n-gate.com,s Webshit weekly.: Some DIY electronics-repair people write a hit piece about a company that makes difficult-to-repair products. Hackernews can no longer ignore the fact that their favorite computer manufacturer hasn’t manufactured a useful computer in several years, and spends yet another afternoon mourning the death of the person who made the trains run on time. In the end, the consensus is that they’ll only spend a few thousand more dollars on this shit, and if it doesn’t get better, they’ll go buy Macbook clones from Dell instead.

Zim, Katie, and Leeloo (2006) For many years I had three dogs and it was hectic and messy and awesome. I currently have no dogs and I don’t like it. I need dogs.  Leeloo, Jess, Zim, Katie (2009)  Leeloo, Zim, Katie, and Jack in car (2012)  Leeloo, Jess, Zim, and Katie (2013)  Zim, Leeloo, and Katie (2014)

It’s time: Re-think your post-processing workflow: Have you ever seen an Apple TV remote? It has three buttons on it. Compare that to the old-fashioned, TV remote with 60 or more buttons. That’s the kind of direction we want to take at Skylum. Simple should remain simple. I really like Skylar’s Luminar for editing photos and have been eagerly awaiting their DAM solution, but referencing the Apple TV remote in a positive way like that gives me pause.

I’ve given it a few days but I’ve decided that I hated I’m angry with Westworld Season 2. Bernard’s constant bewilderment aligned nicely with mine. I should have known better, given its dumb-ass messed up timeline and “Lost”-like “Rules, what rules?” behavior. “You just don’t ‘get’ it!” you say. You’re right, and that’s another reason I hated it. It’s not a mystery, it’s sprawling nonsense. Go ahead, pretend it means something if you want.

Xah Lee on Frames vs. Window in Emacs – Irreal: Lee’s argument, as I understand it, is that switching between windows in a single frame is suboptimal because various Emacs operations will destroy your windows configuration and using something like winner-mode to restore your window configuration is too much trouble. I’ve been using a single maximized frame, split into several windows, and I’m frequently frustrated when I trigger some action which fouls up my carefully constructed layout.

Be sure to only install beta software on a device dedicated to development or beta testing HaHaHaHaHaHa!  

I made a handfull of 11″ x 14″ darkroom prints last night. Bigger prints are cool, but I never know what to do with them. Mostly, I print at 5×7. The smaller paper is relatively inexpensive so I don’t freak out every time I waste a sheet (and I waste a lot of sheets). Smaller prints are easy to handle, display, and store. Still, big prints are fun. I’ve got about 100 sheets sitting in the freezer so I might as well use them up.

transfer.sh: This should come in handy. Via Brett Terpstra

I now have a nice, big Synology NAS. Synology’s new photo app, Moments, aims to be a replacement for Google Photos, which sounds like a great plan. I’ve been using Google Photos since it launched but it gives me the creeps having so much of my life under Google’s watchful eye. Jumping right in, I imported all 79,000 photos from Google Photos into Moments. The import didn’t take as long as I expected.

Simplicity vs More – Mo Bitar Well, there’s no winning. I want peace, I want simplicity, but I also want more This is an endless conflict, no?