Jrockwar @ Jrockwar @feddit.uk

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I bought a Ricoh GR III (not a GR III digital, an actual GR III) off Facebook marketplace for £350 a few years ago (at this point, the GR IIIx hadn't been released). It was cheaper than most because it was missing the front decorative ring. I added that back for £10-15, though.

In the year or two that I had it, I realised it wasn't right for me. It was a lovely camera, but I hated the focal length, the autofocus system always seemed to pick up some random object I didn't care about, and manual focus with the buttons was between impractical and downright unfeasible. I put it on eBay with an auction start price of £150 or so... And it fetched £450.

Another year or two later I was thinking of getting a GR IIIx as I'd probably enjoy the focal length more. I looked at eBay and damn, both the IIIx and normal III are selling for £800+, with only some poor-condition outliers below £700.

Apparently ricoh's manufacturing hasn't kept up with demand and their used prices are absolutely bonkers. I don't think this has happened to Sony (although I wish, as I need to sell my A7ii soon). I think its a bit of a case-by-case basis.

The ads for apps, Xbox games, trial versions of Office preinstalled, the minesweeper and solitaire collection that are preinstalled but actually ad supported or non-free, depending on the region spotify/TikTok/Facebook also come preinstalled, "Movies & TV", Bing/MS News...

I think all of those count as bloat. I haven't included Edge because I guess having a browser is a necessity, or copilot/cortana because you said "excluding AI features".

The Aarke one looks incredible, although it isn't cheap.

It's strictly for water though (no sweet stuff like cocktails or juice). I think Breville (called Sage in the UK because there's another brand also called Breville) sells another fancy one that does sweet stuff too.

Scaling factors for resolution are over the number of pixels, 4k isn't called that because it has 16 times more pixels.

Anyway, semantics. This comment discredits the reviewer in this sense.

As far as the display, it's beautiful.

Coming from someone who sees no problem in downscaling by 2.5 the resolution instead of changing dpi, this means absolutely nothing.

Oh no! They're using an emulator! I choose you NINTENDO! Use "Sue for copyright"!

Unfortunately, it's not very effective (Anthropic's type is "AI Company").

Even though there is a LOT more to a person than productivity and that can never be the thing that defines us, I'm going to focus exclusively on that because that's what this post is about.

I had one of those days today. Absolutely awesome. I almost had no meetings and the software changes kept coming in. I nailed it. I'm still on a rush, I feel unstoppable!

However yesterday, I came home and I was almost crying to my partner because I couldn't take the laundry off the rack and I felt useless.

But hey, so is the life of ADHDers. I accept it. Yesterday it took me a while to get out of that emotional state. I knew that rationally I'm not a useless person and I have a good handle on my life. However emotionally it was way harder. It took me a lot of processing to synthesise that knowledge into feelings.

So I know the rational part, and I lean on that and on a very understanding, loving partner (who is also neurodivergent) who helps me stay grounded when I panic. Our productivity is not constant. That is fine - on average, there's nothing wrong with our output!

What is the provider linked to pm.me?

Topic/question that I don't see commented on often: how are you guys finding the telling other people (verbally, out loud) about your email?

I feel I could tell someone "at proton dot com" without having to spell it but in the UK I feel any way I try to pronounce tuta is going to result in me having to say "at tango uniform tango alpha dot com" or otherwise people will misunderstand and send me about a million messages at tutta, toota, Tuter, twitter, doota, or even more creative spellings.

I can keep habits until I travel. 8 months of gym, then go on holiday for a long weekend, and forget that the gym ever existed.

It seems meds have been preventing this and the gym habit has persisted through a couple of trips. But I'm fairly new to meds, so we'll see how long I can keep this up...

I've only started using Storygraph recently (which I also like) but I'd consider a federated alternative. Does anybody know whether its possible to migrate the history from SG to Bookwyrm?

Isn't Ubuntu The most used distribution? How come it isn't in your top three? Not judging, just wondering. It feels to me it's reasonably user friendly and its large user base makes it the easiest to find support online for if you're a Linux newbie.

Excellent in which specific sense? Most competitors offer better everything (performance, range, build quality) for a given price point.

The fact that Tesla has managed to make EVs that consistently rank below most ICE brands in terms of reliability is mind blowing.

In world war IV, I'd say.

My mom (78) got a new kindle a couple years ago, after the previous one lasting over 10 years.

She's not been using it now because "it's not okay" anymore. After a lot of poking and prodding remotely (we live in different countries) to get to understand what the issue was for the kindle to "not be okay", I managed to get her to tell me that "the screen is blank". I said I'd check it soon after when I went to her place.

When I travelled there, not long after, I checked the kindle, turned on the screen, and it was blank. Because she'd finished a book and the last page was blank. All worked fine.

I have told her, but she refuses to use the kindle because "it's not okay".

In a separate conversation I offered to give my sister my really old kindle as hers is actually broken. My mom heard that and said she wanted it because hers is... Not okay.

The insistence and willful ignoring of what I said is the most infuriating part.

Maybe a bit of a silly comment, but can you install it through proton/wine?

Since I've started using Linux as a gaming platform I've gotten to believe it can run anything you want as long as it doesn't have a kernel level anticheat. Maybe I'm extrapolating my learnings to something they can't be applied to...

Edit: on the old-lemmy there's a thread of people who report success with Bottles: https://www.reddit.com/r/AffinityPhoto/comments/1dxednv/affinity_photo_finally_works_on_linux_2024/

It's not quite EU, and I'm not saying it's necessarily better than buying from the US, but there are many non-US tech brands with nice products if you're okay with buying from Korea/Japan/Taiwan/China. Samsung, LG, Sony, ASUS and Xiaomi, for example.

Reuters?? An international news organisation that operates in more than 150 countries and that reports with almost emotionless reporting just based on facts? They are making up lies for hatred points? Are you also going to try to convince us they employ reptilians?

Over the past 5 years, I've installed ubuntu about 30 times on different computers. Not once has an install on an SSD taken me more than an hour, with it typically taking me 30 minutes or less except for rare occasions where I've messed something up.

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