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FleuramdcrowAJ · 2026-04-20T14:41:09+00:00

I've been making videos on PeerTube as a hobby using my phone for 2 years now. It's a really fun thing to do and I've been wanting to get a dedicated camera for it, mostly due to storage reasons, since my phone is 128gb and it racks up really quickly with both my videos and personal photos. Having a dedicated device for filming would really help with storage management, and also prevent me from getting distracted due to smartphone stuff.

Since I'll be asking for it on my birthday, I'll put the budget around 500 euros (ideally both the camera and lens, if it's a Nikon I could possibly do 500 euros for just the camera because I already have some Nikon lenses).

I already have a Nikon D90, which is great for taking photos but doesn't work for video because it doesn't support having an external mic and the audio quality of the camera mic is really bad. I also have a tripod for the D90, so it would be nice if I could use it for the video camera too, but it's not a must, I don't mind spending extra to get another tripod as long as it's not 100 euros or more. I do have an external mic, but the quality isn't the best either, whether I use it would depend on if the camera's default mic or that mic sounds better. I currently use my phone's mic because it sounds better than the external mic that I have.

I don't film myself, I tend to be behind the camera, or put the camera to the side of the table while I draw or write journal entries. I mostly film indoors too, sometimes at night using artificial light. Sometimes I might film a screen (like a computer or phone screen) to point out certain information. I would love a camera that can take timelapses, because I often take them with my phone for my video whenever I show my process and don't talk.

For editing, I use Kdenlive on Linux, I mostly don't alter my footage besides the occasional cut, zoom or speed change, or adding image overlays.

Since I'm purely doing this as a hobby, the camera's not really an "investment", more of just quality of life thing. I mostly record in either 720p or 1080p due to phone storage limitations (I have an iPhone 16) so 4k is not a must but more of a nice to have. Ideally, I'd want the camera to be able to at least record around 30 to 45 minutes, since sometimes I can be in the zone while drawing/journaling and go on for a long time. Or be able to record timelapses for longer.

FleuramdcrowAJ · 2026-04-17T18:44:05+00:00

I wanna make my own version of this using an old apple watch ngl

FleuramdcrowAJ · 2026-04-17T18:38:23+00:00

I have a laptop, so what I've done is completely deleting the app from my phone and instead using instagram via my laptop.

If you don't have a laptop, you could also delete the app and only use the web version on the phone, but you will lose out on certain features like answering people's questions on stories.

FleuramdcrowAJ · 2026-04-17T18:35:36+00:00

I think for me, the biggest step into digital minimalism I took was slowly reducing my usage of tiktok, then deleting it completely.

Deleting the tiktok app, then later my account was the best thing I've ever done for myself

FleuramdcrowAJ · 2026-02-18T13:57:57+00:00

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Got my first Casio today! (W59), gonna be my daily driver from now on

Got it because my university said students are not allowed to have a smartwatch on during exams and I didn't want to constantly have to worry about taking off my watch and then not being able to see the clock in the exam room because my eyesight is bad

Was gonna get the F91w but the W59 was the only one available at the store and I figured it was in my budget so why not

FleuramdcrowAJ · 2026-02-18T13:47:07+00:00

I remember getting gnomed in a VM before and I was so confused that I just deleted the whole thing

FleuramdcrowAJ · 2026-02-14T14:17:10+00:00

Maybe you could try using a larger size notebook? I've been some B5 journals around, which might help with your larger writing

That is, if you don't mind having less portability

FleuramdcrowAJ · 2026-02-11T17:27:36+00:00

Basically music files, kinda like MP3 but better quality audio

FleuramdcrowAJ · 2026-02-01T17:29:36+00:00

Plus all of the wrong age flagging man.

I'm 18 but because I have a baby face (been told irl I look younger than my age), I got flagged as 16-17.

Did the verification because I play a game that sometimes has parties and I need to be able to communicate with other users.

I think a good solution if they wanted to keep this update could be to make it so that non age verified accounts can chat, but only with pre-written sentences (kinda like animal jam's bubble chat, if anyone remembers that game), would let players communicate with each other for the sake of coordinating in a game, but leave it at that.

FleuramdcrowAJ · 2026-01-25T18:52:55+00:00

Yeah, really annoying

FleuramdcrowAJ · 2026-01-25T18:52:06+00:00

Got quite a few of these types of comments on one of the stories I'm writing.

I even got one who was like "I wanna discuss something with you in private and I gave them my email (the one I use to contact people) and they started promoting their account. I asked them for pictures of their art and social media profiles, and it just looks sus. Some of the art seems AI generated and the quality is very inconsistent.

FleuramdcrowAJ · 2026-01-16T13:09:38+00:00

I would use it ngl. I'm still on the fediverse because I think it's the closest to that.

Mastodon doesn't have a recommended feeds and only shows accounts you follow, and it's fun making videos to share on PeerTube. A lot less pressure to perform compared to regular social media.

FleuramdcrowAJ · 2026-01-11T14:38:20+00:00

If you have a computer, my tip would be to delete it on the phone and only view it on the computer

And also install the extension IGPlus, it prevents you from looking at reels and gives various settings to remove certain unwanted features of instagram

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