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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 12:03 UTC

I'm eyeing the 2012 Galaxy Note 10.1 3G of mine for that. The whole pen input thing rocks so much, I don't wanna live the tablet or even phablet life without one.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 09:48 UTC

Met with a couple of lovely Eurasian ladies today 📷🐶

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 11:08 UTC

1) Jackdaw furiously trying to pick up a wrapper. - 2) Magpie in a state of poor health, coughing with nostrils flared. Found this specimen two days later in a different area and it was more energetic with normal behavior toward humans, but still coughing. - 3) [HISSING INTENSIFIES] 📷🪶

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 05:13 UTC

Thank you! Lacking that reach rapidly went and got in the way of photo-opps after switching, doh! I'm too stubborn to carry both along. On the 26th begins a week of national championship sports events in my city, I will challenge myself and shoot that with the 300.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 12:06 UTC

I took a photo of a jackdaw that's straight out of a book or a pamphlet, I positively nailed it and this is straight out of the camera. 📷🪶 Going back to using a 50mm lens, I feel the heft of the 300mm (used for this shot) in my back..

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 10:26 UTC

This young jackdaw did not take kindly to receiving splash damage from their senior. 📷🪶

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 10:23 UTC

Had company by a rare white cat while out for a walk, while I had only the 300mm lens on. Very well kept and fed cat, young and healthy, not much of a primordial pouch, tagged and trackable with a modern necklace. I wish it good luck in its hunts, and many pets. 📷🐱

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 09:45 UTC

A round and fluffy sparrow youngling was anything but afraid of me, so I kept it company for a while. Back on a 35mm lense for a while 📷🪶 (My hat indeed has dangly bits that I keep neglecting to tie up and repair.)

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 09:14 UTC

I'm trying to find a used 11" MacBook Air where I live of the last user-upgradable SSD year, with an i7, because I dig my 2012 MBA that much at least in hardware. The 2012 one will remain on linux but a 2015-2017 model will stay MacOS for music & production. Lovely machines, great value for money.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 09:13 UTC

- MacOS works real well, stable and reliable. - Linux works and I can tune it the way I want, and I'm good and cozy, feeling right at home and happy. - Windows doesn't work and I cannot make it work the way I want, and it's going to crash explorer for no reason in 5 4 3 oh it's a BSOD instead, well!

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 08:18 UTC

We basically don't exist to the masses, in reality and fiction it's almost always positive or negative, black or white, on or off, gay or straight, nothing inbetween - no bisexuals. We've maxed the heck out of our stealth skills, though we never even tried to level 'em up after leaving our closets.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 08:25 UTC

What does a 300mm prime lense do for me, when photographing birds? It scores me detail like mad. Enough that I want to get the top of the line EOS M for stills while keeping the OG M for filming (and getting spares). Here's a crow polishing its beak, and the 100% crop. 📷🪶

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 08:27 UTC

Nailed this moment as much as I could have, accidentally running a 1/60s shutter speed at the time. 📷🪶 Getting good practice running my manual 300mm, handheld with EOS M.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 08:19 UTC

I'm already a Linux user but, Adobe AfterEffects Are there better alternatives to it than Blender and DaVinci Fusion/Fusion via Resolve? Yes, the crash-happy lumpy unreliable unstable horror that is AfterEffects. I make the BleVinci duo work but it's like I need a few more years to really feel it.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 08:52 UTC

📷✈️ June 6th is the flag day of Sweden so there was a little airshow kind of thing going on, and the guest of honor was the new airforce trainer, the SK40. Using the 2012 Canon EOS M with a chonker of a 300mm lense, here are four photos I'd like to share of this nose-art beauty (when on the pad).

