Unfortunately a lot of European countries have been going down that dark path, just not as far along as the US. I’m cautiously hopeful that the current events will help steer us back in the right direction but we’ll see…

Next stop: banning folks just for looking/spending too much time on these posts.

In case anyone’s wondering, there’s a few reasons for that. Firstly, of course the subject itself is badass. Secondly composition-wise we have what I call a “dynamic diagonal” which leads your eyes from the main subject to the background following the same line. The subject is back/side-lit with hard light giving an intense contrasty look. Finally, and that’s probably the main one, the fog/smoke is lifting up the shadows as you move into the picture away from the camera, making the main subject much more contrasty and stand out from the background despite being overall the same colours/brightness.

Right that sounds reasonable then. Switching boot order is a piece of cake and the Linux drive would be the only 128gb one in the whole array (I have a lot of drives, including a setup with stablebit drivepool, will that work?). After I’m done with this current gig in a couple days I should have a small window of free time, maybe I’ll finally get to it!

Caveat number 3 is the reason I’m still on windows, I take it that’s still not an option then.

Yeah is that completely safe? I’m really tempted to try out Mint and I have an old M2 from my previous machine I could format and use for it. The PC is my work/editing station though so can’t afford any risk. I can’t really make the switch since I’m still dependent on LR+PS (Adobe…) but most of my other software should work, and I’ve just always wanted to get into Linux but not sure if it’ll actually benefit me and my work or if it’s just gonna cause me even more hassle than windows currently does.

I’m familiar with messing around in the BIOS, changing boot priority and formatting stuff and whatnot.

So we’ll have to go to libre office to spell arse?

That, and the inevitable bureaucratic nightmare that awaits for standardising across makes and updating the infrastructure.

Yeah not to sound negative but European tech generally sucks ass. The Netherlands and Nordic countries are maybe a bit of an exception but they’re still using fax in countries like France and Germany…

The only reason I opened the article was to find out what FSR meant. They never actually spell it out, you can understand it’s AI upscaling from the context but I guess they just assume you know the acronym…

Love it when that happens :)

That’s fair, and I do agree in extreme circumstances decisions might need to be taken without having the time or resources to follow process, but we better choose those moments very fucking carefully. An invasion would qualify, this “visit” would not, imo.

If Europe starts doing illegal shit like this, we will lose trust from the rest of our allies which aren’t going down the drain. I’ve written the US off already, but going all loose-cannon will set the precedent that we can’t be trusted and compromise the rest of our international relationships.

I don’t think the US needs to agree to anything in order to rescind whatever agreement is being discussed here.

Right, I think we agree on what needs to be done, I just want it to be done for real, at the diplomatic level, not an isolated move by a random border patrol agent.

I don’t care about “these asshats” but I really don’t want my governments to engage in a diplomatic race to the bottom or to start disregarding their own agreements willy nilly, it’s just not a good precedent. Also an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind and all that. I understand that might be easy for me to say from a somewhat outside perspective but really, nothing good will come from doing this kind of stupid shit, we need to keep our heads high, respect the rules we agreed on and generally make sure we keep everything kosher, that’s the only long term play and the only way we can maintain trust from the rest of our allies. Otherwise we’re just like them.

Besides I’m not saying “roll over and take it”, rescinding the agreements is a much stronger move than an isolated (and illegal) refusal at the border.

Sure, but they should do it properly e.g. officially rescind these agreements (I’m sure there’s a process for that).

It’s still green on the official advisory website but I see they have a bullet point about LGBTQ+ travellers (among a few other warnings). So it’s more like additional context rather than an actual negative advice on travelling there. Conversely, I see NL is orange on the US travel advice site due to terrorism risks lmao.

Man starmer is such a disappointment… I was so happy for my British cousins when you finally voted out the Tories, but it seems like there’s barely any change in the policies or even just vibe…

That settles it then, I’m getting an Aston (like I needed more reasons to lust after them haha).

I have a powerful computer for my work with a 3090, i9 etc. I still prefer gaming on the Xbox, it’s in the living room, it doesn’t bother me with driver issues, CPU overheating, and other random bugs I get on the big machine, and it’s in the living room where I’m also spending the time with my family rather than stuck in my cave upstairs.