Derbasti

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by Derbasti 5y ago
I have a second webcam pointed straight down at my desk, and scribble with a pen on paper. Frankly, this works better than any of the digital tools I tried, despite not being collaborative. (I tried a number of them, and have both a drawing
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by Derbasti 5y ago
The scrolling is a setting.
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by Derbasti 5y ago
There's the Open Source Photography Course by Riley Brandt. It's a bit outdated by now, but remains a very gentle and well-produced introduction to (an older version of) Darktable, and image editing in general. Highly recommend.
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by Derbasti 5y ago
The point is, the UI looks vaguely similar to Lightroom, and many people come to Darktable expecting a free clone of Lightroom. Scores of these people then hit the forums and complain about "missing features" and "incorrect b
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by Derbasti 5y ago
What you say is particularly true for image editing and Darktable especially: there are already tons of image editors available in all levels of dumbed-down-ness. Lightroom is actually one of the more complex tools, all things considered.
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by Derbasti 5y ago
Turn it sideways
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by Derbasti 5y ago
I teach a programming course and way too often I see students badly in need of more memory. Like, saving a text file taking minutes (I'm not making this up), and the student considering that normal. To these students, I recommend simpl
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by Derbasti 6y ago
Spreadsheets can be surprisingly useful in a text document. For example, I regularly need to grade programming assignments. I do this in.a structured text document, with sub-headings per student and category, where I take notes about their
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by Derbasti 6y ago
I actually had to think about that one. It is ingrained so deeply into my muscle memory that I haven't actively thought about it in a long time.
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by Derbasti 6y ago
Does it now support using two monitors with different scaling factors? With display calibration? This is what is holding me back at the moment: heterogenous scaling is only available in wayland, but color calibration (colord-kde) only works
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by Derbasti 6y ago
Mostly because I don't have to tab out to a terminal, which then yanks me back into the commit message text editor anyway. Also because "c c" is faster to type than "git commit" and "s" is faster than &quo
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by Derbasti 6y ago
Frankly, Darktable does not mirror Lightroom in anything but the basic screen layout. Its tools are by and large entirely different. A few months ago, I tried to do a big comparison of RAW developers, maybe you'll find it interesting:
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by Derbasti 6y ago
Isn't it funny how every. single. landscape photograph edited in Lightroom or Capture One has serious halos on the horizon and every contrasty transition? Thanks to Filmic and the Tone EQ, we can actually edit landscapes without these
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by Derbasti 6y ago
Have you tried ROCM (AMD's OSS OpenCL implementation)? It works well for my AMD on Ubuntu.
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by Derbasti 6y ago
Have a look at these: https://blog.sowerby.me/fuji-film-simulation-profiles/
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by Derbasti 6y ago
There are great free LUTs out there that can emulate the Fuji film simulations quite well. That might be worth a try.
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by Derbasti 6y ago
That is simply not true. My up-to-date Windows 10 machines frequently reboot without me telling them to do so. I'll be working on some project, leave the project windows open and put the computer to sleep over night, only to find the c
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by Derbasti 6y ago
My wife and I had a Fairphone 2 as well. Fantastically repairable. I broke the screen on mine just before a vacation, priority-shipped a new one two days before we left and had it all repaired in time. My wife's phone had a strange he
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by Derbasti 6y ago
But where are those small cameras? Panasonic's GM series is all but abandoned, and the E-M10 is hardly small compared to a Fuji X-E3 or Canon M50. To me, that always felt like M43's Achilles heel; it promises to be small and light
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by Derbasti 7y ago
Linux. Kubuntu 18.4 to be precise.
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by Derbasti 7y ago
Camtasia, I believe.
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by Derbasti 7y ago
OBS is amazing. Half our faculty just went all-out and spent thousands of dollars on some commercial screen recording software. Meanwhile I'm doing my online courses with OBS, and it works beautifully. I have multiple scenes set up in
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by Derbasti 7y ago
To make the Gaussian blur look better, it needs to be applied to linear lightness, not to gamma-encoded colors, as it is done here. In reality, the blur is induced by the lens, on linear lightness, and only gamma-encoded afterwards. The eff
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by Derbasti 7y ago
Mine is https://bastibe.de written in a 100% home-grown and hand-built static site generator in Emacs Lisp. Actually has been running for more than ten years, and migrated through multiple backends and domains.
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by Derbasti 7y ago
It's such a fine line to walk between discussing an issue about work, and directly insulting a human being. And so very often, the receiver interprets the message entirely differently than the sender. So I'd say regardless of how
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by Derbasti 7y ago
Let's talk power: The USB-C PD charger of my Nintendo Switch does not charge my phone, but it does charge my Surface. My phone's USB-C charger does charge the phone and Surface, but not the Switch. My USB-C battery pack charges my
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by Derbasti 8y ago
I have taught git for university classes for some years. To be honest, git is a mess. It is conceptually not that hard, but the nomenclature is inconsistent and dangerously ambiguous (quick, what is the difference between reset, rebase, rev
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by Derbasti 8y ago
I agree with every word you said. Thank you for writing this!
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by Derbasti 8y ago
How would you make, say, a fourier transform or IIR filter design accessible to people who don't know any signal processing or complex numbers? You can spend years studying these topics and their related math. Entire text books have be

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