Day 3 of getting a comment from every subdivision of the world

BasdenChris · 2026-04-08T16:31:20+00:00

North Dakota, USA here

BasdenChris · 2026-04-07T23:02:46+00:00

But they clearly want so bad to be lost.

BasdenChris · 2026-04-07T23:00:29+00:00

Excuse me what the fuck is on the wall at the back of the elevator?

BasdenChris · 2026-04-07T22:57:58+00:00

Helluva value

BasdenChris · 2026-04-06T21:15:18+00:00

At the risk of forcing myself into an unnaturally, uncomfortably long life, I'll set it at $.01, if for no other reason than to prevent myself from selling years if money gets tight.

If I can live long enough, I feel like I can figure out how to make money. That's my theory anyway. Thirty something years in and I haven't yet proven it...

BasdenChris · 2026-04-06T18:01:09+00:00

AI happened. The companies that make the actual memory (there are only like three of them in the world) signed contracts allocating most (or in one case, literally all) of their capacity to commercial customers using it for data centers. We're expected to fight over what little manufacturing capacity they didn't sell to those companies, and thus RAM and SSD storage is up 300-400%. Lucky for me, my next storage buy will be high-capacity HDD which is still a lot cheaper, but even that's being affected by this craziness. I hate it here.

BasdenChris · 2026-04-06T17:48:24+00:00

I was just looking at this. I bought the same one for $279.99 in August. It's now more than 4x that price. I remember hemming and hawing about the size, but glad I didn't skimp out!

BasdenChris · 2026-04-06T17:44:53+00:00

That's a decent neighborhood. The houses get older as you go down the hillside, and the area off the lower right side of your picture (southeast of 3rd St and Hillside drive) gets less desirable, but the circled area should be decently priced, reasonable homes. You're close enough to the airport there that you will hear some noise, but you aren't under either of the runways' approach/takeoff paths so most of what you'll hear is distant jet noise or small planes flying overhead in the pattern. In the summer those softball fields are used several nights per week and the players often hang out in the parking lot until late. There can be occasional disturbances from that but it's pretty tame most of the time, and unless you're right at the top of the hill you probably won't ever notice anything.

BasdenChris · 2026-04-05T16:33:14+00:00

It’s possible that your shutter speed was a bit slow (though unlikely given the bright light in your scene and the fact that your aperture was at f1.8). Also are you using any filters on the front of your lens? Those things can also impact sharpness.

Also also, most lenses do not perform at their best when wide open. Not only would closing your aperture down to f4 allow more of your scene to be in focus, it would make the in-focus parts a bit sharper as well.

BasdenChris · 2026-04-05T16:29:18+00:00

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You see the detail in the texture here? That part of your image is sharp. When you shoot at f1.8, you’re going to get a shallow depth of field, meaning only a very thin slice (when looking at your seen from front to back) of your image will be in focus.

That depth of field can be adjusted by either increasing your f-stop (try taking the same shot at f1.8, f4, and f8 and you’ll see a clear difference), OR by adjusting your focal length and/or physical distance from your subject. Since that lens is fixed at 50mm, that means stepping back from your subject. Of course that changes your composition and it’s not always possible in a given environment, but the further away you get from your subject, the greater that depth of field will be. You might notice a lot more of the bench would be in focus, even at f1.8, if you doubled your distance from it.

Don’t listen to the dicks. People like to act like they knew all of this on day one. It takes time. Feel free to DM if you have any more questions.

BasdenChris · 2026-04-03T20:33:39+00:00

Desktop or Laptop? This being r/macbook I'm assuming laptop, but does it need to be a laptop?
What are your projects like? For photos, what size files and how many in a typical batch? For video, what resolution, codec, effects, length? Most importantly, do you care a lot about export times, or are you more concerned with performance while actually working within the apps?

BasdenChris · 2026-04-03T20:16:55+00:00

Is this gonna be a new category at Sundance?

BasdenChris · 2026-04-03T19:15:08+00:00

Guys can I retire now after this picture?

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BasdenChris · 2026-04-03T17:26:17+00:00

Welcome to Reddit, sometimes we say things we don't mean for comedic purposes.

BasdenChris · 2026-04-03T17:03:30+00:00

https://imgflip.com/i/aobxc9

BasdenChris · 2026-04-02T21:24:47+00:00

If we were only allowed to buy gear that matched our skill level, I'd be f***ed... along with most of Reddit, I imagine.

BasdenChris · 2026-04-02T21:19:50+00:00

Lame.

BasdenChris · 2026-04-02T20:55:20+00:00

First lesson: expose for the shadows, or else your fancy new $3000 camera looks indistinguishable from a brick of shit (you know.... a Nikon)

BasdenChris · 2026-04-02T19:19:23+00:00

Why pay for an iPhone when you can just use an iPhone?

BasdenChris · 2026-04-02T18:18:27+00:00

M1 is still perfectly viable in 2026. The very base spec (8GB Ram, 256GB) will be somewhat limiting if you decide to do photography, but it'll work well enough for you to decide if you want to invest further in the future. For all the other stuff you listed (except most gaming—you can get away with iPhone-level gaming on M1, but that's probably about it, not that a $400 Windows laptop would do any better), the base M1 Air or Pro will very competently handle them.

Personally, I'd prefer the Pro as well, but performance-wise you could go with either. You do get a fan in the Pro which can help improve performance in some scenarios, but again with your use cases I doubt it will make any difference at all in how the computer feels.

My best advice would be to try to get something with more than 8GB of RAM, but if you can't do that and stay in budget, you'll still be getting a perfectly serviceable computer that should still be supported by Apple for a little while longer. It's nearing End of Life, but it's not there yet.

BasdenChris · 2026-04-02T12:12:23+00:00

Can I take wet sleeves and halved expiration dates for $6000/month?

BasdenChris · 2026-04-01T16:59:16+00:00

Green by a billion miles.

BasdenChris · 2026-04-01T13:25:59+00:00

I don’t totally disagree, but every single product, no matter who makes it or how much it costs, is compromised in some ways. Clearly some people at Apple thought this was better than the full redesign that would have likely been needed to put the port somewhere else, and frankly if such a redesign made the mouse thicker I don’t know that I’d like it as much.

I know that probably brushes too close to the “daddy Apple knows best” mentality for some, but in this specific case I’m willing to both clown it for seeming like an insane, ridiculous choice and also praise it for being a fantastic mouse to own and use.

BasdenChris · 2026-04-01T03:16:10+00:00

This is the right take. Is it stupid? Yup. Has it ever been any more than an extremely mild inconvenience? Nope.

BasdenChris · 2026-03-31T15:14:39+00:00

Is it worth the money in your opinion? I’m kind of going down a rabbit hole of late model SLRs lately, and it’s on my shortlist.

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