Oh, thanks for the heads up, I didn’t notice.

After playing around for a bit, this really looks like the best option. I will wait until federation support gets added to the self-hosted version though.

Sorry to be the buzzkill here but this is not encryption but obfuscation and can easily be broken by comparing letter frequencies, so don’t use this for anything more sensitive than your shopping list. This is not suitable for writing your next serial killer letters or a mysterious book about medicine that will stump scientists for centuries.

Still a really neat as a non-encrypted writing system though. I could see this in some sci-fi or fantasy media.

Edit: oh sorry, I missed that you mentioned it in the post body, I only read the title and then jumped directly to the explanation from your community’s sidebar.

That doesn’t sound like a federated wiki but more like federated account management.

Doesn’t seem to be in the latest open source release or at least I can’t find how to enable it.

Edit: according to https://activitypub.ghost.org/social-web-beta/, it’s indeed only in pro for now.

As a daily driver through most of university. Sadly the hardware got way too expensive for what it did, at least for a while. These days it might be better again but I won’t buy an MBP to replace a laptop that’s only a year old.

Cool. Can you help me solve mine so I don’t have them either?

Thanks for the long reply, lots of stuff to unpack here that I might have to come back to later. Might be helpful.

So for now, let me focus on your question about my photography workflow. I mostly do event photography (discos, concerts, conventions) but also occasionally studio and travel stuff.

When I come home from a shoot, I copy my photos to a network drive on my home server (running Ubuntu) which automatically gets backed up to an off-site NAS. As a first step, I use Bridge to label which photos I want to edit for myself, which for a potential client, which not at all. Nothing special, just running through all RAWs and marking them with star or color labels. For the editing step itself, I start out with Camera Raw. First an overall pass with lens correction, cropping/straightening, brightness adjustments (exposure, contrast, blacks/darks/lights/whites), white balance, dehaze, curves, whatever the photo needs. Then, depending on the subjact, a more in depth pass with spot removal and masked adjustments. Automatic subject masking has been a great time saver. If I need to go even more in depth (usually only for photos that go to an exhibition), I start editing in photoshop. As a last step, I use Photoshop Image processor to bulk export JPGs in the needed size and quality, optionally with a watermark.

(for those familiar with Adobe’s tools, you might be wondering why I don’t use Lightroom instead. In the past I’ve had problems with accessing the same library from different machines. This could probably be fixed but my current setup works fine so I never bothered)

For long term library management, I run immich on my home server which lets me tag and filter my photos as much as I want.

As for the Blender thing, I think I phrased that weirdly. It was not related to a specific problem or my photo editing process. It was just an example for a piece of software that started out with horrible developer-user UI and got a lot better when they completely redid the UI in 2.8.

Regarding Photoshop in Wine: unfortunately, missing GPU support is probably a no-go when dealing with 6000x4000 pixel, 14 bits per channel raw photos.

Also a tiny bit amusing that within 24 hours, it was rated it both “Garbage: It launches, that about it.” and “Silver: it pretty much works well with a few caveats.”

The right choice doesn’t help me if I can’t get my literal job done and have to give up half of my hobbies.

Why?

I don’t ask that to talk you out of it. I like desktop Linux. I’m typing this on desktop Linux. I’ve been using desktop Linux for most of my adult life. I ask because your reasons will inform the advice people can give you.

Because enshittification is becoming more and more unbearable. So far, Windows 10 (and to some extent even Windows 11) works for me but it’s getting worse and worse every year. I have no interest in OneDrive, Copilot, Recall and whatever MS wants to sell me next. I’d rather have a system that does exactly what I need, nothing more, nothing less. On servers and embedded systems, linux has done a great job for me over the last 20 (!) years.

Another option is to run Windows in a VM for those apps.

Kind of defeats the purpose if I run my two most-used applications in a Windows VM, doesn’t it?

I’m more than open for using something different and learning a different workflow as long as I can eventually get to the point where I can get roughly the same results in roughly the same time. I like tinkering with stuff and I’m not even opposed to write my own tools for closing a few gaps in the applications I use (see my recently started immichtools). But there is a limit. I just can’t afford to spend half my day working around problems that I wouldn’t have had on Windows.

Edit: formatting

What you’re proposing is exactly how I got to the point where I’m writing this post. My servers are mostly Ubuntu, apart from a couple of Pis that run Debian. So naturally, I’ve tried Ubuntu, Mint and Pop!_OS. I can’t remember exactly which desktop environments I’ve tried over the years but at least Gnome, KDE, XFCE and Cosmic. Probably more.

When that didn’t work out, I tried Fedora and even some Arch-based distro (I think it was EndeavourOS).

Each time I ran into the same frustrations. Stuff didn’t work and troubleshooting consisted more of filtering which guides are actually applicable to my current combination of software than actually solving the problem.

That’s the one I went with. Two at the bottom and two on the inside of the wall

Just poking fun at the people who were absolutely convinced that said company was evil ™ and would never do the right thing.

So you‘re saying all the panic was for nothing? Shocking.

Actually, isn’t this the optimal outcome? The new “security” features are now optional for those who want them. Everyone else can choose developer mode, has all the old features and is responsible for securing their network. We could argue if opt-in or opt-out is better but I see the argument for having “security” features enabled by default.

It’s “all” in the sense that it’s everything the instance knows about, in contrast to “this server” which is only content from users that are registered on this specific instance. Same concept as the “all” and “local” feeds on lemmy. I agree that a better name might reduce the confusion but I can’t think of a good one.

Servers not having the same content in their “all” feeds is not a bug, it’s by design. The design philosophy for Mastodon (and I’d say the fediverse as a whole) is to let the users curate their own feeds instead of showing them everything or algorithmically guessing what they might be interested in. Servers will only receive posts from accounts that at least one of this server’s accounts is subscribed to. Having every post federate to every server even if nobody there is interested in those posts would be a waste of resources.

Yes, that makes discovery of new content significantly harder but that’s the tradeoff for being able to host your own small instance without the need for a super powerful server. I can run my instance that serves just a couple of users on a 10-year-old server that runs a dozen other things at the same time. We see the stuff we’re interested in and don’t have to spend disk space, processing power and network bandwidth on content none of us will ever read and neither do we have to spend those resources on sending our posts to other instances where nobody will read them.

タイッツー is definitely taittsuu. Twitter doesn’t seem to use a katakana spelling. Your proposal of “tsuittaa” would be ツイッター. Same katakana but different order. There would be no reason to read Japanese from right to left. Might be an intentional pun though.

Edit: it’s https://taittsuu.com

Honestly, this whole thing is a mess… first a countdown, then a website with basically no information and that’s only the start.

More than 24 hours after signing up, I finally got an email with just about zero information:

Hi @dfyx,

We’re thrilled to welcome you to Loops.video!

We’re in the process of onboarding all our new users, and we can’t wait for you to experience the magic of short looping video.

Keep an eye out for another email from us later tonight or tomorrow (depending on when you signed up). It will have all the details you need to get started, including how to create your first Loop.

Welcome to the Loops community!

Regards, The Loops Team

And from some random comment that dansup made on pixelfed I found out that this beta is only for Android. Apparently, iOS will come later and there is no info on a browser-based version. That info should have been on the website. Also, what about selfhosting? This is the fediverse after all…