Not always a winner for takes, but this quote by C.S Lewis I’ve always found helpful

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. - C.S. Lewis

Feels like Judge Dredd

All the time! I love to sing little snippets of songs with their names swapped in. To the tune of Whatever Lola Wants

Whatever [pet name] wants, [pet name] gets, don’t you know you, can’t win?

Or just something to describe what they’re doing. Big fan of Been caught stealing by Jane’s Addiction for that

That and more really. You could use it to do a green screen effect, but you can also use it to adjust color balance, brightness or do weirder things like swapping values between colors. It gets really crazy when you are working with full video because the time of the current frame is also available to be incorporated, so you can even do animated effects.

Another powerful filter is the convolve filter. That allows you to apply matrix transformations, which can for example be used to apply a homography matrix and adjust a videos perspective.

Well for instance you can use it to apply tranparencys or other effects using the geq filter. It applies a formula to every pixel in the input and can adjust alpha, rgb values, and gamma. You can also use conditionals in your formula and have access to the current pixels location and value, so you can apply your transforms only to specific regions if you want, or do an adjustment keyed only to a specific color.

Ffmpeg has been such cool software to learn. Simple filter chains can do incredible things

Someone close to me has recommended the AYN Thor. I’ve seen some really impressive set ups on that hardware, though I don’t know about the support or anything like that

I ended up on .zip, the switch was mostly painless, just a couple small tech issues and having to get rid of a default block. I didn’t have any communities I managed, so not really applicable. I did consider Piefed, but I’m satisfied with Lemmy and Jerboa, and many accounts I see from piefed are superusers I don’t vibe with so it hasn’t drawn me. I would say the switch was pretty seemless and I didn’t grow super attached to lemm.ee because it wasn’t my first instance to shut down.

A cottage industry of recovering neighbors who have fallen asleep on their way home and returning them to their beds in exchange for a ‘finders’ fee might develop.

I worn in Automotive despite hating cars and believing the industry is fundamentally at fault for the state of the world currently (Leaded gasoline, micro plastics, and climate change) and is working on contributing to the death of privacy and owning things.

There are a few different things that help me sleep at night, though I don’t sleep well in general.

First, I have poor self image. This means both that I struggle to believe I can find work elsewhere and also that I don’t feel like I’m good at my job. You might think that would make me want to leave more and believe me I do, but it also kind of Uno reverses the act of working for them. If I think I’m bad at my job and my job is at an evil corporation, then I’m actively draining the organization of money that could be spent elsewhere.

Second my work mostly doesn’t touch on the things that are vile and awful about the industry. I’m a programmer and my work primarily deals with displays and control interfaces. A display not coming up isn’t going to harm the industry in any meaningful way, but it will impact a person using the end product. Since that’s where most of my work lies it is easy to rationalize doing those things.

I’m unhappy my industry exists and has done such damage to the world, but until I can find something better I’m stuck.

Mount Washington

Is the tiger always invisible or just when you want it to be? I’m thinking pranking a friend in the shower, but I think it would be more fun with a visual component

Love both, but I would say that show Nynaeve starts stronger than book Nynaeve. Zoë Robins did such a great job with breaking her block and every other scene

Nynaeve from Wheel of Time. All her quirks become endearing and her growth is so satisfying.

My partner is chronically ill and Karlach’s ending in BG3 made me sob because I was romancing her and it hit very close to home

Joe Biden famed for being a great candidate

Can’t find a great screen grab, but Vidna from Legend of Legaia is one of the first towns you find that is unaffected by the mist and the reason is they use their natural hot springs to power fans to keep the mist from settling. You get to wander through the spa area as well before you break the windmills 💀

Even if you can’t manage staging something like that, even just asking a friend to help you take some pictures will up your odds significantly. The pictures are going to be the first thing most people see on your profile so having a friend help find good angles and such will be really helpful

Do you have ADHD? The feelings you are describing might be rejection sensitive dysphoria. Learning how to handle those feelings will serve you really well in the future

Kinda speaks to the lie of the meritocracy when your merit remains even or grows, and the system can’t decide whether you should be on the top or bottom