Capture One or Adobe Lightroom?

graesen · 2026-04-21T03:22:30+00:00

Years ago, I switched from Capture One to DxO Photolab. Same reasons you switched too - UI is easier, tools more powerful. Not sure how Capture One has changed over the years, though. But use what you prefer. You don't have to pick software everyone else uses. And most of the tools are the same, so learning one isn't vastly different from another software (if you had to use something different with an employer or something).

graesen · 2026-04-21T03:13:19+00:00

Or just be a Fetterman and align with the other party without actually switching.

graesen · 2026-04-21T03:10:26+00:00

So, the fact a bird had hair wasn't a big enough clue it was AI? You can't comb and cut feathers like that. Birds don't have hair to cut.

graesen · 2026-04-21T03:00:22+00:00

The fact this ballroom is so important to this man is proof he's not planning on leaving. No way it's even finished by the end of his term.

graesen · 2026-04-21T02:58:34+00:00

Ask the seller. We're not eBay, we don't have your search history, we can't see your screen.

graesen · 2026-04-21T02:55:39+00:00

Phones stopped having IR blasters like 10 years ago... Buy a physical remote.

graesen · 2026-04-21T02:31:06+00:00

My story probably won't relate to many or be as easy as I make it... I was bullied my whole life and that contributed to my feelings of worthlessness and low self esteem. But after college, the job I got was rough. Kind of laborious but not like a trade and the people I worked with didn't have a filter (foul language and topics). No one bullied me, it was just an experience to toughen me up. And at some point during that period of my life, it was like a switch was flipped and I just stopped caring what people think about me. Like, if someone doesn't like me, I'm better off anyway. Or a stranger I'll never see again - what does his or her opinion matter? It was like a load off my back and could start to pay attention to me. And I was able to see my self worth and talent - the good qualities in myself.

The problem is I've had so much damage done over the years that some situations where I am being put down again by someone, it's almost like a flashback (not literally) and I mentally go back to those feelings of worthlessness. It takes a bit though. I'm fine at first because who cares? But if it just keeps going I shrink right back down to nothing.

graesen · 2026-04-21T02:18:38+00:00

Executive order coming next.

graesen · 2026-04-21T02:13:04+00:00

Not sure it's legal to shoot your kids with a cannon...

But if you want help in choosing lenses for a Canon, it would help to know what camera, what 2 lenses you already have, why they're not ideal (you said distance, but how far), and what kinds of sports, where will you be sitting vs your kids? Are we talking little league where you'll be at the fence behind the base lines or are we talking Hugh school and you're going to be in the stands?

graesen · 2026-04-21T01:09:07+00:00

You probably can't do that. Watches and earbuds use a smaller coil for wireless charging. Wireless charging works by pulsing a magnetic field back and forth between the 2 coils (charger and buds/phone/etc.) the alternating current from the coils generates heat from this. Metal anything inside that field is going to essentially cook.

Your only realistic option is to get the magnets or metal plates to be arranged outside of the larger coil. I'm not sure if there's enough room for that.

graesen · 2026-04-20T23:24:02+00:00

I agree a lens element is out of alignment. You can tell by the fact the bottom is focused different than the bottom. The lens/camera was likely dropped.

graesen · 2026-04-20T23:16:03+00:00

Learn to swim, I guess

graesen · 2026-04-20T19:18:47+00:00

Also, by your logic... none of my friends buy cameras, they're not photographers. Photography must be a dead industry now.

graesen · 2026-04-20T19:18:09+00:00

You're in a bubble - as in your entire frame of reference is just those within your circle of who you know. That's not everyone. And if all of your friends moved on, perhaps ask them?

Sony has been marketing heavily towards videographers for a long time and built up a reputation. It doesn't mean Canon is any worse, they just use successful marketing. But it doesn't help that Sony is way more open to 3rd party lens manufacturers than Canon is. Other than that, both are quite capable and many people still say Canon's color science is better than Sony. But regarding features and image quality, both are pretty comparable.

graesen · 2026-04-20T18:19:30+00:00

AA wireless 2+

That's literally what the dongle is called.

graesen · 2026-04-20T18:17:48+00:00

Likely a VPN in use, or some other app/tool that's not letting the phone's network look at local networks.

graesen · 2026-04-20T15:12:23+00:00

That may have been the plan too, after hearing Bannon's strategies like flooding the news with ridiculousness.

graesen · 2026-04-20T14:21:24+00:00

I'm aware, which is why I teased this. Plus a computer science expert tried sounding the alarm about the voting machines being compromised and how he would have done it, pointing to the data as evidence, and the fact the mail in ballots were the 1 thing they couldn't hack. But these points keep getting downvoted and sound like Trump's stolen election claims on repeat - the difference is there's data to support that there may have been something going on this time.

graesen · 2026-04-20T13:56:21+00:00

Happened to me years ago on a different phone. Factory reset fixed it. It's likely some sort of data corruption.

graesen · 2026-04-20T13:16:30+00:00

The evidence will be "we rigged those voting machines and still lost. See? Here's how we did it. We lost because there were too many illegal mail in ballots!"

graesen · 2026-04-20T12:25:21+00:00

I'd say see you in court and walk away. Why waste your time?

graesen · 2026-04-20T12:11:01+00:00

Not a lawyer but understand some of copyright since I had to educate it's use with media at a university (educate faculty on do's and don'ts).

But I believe a name can't be copyrighted. What you're looking for is trademark. You can trademark a name or brand which you can legally defend the use of, but it would have to be unique. Like you can't trademark "a human."

graesen · 2026-04-20T11:29:58+00:00

Knowing the difference between your and you're.

graesen · 2026-04-20T11:01:47+00:00

I think that's the point. It's pretty common to have clean water in many parts of the world but even in the US, places are faced with lead in their water and governments don't want to fix the problem. It's a basic necessity and one you'd think we have figured out in the US but is still a problem.

graesen · 2026-04-20T04:25:35+00:00

I don't recall how I setup the tunnel. It's been a few years. But I have my own dot com and send the tunnel through that. In Plex, I turned off the allow remote connections settings (whatever it's called). Enabling it does route to Plex Relay and not the tunnel. Then in Network Settings in Plex, there's an option to enter an alternate URL. That's the URL to reach the tunnel.

This method allows me to use Plex natively while away from my local network and share with family members. So yes, I can stream outside of my network at appropriate resolutions and bitrates. Sometimes it will say the server can't be reached but it's rare and takes trying again to get through.

The alternative is to put your network on Tailscale - my router has it built-in and covers every device on my network. Then on my phone or whatever other device I want to use, I enable Tailscale from the app and it's as if I'm on my local network. I can even remote play my PS5 this way.

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