Thoughts. Music. Photography. Oh, and of course cats…
Today is our Bella\’s second anniversary – it\’s exactly two years since she moved in with us. I took a quick snapshot after she was out and about for something like two and a half hours this morning:
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So glad to have her – and I surely hope that she likes it here as well 🙂
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Just took this with indirect flash (over a wall), plus with natural light from outside:
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Also available on the Fediverse. Like always, thanks for viewing.
After reading Mike\’s post in https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2025/07/15-things-i-like-about-my-camera.html [theonlinephotographer.typepad.com] about his b&w only camera, I decided to become \”artsy\” – so I set mine to b&w and took a photo of our cat in front of my computer…
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The cat\’s face has a bit of motion blur, because she was about to turn her head, and I had an aperture of f/4 and as such, the exposure time was 1/60th of a second only. The camera chose ISO2000 for this itself, and I really don\’t mind the \”grain\” – film would have been far worse in that regard (and I only use film with up to 400 ASA). I took that image with the camera held in front of my breast, and the rear display tilted up as some kind of \”viewfinder\”. Olympus E-M10 Mk2 with the 17mm/1.8 lens by the same maker, and the jpg image is right out of the camera, unaltered.
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Last Saturday in May \’25, and I realised that I haven\’t published many cat photos lately. So here are two from today:
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Today is Bella\’s 3rd birthday. So far, I\’ve got one photo of her hanging out in her cat tree hanger which she seems to like lately:
I wanted to get one using my studio strobe, but she didn\’t want to get on that table – so from there I only have a selfie:
Had to get new batteries for my remote senders & receivers for those studio strobes, and currently I\’m also charging the ones for the speedlight (a manual one made by Yongnuo). So maybe more later.
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Today exactly one year ago, Bella moved in with us. I hope she still likes it here…
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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.
Wishing all of you a very happy, healthy, and joyful new year 2024!
