywords and metadata, and organising photos post shoot, but the image editing is limited.

And using separate image editing software leads to problems, because my camera's raw files (.cr3) aren't very well supported.

I can make it work, by using Lightroom online, but it's not exactly an integrated system due to its cloud based design.

I've tried running Lightroom in a VM, but ran in to trouble giving the VM access to my GPU...

So those who have made it work, what does it look like for you?

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Toombul demo - Week 2 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Image description: A portion of the Toombul shopping center, with a large amount of rubble surrounding it. Two large excavators are sitting in the midst of the rubble. A man with a very high pressure hose is spraying water on to the rubble to keep the dust levels down.

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Arch/KDE - Saving x11 configs? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11236710

I'm running an nvidia card on X11 Plasma 6, with a 4K monitor alongside a QHD monitor. Both monitors are the same physical size, despite being different resolutions, so in the nvidia settings app, I've got the second X screen setup to generate 4K but downscale it to QHD in the output. It makes the second screen slightly blurry, but it's worth it for the ability to move windows back and forth without dealing with different resolutions.

The problem is, no matter what I do, I can't make the changes "stick". The nvidia applet has an option to save it to the x.conf file, and I've verified that it has done so in a text editor. But every time I boot, I have to change it in the nvidia settings applet again.

Is there something I'm missing with the way arch/kde handles x conf files? How do I make it stick between reboots?

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[Resolved] Saving x11 configs? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm running an nvidia card on X11 Plasma 6, with a 4K monitor alongside a QHD monitor. Both monitors are the same physical size, despite being different resolutions, so in the nvidia settings app, I've got the second X screen setup to generate 4K but downscale it to QHD in the output. It makes the second screen slightly blurry, but it's worth it for the ability to move windows back and forth without dealing with different resolutions.

The problem is, no matter what I do, I can't make the changes "stick". The nvidia applet has an option to save it to the x.conf file, and I've verified that it has done so in a text editor. But every time I boot, I have to change it in the nvidia settings applet again.

Is there something I'm missing with the way arch/kde handles x conf files? How do I make it stick between reboots?

New gender gap by ada in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 120 points 3 months ago

I don't know about beautiful data. That's scary data :/

What does Bluesky have that Mastodon doesn't? by ada in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 116 points 8 months ago

Artificial scarcity (invites) and VC funding

Can we defederate from hexbear.net? by ada in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 128 points 9 months ago

Unless they start brigading heavily or cross a line in terms of the communities they house, we won't be defederating them.

Their own communities are, quite something, but their admins have told them to be on their best behaviour when engaging in communities outside of their instance, and so far, they seem to be doing that

The seriouspost state of the union. (aka what do we do now?) PLEASE READ. by ada in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 137 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Just be to clear, the state of the union post was an explanation of coming downtime, not a call for panic :)

We've got the solution and way forward for these issues.

You don't have to move if your main concerns are impact on our resources.

People of Lemmy who have either "reinvented themselves" or gone through a mid/quarter-life crisis, where did you start off and where did you end up? by ada in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 157 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Where I started

Where I ended up

Image descriptions

1st image: - A heavy set person who appears to be a man, in baggy jeans and a t-shirt, leaning against a wooden handrail, holding a laser skirmish gun

2nd image: A curly haired woman in makeup, wearing a teal coloured dress