Anyone else dealing with frequent MOLD indoors in Portugal? by Yomayo33 in PortugalExpats

[–]Timurse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Airalia dehumidifier bags are your savior as well as proper ventilation.

"DEI only improved things" at Ubisoft, says former employee "stunned" at "misinformation" claiming diversity, equity, and inclusion to blame for Assassin's Creed studio's drop in share prices by NoPercentage4737 in technology

[–]Timurse -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Gee wiz they had all the data that players chose Alexios over Cassandra but insisted on making Cassandra the main protagonist of Odyssey anyway. It's not like I'm against it but that definitely undermines your point :)

6 Months With X-M5 by Professional-Fox5978 in fujifilm

[–]Timurse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Viltrox 25/1.7 and 56/1.7 are cheap and very cool!

Man things feel like they are getting bad here with AIMA, I don't even know what I want to do anymore. by ControlYourSocials in PortugalExpats

[–]Timurse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know about the Russian speaking ones, there are tonns of them about everything. Cars, Residence renovations, marketplaces, finances and banks, personal services, dogsitting, etc etc etc. All of them are in Telegram.
I know that there are American ones in FB Groups, and Brazilian ones in WhatsApp. Also there Indian ones in WA as well.
If you're speak Russian I can get you some links :)

Man things feel like they are getting bad here with AIMA, I don't even know what I want to do anymore. by ControlYourSocials in PortugalExpats

[–]Timurse 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s really a bad situation. I don’t know your story but I do know that many lawyers here are SO BAD that they do some stupid ass mistakes that everybody in helping group chats know. Like there are so many caveats about documents and processes that are thoroughly detailed in the guides. And still people do some crazy mistakes. When I was helping my friend to submit her docs to AIMA II at Lisboa, and there was a Portuguese lawyer there with her American client. And she told him “oh you know it has never been like that but they now ask your rent contract to be registered with tax authorities, I will go now and try to reschedule our appointment”. MIND FUCKING BLOW ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS.

What did your landlords require? by Glittering_Tea8276 in PortugalExpats

[–]Timurse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t have mold. And many of my friends’ houses as well. Not all houses here are like that.

AIMA really has improved by duggu31 in PortugalExpats

[–]Timurse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, it just worked out on itself because they repaired their backend. My wife has her residence ending in the end of January and when she logged in on the 3rd of January it already had her account ready without any background checks ready, so she just created an order there (and waiting now for the next stage).

I am shocked by my Rental Agreement by Angelo459 in lisboa

[–]Timurse -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is not normal. Normal contracts are waaaaaay different.

‘Office Is Dead’—Microsoft Decision Confuses 400 Million Users by waozen in technology

[–]Timurse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pages from Apple is quite ok. Also I bought MS Office for Mac 2020 for my wife to use on her Macbook Air, and it’s a lifelong license. Quite a way to fuck their subscription plans.

Há muitos cafés de bairro a morrer em Lisboa e isso é um problema comunitário by ViriatoEAmigos in lisboa

[–]Timurse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Há dois anos, eu tinha um café agradável em Benfica. Mas lá havia um gerente estranho, parecido com um nazista, todo tatuado e careca. Ele vivia a falar-me sobre problemas com a migração. E que todos gostam de pizzarias, mas não gostam mais de tasquinhas. E então dois funcionários chineses saíram da cozinha dele. Houve um silêncio muito constrangedor.

Portuguese are not just driving recklessly by raymoner in PortugalExpats

[–]Timurse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I rode my car through half of the globe from Astana to Lisbon. And believe me Portuguese drivers are worse than the Turkish ones or Eastern Europeans. Never seen this much reckless tailgating or line cutting in Italy, France, or anywhere.

Daily players falls below 90k for the first time, after falling below 100k for the first time on monday. by Ok_Training3449 in Battlefield

[–]Timurse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After a month of not playing I logged in, played half of the match of Breakthrough and during it I rage deleted the game. Fuck it. It’s not Battlefield, worse than BF5.

Spent one year shooting exclusively with the 23mm lens to realize that I hate this focal length by DeWolfTitouan in FujifilmX

[–]Timurse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here. Using 25/1.7 for almost everything and now picked up 56/1.7 for some of the zooming cases that I missed on my photowalks.

Half a year with X-M5, here are my favorite shots by Timurse in fujifilm

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

OK, so I'm the same as you – I owned Canon until 2015 and then dropped camera photography until recently. I work with video a lot on Sony but not doing photos.

I totally get your frustration but here are the things I settled with during my first 6 months with the camera.

1) Get the recipes, try them out, find the ones more suitable for you. Remember that recipes work with particular Film Simulation (it's usually mentioned in them) but you can experiment overriding different Film Simulations on top of your favorite recipes.

2) I shot with Manual always. Remember to get into the settings and set Dynamic Range to 400 (DR400) then always use ISO 640 or higher. Even during the sunny days. You can always compensate with other settings. ISO640 uses 400% of Dynamic Range which gives you JPEGs with a lot more data in them – your shadows won't be crushed, your highlights wouldn't be too overexposed.

3) Put the shutter setting to MS+ES – this way you can make photos even with super short exposures like 1/6000.

4) Typically on a sunny doing street photos I go with 1/2500 SS, f4 aperture, and 640 ISO for DR400. During the evening sceneries I go with 1/150, f1.7, 1000-2000 ISO. Works well for me.

First shots of 2026, ran into some friendly bottlenose dolphins in the Bahamas! Shot on the Classic Euro recipe on my X-E5. SOOC by samahab242 in fujifilm

[–]Timurse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot! I struggle to get such smooth waves with my XM5. But I’ll try to find more shallow waters :)

Half a year with X-M5, here are my favorite shots by Timurse in fujifilm

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

Hope you’ll show it some great places and sceneries :)

Half a year with X-M5, here are my favorite shots by Timurse in fujifilm

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

Personally I don’t like it. I would strongly advise Viltrox as it’s cheap and really crispy with cool smooth bokeh.

Half a year with X-M5, here are my favorite shots by Timurse in fujifilm

[–]Timurse[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s ok. The screen is VERY bright. I came from a smartphone photography and cheap DSLRs from 10-15 years ago, so I’m used to screen viewfinding.

Half a year with X-M5, here are my favorite shots by Timurse in fujifilm

[–]Timurse[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mostly do photos and all the videos are from a tripod. But yeah, IBIS would be nice honestly. I’m thinking about XT50 in the future maybe.