Well, I am not active that often either (on Lemmy), but thanks for suggesting the other communities!

I already had a peek at your photos and they look gorgeous!

I just remembered what my issue with flashes were. Shutter wise, I can only go as low as 200, which is not optimal for my shaky hands (its not that bad, but I prefer to shoot at higher shutter).

I will give the other AF methods a shot.

Generally, thanks for the tips! :)

I am currently using a Canon EOS 200D (first generation) with a (I think) Tamron f2.8 90mm macro lens. It is what I have, and I cannot afford better equipment 🥲

I am pretty bad with photo stacking, especially for moving targets (which I almost exclusively shoot), because

1. The camera has a pretty slow burst and a tiny buffer, and it doesn’t have focus bracketing. Therefore, for stacking, I have to be very precise and steady (which I am not).
2. I don’t have good software for stacking, mainly because I am on Linux (and I will not switch for photo stacking). I found some programs under Linux for photo stacking (even RAW, iirc). Lately, I got Affinity Photo running, and if it performs well, I might consider buying it for the stacking. But I don’t need the editing features, because I am happy with what Darktable has to offer.

But I am willing to learn focus stacking, I sometimes try, but then I pause because it is a lot of work and research. Someday I will figure it out; I just need more time 😁

Sadly, the camera is not very light-sensitive. To reduce the aperture, I have to lower the shutter speed, which would make the image more blurry, or use a flash (I should definitely check out flashes… I guess). I cannot (or shouldn’t) increase the ISO above 16 000 because then the noise becomes unbearable.

Very often, I also have problems with the focus not being on the subject. The autofocus is generally not that good, and I often cannot really see what is in focus. Focus peaking would be a great feature, which the camera doesn’t have 🫠

Thanks for your reply; it is cool to hear that the photo is generally already good. This was my first submission to a critique site 😁 Your advice is appreciated, and I will try to get into focus stacking.

Thanks, I will look into that!

Thanks for the advice. Do you have suggestions how to setup/handle the backup? E.G. manually connecting the drive via USB and cloning the files via rsync/ borg, e.g. every week or every time a threshold of changes have been made? Or having a small extra machine with the backup hard drive and sending the files via the network?

I am also still a bit confused. I have 2x 12TB. Lets say I have 6TB files on my hosting drive. AFAICT can I have two backups/snapshots before the third backup needs to override the first backup. Or am missing something? Buying more drives for backup is not really doable, as drives do generally cost a buck and I cannot/ don’t really want to afford buying more drives.

See https://lemmy.world/comment/9404186 for a Solution. Spoiler: switching from NVIDIA to an AMD GPU fixed the issue.

See https://lemmy.world/comment/9404186 for a Solution. Spoiler: switching from NVIDIA to an AMD GPU fixed the issue.

I also had problems with NVIDIA and I made the tough decision to buy a new Graphics card. After switching to an AMD GPU, the Audio issues were also gone… Don’t ask me why, I’m just happy, that I have a working setup now.

Thanks, I might give it a try. I am not settled yet but FCOS sounds very promising. We will see.

Fedora has an annoying release cadence IMO. I have experienced desktop bugs in the early GA releases before which put me off. If I wanted instability I would sooner go with Arch (and I am yet to have many issues with Arch yet).

Do you mean they are too frequent, or what do you mean?

I am also curious. FreeBSD is, in my opinion, is such an unorthodox choice.

I don’t know if the use-case you describes fit into my problem. I only have one server and its a physical server. I’m also not really able to extend the number of servers, as I don’t really have the budget.

What is the difference/benefit to Fedora CoreOS?

I am also thinking about installing nix on my laptop, but I need a proprietary library for work, which is kinda hard to install/ not working on NixOS. But we might be able to just use docker for development. Well, that is currently preventing me from installing nix on my laptop, I am still looking for a way to fix that issue.

I’d recommend it, but would also recommend taking a look at Flatcar Linux which is more or less the same without the IBM dependency (which makes my stomach hurt sometimes).

Why exactly are the IBM dependencies a problem for you?

I used debian before for some years, but at some point became tired of manually updating the system (which is probably one of the biggest benefit of FCOS). It takes, however, quite some time to put your first Ignition config together, and debugging is tedious as you have to redeploy to see if a bug / error is now gone (I’ve used a VM for that).

I can’t really find good resources on how FCOS is working and what are the benefits. Is it updating the system/kernel automatically as well as the containers? And what are generally, in your opinion, the advantages of FCOS?

You can also use container within NixOS and AFAICT even declare the containers which should be running. Also NixOS is sad to be stable, or am I missing something?

I’m probably the odd one out, but my home server is running Arch Linux. And it’s been really smooth. I do weekly maintenance in the form of updates and cleanup and it’s been reliable since I set it up a couple of years ago.

I am basically doing the same right now, all by hand. It’s just that I am not doing the system and container updates regularly. I also often forget which services I have running and some of the Services I am not even using anymore. I just wanted to give them a try and now they are sitting there, wasting (barely any, but it’s nagging me) resources.

Firstly, I don’t think Docker is intended to be used as a security layer. I could be wrong, but I think it’s relatively easy to escape the sandbox. Although that might be different nowadays.

You are probably right. It’s just something I tell myself to sleep well at night.

Anyway, I recently switched from Debian to NixOS for my server and it’s so much nicer. Being able to use a single language for configuring everything all in one place is so nice. If I want to try something new, I can just throw maybe 30 lines in a config and it’s there. If I don’t like it, then I can remove that config and it’s gone. Most services you’d want to run on a server are available in the package manager, and many have rather sensible defaults.

So you are installing your services/programs on your system and not inside a container, which you declare in your config?

Sadly, using WebCord or WebCord doesn’t fix the issue for me :( My sound is still deadlocked somehow.

Sadly, using WebCord or WebCord doesn’t fix the issue for me :( My sound is still deadlocked somehow.

I already knew the video and I am considering giving it a try. I wanted the E-Reader to be also able to display PDF files, which is easier to implement with linux as a basis, I thought.