Yeah, but any time I slightly question my Israeli family about parts of that, I’m told that I’m repeating antisemitic talking points, that the media in my country is full of idiots, and that I don’t understand how it is because I don’t live there.

The weirdest part is that the people whose opinions I’m raising are pre-Jewish state rabbis. Those dang antisemitic rabbis…

As a Texan Jew with some real shitheads living near me, I can confirm this. I can also confirm that you can be pro-Zionist while anti-Semite.

1. Swiss cheese slices: make them holes too tight.
2. When you run everything as root, if you fuck your shit, your shit’s fucked.

“Best practices” tend to come from other people’s whoopsies. But it’s always good to question things, too.

I’m just guessing though, so I don’t know if this is helpful at all.

Any information is helpful and I truly appreciate you taking the time to summarize your workflow. I’ve actually never monitored the histogram outside of snapping the photo, so that alone is a great suggestion. I generally edit by eye and kinda feel my way through, but using a metric sounds like a great idea! It also makes a lot more sense if you’re right about RT/DT being more “literal.”

I know I haven’t given enough time to either piece of software, but I’ve been so shocked by how little of my process carried over, that I kinda ran away in fear almost immediately.

I have, but with terrible results. Can you recommend some tutorials? The behavior of various tools always surprises me, coming from Adobe raw and Lightroom.

For example, reducing contrast in Adobe tones down highlights and shadows while doing that in dark table and rawtherapee turns everything washed out and grey.

Yeah, so here’s my general process batch-editing photos in Adobe Camera Raw:

1. Drop the contrast
2. Drop the highlights
3. Punch up the shadows
4. Boost whites and blacks
5. Adjust white balance
6. Adjust exposure

When I’m done, I have a stark, professional looking photo to export. In darktable, trying this leaves me with a grey mess. I’ve also tried rawtherapee, but with even worse results. I’m 96% sure that the problem is me, though.

I’ve been on Linux as my primary OS for around a year now. I’m still looking for a replacement for Lightroom and camera raw that doesn’t absolutely crush any image I’m working on.

Use the same cameras and AI that Musk said were gonna fully automate Tesla

If not for the billionaires, why do governments exist?

Huh… Recent context has really ruined jokes like this…

“Grok, do you know anything about coding in Cobol?”

Absolutely, Elon. You programmed me with all the knowledge of every coding language you know.

“Excellent! Rewrite the SSA software!”

R****dead f**got pedo-guy loser. You don't know shit, I'm a really good dad who's really good at computer games!

“Perfect. Push it to prod”

Oh okay, so normal “traditional values” behavior. I thought it was gonna be images of literal headshots.

The old internet was such a horrible place for unpleasant surprises, every once in a while I suddenly become scared about reliving trauma.

I’m too scared to look it up, what’s exploding heads?

“Can you tell me why your face has higher fidelity than the rest of your body?”

I felt my shoulders dislocate just watching that

Who knew that Trump was so into Hawaiian solidarity. Gonna make the whole nation into an expensive island.

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No. Like, no…

Never.

Literally no one does that…

Are… Are you okay?

How quickly can you lay eggs? Any non-zero answer is impressive. Negative is almost more confusing than impressive.

Fly’s open

Because until EVERYONE is remote no one is remote. SPREAD THE MISERY! DON’T LET THOSE OTHER CRABS OUT OF THE BUCKET!