KEF but it stings as a Canadian.

Roberts Camera via eBay.

Never private. Too many scumbags out there trying to unload broken crap. Kijiji and the likes has completely trashed any and all faith I ever had in humanity.

transmission in docker container on NAS, with dedicated IP that gets forced through VPN on my router

“Movie released in 2024/2025 beats movie released during pandemic at box office”

What makes headlines these days boggles the mind.

I saw 3 just yesterday, and personally I thought it was the worst one so far?! But my now 14 year old son disagreed and thought it was the best one so far. Metacritic seems to agree with him too.

I don’t know, maybe I was having an off day or something. I felt like it was aimed at a slightly younger demographic than the last couple? Like, pre-teen at best? I didn’t get that feeling from the first two.

Woa, hit the breaks on the rebuild.

I’m old and my memory is going, but I know I’ve had this before …

I think I had to figure out how to -

• shutdown the host
• mount the virtual disk as a ‘loopback’ device
• fsck the disk

I know this seems like it should be block level and that shouldn’t matter, and I could be remembering wrong - but I really think I went down that path and it ended up being the solution.

I know this doesn’t rest in my hands alone.

It does not rest in your hands at all. NO ONE can or will stop ANYTHING until THEY want to. And they have to REALLY want to. Just going to rehab once or twice doesn’t indicate that specifically. I was in rehab with someone who was there because if he didn’t “do something” his work was going to fire him. I don’t think it was his first - I know it wasn’t his last, he was in there again while I was still in aftercare. That was 12 and a half years ago now … I just found out a couple months ago that he died, drinking.

The real kicker is he’d completely reset his life - he’d moved 6 hours away from here - HE WORKED AT A TREATMENT CENTRE - complete “success” story on the outside, but clearly there was some shit going on inside that he wasn’t talking about or dealing with.

We can’t fix other people. All we can do is be there if and when they reach out for help, and hope for the best. It’s sad, but it’s life.

I have a Flag Smashers shirt… go figure, they speak to me.

I was putting it on a couple days ago and I paused and thought about it, and suddenly realized the immensity of the propaganda - the great Captain America destroying the evil socialists who think resources should be shared by everyone, and that nationalism is a barrier to truly having ‘one human family’.

Blew my mind it took me this long. Also made me wonder if they were dug up from long ago comics when America was openly and blatantly monitoring and persecuting socialists and communists (specifically picturing the scenarios and time illustrated in Oppenheimer). Haven’t had a chance to dig in to that part yet, but I will right now!

I’ve not tried to use it in games, but given the “scroll, lift, reset… scroll, lift, reset” x50 it takes to get across the Windows desktop, I would agree.

It does have “FPS mode”, which basically turns the right controller into a vertical mouse. I haven’t used that for basically anything either, but I’ve read rave reviews from some FPS players!

Great to hear it is a good drop-in replacement

DB compatibility breaks at a point though (7.x maybe? Going off fuzzy memory) … so if you’re migrating from that version it’s a little less “drop in” and more "oh shoot, this method doesn’t work either?!? :'( "

Very happy after the ‘migration’ though!

I won’t consider these new devices because they don’t have touch pads

Maybe we’re talking about different things… but, there is a touchpad on my Legion Go?

I’m waiting for a 2TB drive to arrive to upgrade the 512GB in my Legion Go and one of the first things I wanted to do was set up to dual boot Bazzite.

These little blurbs make me want to just blow away Windows right now though and go all in on Bazzite. Especially as I play literally zero “popular multiplayer shooting games”.

I’ve been saying this almost my entire life and people think I’m just bitter, confrontational, and a party pooper.

I said this to my father in 98/99ish when we were already updating to four digits anyway and he told me I was crazy.

We’ll see who has the last laugh.

lol, saw title, came to say ffmpeg, read body, it’s your prime example!

I can’t remember what flag or feature it is I’ve more than once found myself having to build from source to enable, but there is one!

It sounds so obvious, but it’s actually really profound and has left me contemplating!

Comment of the year! 🏆

That’s pretty cool, the thought hadn’t crossed my mind previously. $350 seems a bit steep, but now I’m not going to be able to unsee this.

I’m a Canadian, so $350 USD stings even worse, and the shipping hurts a little more too - still 100% worth it to me though! I liked the camera before, now I love it. And I’m barely even talking about the results - just the fact that it is my A9 now, and it’s different from other A9s, and imo better, LOL. I don’t know, it’s weird! Maybe a bit like customizing a car? I’m not sure, I’ve never done that, lol. The results do, at times, look sharper to me - but basically as soon as I got it back I said “oh crap, I should have taken some really controlled and repeatable ‘before’ shots so I could compare!”

I briefly shot the A9II and the OM-1 back to back again and sold the OM-1 to MPB :( Probably for the best long term, but it was a tough decision due to my lack of adoration for the A9II. I do greatly appreciate what it can do, I just don’t love it. The results do speak for themselves and the A9II’s tracking AF is just so easy to use.

