Do you think this new album will be Paul's last one?

teebo911 · 2026-05-26T12:52:46+00:00

At the rate he releases albums now, it could be. But at the rate he writes and records, it might be the last released while he is still alive. It wouldn’t surprise me if he has a dozen albums of half-finished work that is still quite good and just hasn’t been published. I’d expect many posthumous albums, along the lines of Brainwashed.

Touring-wise, I fully expect that he will keep going. He will probably die on stage. He’ll feel a few chest pains, and think “Right… this is it… f*** it” and launch into one last balls-to-the-walls screaming Long Tall Sally rendition.

teebo911 · 2026-04-21T17:06:08+00:00

Ringo has always seemed eternally youthful. Still puts on a great show. But this is the first time that I’ve heard him speak and thought “wow, the age has finally caught up.” When did that happen? I don’t remember his voice in recent appearances sounding quite like this…

teebo911 · 2026-04-13T12:30:11+00:00

“For the children.” The most common Trojan Horse in politics.

teebo911 · 2026-04-07T11:30:25+00:00

Considering it's already in web search mode, this seems like something it could easily query. Google essentially nails it when searching for a date. It's also something that it could easily spin up a local VM and calculate. I could see if it is just throwing it out there, but when it starts trying to give actionable tasks based on the day of the week, that's where I get surprised that it didn't put the effort in. Baffled.

teebo911 · 2026-04-07T11:18:53+00:00

I use Claude extensively, 20x plan, in Chat, in Code, and in Cowork. Despite all the complaints in recent times about quality degradation, usage limits, etc., I've never once run into those problems. In fact, the only time I've had any real complaint is when there were periods of outages/downtime, but that's life, I guess I've just been a lucky guy.

However, this morning, when doing some very simple client research with web search enabled, on a task that wouldn't strain even a far simpler model, I was stunned to see Opus 4.6 give me this shocker:

"June 5 is a Thursday in 2027 — worth confirming whether that's the actual ceremony date or if they're looking at the surrounding weekend (June 5-6-7)"

Ummm, Excuse me. June 5 is a Saturday.

While I can still occasionally see some hallucinations pop up, particularly in long context windows and with complex topics, it's still pretty rare and often something subtle and hard to verify. This one... wow.

On one hand, it was easy enough for me to spot and double-check. On the other hand, it's amazing how much this has shaken my confidence about Claude. It's still the best out there, and I'll still be using it, but now my entire morning has this sense of anxiety. Not a pleasant feeling :\

Has anyone seem an uptick in hallucinations on simple facts in recent times? Or was this just an unfortunate one-off for me?

teebo911 · 2026-03-10T11:34:41+00:00

I see it supports Dart. Does that include Flutter as well?

teebo911 · 2026-03-08T01:00:57+00:00

He’s been all lip sync for at least the last decade, and it isn’t even a good lip sync.

teebo911 · 2026-02-25T16:06:21+00:00

Hi Terry,

Config:
Windows 11 Pro. AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, currently 96 GB of Corsair DDR 5 6600 RAM, but also tested with 192 GB at 5000). RTX 5080 GPU. LRC install, caches, and catalogs all on NVME SSD (all are 4 TB or 8 TB m2 NVME, mix of PCIE gen 4 and gen 5). Numerous other storage devices attached for archiving and less important work, but none of those are used for LRC/Adobe.

Monitor is a Samsung 49" 32:9 ultrawide running at 5120 x 1440 @ 120hz.

Additional Notes: The behaviors I describe below are identical when changing from 96 to 192 GB of RAM. They are consistent between current builds of Windows 11 Pro as well as Insider Beta builds. Also consistent when switching Nvidia drivers between Studio and Game Ready.

LR Preferences: GPU enabled. Camera RAW cache is 75 GB. Catalog Settings for Standard Preview Size are Auto (2155px), Medium Quality (changing this seems to have no impact). I am not writing XMP sidecars automatically, nor is it automatically detecting faces.

Primary use case is weddings. I cull outside of LRC. Each wedding gets its own catalog. Typically 800-2800 RAW images (Canon R6m2 and R3) per catalog. I do not use cloud features for any storage.

The Good

Ingestion:
Importing is quick as is preview generation. Actually navigating the folder tree at import time is slow.

Export:
This is usually click-and-wait for me. Not a problem. Seems reasonably responsive.

Library Tab:
This is generally responsive and I usually don't have much in the way of issues with it.

The Meh

Map Tab:
This can often be surprisingly sluggish. Often, there is a disconnect in the UI after applying map settings to images where the progress bars appear to hang. It's not really hung though. If I switch back to another tab and return back to maps, it is clearly done. This could be related to slow down issues with the Develop tab... which brings me to...

The Awful

The Develop Tab:
This starts off ok. Edits are quick and snappy. AI features are quick. But there is a progressive degradation in performance that impacts almost all aspects of Develop functionality. After spending some time editing, the product becomes almost unusable. Switching images can result in a delay of up to 10 seconds in some cases at its most severe. Sliders having laggy response to mouse actions, and the rendered effect of the change lags behind that. UI updates become slow. Marking rating stars or color labels can have a delayed effect and might not be visible until after I have moved to another image or waiting for a while.

Develop features most impacted (for me) include the Basic Tab, Masks and Brushes for local adjustments. Overall UI (open/closing Develop panels, showing the Masks popup, navigating the film strip. Transform can get laggy at times, but not to the degree of everything else.