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 10:17 UTC

Which games are those? Except for the deep anti-cheat games, improvements come so fast that ProtonDB isn't up to date.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 08:27 UTC

📷🪶 Grey geese breakfast with the kids. (Got hissed at despite using a superzoom compact camera from fair distance)

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 29, 2024 at 09:18 UTC

You should be able to blacklist the broken one with some linux wizardry and be fine (learned that when trying to figure out DRI_PRIME dedicated vs integrated DIY), otherwise what I've seen people do was to have the video output used, since that one's set to use the surviving GPU.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 08:44 UTC

Got tired of my 13" i7 8gb mid-2012 Air feeling held back by an old MacOS, threw EndeavourOS linux in there and Bob turned out to be my uncle. For my next trick, I will NOT be tempted to grab a maxed out more powerful 11" Air and repeat this. Boy it's difficult.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 26, 2024 at 13:25 UTC

Welcome to Linux.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 26, 2024 at 13:22 UTC

📷 Good dog. (Eurasian breed) Done with the monochrome sensor on the Huawei P20 because she's just that much of a super fluffy black cloud. Other cameras struggle.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 14:39 UTC

Conclusion: This is as good as it gets on my limited hardware which is a 3770U laptop. My next purchase (Ryzenbox with a 780m and oculink) will be vastly better off for performance, and old laptops with dedicated GPUs are real good for performance in linux compared to just a Ryzen APU.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 10:23 UTC

Governor to performance, yes. Double the linux reported freqs for real speeds, yes. Have gamemode tools, no effect. Not tried mango. driver: amdgpu Booting via NVME, Win10 on 2nd drive Chances are this is as good as it gets on my hw limited laptop for linux performance?

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 10:11 UTC

Hardware: Ryzen 3770U, Vega 10 APU. Situation: Unable to reach full GPU perf&freqs? 8000+ glxgears. CPU & temps OK. Fine in Windows games, near half fps in linux? Have tried: Made it OCable, changing power_dpm_force_performance_level from auto to high = hw lockup, RyzenCtrl, cpupower, etc.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 12:10 UTC

Going Windows to Linux? 1) Start with Linux Mint, Ubuntu, something simple and cozy to let you dip your toes into it all. 2) Remember to back things up. 3) Be prepared for search for problems and questions that arise, for they are answered. 4) Enjoy a reliable, safe and stable computing experience!

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 09:42 UTC

SWOOP-THUD-FLUTTERFLUTTER This guy thought there was a branch on my hat and tried to take it as I walked by. I'll sing that Tom Lehrer song to you, buddy! 📷🦉

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 08:33 UTC

Good (bad) ol' "there's not enough of a userbase for us so we won't help the userbase grow to reach those numbers"

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 13:30 UTC

Four years of daily PSVR usage did wonders for my body, at least hip and back, so I need a Meta Quest 3. Just, how is its usability via Linux? - How functional is ALVR for PCVR? - No problem sideloading via Linux? - Can I develop and homebrew my own stuff via Linux? I don't wanna dualboot Win10 :(

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 11:43 UTC

Carrying the 22mm pancake lense, not expecting to go birding, ran into this fella who let me get a few snaps. 🪶📷 A few of its ilk in the inner city have gnarly twisted looking digits, but this one was a fine specimen of a Scandinavian jackdaw to demonstrate. Do they look different where you live?

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 11:16 UTC

This white cat was subject to three large and loud excited dogs nearly pulling their human-walking-companion away, but upon recognizing the familiar photographer, decided to wander off and relax in the shade. She's got a necklace and a safe caring home. Will give slow blinks next time I see her. 📷

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 11, 2024 at 08:51 UTC

Spoiler: All was not fine with the world. Going a full two gigs of ram helped but that N475 performance stung so bad, I went and bought a $1 Thinkpad X100e instead (needs RAM, HD, flat cables). She's going to get her very own dose of ArchBang linux in due time, and now I'm a ThinkPad collector! ❤️

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 11, 2024 at 08:48 UTC

Instead of cropping I decided to think rule of thirds, with this snap of a four legged friend having a breakfast. Hjort, rådjur, cervidae all look the same for me. It's definitely not a moose though. 📷

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 11, 2024 at 08:46 UTC

Okay you wonderful people. Linux on HP laptops, got a 2015 Pavilion. Done maybe not quite enough research and testing and tearing what hair that remains on my head out: - Are HP using strange wizardry for fan controls that we cannot control? - We're doomed to suffer thermal throttling slideshows?

