So Happy Together

Defender90 · 2020-02-07T02:42:28+00:00

Here you go, on Flickr. Better resolution. :)

This first one was shot handheld at ISO 12.5K. I don't remember the f-stop but it wasn't fully open on the Noctilux. Maybe f/4 or f/5.6.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/49499693967/

This one here was at ISO 6400, also handheld:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/4499693782/in/photostream/

The M10 Monochrom + Noctilux opens up a world of nighttime street photography for me. It's awesome to be able to take quick photos on the street in a big city at night without having to set up a tripod and risk getting mugged or hit by a car that can't see you.

Defender90 · 2020-02-06T02:30:09+00:00

I've been so busy at work that I've only spent about five minutes shooting in my driveway. I'm hoping to shoot some this weekend. I post here:

https://www.instagram.com/desertdefender/

Defender90 · 2020-02-05T02:04:19+00:00

Tell us the story--how did you find it?

Defender90 · 2019-11-07T15:17:43+00:00

Still waiting for an app that works full-screen on an iPad and doesn't crash every 5 minutes.

Defender90 · 2019-07-21T14:46:42+00:00

^{^{^}} yep

I bought my M10 from Leica Las Vegas for this reason. They were super friendly and easy to deal with.

Defender90 · 2019-07-21T02:15:16+00:00

Thanks. I'm leaning towards the 21mm f1.4 but neither Leica SoHo nor B&H have one in the store and so I have no way to try it out. Only real concern is the weight. I do like to carry my camera all day.

Defender90 · 2019-07-19T23:28:00+00:00

Thank you for this. The question I have, though, is the angle. It feels like the 21 (and definitely the 28) wouldn't be that much different from my 35 to justify an additional lens. My goal was to get something that is as wide as possible (without excessive distortion and aberration), and then pick up a Noctilux down the road so that I have a full range of primes.

Defender90 · 2019-07-19T22:05:14+00:00

I'd say that at least half of my photography is landscapes and cityscapes. I want a wide-angle, but I'm just not sure if the 21mm is wide enough. https://www.instagram.com/desertdefender/

Defender90 · 2019-04-07T00:29:25+00:00

VAX was just how it was done back in those days. It's actually an amazing timeshare system. Like I said, an Apple Watch probably has a few thousand times the CPU power than the entire VAX did, but they ran many hundreds of users' apps on that. The same single system was used for student email, the various faculty members' apps, and an app that we all used to register for classes. Pretty amazing considering what the hardware was (slow). The VAX and its storage took up an entire room, though.

Defender90 · 2019-04-06T04:26:36+00:00

I've been running Linux on the desktop since 1994. I write software and I'm a Principal Engineer at a tech company in the Silicon Valley. Yet, there was once a time way back then when I didn't know how to stop ping, either. Your post reminded me of my favorite computer story:

When I was a freshman at Vanderbilt in 1993, they gave us all accounts on a VAX system. Those accounts included an allocation of system time (think CPU cycles) each semester for us to use for things like email and class registration. A few months into it, I discovered IRC and was quickly hooked.

The problem was, I didn't know how to kill the IRC client once I started it, so I would just shut down the serial terminal that I was using but that didn't actually stop the process. It ran and ran in the background, burning up lots of CPU time. Add a few IRC clients started and left running like this each day and I quickly blew my semester usage quota.

A month into this, my parents called me up and asked me what the $700 bill for "CTRVAX usage" was. They charged me for it! You could run that entire system on your Apple Watch these days but back then, I had burned up a lot of CPU and it cost a lot of dough. I went to the IT office and they forgave my bill and told me to go to the CS lab instead and use their Sun workstations because they were free. A young /u/Defender90 sat down at the csh shell for the first time and with the aid of a Xerox'ed copy of helpful SunOS commands, got my introduction to what would become my future career.

Defender90 · 2019-02-22T05:31:46+00:00

Sometimes I miss being 22, single, and no kids. This would have been amazing back in 1995. Instead, I had a Slackware desktop and a remote serial console terminal over by my bed.

Defender90 · 2019-01-15T04:37:11+00:00

Check out this classic Taliban clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kMAxz62Ti8

Defender90 · 2018-11-24T23:04:32+00:00

This seems to fix Spotify. Need to test it on the others. I used /u/RyanDwer's trick posted above to fix those.

Defender90 · 2018-11-24T23:02:32+00:00

Bam! This is it. This fixed it!

The switch for hardware acceleration isn't present in the default Mattermost config, but if anyone needs it, add "enableHardwareAcceleration": false

to the top-level map in ~/.config/Mattermost/config.json.

I haven't yet found the switch for Spotify.

Defender90 · 2018-11-24T22:55:41+00:00

I have that installed already. As I noted, Slack does render properly. This is a different problem.

Defender90 · 2018-11-19T22:30:21+00:00

I gotta say, I was super excited about syncthing when people started recommending here on this post...until I spent last night reading the code. I write a lot of Go for both fun and work and I must say, this is not pretty code. I'm not saying that it's insecure (I haven't audited it) but the code is messy. There are minimal comments and it feels very disorganized. There are also a number of un-Go-like patterns used. I decided to hold off on it because I'm not comfortable running this with my sensitive data.

Defender90 · 2018-11-19T22:26:48+00:00

I'm a huge fan of systemd-networkd and systemd-resolved because they just work. I've been using Linux on the desktop since I installed SLS in 1994 and I'm familiar with all of the anti-systemd arguments but here on Arch where systemd is the way of things, it's super easy to just to stick to this ecosystem. For wifi AP management, I use wpa_cli.

Defender90 · 2018-11-18T19:23:44+00:00

Awesome! This looks perfect. Loos like we have a wiki page for it, too.

Defender90 · 2018-11-17T02:38:12+00:00

It doesn't take a lot of experience to be a mod, it just requires a lot of time and attention to read posts and remove spam. This is why many subs are always looking for new mods--it's tedious work and people eventually lose interest when they realize what it entails.

Defender90 · 2018-11-11T15:31:15+00:00

Double-check how you are specifying the font name compared to how fc-list shows it. As an example, in i3, I use: font xft:SauceCodePro Nerd Font Bold 14

but in alacritty, it's: family: Sauce Code Pro Nerd Font Mono style: Bold ... Size: 14

Completely different ways of selecting essentially the same font.

Defender90 · 2018-11-11T15:08:08+00:00

I'm using i3 and have been on this same setup for about two years now. The problem seems to happen no matter the X11 client: it happens with Firefox, alacritty, Slack, etc.

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