messed up the colours in the process

To me it looks like you may have applied some “vintage film” style, and that it doesn’t go too well with a photo that is mostly shades of brown.

Brown is really dark, unsaturated orange and we perceive it as a separate color mostly based on what other colors are near it, so it’s not easy to work with in a photo where there aren’t many non-brown elements.

Also, I am personally quite fed up with the (excessive and ubiquitous) “vintage film” photos… I think that’s not the issue with this photo, but, still, it’s a bias of mine so that might be part of it.

I am slightly colour blind

Even mild color blindness must be a real hassle for photography (well… for post-processing, mostly). I wish I had some suggestion to work around that, but I really can’t imagine how it must be.

Anyway, don’t let that slow you down! Color shenanigans are really only a tiny part of photography, and (I must say!) they are often the most tacky part. There are lots of greatly influential photographers that even chose to ditch colors altogether and shoot in black&white.

Nice one!

IMHO you might have gone a bit too far with the post-processing (or camera settings, if it’s a jpeg): to me there’s too high contrast, too much red, and the exposure doesn’t agree with the apparent lighting conditions (it seems like it’s been shot in broad daylight but it also seems underxposed).

Do borrow your dad’s camera more often! :)

You got some great answers already :)

Let me just add that, in general, it’s expected to have executable files inside your home directory.

For example, ~/.local/bin is intended for user executables and usually added to the $PATH, and a lot of package managers (such as cargo, go, pip,…) will install applications under ~ (Steam also does that).

I must say, this is really creepy.

In your shoes, I’d put some effort into explaining what (legitimate) use case you have, least people won’t be much inclined to help.

Why do people think we care why they decided this or that? (same goes for people who switch to linux, or upgrade their gear, or whatever)

Basically, the only way is to disconnect the TV and use it as a dumb screen. Lineageos supports a few set top boxes (see here).

I heard (take it as hearsay) that some smart TV periodically capture screenshots of what’s on screen and upload it, so it actually disconnecting the tv from the network could (again, hearsay) make a real difference.

It’s no secret that we trade our information for access to the Internet.

I pay a monthly subscription for access to the Internet (actually two: one for the landline and one for my phone).

So what do you prefer a subscription based Internet with privacy protection or a free internet with companies allowed to take and sell your data

Either one would be better than what we have now, which is not free and not private.

What’s crashing? the Linux host? Virtualbox? the windows guest?

(personally I won’t be able to help you, but other people might)

User: “I have to waste my whole life fixing this” Dev: “you are complaining that you have to spend a few minutes”

Savage.

Didn’t you know? Disabling ad blockers ensures free speech and apparently may also peacefully end the current crisis in the middle east… oh, did I mention it helps with world hunger too?

Yeah… people should rewrite post titles for the context of this community, rather than reusing article titles verbatim