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 11:05 UTC

Linux on an Intel Atom netbook, and all is fine with the world.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 28, 2024 at 10:21 UTC

Jackdaw teamwork, scouting for an agressive but not offensive magpie that wanted claim to their scavenging area. 🪶📷

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 26, 2024 at 13:17 UTC

sutekina yatsu hakken! ❤️

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 26, 2024 at 08:19 UTC

Clippy and BonziBuddy were truly ahead of their cursed time.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 23, 2024 at 14:08 UTC

I'm not far from 44 and the most recent phone that I was okay with was the Nokia 8110 4G, despite the handicapping. Went for a Xiaomi Redmi 9A and it was like going back to Windows. Grabbed a Huawei P20 for the monochrome sensor's sake and it was like going back to a good version of Windows. Argh.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 23, 2024 at 11:22 UTC

I could feature bonus chapters from the perspective of the natives, but that would affect the mystery, and mysteries are attractive. Instead, I let this main character feel or sense, as if someone's emotions are leaking just enough to be noticed. It's a peaceful world, and headpats are featured.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 23, 2024 at 11:17 UTC

Present stage of writer's cramp: Making up good reasonable ways for our character to meet the creatures of the new world, and how they will be interested in learning how to communicate better. Species X has features Y, speaks with nuance Z. Species A has features B, speaks with nuance C. Hard, fun.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 18, 2024 at 10:53 UTC

The focus on the dive was not right, but it was a great moment to capture in still. Walking alongside the jackdaw, it seems that 1/125 is not fast enough of a shutter speed to capture their walk in perfect, it was the head-bob that blurred here. What a fun hobby! 🦉📷 Canon EOS M, Pentacon 50mm 1.8

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 08:28 UTC

I've got it, was no problem to set up, it's an all-AMD system which decreases quirks and headache though. Istalled drivers, updated the system, picked up Steam, downloaded VR Chat, set it to run via Compatibility Tools, got the latest Proton version - done! No clue about VR headsets and Linux tho.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 10:44 UTC

It's essential to have a second computer or phone to search and figure things out with. The tricky thing is finding a distribution you feel right at home with, took me a few years. Happiness is knowing that if something breaks, you're the reason why, and feeling safe from random BSODs. Good luck!

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 13, 2024 at 08:35 UTC

I found the alpha, study this crop in full. He won a chicken race against a honking SUV, did not care about me, focused on letting his crew move to the other side. 🦉📷 (Raw image from a Canon EOS M, Pentacon auto 1.8/50 MC, 1/125 with manual focus and aperture, floating ISO. Happy with this setup.)

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 08, 2024 at 08:36 UTC

I thought the first two paragraphs were the lead-in to a satirical tech-article; then - "oh, right, I've forgotten what Windows was like". Leaving Windows, I'm pretty sure my average blood pressure went down to a healthy state, general zen and calmness up, could go days without curses and grumps..

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 06, 2024 at 05:19 UTC

As long as you don't do it on the Mastodon network, you're fine. Pretty sure the vast majority of us here accept and acknowledge being tied to Windows due to rare few applications and games that only work on there despite our collective expertise, and the Nvidia situation that slowly improves.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 05, 2024 at 11:19 UTC

Reminder: If your MacOS device runs slow as all heck (suddenly), check the remaining space on the storage device. 30 some gigs left of 250 total on this 2012 MBA and it was unusably bad. 70 gigs free now - no problems, as fine as ever. Time to do more off-unit backups.

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 09:48 UTC

Today I've made over 10 000 photos with the Canon PowerShot SX280 HS, and as much as I want to retire it, I've come to believe that everybody needs a raw-capable little superzoom in their pocket. Keeping this camera until it breaks! Here's photo number 9998, Eurasian Blackbird. Have a nice day. 📷🪶

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 27, 2024 at 12:18 UTC

Which distro, which kernel, which wifi hardware? With the troubles I've had, people have recommended USB wifi dongles to bypass the issues. Solved it by switching from Manjaro to pure Arch on the computer in question, doing that solved a lot of other problems tho. (2013 ThinkPad)

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Tom // ロング屁〜 @bakaunchi.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 27, 2024 at 09:43 UTC

How old is the hardware, the wifi device in general? I had that with Manjaro on my 2013 Thinkpad, rare old wifi card. Upgraded Kernel and the support for it went away, rolled back and it was perma-screwed. Was perfectly fine with Arch ofc. It's a pain to find the distro that works and feels right.

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