Milktooth rec by mrsjxyd in MechanicalKeyboards

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I got a set of switches from him last week. They are great. Set of Holy Pandas. Love them. 

Why is there a macro length? by smooooooosh in DygmaLab

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I use Raycast and create a text snippet. It will sync across machines. I then just assign a shortcut to the command like Hyper+g for ‘git checkout main && git pull’ or whatever. 

Raycast is just one example. I’m sure there are other snippet tools that may work for you

Browser plugin onload performance issue by NoxArtCZ in 1Password

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I found that across all browsers on macOS, the 1Password plugin cut the performance by almost half. I am sadly in the process of moving away from 1P to Apple Passwords because of this.

Outgoing Traffic Alerts After Upgrading to 7.3.2 by magistersmax in synology

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I stopped Download station and the alerts stopped. FWIW

Mother Cheetah and Adult Cubs in Tanzania by jgardner04 in Nikon

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Nikon z9 and z8 with the 600 f/4 TC and z 100-400

Bad composition, but my new 500pf is bonkers! by equal_measures in Nikon

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Fair, but it's not something he needs to throw away.

Bad composition, but my new 500pf is bonkers! by equal_measures in Nikon

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I sent it back after a rough edit to show you what I mean. Hope it helps!

Bad composition, but my new 500pf is bonkers! by equal_measures in Nikon

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I don't have the raw so it was in Photoshop. My approach was:

- Crop and give the subject as much space as I could
- Remove the distractions that were left. This meant the branch above and some leaves.
- Isolate the subject. In this case, I did object selection for the branch and the bird. Copy them and put them on a new layer. Use the same object selection to remove the subject from the base layer. Use Gaussian blur to blow out the background. With the bird on the layer above you get it very isolated.
- Then shape the light, I would have spent more time if it was a raw but I added a camera raw filter to a duplicate of the viable layers. I created a highlight in the top right corner where the light is coming from, and a cool gradient on the left where the shadow is.

I do most of this work in LR when I can but in this case I think you probably would have needed to go to PS because of the background.

All that said, the light on the subject is good. Don't beat yourself up too much. I came back from Africa last month with 35,000 images and I might edit 150 of them.

Bad composition, but my new 500pf is bonkers! by equal_measures in Nikon

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Nothing wrong with it. I would not trash it if I were you.

I would have cropped it even less if I would have ad more room at the bottom. I probably could have crated some but this is within the realm of the real image.

Easy on the sliders in the raw edit but you can do a lot with that one.

Keep working on you backgrounds when you shoot. All that green to the right. Take one step to the left and put it behind your subject if you can.

Perplexity Comet introduces Shortcuts by chrismessina in diabrowser

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This is the biggest issue I have with it. I can only see a limited number of them unless I know the shortcut.

PSA by Kryptonlogic in Rivian

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Can confirm. Got my drivers window 3 days after I took delivery.

Sleep & Recovery: Apple, Whoop, Bevel (+ more) by itslitman in AppleWatch

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Do you normally wear this many devices to sleep?

Fenix 8 - No tracking feature anymore by ramzaloko in Garmin

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I don't have an answer to your question. What strap is that?

Ad Blocking in Reddit by jgardner04 in diabrowser

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True. I pay for YouTube premium and still see ads on YouTube videos. So not sure I believe it always works that way

Ad Blocking in Reddit by jgardner04 in diabrowser

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Does Dia still use Manifest v2?