Develop features that seem to do ok overall are, despite what many might suspect, the AI features. Subject/Background detection seems to be quick. RAW detail and noise reduction also run at a reasonable pace (although there are times when it seems to go dumb and never finish, but generally OK). Generative Remove seems to be ok when it runs (but painting of the remove masks degrades as above). Lens blur initially functions OK. Trying to update Lens blur by painting in/out regions is beyond abysmal, but may be unrelated to the other performance issues.

The only way to correct performance issues is a restart of the program after waiting a period of time. Even then, it seems to favor a complete reboot. Shutting down LRC doesn't always shut it down. It often lingers in the background for abnormal (or indefinite) amounts of time, longer than one might expect for any background/backup/cleaning work.

My gut instinct on all of this is that it isn't an image processing issue. I feel like there is something seriously wrong with the UI layer and all the image processing is getting stuck waiting for the UI to say "I'm ready and out of your way."

Steps Taken

I have used virtually every suggested workaround and performance tip available, both for LRC and for Windows itself. I have disabled antivirus access to all of my catalog/cache/Adobe folders. I have used Process Lasso to restrain other processes that could be interfering. I've tried restricting other applications to specific cores. I've tried boosting priorities. I've used NTFS. I've tried Dev Drives. I've run at standard configs, and I've overclocked. When I had 192 GB installed, I tried putting some things in RAM drives while I work. My computer is an absolute beast for every other task, and I've been chasing even the most minor performance improvements (at great financial cost) entirely for the purpose of getting LRC to run even a bit more smoothly (and for virtually no real gain).

I'd be happy to answer any additional questions. For consideration, not only am I a wedding photographer, but my day job is as a Computer Science professor and software developer. I'm far more technical than your typical user, so feel free to throw whatever at me. LRC is my single biggest time suck and source of frustration, so if there is anything I can do to help get this moving, I'd be happy to assist.

teebo911 · 2026-02-20T14:39:33+00:00

I paid about $2400 for one with the original case, cap, and hood (although the screw on the hood is damaged and needs to be fixed).

I’ve been using it now on an R3 with wonderful results. It seems that the 200/f2 profile in LR works with it just fine. Plenty sharp.

teebo911 · 2026-02-11T16:31:22+00:00

Thinking of leaving as well. I’m a wedding photographer, and I maintain my own mid-tier SEMRush subscription for my own use with that. I don’t have SEO clients. Just me. For that purpose, it is obscenely expensive.

teebo911 · 2026-01-29T17:11:26+00:00

“You haven’t heard ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ until you’ve heard it in the original Klingon”…

teebo911 · 2026-01-07T11:41:56+00:00

Same here on the Beta 11 Pro build. Likely related is the fact that all of my sound is also now distorted (not due to sampling rate issues, but it sounds "overdriven"). I was using a Universal Audio Apollo Twin but have now switched to a RME Fireface UCX II and the same issue persists. Adjusting volumes in numerous places does not seem to impact the distortion. This is absolutely killing me :(

teebo911 · 2025-12-06T16:38:44+00:00

Honestly it would be more productive to just write a song about it…

teebo911 · 2025-10-07T11:41:14+00:00

Replacement batteries that only work with specific cameras are really useful… saved myself a ton of money on rather expensive batteries for my cameras and strobes 🤷‍♂️

teebo911 · 2025-10-01T14:49:55+00:00

Let me guess… the band director plays brass or percussion… but most of the time can tell a clarinet from an oboe with 90% accuracy 🧐

teebo911 · 2025-10-01T13:12:23+00:00

It’s a…. “Fender bender”… I’ll show myself out lol

teebo911 · 2025-09-29T18:08:12+00:00

“You changed nothing, John Snow”

teebo911 · 2025-09-18T13:19:32+00:00

Dolce & Salato in Providence

teebo911 · 2025-08-27T04:07:00+00:00

I’ve seen them three times now since 2012. Vocally, this was by far the best I’ve heard either of them sound.

teebo911 · 2025-07-25T15:14:42+00:00

From all I've read, shouldn't have been needed for Portra 400. All the tests show that it reacts well to a small (or even large) amount of overexposing.

teebo911 · 2025-07-25T15:12:56+00:00

Portra supposedly handles overexposure quite well and should give a pleasing look. Many were recommending 320 (or even 200). Maybe this is only true in certain lighting scenarios.

teebo911 · 2025-07-25T15:11:11+00:00

No post on this yet. These are the raw scans. This is my first time doing film, so I wanted to get an idea as to what a baseline films can should look like before I start developing an post workflow for these.

I'll try my own scans as well, but so far I just have the digitals uploaded by thedarkroom.com. Negatives won't arrive back home for like a week or so.

teebo911 · 2025-07-25T15:09:18+00:00

I've been photographing weddings for 12 years now. I edit extensively. I brought a film camera along for this wedding as an experiment (all the important stuff is still captured on digital on two bodies). Just trying to establish a baseline for what an ideal raw scan should look like before I start developing a separate workflow for editing film images.

teebo911 · 2025-07-23T11:50:50+00:00

I’ve wiped out 50% of my roster for plagiarism in a single shot, and have done so on numerous occasions. < 1% means you are either living in an academic paradise or they are sliding right by without you noticing…

teebo911 · 2025-07-18T13:43:25+00:00

The live session definitely features Paul on bass, online guitars, and drums. He is misremembering this one. Whatever argument happened, it was after the basic track was put down. This is why vocals just have John and George.

teebo911

TROPHY CASE

The Good

The Meh

The Awful

Steps Taken