Same, honestly, especially prior to the surgery. The fact that I got it used for less than an A7IV was a huge part of how I ended up with it and stuck with it - plus the stacked, blackout free business, especially with wildlife being my main passion! But there is a lot NOT to love about it - and mine is a Mark 1, so it’s got a couple extra things to dislike.

I’m 38 here, but even if you’re young and very athletic, holding 5-6 pounds in front of your face for an extended period of time still isn’t pleasant - especially if you’re not doing it frequently enough to build those muscles. What about the 200-600 puts you off, especially if you’re using a monopod?

Very true about the weight. Honestly not much puts me off about the 200-600, I love the thing to death … it just REALLY big and REALLY heavy, but that’s the price of admission with a lens with that kind of range and quality I suppose.

No reticles or indoor sports here (yet?), but the 70-200GM does look like a very nice lens! So far I’ve been stubbornly sticking with primes for days I’m not doing sports photography, but the idea of a zoom with a touch more reach is kind of appealing. I’ve been circling the 70-200 F2.8 along with the F4 and F4 ii (quasi macro!) and Tamron’s 28-200. For whatever reason, a normal zoom doesn’t really appeal to me - I’m totally happy using my feet and know to bring a 35 with me if I’m going to be in a tighter space.

I believe I looked at the GM and it doesn’t work with a TC so it was out for me (I believe, it has been a while since I did the research) … or maybe it was the weight … either way, as I was doing the research and planning the buy, the F4 ii came out and I pulled the trigger day 1 … probably my favourite lens … probably by a large margin 😀 … 100% agree too about the ‘standard zooms’, I had the Sigma Art 24-70 and did NOT love it. As you say, in that range super easy to just use your feet, and I think it weighed 2-3x what my primes do. I sold it to KEF and don’t think I’ve missed it even once since. Not to mention at that range, honestly, the 1" sensor in my Xiaomi 13 Ultra does a pretty bang up job! It’s 23mm native but has a very nice 46mm crop mode, so if I’ve got an inopportune prime on, really need a different length and can’t move, I just whip that out with no complaints.

I guess I’m lucky in that my kids are younger and we are fortunate enough to be able to afford to be members at a couple of local attractions. Between visiting those places and going to parks, I’m out with the camera most weekends.

Yeah, that’s a good time. It’s not long before they don’t want their picture taken, and shortly there-after they don’t want to do things with you lol! That’s when a camera club becomes worth it’s weight in gold 😀

I seem to remember Trump referring to him as Leon at least once in his nonsensical ramblings … I assumed it was a reference to that

Yeah, I sent my A9 off for surgery - https://www.lifepixel.com/photography-gear/anti-aliasing-low-pass-filter-removal 😄

I think my initial “yuck” with the OM-1 was the 12-24 just taking bright landscape shots … everything looked, muddy. Of course, a kit lens on a Sony wouldn’t really shine either.

To be fair I did only give it a few days and then gave the whole lot of it to my dad who was shooting with my old FZ-1000.

And yes, with my 200-600G, monopod is a minimum, tripod if I know I’ll be stationary. Handheld is practically never, but I have in a pinch and with sufficient bracing, and for just one subject (before it flies or runs away typically), I can manage. And I’m only 44 😄 … hoping I can keep using it for another 10 years or so at least!

I only use that for wildlife though … for the odd recital or what have you the boy has, I bring the 70-200G with the 2x TC.

100% agreed about “the one you’re carrying”, which is why I haven’t actually put much money into anything lately - I do about 90% on my Xiaomi 13 Ultra, with a 1" sensor like was in my FZ-1000. I find I only use my big expensive gear when I actually go out to “do photography”, which is pretty rare these days. My son is 14 now too, so there’s way less recitals and games and events and such for me to shoot.

Groggy day today here for me, so a slightly rambley and discombobulated response, but, as I’ve typed it, I’d might as well post it now :-)

I’ve been in that same situation, except they refused to serve me at the drive through.

Same. But I was drunk enough and bothered enough by it to go flag down a cab for the sole purpose of going through said drive through.

I was toying with similar recently - have piles of FE gear and an A9m1, mostly do wildlife, so like children, fast focus, good tracking, and good burst, sans blackout if possible, are critical.

Got all the OM gear, including the OM-1, 100-400, 1.4x TC, kit 12-24 … played with it for a day or two, copied the images over to my laptop… and was floored by how bad the shots are compared to FF! I’ve been using FF for 12 years or so, so I think I’m just spoiled … every time I try something else (including an LX100m2 I picked up to try out as a travel camera), the IQ just kills me. Even running it through Topaz, it just doesn’t come out as sharp or crisp, with practically no room for cropping with the low MP count on the sensor (not that the A9 is much better in that regard).

I’ll have to go MFT one day, like so many people in my camera club … you get to an age where FF and that big heavy glass is just too much… but until I have to, my goto will always be the FF.

Holy crap, I forgot this was even a thing … I was awash with memories and feelings as soon as I read the title.

It was M.A.S.H. for me … parents watching reruns, I think, as I’m not that old.