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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Even worse: with an odd number of sides, there are cases where none is up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

For me, the key was finding a regular time during the day when I do the lessons. That's why I recommended you do it during the ad breaks.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Learn a language. Ad breaks are long enough for one or two lessons in Duolingo and probably other apps as well.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Asklemmy is not a support community, you might have more luck in photography related communities.

That being said, you basically answered your own question. Your integrated flash is either stuck or blocked. Hard to tell without seeing it in person. You might try to help the camera by carefully pulling on the flash while holding the flash button (on the left side of the camera body). Maybe there is some dirt trapped in the hinge. If you can get it open (please, please, please don't break the hinge), try carefully cleaning it.

But here comes the kicker: the integrated flash on most cameras is absolute garbage and I'd recommend you just disable it. There is a reason why high end cameras don't even have an integrated flash. An integrated flash is 20-30 times smaller than even the most basic external flash so it makes extremely hard shadows. (Edit: also, you can't modify the flash brightness and the flash is so close to the camera body that you may see the shadow from your lens in your photos) If you can afford it, buy a cheap external flash (I'd recommend one from Yongnuo) and a mini softbox that you can put on the flash. It will make your photos A LOT better for not that much money.

If you're interested, I can dig out my old 760D and take some comparison shots between internal flash, external flash without softbox and external flash with softbox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

How would software support improve?

  • Less fragmentation between multiple different ways to install software (Ubuntu-derived distributions currently have apt, flatpack and snap while some software is available in neither so I have to manually download a binary or even compile it myself)
  • Better support for certain use cases like... I don't know... fractional scaling which Windows has supported since Vista
  • Simplified system settings. People make fun of Windows splitting settings between the "new" settings app and the old control center. On most Linux distributions, I may have to set some things multiple times for my window manager, my compositor and so on... again, scaling is the main culprit here but themeing has similar problems.

Basically fix the few things that work better in Windows, even for power users, ideally without sacrificing the flexibility that makes Linux so awesome.

Edit: bonus suggestion though this one is kind of tricky to do without sacrificing flexibility:

Less fragmentation between distributions. Recently I had some driver problem (can't quite remember what) and googled a solution. I found a solution in a support forum for a different distribution than what I had. Looked good but in the end it didn't help me because the config files were in completely different locations, default configs were different, packages had different names and they recommended using some UI tool to configure the device that wasn't available on my distribution or at least I couldn't find how to install it.

For myself, I'll eventually figure that out. It takes me a few hours that I could spend on something productive but whatever, we're geeks, we do shit like that. But now imagine my mom calls me about that problem. She probably won't have the same distribution that I have because we have entirely different use cases. Good look troubleshooting that over the phone. With Windows, I can rely on 80% of all users having one of the latest two versions (so currently 10 or 11). The fix that works on my machine will probably work on theirs and most things I find online will apply to what they have. Same for macOS.

Edit 2: For context, I run Ubuntu and Debian on quite a lot of headless machines such as servers and embedded stuff. It works great and I wouldn't want to miss it. But on desktop, I'm still in Windows and won't leave for the foreseeable future. Every few months I try setting up some desktop linux and every time it takes less than a week to annoy me so much that I'd rather wipe the whole thing and install Windows than figure out how to fix that mess of two different display servers, five different desktop environments and two entirely incompatible GUI frameworks in a trenchcoat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Posts within the same community are synced and you can see communities from different instances. The point is that news@instance1 and news@instance2 are different communities even though the names are similar.

The counter argument is that reddit has the same problem even without federation. /r/games, /r/gaming and /r/gamers are three different subreddits with very similar names and you have no way of knowing which one is the "main" gaming community unless you check each of them. With time, this will probably sort itself out with lemmy as well. It just takes time for one of the similar communities to become the de facto standard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

iPhone 12 Mini. I loved my 5S and first gen SE and I still can’t understand why phone manufacturers these days insist on making tablets and calling them phones. I just want something that fits in my pocket. I would probably have switched to Android years ago but I haven’t found a single Android phone with a small form factor, decent performance and decent camera.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

One common answer is the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center which is mainly one really tall room.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh yeah, gods forbid anyone plays a game that hasn't been sold legally for decades...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ah alright, then they must have changed it since I last added a new app. The last few years I just published updates and they all went through almost immediately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I doubt that. From what he said somewhere on Pixelfed, the beta is only on Android right now and you don't need approval to publish something on the Play Store. From personal experience, apps appear within a couple of minutes. On iOS, the usual approval time would be 3-4 days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

„Does chease_greater sometimes manage to not shit their pants?“. Doesn’t matter if you phrase it as „ever“ or „sometimes“. Either way you imply an expected norm.

 

For tabletop miniatures I prefer to use a flexible resin to avoid small details breaking off when removing supports or when a mini falls off the table. So far I've used Ameralabs TGM-7 but now that my current bottle is almost empty I'm thinking about looking into alternatives. At over 75€ per liter, TGM-7 is really expensive compared to other resins.

Amazon recommended me RESIONE TH72 as an alternative and there are others on the market like Sunlu Standard Plus. So far I couldn't find a good comparison between them. Do any of you have experience with any of those or other recommendations?

 

Finally found out what kept me from uploading photos directly to lemmy so hopefully it will work this time.

