bird portraits are neat

oooh sony did a thing

these guys were absolutely tiny but of course I didn't take any photos with anything for, y'know... scale

birbs

galahs go... woosh?

wtf copilot why would I ever want that

you would think there would be a spark of revelation when you're noting all the OTHER ways AI has hosed production in the past, but no ofc it's "we made the AI confess, threw all our vendors under the bus, and we're gearing up to sue everyone"

I forget how bonkers the first sub-2h marathon was

aw man I didn't realise Kejelcha ran a 1:59:41 that's gotta *suck* to hit sub-2 11 seconds after the first ever* guy to do it

Digital Ocean is still pretty cool but yikes they really make you delete some things *one-by-one* and then *copy/paste the resource name to confirm* if you don't want to be billed 50+ clicks/copy/paste/confirm/reloads later...

I tripped yesterday on my run, and while *that* was fine, there has got to be a name for all the little secondary injuries I give myself while I try avoid my grazes

ok maybe 2 hours because I forgot one important step that I wrote down in 2024

that thing that I've been putting off for like a year turns out it took 10 minutes 😐

ooh new diablo soon

I really don't think they needed to allow customer reviews with images on the *band-aid* website that was a jumpscare I didn't need

I *suppose* the app is kinda good right now

ok yall, we hear you. the carousel isn't popular! we're putting it back in the oven and will plan to bring it back for posts with more than 4 photos or videos when we add support for that. appreciate the feedback. we really want you to love this app.

they would be cooler with sound effects and a satisfying click though ooh what if that happened on its own as you scrolled

I know that technically not a lot stops people from downloading the images but idk how I feel about it being the default interaction maybe not good? maybe indifferent?

I heard we got more pixels tho

ew carousels rip images 3-n I guess

this is the kind of chaotic energy we need more of from the IETF

I like that I have an excuse to mess around with all the filters again because I'm 'learning' random textures and fake analog? sign me up

Once I have everything done I'll write up all the alternatives I found and the workflow

I am free

oooh I knew the Vercel thing was bad but I didn't know it was hilariously bad

Adobe sells a CDN product, by the way

the gift that keeps on giving is it possible to get 296 archives downloaded in 14 days at the 100-200k/s they serve them? No, so I hope these are in some kind of order.

my adobe-replacement stack so far is photolab for lightroom, affinity for illustrator & photoshop, resolve for premier, and nothing for acrobat and try get by with browser built-ins really after a weekend it kinda all works and the main sticking point is the mess of de-clouding my lightroom library

ok last one for a bit but gonna keep messing around with photolab so idk how long 'for a bit' is

we got *colours*

kinda miss the days when everything got a vintage filter being retro is a good way to learn what all these lil sliders do

I think I've found a workaround using the r-click export option out of Lightroom but will report back if it stays at this blazing speed

taking a break from hating on adobe to just say that the creative options in photolab & the dxo suite are a lot of fun to mess with

of course hours of support gets us here - getting photos out is 'unsupported' given that there's only one way to do it

holy shit it's every file jfc

this is a 'complain about adobe' weekend because the official downloader app really doesn't seem to update progress so I wrote my own and the rate they let you get your files is... dire

ok you can do some cool stuff in photolab

if you ever see this lil dude facing to the right, you'll know I caved

wtf flip and mirror in PhotoLab needs a $119.99 addon????

I think if the ad network knows enough to be recommending lawn care and fire alarms I should get this tiny lil kickback

come on surveillance capitalism if your dossier on my is older than 16 years why am I getting an age check

hmm so my immediate feedback is that every button in photolab feels kinda slow and the imported raws start out life kinda garish - the green background version is 'unedited' but the darker (processed) one looks way more like it did in in the camera

my lightroom library is 25GB downloaded which is about 2% in 12 hours using the downloader, and still waiting (24h now) on the zip file version which I'm just hoping is faster... now I just gotta go out and take enough photos to really test out photolab

they do give you a zip file version but it's been 12 hours and I'm not sure a 14 day window is *enough* because 1MB/s is about what I can expect which would be about 13 days if absolutely nothing goes wrong

ok here we go lets see if I can cancel my adobe accounts before May