I do wish Adobe would focus a bit more on the non-ML masking, give us saturation masking, let us expand or feather masks, etc.

It is nice to at least see some options like RapidRaw try their hand at AI/ML masking, and hopefully darktable's attempts in newer versions end up fruitful.

Adobe's camera support is still rather appreciated on my end as well, you're rather pressed to find a device or lens they dont have support for. I've been working on my own personal raw developer lately and while I'm very thankful for projects like lensfun, wont pretend I didnt have to borrow a number of corrections profiles from Adobe's files.

Clicky switches are always tactile, but tactile switches arent always clicky.

Some have even quieter actuation but at that point I'd argue the biggest difference relates to bottoming out the switch and if theres any dampening efforts there.

Not only do many see it as a sign of quality, it lets you ignore the set and stage more than ever. Imperfections? Anomalies? Bah they're blurred out of recognition. Of course it can be used still mindfully and tastefully however such nuance is ever more rare.

Most of my cameras both digital and film alike are medium format. While I'm more of a photographer than someone who does much with video it pains me to have to remind people regularly, just because I can get insanely shallow DoF with the creamiest bokeh they've seen doesn't mean it always makes sense to. Theres a story to be told with foregrounds and backgrounds, and how they can be used to guide the viewer.

Lens corrections are also a big question mark, and if they are using something like lensfun I really do hope they allow user imported db/corrections rather than whatever is compiled into it.

Neat that they try to support JXL compressed raws but colors render very off.

Seems some promise, while I love davinci for video I'm not sure this will be for me, but I'm excited for those who it is enough for.

It becomes especially troublesome when teachers romanticize this difficulty some and act like just sitting them next to one of "the easy students" will magically self correct course turning them into an ideal student.

I speak as someone who worked at an institute that had similar abundance of address space.

Best summarized by xkcd, https://xkcd.com/538/

Having a dedicated device that screams "hey I have bitcoin" is almost always going to be more of a risk than a dedicated general compute device of plausible deniability. A device such as a phone with wireless and usb data disabled, encrypted, accessing data stored in an app that has it's own encryption on top.

Its cute to romanticize the idea that some threat actor will be up against some impossibly secure device, the reality tends to be a lot simpler https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks especially if they find you have dedicated hardware with the sole purpose of securing crypto.

From what I understand few of those apps, especially not Match Group's are actually about well, matching interests or compatibility. Just the swipe olympics and ranking games that go with.

Its to the point I've heard a saying, that while I forgot the proper term basically alluded to the pin at the bottom of the haystack. That is to say to swipe left on every 'high ranking' guy just to finally find someone thats actually interesting and not just what the algo thinks is attractive.

Beyond getting support for devices completely absent on freebsd, quality of drivers, bugs much more rapidly squashed, and general misc features absent on the bsd side like NBASE-T.

Absolutely are a lot of gen z who avoid social media, but to pretend most are privately hunkered away is completely ignorant of today's social media usage.

I feel a lot of them would benefit more from just processing all their photos through some basic profile that ends with running it through a film simulator.

Finding external conversations about posts obviously is a bit more complicated but also if I actually care to see if discussion ever happened, I do so by searching the url. Something that linking via permashortlinks impairs.

Use arachne wall generator for much clearer legends (dynamic line width)

Most printers can do twice the resolution in the Z axis compared to the blogger's post, or the same layer height with a 0.4mm nozzle (legends would suffer)

Very minor fuzzy skin enabled on the outer walls can replace layer lines with more of a textured look

ZAA (Z anti-aliasing) post-processing scripts can eliminate most the need for angling at 45 degrees

Also would argue maintenance is only as complicated as you make it for yourself. Countless people keep patched, secure, https web servers running with minimal effort. If its somehow effort, introspect some on why you are somehow making so much work for yourself.