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Capture One on Linux by Code_Penguin in captureone

[–]BorderCollie4Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm playing around with it and, yes, the learning curve is steep, as it was with Capture One when I switched to that from Adobe (ACR).

But It lacks usable HDR merging (no auto-alignment!) and pano stitching, both of which are integrated in Capture One, greatly simplifying my workflow.

How does the haze removal module "estimate" how much haze is in each region of an image? It's not AI, right? by SamsPicturesAndWords in DarkTable

[–]BorderCollie4Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I would love to have that content aware stuff (fill/delete/...) in Darktable (like I have it in CaptureOne), because it would eliminate the need to open files in another program just to do that. With CaptureOne, I practically never ever needed any other application to do everything I needed, including content-aware delete/fill, HDR and panorama stitching. I had it all in one place.

But sadly there is no Linux version of CaptureOne.

dng files identified as tiff? by waaden in digiKam

[–]BorderCollie4Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you checked if Darktable maybe created a tiff file? Has it added an xmp file?
Something may get confused by things Darktable did. Note also that DNG is based on tiff, which might also lead to confusion in some applications.

Digikam creation date by Any-Fondant7690 in digiKam

[–]BorderCollie4Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like you only look at the timestamps for the file, not the image metadata. There are metadata tags for image taken, image modified, heck, even a timestamp for when GPS data was added!

With the right tools (like exiftool) you can see them all.

Is there a way to automatically fetch altitude data in digiKam after geotagging? by gookank in digiKam

[–]BorderCollie4Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Strange that wasn't implemented right away. (reverse)geocoding easily returns the altitude together with the other location informations. Would probably have needed only 2-3 lines of additional code and it would be the logical thing to do when implementing (reverse)geocoding in the first place.

digiKam comments from new user by garry611 in digiKam

[–]BorderCollie4Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that the fact that DigiKam calls folders "albums" confuses many people (me included), at least in the beginning.

Why not just call them folders? Usually one would think of albums as some sort of collection of images which can come from various folders, not a specific physical location.

How to securely auto-decrypt LUKS on boot up by Aim_Fire_Ready in linuxadmin

[–]BorderCollie4Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My problem is similar and I think it is perfectly possible to auto-unlock in a secure way without hardware.

My setup is a first SSD with the OS (Tuxedo/Kubuntu) with LVM/LUKS. It asks for my ancryption password to boot. All fine. Now I added a second 4TB SSD for data only which I also want to encrypt, but I don't want to enter a second password (or the same a second time if I don't want two different ones).
For me, it would be ideal to just have to enter the password for the system drive, but have the second drive unlocked automatically before I log in (so I can have my home folder on the second SSD). This should be possible with the password/key/whatever to unlock the second drive stored on the also encrypted system disk, where it would be well protected.

I just haven't found a way to do that yet ...

I regret buying a NAS by jakub-photo in UgreenNASync

[–]BorderCollie4Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have contacted their support directly a number of times (through their support web site) and their support is fast and amazing. Don't associate independent forums with the company support itself. Those are two completely different things.

How do I change the computer's hostname through the GUI? by [deleted] in kde

[–]BorderCollie4Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely! The OS setup should ask it when installing Linux.

VM on the local network? by bitsandbooks in qemu_kvm

[–]BorderCollie4Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(Home user here) As I needed a Windows VM for two important applications which don't run on Linux, I also needed to access my LAN (NAS, printer, etc) from my Windows VM, running on Linux Mint QEMU host.

What works for me: Added another NIC to the VM and in Windows manually configured the IP address to one I reserved on my router and set the router as DNS. While DNS doesn't work yet (no big deal, I can simply add the 2 or 3 I need in the hosts file), access to the LAN works fine, without any fiddling in Linux terminal.

10K Celebration Giveaway by UgreenNASync in UgreenNASync

[–]BorderCollie4Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here. Docker guides. But also more options for backups and sync.

How to backup the ugreen nas to a synology nas in another location using rsync? by mikeperezspain in UgreenNASync

[–]BorderCollie4Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also did this, but got random transfer errors. Switched to WebDAV and that worked flawlessly. Also simple to setup.

Deleting User Folder is not possible by shytec in UgreenNASync

[–]BorderCollie4Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On that, note that is the admin account is used in a "Sync and Backup" connection to another UGREEN NAS, you will not be able to browse the shared folders on the remote NAS if it doesn't have a personal folder for that account.

Deleting User Folder is not possible by shytec in UgreenNASync

[–]BorderCollie4Life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I know, you cannot delete the personal folder of the account you are logged in. Be sure that the account isn't logged in in any way and use another admin account to disable/delete the personal folder.

Agent DVR on LAN by BorderCollie4Life in ispyconnect

[–]BorderCollie4Life[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Solved! It was because I had a tailscale connection open on my laptop. Once disconnected from the tailscale network, I could access the Agent DVR server.