Ubuntu is developed and controlled by a corporation (canonical) and they have some non ideal practices (like pushing snaps heavily instead of the more open flatpaks or native apps). Mint takes what’s good in Ubuntu and cleans it up a lot.
I’ve heard that happen with mint before. Try a bit more modern distro like fedora or openSUSE maybe?
Can very much recommend. It’s a hidden gem. Sadly there’s only two rather short seasons
Very. Am lucky in that regard. Am pan and my partner is trans. No big deal. Also my great uncle came out as gay a few years ago and even most of the family in his generation (he’s in his 60s now) are supportive. And recently my teenage sibling came out as trans and our parents are doing their best to get them the resources they need.
I agree, the important part is definitely someone who teaches you how it works without going too in depth (for the beginning) and who encourages you to experiment.
But, do you think that your feeling of intimidation stemmed from the cameras being relatively new/espensive? Like, would it have been less intimidated if the camera was 15-20 years old and accordingly cheap?
Because today, you can get a 15-20 year old DSLR that’s still very useable and costs less than 50€, while in ~2010, there essentially were no 15-20 year old digital cameras.
I‘d strongly argue against a point n shoot or phone camera.
A ‘proper’ camera can be just as easy to use (just put it in program/auto mode) and isn’t much more expensive either, if you go for something older and used, which is all a 12 year old beginner needs anyways.
The versatility also allows and encourages experimentation, and having an actual camera in your hand gets you in a very different mind set than just snapping away on your phone.
Not to speak of the quality difference even an older DSLR has, compared to the tiny sensor of most cheaper point n shoots and even most modern phones.
Definitely her own one. And definitely a proper one. Allows her to take it home, if she likes it, and keep on shooting. And also allows her to grow with the camera.
If you’re willing to look around a bit, you can find good deals on working cameras, that of course won’t be the bee‘s knees but perfectly suitable for a beginner.
For example, on my way to my vocational school, there’s a photo shop with a sold-as-is bin, where I got a working Sony a58 20MP DSLM with kit lens and battery for only 15€. Added a cheap charger from ebay and it’s a very decent camera for less than 25€ that‘s perfectly beginner friendly but isn’t limited to that.
Of course, you won’t necessarily find a similar deal, but there are definitely very good deals out there, especially in the 8-20 MP range (although I wouldn’t go below 12 if you want it to at least compare to phones, resolution wise). An older cheap Canon, Sony, Nikon, etc. DSLR or similar.
Even that tariff thing can be positive for us already. At least here in Germany, big Hollywood productions snag a lot of public funding, because they produce a small amount of the film in Germany. That money could’ve gone to smaller, national productions (that actually need the money) instead and maybe, if Hollywood has a disincentive to produce outside of 'Murrica, that funding can actually go to someone who needs it.
Or they’ll just fund the same lame ‘comedy’ films with the same jokes, same directors and same actors as the last 20 years again. Because why would they ever take a risk on sth new and creative, if the same old works just about well enough
Movies do belong in cinemas. Rian Johnson‘s movies do not.
Yea. I love Indian food or kebab but when someone next to me on a train is having some, I’m not gonna be happy.
Schon faszinierend, dass sich sowohl das angelsächsische "tongs“ und „tongues“, als auch das deutsche „Zange“ und „Zunge“ sich so ähneln.
Fast so, als ob die Sprachen verwandt sind.
Oder es ist einfach nur Zufall. Wer weiß das schon? Ich jedenfalls nicht.
That has been rectified in 2017. iPhones these days do not slow down with new software updates any more than any other phone. They do throttle performance, if the battery is degraded to much but this is both communicated clearly and easily reversed by replacing the battery (even if you do it yourself or have it done by a third party, instead of paying apple’s admittedly high price).
Apple have plenty of anti-consumer behavior in other places. Treading around on an issue that is older than any currently supported iPhone, however, instead on focusing on current issues (like lack of app sideloading anywhere but in the EU, for example) is not conducive to actually getting Apple (or other corporations) to change their behavior. This battle has already been won.
That’s because our eyes adapt themselves to different colour temperatures all the time during the day (a tungsten light bulb has very warm (orange) light, while daylight is much cooler (blue), for example, yet white is always white to us). This happens automatically and subconsciously.
If you close one eye for a little while though, it „resets“ back to its default colour temperature. After opening it again, it’ll take a little while for it to start compensating to the correct white point again and thus you‘ll have different hues on both eyes for a little while.
The effect is exaggerated a lot, if you close one eye and then look at a bright monochromatic image with the other one (like a bright red image on your phone, close to your face).
Or, of course, if you wear anaglyphic 3D glasses (that’s the red/green or red/cyan kind) for a while, as one eye will try to compensate for the red as much as it can, while the other one will try to compensate for the green/cyan as much as possible. Result: the eye with the red glass will look much cooler after taking off the glasses, and the eye with the green/cyan glass much warmer.
Generally that effect will balance itself out after a little while. Except for very slight variances of course. Our eyes and brains are far from perfect.
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I‘d like you to meet Europeans some time.
Oh come on. Don’t tease us like that. I wanna see those mental gymnastics in action. Please share the conversation!
Have you ever seen a Bud Spencer movie? They’re straight up not even half as funny in the original language.