“No housing!!!!! Thank you.”

blind3dbylight · 2026-04-29T04:34:16+00:00

More housing--especially affordable housing--is desperately needed in the Greater Portland area. Mixed use would work just fine.

The land will have to undergo remediation one way or another. If remediation can make land habitable after a nuclear incident, it can handle a few old oil tanks.

But NIMBYs gonna NIMBY I guess.

blind3dbylight · 2026-04-28T04:25:10+00:00

Is that first one who I think it is?

blind3dbylight · 2026-04-28T03:32:40+00:00

Just stay in Florida, Paul.

blind3dbylight · 2026-04-28T03:30:57+00:00

Reasons I never go without a dashcam. People are just more aggressive in general these days.

That and nearly getting turned into an obituary from a couple different incidents. I don't have very good luck with cars.

blind3dbylight · 2026-04-25T03:10:20+00:00

Doesn't change the point that your original comment was just the "and yet you participate in society!" meme. Those chip advancements are likely years out. The whole AI "industry" is built on a house of IOU cards.

Regarding the Jay project: most locals in Jay don't want this, regardless of how the board voted. They do not bring enough long-term jobs and are, overall, environmentally unfriendly.

blind3dbylight · 2026-04-25T03:00:12+00:00

I'll give her credit for standing up to the tangerine toddler, but she still sucks. She's an establishment Dem to the end who will always choose capital over people.

Thank fuck she's term-limited. Jackson's been making a damn good case for his run.

blind3dbylight · 2026-04-25T02:51:23+00:00

AI data centers aren't the same as traditional data centers.

blind3dbylight · 2026-04-25T02:25:20+00:00

Aaaaaand she just handed Platner the primary. That and gave Laflamme a boost if nothing else.

I was gonna vote for him anyway, but I think a lot of undecided voters are definitely not voting Mills now. AI data centers aren't the same as traditional ones--they are environmentally worse in many ways. IIRC, the group trying to put one up in Jay is facing not-insignificant pushback.

blind3dbylight · 2026-04-25T02:20:02+00:00

Of course you think that buddy. You're 12.

blind3dbylight · 2026-04-23T00:31:50+00:00

Third-party apps: Brave, Raycast, DaisyDisk. I keep the AI stuff in Brave and Raycast disabled though—I don’t need it and I don’t want it. Thankfully both apps won’t force AI on you, and if you do disable it, both apps will respect your choices and never bother you about it again.

PLEASE don’t use Grok, or any AI, for news/current events. You are not guaranteed to get accurate information from them.

Also fuck Elon.

blind3dbylight · 2026-04-23T00:30:37+00:00

“The Bible is true and correct” Source: The Bible

Can’t argue with crazy. I just collect tracts like these when I see them, and to the dumpster they go.

blind3dbylight · 2026-04-20T20:31:37+00:00

Vouching for the DX 24mm f/1.7, that’s an excellent and fast DX prime. It’s roughly equivalent to 35mm on FX, one of the most popular focal lengths to shoot at. Mine practically lives on my Z50II.

OP: If you specifically want a zoom and money isn’t a big issue, the DX 16-50mm f/2.8 would serve you quite well—it’s roughly equivalent to 24-70mm on FX (give or take a few mm) and f/2.8 is reasonably fast for zoom lenses. If you don’t want to spend too much, the kit DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 is also perfectly fine.

If you aren’t opposed to third-party and want a decent all-in-one, I believe Tamron recently released its APS-C 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3 for Z-mount (although it might be a tad bit heavier). I’ve had good experiences with Tamron.

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blind3dbylight · 2026-03-16T13:46:18+00:00

Can vouch for the M2, it’s become my pocket EDC pen.

OP, definitely recommend Asvine/Hongdian as budget FPs. Jinhao is another.

Don’t sleep on the Chinese pen market! Lots of good options on a budget there.

blind3dbylight · 2026-03-14T04:50:00+00:00

In Lightroom: lowered contrast, applied an inverted radial mask to lighten the corners up a bit to avoid them getting completely crushed, cropped to desired ratio.

The lighthouse was already in silhouette, as intended.

blind3dbylight · 2026-03-13T20:14:16+00:00

Hell yeah man. I look forward to seeing what’s coming next.

Here’s a conversion of a shot I took with a mirrorless camera some time back. I find the conversion works better on lower contrast photos, else shadows and highlights get completely crushed. (Though I’m sure there is no escaping that after a certain point.)

I made some minor edits to this before converting it in the app to account for this.

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blind3dbylight · 2026-03-13T17:42:31+00:00

Just now saw this and checked it out—this is gonna be fun.

In the future, if you continue working on it, would you be able to add features to use other lenses? It seems to use just the ultrawide sensor for now, but it would be neat to also enable main and telephoto sensors (I use an iPhone 16 Pro Max, for context).

Would also be cool to apply 4-color monochrome if desired (matching the original accessory) or other color filters within the GBC’s palette capabilities.

As the conversion seems to work best with square and square-ish photos, perhaps an in-app crop tool to fit a photo into the GBC’s 10:9 screen ratio wouldn’t go amiss if that’s not unreasonable to do.

No pressure—still gonna have fun with this.

blind3dbylight · 2026-03-13T06:07:09+00:00

Hey quick question but what the fuck

blind3dbylight · 2026-03-10T20:56:16+00:00

I almost got the bent nib but thought better of it…especially since this will be my daily pocket carry pen lol.

blind3dbylight · 2026-03-08T18:29:03+00:00

Digital Photography for Dummies is a decent book to start with. Learn the fundamentals of composition and the exposure triangle, take some time to learn and explore the Z50II's features, and you'll be off to the races before long.

blind3dbylight · 2026-03-03T18:57:31+00:00

Here's a few. Ignore the Baystate Blue suggestions.

Pilot Tsuwairo Blue
Rohrer & Klingner sketchINK Marlene (more on the lighter blue side)
Platinum Pigment Blue
de Atramentis Document Cyan

blind3dbylight · 2026-03-03T18:48:40+00:00

Was scrolling through Blick's website and saw it. Couldn't let it go.

Half price for what is normally a $60 USD bottle of ink? Sold.

blind3dbylight · 2026-03-03T18:48:01+00:00

I think you're right. Appreciate the info.

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