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One interesting detail is that the Chinese have been improving their photography lens production and quality in rapid pace and cheap price. The legendary Zeiss is producing the lit…

Best practices and such shouldn't be obeyed as "laws" but guidelines for general work. Once in a while there's good reason to avoid / skip them for whatever reason. The bigger issu…

Haven't used any Linux Distribution on Desktop so cannot comment that side or the installer but my home server has been running Ubuntu LTSes for over a decade. Last night I upgrade…

Happened to upgrade my PowerMac G4 Digital Audio model with OWC's PATA SSD (actually was SATA SSD with PATA adapter), It wasn't a slouch with the probably original PATA HDD but SSD…

The N95 was super awkward to use. It had all the bells and whistles that you could cram into a phone at that point and it all was in small menus under menus under menus etc. N95 be…

For Symbian phones Nokia was designing different icons for every phone model. When times started to go bad for them, they introduced common icons for new models and hailed that as …

The 3310 was the culmination of Nokia's really good UX work. Symbian convoluted all that and made it a big mess. The manuals for symbian phones were thick and heavy and mostly no o…

It was super nice to use at the time but it was also completely unsealed against weather so if a bit of snow or water got beneath the wheel, you would get unusable phone quite fast…

Ooh, Tintin is one of the first comics I was introduced after Donald Duck (the Carl Barks stories are still as good as then!) Luckily the Franco-Belgian comics have been readily av…

Oh wow, before this I haven't used old System versions than 6.0.8 or so and it's just super amazing how ready and well thought even the System 1.0 feels usability-wise! Compare to …

My home server has currently running: - Nextcloud (for normal collection of files etc) - Home Assistant - Zwave JS (for Home Assistant) - Couple of Minecraft servers - Pihole for D…

The Snowman is a tradition here in Finland as well but it airs in the midday just before the announcement of Christmas Peace[1] (which is aired live every year from Turku and watch…

Good list. With a paltry experience of 14 years, I would add one silly thing that kind of feels too obvious to even add: When there's an error or exception, read the error and the …

This reminds me of a quite Mac centric[1] BBS system called Firstclass[2]. Its client felt almost like a normal Mac OS Classic Finder windows and it was so intuitive compared to no…

Bought a Canon EOS-3 year ago and it's funny how it almost feels like DSLR but with film. The amount of electronics and what in can do is amazing. Well DSLRs are basically film SLR…

One thing that's forgotten nowadays is that the old and even older 35mm films were a lot more grainier the ones we have now. 35mm started to gain bigger traction in the 60s and aft…

My routine has been: * Vitamin D * Philips Wake Up Lamp for the mornings * Home-assistant controlling Trådfri lights with Flux so that the color temp changes throughout the day. Ie…

Photography in general after I started coding for a living 15 years ago but for the last few years I've been getting into film photography and somewhat into film camera collecting.…

The Canon EF 40mm f2.8 is fun lens for DSLRs but with adapter to mirrorless bodies, the adapter eats the small size benefit as with the other small SLR-era lenses. Sony has been ke…

Haha, sounds super boring compared to 2004 when I bought Fujitsu Siemen's cheapest Pentium M laptop and had to build some kernel modules, build custom rules for power saving scenes…

Every phone is nowadays a slab with a touch display so there hasn't been big surprises for a long time. Just gradual improvements and small new features once in awhile. To follow t…

I had partially forgotten the pixel graphics style of 80s - 90s Macintosh scene. Damn, it's crisp and graphical compared to Amiga and PC graphics. It would be fun to read about the…

Yes there is. Google for "film dx code stickers" to find some examples. Useful thing to have with point and shoot film cameras which are not offering manual override for ISO for pu…

My personal pet peeve is that the Chrome's different User Profiles is so easy to use. I'm aware of the different plugins that can offer similar functionality but the setup Chrome i…

There were Macintoshes here and there at least in Finland where I live. Saw first Mac in 1989 or 90 and did see them here and there but they were not common household items. C64 wa…