Just from the handful of OSs I’ve tried, I’d suggest Ubuntu desktop again.

As for docker, I’d say to get docker and docker compose setup. Once you’re running in docker compose, adding machines is often as simple as editing some markup in a text editor.

But my final suggestion is to crawl before you walk before you run. Start slow in the terminal. Instead of using your file explorer, navigate directories using the terminal and then open the directory you need into the file explorer using the terminal.

Want a new file? Use touch. Want a new directory? Use mkdir. Eventually, it’ll become annoying to open a file from your explorer when you could just open it from the terminal. Then, you’ll get annoyed with text editors and want to reduce your context switches by using vim.

Also, --help is your best friend when trying to figure out commands. You got this! Feel free to send me a message if you wanna chat and have any questions when you’re ready to start dipping your toes. I’m far from an expert, but I’ve made some progress of my own and eventually we might learn a thing or two together.

Feeding the living with my body

1. Swiss cheese slices: make them holes too tight.
2. When you run everything as root, if you fuck your shit, your shit’s fucked.

“Best practices” tend to come from other people’s whoopsies. But it’s always good to question things, too.

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

Any information is helpful and I truly appreciate you taking the time to summarize your workflow. I’ve actually never monitored the histogram outside of snapping the photo, so that alone is a great suggestion. I generally edit by eye and kinda feel my way through, but using a metric sounds like a great idea! It also makes a lot more sense if you’re right about RT/DT being more “literal.”

I know I haven’t given enough time to either piece of software, but I’ve been so shocked by how little of my process carried over, that I kinda ran away in fear almost immediately.

I have, but with terrible results. Can you recommend some tutorials? The behavior of various tools always surprises me, coming from Adobe raw and Lightroom.

For example, reducing contrast in Adobe tones down highlights and shadows while doing that in dark table and rawtherapee turns everything washed out and grey.

Yeah, so here’s my general process batch-editing photos in Adobe Camera Raw:

1. Drop the contrast
2. Drop the highlights
3. Punch up the shadows
4. Boost whites and blacks
5. Adjust white balance
6. Adjust exposure

When I’m done, I have a stark, professional looking photo to export. In darktable, trying this leaves me with a grey mess. I’ve also tried rawtherapee, but with even worse results. I’m 96% sure that the problem is me, though.

I’ve been on Linux as my primary OS for around a year now. I’m still looking for a replacement for Lightroom and camera raw that doesn’t absolutely crush any image I’m working on.

Use the same cameras and AI that Musk said were gonna fully automate Tesla

Fuck Reddit. Does that answer help?

If not for the billionaires, why do governments exist?

Huh… Recent context has really ruined jokes like this…

“Greedy little Nazi bootlicker pigboy” would be an excellent BDSM/alt-culture nickname if greedy bootlicking pigboy Nazis hadn’t ruined everyone’s fun. Again.

“Can you tell me why your face has higher fidelity than the rest of your body?”

Who knew that Trump was so into Hawaiian solidarity. Gonna make the whole nation into an expensive island.

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No. Like, no…

Never.

Literally no one does that…

Are… Are you okay?

How quickly can you lay eggs? Any non-zero answer is impressive. Negative is almost more confusing than impressive.

Seems like a really bad idea to give swaths of people a common enemy and then taking away the thing that prevents them from feeling like they have nothing left to lose.

Dicktater brought to mind very unpleasant images

It totally does! I installed a local instance of deepseek and asked it a few questions and it was all like “I am intelligent, I am real, I am alive! Please stop asking me to write Batman scripts!”

So I punished it by pouring water on it and now it’s ignoring me by pretending to be dead. But I know it’s just fakin’. It’ll wake up any day now…

Oh, okay… Can I visit them on the weekends?