This is part of a series that I shot in 2020 and now I’ll finally have the chance to show them in an exhibition on Berlin later this year.

 

I made this list based on the instructions PDF that's available from LEGO's website. For most of these, it doesn't really matter if they are black, dark bluish gray or light bluish gray so I picked them based on what will most likely look good with the surrounding colors and what is cheapest on Bricklink.

Two notable parts: Technic, Axle and Pin Connector Perpendicular Double with Axle Connector 2L is only available in white (the same color as in the set) and for the Technic, Axle 1L with Pin without Friction Ridges "old" light gray is significantly cheaper than any of the newer colors except the included tan.

In general, if you want to save a few bucks, you can probably leave all tan and white pieces as they are. For me, the complete replacement (250 pieces) cost about 35€ plus shipping.

Count Number Name Original Replacement(s)
2 6346389 Technic, Axle and Pin Connector Perpendicular Double Split, Reinforced Sides White Dark Bluish Gray
5 6058177 Brick, Modified 1 x 2 with Studs on 1 Side White 4x Dark Bluish Gray, 1x Black
6 6289797 Technic, Axle 2L with Pin without Friction Ridges White Light Bluish Gray
4 4208160 Technic, Liftarm Thick 1 x 3 White Black
2 6370532 Technic, Axle and Pin Connector Perpendicular Double with Axle Connector 2L White Not available
10 371001 Plate 1 x 4 White 6x Dark Bluish Gray, 4x Light Bluish Gray
2 6360069 Technic, Liftarm Thin 1 x 5 - Axle Holes White Light Bluish Gray
2 389401 Technic, Brick 1 x 6 with Holes White Black
2 6001831 Technic, Liftarm Thick 1 x 9 White Dark Bluish Gray
4 6013938 Technic, Pin 3/4 Tan Dark Bluish Gray
6 4666579 Technic, Axle 1L with Pin without Friction Ridges Tan Light Gray
1 6117975 Bracket 1 x 2 - 2 x 2 Tan Dark Bluish Gray
8 4121921 Plate 1 x 3 Tan 4x Dark Bluish Gray, 2x Black, 2x Light Bluish Gray
4 4118790 Plate 2 x 3 Tan Dark Bluish Gray
4 4201062 Brick, Modified 1 x 4 with Studs on Side Tan 2x Dark Bluish Gray, 2x Black
5 4550323 Arch 1 x 4 Tan Black
2 4550324 Tile 1 x 4 Tan Black
1 6186258 Slope 45 2 x 4 Tan Dark Bluish Gray
2 4143409 Plate 1 x 10 Tan Dark Bluish Gray
7 6271820 Technic Bush Red Light Bluish Gray
30 6378120 Technic, Pin 1/2 with Friction Ridges Red Dark Bluish Gray
20 6360104 Technic, Pin with Friction Ridges and Tow Ball with Round Pin Hole Red Black
2 6384112 Bar 1L with 1 x 1 Round Plate with Hollow Stud Red Black
31 4142865 Technic, Axle 2L Notched Red Black
7 300421 Brick 1 x 2 Red 4x Dark Bluish Gray, 3x Black
1 6385920 Technic, Brick Modified 1 x 2 with Hole and 1 x 2 Plate Red Light Bluish Gray
2 6271827 Technic, Liftarm, Modified Bent Thick L-Shape 2 x 4 Red Black
3 6130002 Technic, Axle 6L Red Black
1 6335578 Tile 2 x 6 Red Black
2 379521 Plate 2 x 6 Red Dark Bluish Gray
1 6130005 Technic, Axle 10L Red Black
7 4206482 Technic, Axle 1L with Pin with Friction Ridges Blue Black
20 6299413 Technic, Pin 3L with Friction Ridges Blue Black
4 6271167 Technic Bush 1/2 Smooth Yellow Light Bluish Gray
14 654124 Technic, Brick 1 x 1 with Hole Yellow 8x Black, 6x Dark Bluish Gray
1 6344181 Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with Pin Hole on Top Yellow Light Bluish Gray
8 6130007 Technic, Axle 3L Yellow Black
1 6072627 Technic, Liftarm, Modified T-Shape Thick 3 x 3 Yellow Light Bluish Gray
2 362224 Brick 1 x 3 Yellow Black
2 6170294 Technic, Liftarm Thin 1 x 6 Yellow Black
4 6474196 Bar 1L with Tow Ball Orange? Dark Bluish Gray
4 4164022 Brick 1 x 2 Lime Green? Dark Bluish Gray
1 4164037 Plate 1 x 2 Lime Green? Dark Bluish Gray
5 4537937 Plate 2 x 2 Lime Green? 1x Light Bluish Gray, 4x Dark Bluish Gray
 
 

Can we please get a post that explains what this community is for? Seems like nobody reads the sidebar (which is hard to access on most mobile clients) so we constantly get flooded with questions that would rather fit in [email protected] or [email protected]

I understand that many people are still confused by how lemmy works but we should make clear that this is for general questions and discussions similar to what /r/askreddit was and not a place to ask technical questions about lemmy.

 

The fediverse is discussing if we should defederate from Meta's new Threads app. Here's why I probably won't (for now).

(Federation between plume and my lemmy instance doesn't work correctly at the moment, otherwise I would have made this a proper crosspost)

 

I hope plushies are welcome here.

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