Music. Photography. Thoughts.
Kathryn Bromwich interviewed Emilia Clarke for The Guardian.
And that taught me several things, first: never to judge a person from a short interview on TV, and second, should I ever again subscribe (and/or pay) for any newspaper, magazine, or online publication, it would probably be for The Guardian. Not the first really good article I’ve read there, and hopefully, not the last also.
See also essay in The New Yorker.
Cookie the neighbours’ tomcat which visits us pretty much daily by now can be very active – I saw him catching three or four mice lately, and even a bird; never thought he’d get one of those… but when he’s in, he’s mostly resting. Like, half of the day or so:
I cropped that last photo into a 21:9 format, and maybe that was just invented for sleeping cats? Looks like, doesn’t it?
Wilma the much smaller female is also visiting us again, about which we are very glad, that one’s just lovely. But she almost never sleeps, at least not yet and not here, so it’s much harder to get a photo of her. Mostly she’s much faster than my camera can focus, so for a photo of her you’ll have to wait a bit…
As always, thanks for viewing.
On The Register there are several new and interesting reports, some of which mirror my own experiences.
Manjaro Linux which is based upon Arch and which should be more beginner friendly than that, isn’t. It’s just different but not easier at all in my opinion. And so thinks the Reg’s author.
The same author reports about the 38th birthday of the X window system, and also reports and links to an article about the mess that is called Wayland, which is more and more replacing X.Org tho it actually can’t. Screen recording works now in Arch where I have tested it this week, but otherwise it’s a great big mess, and not ready for production, full stop.
Another article, this time on linuxiac is reporting about why Ubuntu isn’t a flagship Linux distro anymore. Again, exactly my thoughts about it, and maybe time for my wife or our daughter to look out for something better, and more user friendly? In case you’d want The Reg’s take on Arch and/or Debian, they’re pretty good, too.
Ok, that much for now… thanks for reading.
“The difference between a master and a beginner is that the master has failed more times than the beginner has tried”
from Chris Fitzgerald‘s “best teacher ever”, found here
And yes, I’m currently practising my upright more often. It’s a fun journey 🙂
Thom Hogan has a blog post about 4k being the current sweet spot. That means that a 12MP camera like the Nikon D3 – 15 years old now – is still good enough for anything.
Well, my el cheapo Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mk2 (which I still like more than the more expensive models, simply because the display only goes up and not sideways) has 16MP. More than enough even if you’d like to crop, which is what I did with the latest portrait of Cookie which is in 5:4 instead of the camera’s usual 4:3:
When I saw him lying there on that carpet, I went and grabbed my old and trusty 50mm/f2 macro lens from the Four Thirds system, and took his photo with it.
He just came back with another mouse to pay for that portrait, but since I didn’t open, he now sits under a tree and enjoys it himself.
Oh, and yesterday Wilma visited again, first time since about half a year or so. And Mitchie thinks that she had a cesarean. But it was so nice to see her again, and she smooched about everything which couldn’t run away 🙂
As always, thanks for reading.
A really nice version of Eden Ahbez’ 1947 hit:
Found via Jeff Meshel’s World.
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Mitchie lately got one of these LED garden lights which are solar powered. I took a photo of it today, in the twilight short after sunset:
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I found this cool trick on how to temporarily set your music production to a sampling rate of 44.1kHz instead of the usual 48kHz using pipewire. See Ardour discourse about it.
After seeing Bill’s screenshot of his virtual Debian instance on his Chromebook, I looked at mine again:
And even if he’s using Debian in a VM only, it’ll give him freedom, that’s also what he was writing about. Welcome to the best of all operating systems, Bill… 🙂
As always, thanks for reading.
As always, thanks for viewing.