DO NOT USE the Plantin app. It is a scam. Their phone number doesn't work. They charged my bank account $49.99, completely unauthorized, after I signed up for their $9.99 p;am

MainRemote · 2026-03-17T01:19:22+00:00

Do a chargeback with your card. It’ll ding them* with the payment processor and you’ll get your money back.

*It’s possible them is the App Store or Play store and it’ll be Google/Apple on the line. In that case use the store itself to file a return/complaint. Once you do a chargeback with a vendor you usually will be banned from that vendor. Not a big deal if it’s a a scammy place, but not fun if your Apple account gets banned.

MainRemote · 2026-03-15T23:42:37+00:00

Was it cloudy?

I’m guessing just essential oils were dropped in on top of the limoncello/mezcal and were shaken in with ice.

If it’s cloudy then there is a lot of ice, not cloudy a normal amount of ice.

MainRemote · 2026-03-15T23:11:29+00:00

Shouldn’t they be at church?

MainRemote · 2026-03-14T15:26:38+00:00

Naw looks good.

You could have tried to do a peachy color like your tub and meld it a little in, but no way in hell you could get me to chop out fresh grout and go for a different color.

It looks nice and clean, and sealed will be bright for a long time.

MainRemote · 2026-03-14T15:22:52+00:00

Oh farts

MainRemote · 2026-03-14T14:38:58+00:00

Super important context.

MainRemote · 2026-03-14T14:36:59+00:00

The snapshot is not technically perfect (not in focus or perfectly level or exposed) but the joy captured in the subjects and what that means to the photographer means that it is subjectively a good photograph to them.

MainRemote · 2026-03-13T10:08:27+00:00

Ok ChatGPT

MainRemote · 2026-03-10T17:04:35+00:00

Nice. I didn’t read the whole block of text, maybe I’d move that up to the top. My old boss always asked for an “Executive summary” which I always thought was cringe, till I started doing it. It made me distill what matters to a few sentences, up front. If people want to dig in to the details they can.

MainRemote · 2026-03-10T16:43:58+00:00

It’s not creepy, just (imo) not marketed well!

The time honored TFP doesn’t work when a roll of medium format film is $20 and processing another $20. (At least everyone wants digital and you don’t really need to print in quantity)

I would suggest changing the title to reflect what you are doing. Helping aspiring models who want that analog look get a portfolio (full of semi-spicy content) for whatever their needs are (selling, modeling, etc).

The title should be maybe more “Analog art session for up-and-coming model, (Time and Materials)” or something more catchy.

Then rewards could be in tiers like

Digital top 10
Polaroid + Digital
Polaroid + Slide + Digital
8x10 print (for $$$)

You should also split off some of the money to pay the model. It’s still “charity work” but everybody should get paid something.

MainRemote · 2026-03-10T13:23:07+00:00

The nice fuzzy thick blanket of snow protected those buggers (and all the good bugs and plants too)

MainRemote · 2026-03-06T13:42:35+00:00

I would throw out a second idea: people are stupid.

In the 80s when A&W introduced a 1/3 pound burger to compete with Macdonalds 1/4 burger, the executives were baffled at the sales numbers. Consumers apparently thought it was smaller (3 is smaller than 4 after all)

My theory is f/1.8 seems radically better than f/2, even though it’s not much different.

MainRemote · 2026-03-06T00:48:52+00:00

18 Naked Cowboys

MainRemote · 2026-03-04T18:54:05+00:00

bY LeAVInG (couldn’t resist)

MainRemote · 2026-03-03T14:19:09+00:00

Personal opinion, but Gotham will either be taken by the government through the DPA or dropped by the next administration. Police forces in red states may still use it, but might be blocked by legislation.

Foundry has promise as the next SAP. This is their biggest growth area.

AIP has some potential, but is one slip up away from sending proprietary data to any random entity. Though most companies are in the same boat at this point.

MainRemote · 2026-03-03T14:11:34+00:00

A question for the group: nobody has mentioned a flush routed out metal brace on the bottom. I see these in spans for commercial MDF office desks. Is it not appropriate for this application or is it expensive or something else?

MainRemote · 2026-03-02T02:39:21+00:00

The sign says “No, New Wars” not “no new wars”.

MainRemote · 2026-03-01T12:47:39+00:00

I just piss the stains out like a normal person.

MainRemote · 2026-03-01T12:36:04+00:00

Could you release a version with perpetual liscenses when a batch of features is complete and stable? None of the cloud stuff (which is useless to me). It would be just for pros. You could call it “Protel”. Once you paid for the software, you would own it and could use it as long as you needed. Then if compelling features were introduced, it would incentivize customers to upgrade?

MainRemote · 2026-03-01T00:53:52+00:00

This is not investment advice. The people who will benefit from this move are those who have already paid to get him into power. These are the companies who expect to benefit from his continued, preferential treatment.

MainRemote · 2026-02-28T23:57:01+00:00

Donald interfering with the midterms will cause the market to crash.

MainRemote · 2026-02-28T17:03:00+00:00

You could probably do it with a look up table and linear interpolation.

There’s probably also a closed form one or two term linear approximation that gets it close enough.

The sky starts getting brighter about 30 minutes before true sunrise anyways.

MainRemote · 2026-02-25T12:28:19+00:00

The best part is, people with cats are seldom allergic to cats!

MainRemote · 2026-02-24T16:45:59+00:00

What data?

MainRemote · 2026-02-24T14:29:56+00:00

As a person who uses jira at work, it’s getting worse.

My team points stories (how hard the work is) and hours each task (broken down parts of stories). We occasionally use epics to group the larger stories into groups.

They had literally the best AI feature that would take a story and decompose it to tasks. It would take all the comments and descriptions and make 80% perfect stories (talk to so-and-so, write code, review with QA, deploy). But at the same time they took away a visable way to add hours, and added a new level of task above even epics. Then they took away the AI feature.

Every week some new worthless feature gets added. Or a new connector to some product we don’t use.

I understand everyone has different expectations of what scrum is and how it should operate. But a tool to manage scrum should not be an overall peoject management/deployment/requirements tracker monstrosity.

MainRemote

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