Well they have become less satirical than reality so…now I don’t know what to do.

Just finished Sinners. Fantastic film, I loved it.

The 13th Warrior

Sony club! I use whichever was the second to last release (TP2 or something). Over a decade old, battery still lasts a few weeks, and it just works.

Common Side Effects was stunning. Absolutely recommend.

Former prime minister Current chair of the IDU (an alliance of right wing political parties around the globe designed to push right wing ideology in as many countries as possible) Stephen Harper called on Canada to renew its ties with India, arguing in a speech on Saturday that the country is an indispensable partner in a volatile world.

I’ve got a decade old Sony ereader that’s still good as new. Battery lasts a couple weeks too, I love it.

Haha yep inviting the wrong person was absolutely the big issue. I think I read something about it being an unofficial fork out of Israel though, but everything moves so fast these days it’s hard to keep up

Wig Wam!

Specially with all the recent scrutiny on it in the news, hackers are figuring out ways in.

I’m assuming you mean the US gov’t debacle? It’s already been proven that they were using a fork, not the genuine Signal app. The fork was built with a back door. As far as I’m aware (and please correct me if I’m wrong) Signal has yet to be hacked and is currently among the most secure options.

It’s almost like the US gov’t might benefit from convincing its citizens that the fully encrypted messaging app is dangerous so they should just go back to Whatsapp and Telegram.

Unfortunately not. That’s like saying “A burglar put a spycam in my house once. I simply said no and he removed it. So hopefully it stays that way”. It’s there, you just can’t see it now.

I would watch the hell out of that haha. American Dad has a joke about the audio book of Plato’s Republic read by Gilbert Gottfried.

First, I made ‘Album Artists’ my landing page. 'Artists" includes everyone tagged in the metadata, ‘Album Artists’ only contains the primary artists. For me, the difference is 350 album artists vs 1412 artists.

I run everything through Picard when I add something to the server. Sometimes I have to change the metadata (for example I hate having an entry for ‘&’ like Elton John & Hans Zimmer and I’ll change it so the album is included in both Elton John and Hans Zimmer but theres no entry for them together). But generally it’s pretty simple and smooth.

Looks like this:

The rights and freedoms of Americans has always been a gentleman’s agreement, and they’ve run out of gentlemen.

Makes sense thank you. I see what you guys are saying, and the more I compare the more I feel like I over-corrected trying to improve. I’m studying getting off auto and I think I should try and find a middle ground between the two. Thanks again!

Wow thank you for the advice! It all really makes sense and the more I compare the more it looks like I over-corrected I think. Going off auto is what I’m looking into next and I’ll read through your comment a few more times to get started. I really appreciate it!

Right. Every time Poilievre or Smith screamed “Trudeau bad!” It was clearly meant towards Trudeau alone and didn’t refer to the Liberal Party as a whole. This headline is only misleading to pedants, the rest of us understand fully and I think you do too.

I’m not really sure what I was going for with lighting haha. This was my first time putting a shot together so I kind of just winged it. I want to see what I can come up with having full control over the environment. The lighting I used were some cheap usb lights and I think I need to soften the light on them more somehow.

I’ll look into ISO next, I’m still using the auto function while I figure some things out. As for the strip of sewing I noticed after that I could have used it to “direct” the eye to a specific feature but honestly the backdrop was just a placeholder. I saw a blog about home studios on the cheap and am gonna get a black sheet, but stores were closed yesterday and I didn’t want to wait haha.

Thank you!

Wow, thanks for taking the time to write this up! This was continuous lighting, I’m hoping to get a better feel for creating my light source. There are a few out of focus points that I want to look at sharpening up, as it is I’m still using the auto feature so manual is next on the list for experimenting.

Completely agree on the backdrop haha. I saw some cheap home studio techniques online and wanted to try it out myself. I’m planning to pick up a black sheet but the stores were closed yeterday for the holiday and I didn’t want to wait so I grabbed the darkest material I had.

As for the dust/fuzz, I certainly noticed how much was being picked up but wanted to see if I could use it to get a bit of an older/weathered look. If I try this piece again I’ll remove it, I don’t think it did what I was hoping.