An untested disaster recovery plan is wishful thinking

Before reading your comment, I knew IN MY SOUL, that this was from the shittier part of Florida

Looks great. Saw you at c/birding and gave you an upvote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isiVdlz8bDY

Proud

First of all, this is an incredible shot! Second, I think your edit is solid. I am posting my edit of your pic to show you my interpretation of what I would post. I’m not implying that I somehow corrected your work, rather went with my gut for what looks good to me.

The biggest change is the crop and I chose it because I wanted to highlight the fine textures captured and make sure they’re viewable even on small phone screens.

I pumped contrast and saturation to my liking. I pushed blacks up and whites down to make sure I wasn’t clipping. In doing so, I stared seeing a lot of color noise so corrected that. There was also chromatic abberation/fringing on the wings, which I removed.

I also added sharpening. And a slight vignette to focus eyes to the center.

Lightroom settings (easily reproducible in Darktable):

Exposure  -.20 f
Highlights -34
Shadows -18
Whites -4
Blacks +41
Temp -4/100 (towards cool)
Tint -3/100 (towards green)
Vibrance +27
Saturation +37

Tonal Contrast 
Texture +10 (fine)
Clarity +15 (mid)
Dehaze   +30 (coarse)

Sharpening +33 
Color Noise Reduction +32

Vignette -29
Removed Chromatic Aberration

Everything reminds me of her

ROCm on my 7900xt is solid. ROCm on my MI50s (Vega) is a NIGHTMARE

You use Alpine as a daily driver? With a GUI? How does it do with hardware support?

Totally. I wouldn’t even have the conversation with someone just because. I think what I meant was, for a user like her, mostly web and some office tasks, Linux is perfectly suitable.

• Cream Theater
• System of a Town
• Go:jira

Ok. This convinced me to give it another serious try

If you know the right incantatuons, you can make sand do the things you want. IM A FUCKING WIZARD, HARRY

True. And make sure you post a sincerw wall of text to a meme community

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For my job, I’m in the unfortunate position of having to use Teams, Zoom, AND Slack on a daily basis on my work-provided MacBook. They all suck in some way. I use Signal, Discord, and rarely Zoom on ChachyOS with the same hardware (kvm switch) and it doesn’t feel that different

I have casually explored RawTherapee which is probably viable but I didn’t spend as much time as I have in dark table.

Maybe I do turn on too many things…

Edit: To be clear, I edit thousands of raw photos per year and do so in bursts of hundreds. I kind of know what I want so it’s wholly possible that I used the wrong plugins. I know that was something I struggled with when I picked it up. There are 5 ways to do the same thing, the devs had a preference, the docs didn’t tell me, but it wasn’t clear what I was “supposed” to use by just using the application. Now… I could have probably gone and read change logs and release notes but that wasn’t the way I was thinking at the time…