With my lack of desire to fly anywhere at all, that makes is more difficult for me. There are a few of your in the greater British Columbia region though, isn’t there?
Also, getting people together for this very niche thing might be hard, especially if one has to travel.
I dunno. It is an idea. It is out there.
I love the idea of a meetup and hate the idea of traveling 
I think there are at least four of us, but to my knowledge none of us have actually met. Maybe because we all suffer from crushing social anxiety and actively avoid people 
… But probably just because of busy lives and just doing our own thing. I’d be more than happy to meet, especially combining it with a photography walk or something. But I don’t have much free time at the moment with work and family life.
lol, you’re actually one of the closer ones to me (SoCal) and I am trying to make a trip thru Arizona to New Mexico soon.
When I was in high school, I used to spend sometimes 8–10 h on an MMORPG per day in the weekend. I find it mind-boggling that many persons from the newer generations basically spend that same amount of time on TikTok even on school days. And it gets even more scary when you see the average quality of the content there (but I feel like an annoying old guy whenever I breach this topic.)
I’m on very few servers, and on them the active users can generally be counted on the fingers of two hands (dunno if that idiom exists in English, haha). It does not change the fact that they are important to me. It also feels less intimidating than huge ones.
Speaking of Discord and the death of the Internet… The other day, I asked Gemini a question about a Discord issue. It answered by providing, as its main source, a page from the HORRIBLE official Discord support-slash-community website, on which basically all comments looked very much like generic LLM-generated stuff. Snake biting its tail…
(I say “HORRIBLE” because full of spam with suspicious links, no way to report a comment, and the devs don’t seem to give a damn about whatever is said there.)
Traveling scares me a lot, and I try to avoid planes for environmental reasons, even if some think it’s silly and won’t make a difference and blahblah.
Everyone back to yours!
Oof, I felt that…
That sounds very British to me, having heard/said it frequently in my younger partying days. Commonly said after the pubs close but you’re not ready for the night to end. And that was a common problem in the 80s/90s because pubs would close at 11pm, and kicking-out time was not long after.
But is “everyone back to yours” mainly a UK thing or is it universal?
I’m a lifelong American, and I’ve never heard it.
Definitely British
@Vente Literally cooked.
I think it would be great to put together a trip to a spectacular location with a group of like-minded FOSS-using photographers who are into a common genre of photography.
Excellent let’s go to Joshua Tree
Annoying find of the day: When enabling raw images in the standard camera app of my phone, I get a raw + jpg. However, the jpg is not generated from the raw. Instead, it seems that it takes two images in a row (one jpg, one raw) with enough time in between that people move a bit…
I mean, that’s quite wasteful, as that JPEG comes from a RAW anyways, why take another photo… Lazy devs perhaps?
I think the phone takes a bunch of shots, and picks the “best” one (or combines a few) for the JPEG version, and you get just one image for the RAW one. That’s just guessing on my end, though. I have, for sure, seen the image slightly change after taking it; I’d see the frozen snap first, and then a slightly tweaked image afterwards. That’s on a Samsung phone, but I bet they’re not the only one.
Many apps have a “pro” mode which disables the computational “improvements”, try that. Or a 3rd party camera app.
That said, don’t be surprised if the plain vanilla JPEG is disappointing.
I shoot in RAW with my Lumix G9. I’ve noticed that preview jpeg’s on the touchscreen are too blurry to gauge focus quality.
While on vacation I switched to RAW + high-quality jpeg. Previews are much sharper.
Bring that idea up again at the end of 2028 (because reasons…).
