Well yeah of course, and meanwhile keep building out alternatives and walkable neighborhoods. See how far we can go.

No no, ogres are like onions.

What is it we imagine “banning cars” actually means?

I’m not disagreeing, but I’m curious. Does anyone think there’s a serious policy proposal to just…ban cars. Like, “starting May 1st, there will be no cars. Authorities will be collecting your car, and it will be crushed and melted down to make bikes. If you live in the middle of nowhere…well I guess you’ll have to eat pinecones or something.”

Obviously, that’s silly to even consider, but I am absolutely in favor of banning cars on at least a couple of specific streets in my city. We could do it today, and no one would be more than mildly inconvenienced, and the new car-free spaces would be thoroughly enjoyed.

There’s a box on the home page for the giveaway, but when I clicked it I got “something went wrong”, but as Shimon pointed out, it’s free on Steam too, so I nabbed it there.

Well I’m glad that helps! I enjoy this stuff.

The histogram is neat, I used to just look for “lump in the middle = good exposure” but there are so many other way to make use of it.

There’s a panel that I think is present by default in RawTherapee, in the upper left corner, that shows a histogram, and when you hover your mouse over your photo, it has a sort of gauge across the bottom that marks where the pixel under your mouse is at. This can be helpful with determining which bit you want to target with adjustments.

There’s also a neat way I’ve found to get the most out of some images…in the curves panel, starting from the bottom/left/black, make the curve climb steeply where the histogram spikes, and then level off a bit (not totally level, but less steep) where the histogram dips. This seems to give more apparent contrast, without pushing the highlights or shadows too far apart. I hope that makes sense. It’ll take some trial and error but might give you something like what you were getting in Lightroom, with shadows and highlights both near “correct” exposure, but avoiding washed out and dull.

Hmm, unfortunately I don’t have any good recommendations. I’ve just tinkered with it until stuff I like happens, and it’s been so long since I used Lightroom I can’t speak to specific differences.

With the contrast example it sounds like maybe the RT/DT tools are more literal, and Lightroom is more “smart” perhaps? I usually use the curves panel for this sort of thing, like if I want to bring down some highlights, I’ll find whereabouts they are on the histogram and target that area specifically. If I want a lower-contrast image in general I may compensate for some dullness with the local contrast and saturation tools, or if it’s the common scenario of a washed out sky, I’ll probably use a graduated filter to darken the sky without messing with the foreground.

I’m just guessing though, so I don’t know if this is helpful at all.

It’s fucking wild how many people simply won’t consider not supporting genocide.

Terrible name for SEO but sounds cool! 🤪

It sounds like it might be closer to a 1:1 replacement for Lightroom than Raw therapee. (I haven’t installed it, I’m just reading the description. https://art.pixls.us/)

I actually do have Linux installed on a spare drive. I haven’t booted it up for a bit, but I’ve started getting used to how stuff works. I should boot it up again.

Have you tried raw therapee? At least for what I do I find it to be an excellent Lightroom replacement.

The only hurdle here is design software. I use Affinity mostly and it’s great, but they don’t have Linux apps. I did manage to get Affinity Designer running with Wine at one point, but it wasn’t particularly stable.

Also you can use adguard DNS on your phone to block many in-app ads.

I feel good about cancelling my 365 subscription, and I will continue to feel good about switching to Linux when windows 10 hits end of life. Not giving this company another dime.

The problem here is that they’re also owned by the rich and powerful. They might give you a cookie, but they can’t meaningfully challenge power.

Guy sold have kept quiet and just relayed everything straight to Yemen.

Oh man I was just repeating what I read from an article, but there’s so much more in that list.

racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs; union membership; genetic data; unique biometric information; citizenship or immigration status; contents of certain mail, emails, and text messages; or health, sex life or sexual orientation information.

Surely none of this could be used for nefarious purposes, right?

Unfortunately I think the ICE cars are just as stalkerish at this point (if the EV=creepy implication is intended). Kia and nissan even have bits in their privacy policies about monitoring sexual activity somehow.

The car listening to everything you say is absolutely not ok.

I get that’s not what this article is about, but I hate how they’re getting creepier and creepier things normalized.

It looks like it’s relative to the 2004-2013 average, actually. Note the years listed at the bottom.