The new OM-System camera is $1,000 for body only. Would probably take me at least four months to save enough for it.

Might not have a exposure compensation dial either. How many buttons do you have to click to change that then?

Sharp enough for me. An Olympus 40-150mm lens and that teleconverter. Think the newer teleconverters attach to the back. They don’t make one for that lens. Cheaper to buy that old teleconverter, then a new lens. Just needed a step down adapter too.

Also, use a tripod. My camera does have IBIS, but not good enough for me. Also, what is the lens focal length supposed to be with an old teleconverter for the IBIS?

I had to downgrade libcupsfilters to 2.1.1-4. Found a bug report about it here. I have a Brother HL-2140 printer. Using the brlaser driver, but the foomatic probably works too.

I was using Brother HL-2140 Foomatic/hl1250 in openSUSE Slowroll.

Well, the best part of Arch Linux, is newer packages, and your printer might not work anymore.

Use PackMan with Slowroll, and you might be waiting a month to update.

Problem: 1: the to be installed Mesa-libGL1-32bit-26.1.6-1699.3.pm.1.x86_64 requires ’libgallium-26.1.6.so’, but this requirement cannot be provided not installable providers: Mesa-dri-32bit-26.1.6-1.1.x86_64[openSUSE:repo-oss] Mesa-dri-26.1.6-1.1.i586[openSUSE:update-slowroll] Mesa-dri-32bit-26.1.6-1.1.x86_64[openSUSE:update-slowroll]

Maybe not many people use Slowroll, or use it with PackMan. So no security updates or anything, until PackMan is updated. That might happen next month.

Want video acceleration without using Flatpak? Don’t use openSUSE then. Would be faster to switch my desktop to Arch Linux at this point. Did I ever try Debian on my desktop? Maybe it’s ancient enough that Debian would work on it.

Or use openSUSE, but put everything in a container of some kind, Flatpak, distrobox… That will need a reinstall though. Too much junk installed. Also, had to wait until the next month to update before now too, with Slowroll. Tumbleweed got the everything recompiled for some Python package, before Slowroll.

And if I update and keep old Mesa, I may have issues. People have tried that on Reddit.

Looks like OM System is announcing a new camera on September 9th.

If it’s $600 or less, I might save up for it. I’ll pay $600 for a new camera. But not a TV. The TV would have to be at least 55" and not “smart”, and Mini LED.

Looks like it might be a smaller camera too. Don’t want a bigger heavy camera. Good way to hurt my wrist.

But if it has PDAF, the auto focus on a four thirds lens, might be fast enough for me. Won’t buy a four thirds lens though, until I have a camera with PDAF.

There’s other benefits in getting a new camera, the firmware will probably have improvements.

Love you Lilly, everyone will miss you.

Switched to Pi-hole. Apparently some of the developers for AdGuard are in Russia. Problem isn’t the developers though.

And DNS over HTTPS works with Pi-hole, I’m using the Control D CLI app.

That’ll speed up an iPhone, block lots of crap. Maybe add all Apple domains too.

The only lists I currently have.

The latency on 5G was around 40ms. Did take a second or so to load one of my sites. But on WiFi, it’s under 30ms. Cellular adds latency.

Control D I think has a completely free plan. Non like Nextcloud.

AdGuard Pro app sucks, if you want to use a local VPN at home. Making a shortcut doesn’t fix anything, except makes the at home VPN work. But then the DNS protection has to be enabled when not at home.

Update
Might be too much latency on 5G at some times. So switched to Quad9. I used the profile from here for iOS. Used this, to add an ondemand thing, so it doesn’t use it on my WiFi. Used the web version. On my iPhone using Firefox.

Apparently Firefox sync no longer works, manually synced phone and desktop.

And you need the exact right search engine to find the same thing again.

The speed test on 5G, was better then my shitty Comcast. Well, except the upload sucked. About the same as Comcast for the upload speed.

I don’t use T-Mobile directly either.

