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It could be worse. Some of us got the 365-days badge 
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PRESS on shirt or a press pass is a good way to bypass suspicion. Ha ha.
Congrats @bazdesh. I on the other hand rarely log in, unless for mod or posting reasons, so most of the tracking dead wrong.
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I wear a hard hat in my railroading hobby, has kept me from becoming a lot stupider than I already am when crawling through tight spaces and hitting my noggin on hard things. Thing is, canāt really use the EVF on my camera without pushing the hard hat off, so I find railroad photography increases my exposure to brain damageā¦ 
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You gotta DIY a periscope of sorts to extend the EVF and make it usable 
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ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
Welcome to the club, mate. 
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You forgot the SEP field generator. And if you have that, you donāt need anything else.
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youre right, my mental natural filter seems damaged and i couldnāt find any hardware for this 
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I loved the concept of the SEP field so, so much! It is ontologically related to the minor invisibility super-power that some middle-aged women acquire with some dedicated training. Or the aggro tank skill that many beta males gain in their middle age.
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Are you sure itās tank skill and not just depletion of the fornications-giving facilities?
Huh, thatās an interesting idea:
WLV-01: A Modular Digital Camera Made to Be Hacked
Powered by Raspberry Pi. Swappable full spectrum color & monochrome sensors, printable parts, yours to modify.
Thereās a kickstarter (which may not be everyoneās cup of tea), it got to my attention through a review by Tom Calton (which also may not be everyoneās cup of tea, he typically goes rapid fire, usually I like his videos though).
Absolutely not something Iām in the market for, but certainly an interesting take.
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I do not know what changed, but opening a PDF from Everything now somehow messes with Adobe Acrobat on Windows. It opens an instance every time I open a PDF but the app and file does not open properly (nothing visible). I see all instances in Task Manager and eventually I get an instance fail message if I do not force end task them. I try opening the app normally and the same thing continues to happen. The only way to resolve this is to reinstall Acrobat and not use Everything to open PDFs.
It looks amazing, but almost 1k for the sensorā¦
Yeah, the joy of small numbers, I guess.
It kinda reminded me of this personās project, building an open source video camera, also based on a Pi. Fun stuff.
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Yesterday was one of those days. All I wanted to do was edit some photos.
But that day, the computer was awfully slow. Like, really abnormally slow. everything was slow. Window animations took multiple seconds. Websites were almost unusably slow to load. The mouse cursor lagged. Iāve seen this before, and let it slide. A reboot would fix it. But after fighting software all day at work, I would not let this go. Today, I would fix this once and for all.
I have a pretty fast computer, a Mac Studio M2. It should not be this slow. But Activity Monitor showed no significant CPU load, nor memory pressure, nor disk space shortage. So I turned to Claude. We pilfered through the system log, and found that the PC was thermally throttled.
But not because it was hot, but because some glitch had filled its thermal event queue with hundreds of spurious issues. 900 network wakes just today. 500 hard drive wakes. Something was wrong. The network wakes were easy to turn off. The hard drive was odd, though.
The external hard drive in question is my raw photo tank, it holds my RAWs, as well as darktableās xmps. For historical reasons, itās formatted as NTFS, using the proprietary Paragon driver, which has been the source of kernel panics before. Today, the paragon software wouldnāt even open, but crash immediately.
But I had recently updated MacOS, so paragon likely needed an update. It installs a kernel extension, which, on MacOS, means jumping through half a dozen of hoops and a reboot. After all that, it no longer recognized my lifetime license. The drive fell back to MacOSā NTFS driver, which is much slower, and read-only.
So, since today was my stubborn day, today Iād fix this. Paragon had needed to go for a long time, and that time had come today. But before nuking the file system, I checked my backups.
And good thing that I did, because they didnāt match! Another quick excursion with Claude unearthed that Iād been doing my backups wrong all along! I had been running rsync with --no-delete, which not only does not delete, but in fact also does not overwrite, ever. So whenever I added a new raw file, it got dutifully copied to the backup. And since raw files never change, that was that. But XMPs do change, so of them Iād only ever get the first version, never any later updates.
But today was my stubborn day, so I had to fix my backups. Thankfully, this only affected my RAW backups, the regular file backups use restic, which was unaffected. A few changes to the rsync call was all I needed. Then the backup finally worked as intended. After checking that the backup this time had indeed backed up, I nuked the drive, and reformatted it as APFS. Then restored the last yearās worth of raw files and edits from the backup. (Which naturally took forever)
Meanwhile, it was time for an exorcism. Paragon had given me enough trouble and, finally, would have to go. Its uninstaller ran through, the program was gone. Good effin riddance. And finally, I inserted my SD card, to edit my photos.
Except, the SD card didnāt show up. It worked on another computer. I made a backup, reformatted it, restored the backup to the SD card. It still didnāt show up. A different SD card that had worked before also didnāt show up. This is when it dawned on me, the SD cards used exFAT, which is one of the file systems supported by Paragon. Could it be, that even in its death, Paragon was not yet done with me?
And so it was. The uninstaller had not actually succeeded, and left a partial kernel extension. The extension no longer worked, but still registered for NTFS, and, in a move that I can only rationalize as spite, for exFAT. And instead of failing gracefully, it crashed the auto load resolution and prevented mounting.
So OS spelunking I went again, and excised the offending configs and extensions. After yet another reboot, finally, I was able to mount my SD cards, and edit my photos.
Some days, I just hate computers.
How do normies deal with stuff like this? All of this happened over the course of some three hours, and I didnāt even include the tangents about sleep/wake conflicts, āpowernapsā, and scheduling conflicts. This felt like insanity.
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A fascinating video about finding where pack.png was taken ā the iconic 128x128 image in Minecraftās main menus. Having played Minecraft on and off since abouuut ā¦ 2012? makes this feel really nostalgic, but anyone interested in math, random numbers and reverse engineering might enjoy watching this.
Dont want to be negative but isnt it just this video but AI rewritten? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea6py9q46QU
Oh, thatās definitely possible ā it felt somewhat familiar. Iāve replaced the link in the post to your vid. Darn it, Iām tired of these stolen videosā¦ most of the time you have no idea that itās not an original
Good to know mac users also suffer every once in a while (I kid of course)
I know itās Paragonās fault, but NTFS is horrible, it could only spell trouble wherever itās used 