As always, thanks for viewing. Be safe, and don’t move too fast…
A beautiful huntress is watching you…
One year of Bella
Today exactly one year ago, Bella moved in with us. I hope she still likes it here…
Like always, thanks for viewing.
Perhaps the best choice for Linux newbies?
I have a sister who still owns an older notebook which runs Windows 7, and a friend from England who just moved from a Windows 8 to a Windows 10 machine. Both machines wouldn’t run Win11 I guess, tho I didn’t ask. You don’t recommend that to friends anyway.
So what to recommend? Linux of course, yes, but which one? Liam Proven (and many others) think it’s Mint. From his article in The Register, let me just cite these two sentences:
“Linux Mint remains the most sensible, pragmatic desktop Linux out there.” and, a bit further down, “If you have an aging PC that can’t run Windows 11, this is the one to try.”
One remark tho: Mint’s website, documentation, and all are really cool as well – as long as you speak English fluently enough. Maybe the user base could be much bigger if these pages were localized, like Debian’s for instance? Just saying…
For my late brother, using Debian – with a little help of myself – wasn’t a problem, but for any beginner who doesn’t have more “expert” friends or relatives, Mint might really be the sensible choice for now. Try it in a VM if you have the resources to do so, and if not, have a look at the Live image which you can start from a USB stick. One thing it *does* have as an advantage over its grandma Debian is the possibility of an OEM install (like “Mama” Ubuntu offers as well), so I could offer an installation to my sis or to close friends…
Anyway, have a look. It’s better than Win11, as are all other Linux distros.
Season’s Greetings
Wishing all of you a very happy, healthy, and joyful new year 2024!
Bella from today (Nov 16th, 2023)
Out of camera photo:
Like always, thanks for viewing.
Happy birthday Bella
Today is Bella’s second birthday. We took a few photos, and Zuleikha made a collage of some of them:
I took the first one using my compact flash bounced over the ceiling, two of the collage were made with a studio strobe, and one with Zuleikha’s mobile phone with the normal room light on.
And like always, thanks for viewing.
Another Caturday, after ~ 6.5 weeks
We’re letting Bella out since 10 days, and she is making good use of it, going up to 5.5 hours exploring her new home, garden, and surroundings. And then she normally comes home to rest. I take pictures when I see something, like this one for instance which I took using my phone:
Or this one with my camera:
It’s a joy having her with us, and I’m always glad when she comes back.
Caturday
Here are some more photos of Bella since last Purrsday:
Like always, thanks for viewing.
Five weeks – and freedom, finally ;)
Today it has been 35 days or 5 weeks since we’ve brought Bella to our home. And according to the suggestions, if you move a cat, keep her in for 4-6 weeks to get accomodated to the new home, or else she could head out just to search for the old one. So we agreed on 5 weeks, meaning: today.
Here are some photos since last week, and from today:
Zuleikha also made a nice collage with her phone, which she sent me with Signal lately:
Here’s one from this morning, looking out at the dimly lit dining area/window:
Later, Bella slept a bit (or recharged, like babies do?):
And finally, while us humans were hanging the laundry: freedom! Yay!
She hasn’t been out for too long this first time, so let’s see how she’ll do during the next days. So much to explore…
… and like always, thanks for viewing.
Four weeks of Bella…
… and she’s really sweet.
I started playing around with an older lens from the film camera, meaning I had to manually focus it. And since thinking “film”, I cropped this one into a 3:2 format and used Color Efex Pro (on Windows) to simulate a Fujichrome Provia 400F film:
On this one – also with same same OM Zuiko 50mm/1.8 lens manually focused at f/1.8, she seems to see me as prey:
I also took this one using my phone yesterday evening while we’ve had a visitor:
And finally, one from today – back to my Panasonic Leica DG 25mm/1.4 “normal” lens (and with autofocus):
And like always, thanks for viewing.