Good news, the problem wasn’t DNS. Apple must have added some nice new features to iOS. I wonder, what new features the latest stable release adds.

Well, there’s a cheap solution, cancel my cell service. I likely won’t ever buy an iPhone again. They cost too much.

Finally got dnscrypt-proxy to work. It doesn’t run as root, like ctrld. The instructions on the Pi-hole site is wrong, editing the socket file doesn’t work. Had to edit the dnscrypt-proxy.toml instead. Also, copied the one from /usr/share/doc/dnscrypt-proxy to that folder too.

Found a “cheap” WD Green SN3000 1 TB refurbished on eBay. Well, the TBW is only 150. My smaller Crucial has a 300TBW. Not sure when I bought it, but written around 60 TB.

Don’t think using that as a boot drive, would be a good idea. According to power on hours, 224 days.

It was sold directly by SanDick.

I tried canceling it, and they claimed they shipped it already. No shipping email, eBay doesn’t say shipped either.

Around $130 after tax. Well, $30 or so more, and probably could have gotten a better drive.

Kate is better then MarkText. Try using two dollar signs, on the same line. Not worth my time, fucking with it.

Well, I just got a tracking number. They created the label after I tried to cancel it. If I send it back, I’ll need to make a video. I’ll just slap a label on it, without opening it. They might say it got damaged, and my fault, even though they packaged it.

To return it, I’d have to pay for shipping. Somebody said they ordered from them and it required a signature. If they send it back, will I get a full refund? Just don’t sign, or decline the delivery.

I won’t pay return shipping though.

They also, don’t give a warranty direct. It’s some third party. Seems like they are just trying to get rid of “refurbished” junk.

Well, don’t think I’ll buy anything from WesternDick/SanDick again.

Update
They got their drive back, and I got my money back. Guess I didn’t have to pay to return it, or did they take it out of the refund?

Their iOS app is too damn slow. Just try viewing images.

Not worth paying for something that doesn’t work.

How is pCloud a good option? They have lifetime plans. Which means, when they are no longer in business, no more space.

Surprised they are still in business. They claim Nike and Uber and various other people use them.

Might have to contact them contact them to use rClone as well.

I’ll pass.

Only need it to share files. I’d use my shared hosting, but I setup password protected folder, and then it stopped working. Shared hosting means zero control, and not worth my time to fuck with it.

I will only use static HTML if using my shared hosting.

There’s Filen Filen, but their iOS app might be no good. Just look at recent reviews.

Didn’t know there was a third party files app.

Bummer, Firefox for iOS, no longer has working sync.

Also, thinks I have two iPhones. Probably cause it made me resign in.

That Documents app is good, if you want to pay a subscription.

How slow is Koofr from the US? Not many reviews for the iOS app.

Well, I just won’t share any videos or photos anymore. At least not using the internet.

Now to send this image to my phone, using LocalSend, since Cloud providers are useless. At least MEGA is.

All that to make a custom watch face for my shitty Garmin watch. That’s another brand, you don’t get what you pay for.

Sorry about the blurry image, had a time limit before screen decreased it’s brightness.

Also, had to turn the brightness up. If using a dark black background, wouldn’t recommend a back light higher then 10. Even at 10, it doesn’t look right.

And even with 10, the battery life still sucks. The crappy Nothing watch lasts longer. But can’t lock the screen.

Remove a ton of packages.

All I did was type “sudo apt reinstall -f bluetooth” or bluez or something.

The good news is, I copied everything it removed. And yes I typed y and enter without reading a thing.

Go through the text file, and guess what I might want.

And then ran sudo apt install $(zcat /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n ’s/^Package: //p’ | sort -u), to make sure I have everything Linux Mint came with.

Still had a bunch of KDE crap too. Now I get to reboot again.

No wonder it was being kind of slow. I broke it in more then one way. If removing the NIXOS package manager, and system-manager, you might want to change the shell for the root and nobody account. I removed system-manager manually, after removing the NIX stuff.

Well, Remarkable might be broken. Click a suggestion, and it doesn’t change it.