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Get a Nikon FE! There are tons of cheap Nikon glass. It has exposure compensation as you mention. It has a brilliant way of turning of the light meter so it won't drain your battery, when not in use and is just an overall pleasure to use. Some of my best photographs has been captured on my Nikon FE.

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Haha you have a very good point! The adv bike market could have an over representation of software engineers. Wealthy enough to buy them and an interest in getting away from screens.

I can see why salary transparency might help even out the differences for employees of the same type. But I can also see potential downsides for permanent vs. contractors for instance.

As a freelancer I might gain something by knowing the going rate of others with the same experience. But I am not sure that me publishing my hourly rate would benefit my relationship with the permanent employees of the place I am working.

No question, but just wanted to praise the design of your page. I really like it - so good job!

I am very surprised to find a representative from ADVrider on HN. But have to comment that I really love the forum. As another reply to your post mentions, it is one of the very few forums that still exists and as far as I can tell thrives. I really enjoy visiting.

Are there any advantages of running Pop_Os instead of Ubuntu? I have an X1 Carbon Gen 9 and have had zero issues with 20.04 and latest upgrading to 22.04.

I will piggyback on your comment as I totally agree. I am amazed at the amount of work that must go into not just writing the article itself but all the implementations along the way. Really amazing job!

Writing on an iPhone is the only activity I have been doing rigorously day in, day out for 10+ years without getting better at it.

With the old 3-press phones, I would have been invincible and able to write with the phone still in my pocket.

So frustrating.

Perhaps your CV is very focused on technologies or development? I am a freelancer and have at least two major versions of my CV that I use depending on the role.

One of them is very technical and emphasizes on my background as a developer. The other is more business/leadership focused. It is the exact same person, the exactly same experience just a shift of focus.

So I do not think that your profile necessarily miss anything, you sound fully qualified to take on the role as Solutions Architect, but perhaps that does not come across strongly enough from reading your CV, if that is all they have to from their opinion on.

Yeah what a tumultuous life! Really good insight into the lengths some people go to sabotage their own life in order to feed their addictions.

The Rules of the Game sounds like something I have to add to my wishlist. Thanks a lot for mentioning it.

Had to check my own website to remember which ones I really liked and was actually from my reading this year. But here goes:

How to build a car - Adrian Newey: I think even people with only engineering interest and not specifically cars, would find it interesting. What a joy it must be to work in a field where you have to be super creative and each week can measure your progress against other extremely clever teams and people.

Going the wrong way - Chris Donaldson: A bloke driving around the World on his Moto Guzzi LeMans. Probably only interesting if you are into bikes, but very weel written and enjoyable. I have read a lot of "around the World on motorcycle"-books and this is up there with the best.

Sandworm - Andy Greenberg: Probably the best fit for HN of the books I mentioned. Extremely interesting look at the hack that left Maersk paralized for several days. I read it shortly after Russia started invading Ukraine and it really educated me a lot about the situation leading up to the actual invasion.

I cannot see this as annoying enough to force a change for me. For me everything just works with Ubuntu. I have an X1 Carbon Gen 9 and I have had zero issues with it so far.

If I were to change I should somehow be convinced that the other distribution would work as well. I really see it as a direct replacement for Windows or Mac - which for me is a compliment.

Every once in a while I contemplate switching - like when Ubuntu is discussed on HN - but I have yet to see the clear argument in favor of other distributions for desktop usage.

I have a hard enough time using/publishing my own photographs. I am impressed by people who add other peoples work into their workflow. And even more so when it is analog photographs that require a substantial amount of work before publishing.

But great effort!

Nordstream 2 is also hit. Otherwise an interesting thought.

I have no idea how common the nightmare is. I have never had them. But I did mix up the dates for my exam.

My friend called me as I was about to go to the gym and asked where I was, with a very concerned voice. It turned out that I was supposed to be at an exam. I rushed home, changed clothes and went like crazy to school. Luckily they let me in as the last one of the day - of course I had not prepared in the slightest - but did absolutely fine :)

I had not even thought about the ability to connect my iPhone with my Ubuntu machine. But it seems like I need to look a bit more into the possibilities.

I already use digiKam for my photography workflow. It is really awesome for managing photos, adding tags etc.

For importing photos I actually use Rapid Photo Downloader in order to import photos into "date-ordered" folders. So if I can get Ubuntu to recognise my iPhone then I can probably use the same to import photos from my phone if I ever need that ability.

I have to look into that. I was not aware of it.

But as far as I can tell there are no image-related apps in that list you shared in your number 2 link?

That is a great website. Very well thought out and actionable. That model can surely be replicated for other arenas. You have actually thought about what people need and given an easy way to find it. Big props for that!

It is possible to have Instapaper send collections of articles to your Kindle wihtout the need for jailbraking or anything. I am sure it works with other services as well.

One of the big differences to IT, as I see it, is to do with repairs/support. In IT, a subscription covers repairs/bugs. So what you are paying for is basically maintenance.

If we transfer that to cars, then the subscription should also cover maintenance/repairs of the physical parts - in this case the heated seats. But I am pretty sure it does not.

Is it perfect because you deep down think it is perfect? Or is it perfect because everyone else tells you it is?

Your list sounds like a greatest hit of things people on HN, at dinner parties or elsewhere would comment as being dream scenario. But although it may objectively be a priviledged and dream scenario to be in, then that does not automatically make it the optimal scenario for you.

Some of it could sound like you arguing with yourself about not being happy or content about a situation others would dream of. But if it is not YOUR dream scenario then it does not matter what other people think.

I may be way off. But the other interpretations of your comment seems to be well discussed.

That could be it. I just wanted to praise the parent as it was a very clever and funny comment, which to me deserved more than "just" an upvote. But thanks for pointing out.

There is an interesting connection between downvoting a comment praising an observation about caricaturical behavior and the personality said comment is meant to highlight.

Hahaha brilliant!

Fujifilm - as you mention others have said. The standard Acros film simulation is incredible right out of the box. It even varies grain depending on exposure etc. to mimic real film. On top of that, there are tons of film simulation "recipes" that can tailer the b&w look to mimic specific film stocks. They are not overly expensive and you could also buy a used one from a few years back.

I moved from Dropbox to Nextcloud hosted on a Hetzner server years ago. Haven't looked back since.

Looking through the episodes it looks like "generic pop-science" health advice, like what you find on Tim Ferriss or Joe Rogan. Does he have something substantial to bring to the table and am I missing something by writing him off based on the way he markets his podcasts?

Thanks a lot for the thread. If there was a link to a PDF/docx document, then it seems to have been deleted. I am unable to find it at least.

It looks interesting. Have you bought any of their courses and if so would you mind sharing your feedback?