I feel like it’s pretentiousness-dependent, some places you’ll never be a local in the minds of your new neighbours.

Not a critique of the pic you’ve posted (which is gorgeous btw), just mentioning as you’ve called out the noisiness that comes with high-res crop sensors, and sharing what worked for me.

I really like Darktable, but if you have a Mac or Windows machine (or check if they’ll work with Wine, I didn’t try as I needed to get a mainstream OS for unrelated reasons), it’s definitely worth giving the paid options a go, use the free trials. The first time I tried on a pic taken at night on a fast shutter at 5-digit ISO I was astonished.

This one’s only at 2500 ISO, but here’s a sample 1:1 crop with just optical corrections:

In Darktable, with the default workflow followed by profiled denoise (which incidentally creates a 67MB intermediate DNG, the CR3 is 45MB):

And denoised in Photolab on default settings:

I use an R7 too and have been shooting a lot of night sports. 8-12k ISO to get a fast enough shutter and yeah, unsurprisingly noisy af.

Not sure what you’re processing with but Dxo Photolab cleans them up amazingly well, I found it noticeably better than LR. You need to shoot in Raw for the good NR stuff, but for me personally I do that anyway for the flexibility to adjust some of the settings I inevitably got wrong in the moment. I have zero affiliation with them beyond being happy with the product.

On top of the obvious it would have to introduce a lot of flexibility in scripts. They can just hand-wave some otherwise absurd things if they have effectively unlimited resources at their disposal.

Barra the world!

Holden and Ford Australia. Partly for personal nostalgic reasons but also because of local engineering and manufacturing. A bit of our national identity disappeared when they shut down, although they were owned by US companies they were still a source of Aussie pride. Nowadays we have no local industry and it all just feels a bit hollow. Like watching sports when you have no local team.

I doubt they’d be able to make them these days but seeing as we’re talking hypotheticals, there’s something about a big cube V8 or turbo 6 that’s missing from everything since. Yes I know on here the hive mind demands we boo ands hiss if someone dares to like anything ICE, and when our current runabout goes it’ll likely be replaced by an EV of some sort. But for us, cars are a hobby and a source of enjoyment too, and I dare say we’ll have at least one ICE vehicle for a long as it’s feasible for us to do so. And if I can get a semi-modern nod to the past that would be perfect.

And if the Japanese car industry could go back to the 90s I’d be pretty stoked about that too!

I just run on two mini PCs.

One running OPNsense, fanless N5105, 4x 2.5Gb, it doesn’t need much disk or memory but at the time it was a negligible additional cost to go to 16GB and 500GB.

The other is running Proxmox, on a Ryzen 7 7840HS, 96GB RAM, 500GB SSD, and with two 5TB USB HDDs plugged in (rotated with a third that I keep at a friend’s place as a cheap but fit for purpose offsite backup).

It’s just them plus a managed 2.5Gb switch and a couple of wifi routers in AP-only mode. It costs very little to run power-wise and is more than enough grunt for my needs.

I used sandpaper on mine, a few different grits down to a 2000 I think it was. Then applied a UV-resistant clear. It has gone well over 5 years now.

I’m not an expert but have worked in these kinds of environments on and off over the years.

It’s hard to offer broad advice as every encounter is different. Your workplace might offer training though to give you some tools, which will likely also teach you the things not to say (eg promising a result, stoking the fire, preaching, etc).

Calming someone down isn’t always the goal either, sometimes people just need to process difficult information or grieve for the loss of a loved one. All you can do in this situation is to offer a safe place to do that, and maybe a sympathetic ear if they need to talk, and perhaps to validate their feelings. Otherwise just being present is often enough, as is knowing when to give someone space.

Psoriasis then at a guess

Edit: beaten lol

Eczema?

Or severe dehydration perhaps

Lots of variables here including why I’m travelling and whether the trip itself is enjoyable.

Generally though, I’d say In the city, probably 30 min on foot or 15 min otherwise. In the sticks, if you can make it back before the next mealtime you’re still “close”.

Booting on a schedule as others have suggested would be the simplest by far.

To answer as asked though, it’s not something I’ve needed to do but it sounds like a VPN + IGMP proxy (I’m assuming you have a separate subnet for your VPN) might fit the bill.

Alternatively some kind of low power device (a Pi or something) that lives in the same subnet could make the WOL call locally, and you just need to find a way to trigger it. Could do it via a http call for example.

John Farnham was incredible live, but a special shout out for his version of Help, the one with the orchestra backing (edit: Melbourne Symphony).

For me he’s up there with the best male vocalists ever, Help was the last song after 3 hours or so on stage and you can tell he’s loving every moment as much as the crowd are. The album version is excellent but the live one…

I do remember there was a site where you could check how well a game ran on linux

Is this the one? WineHQ AppDB

In two different companies I’ve seen people refer to “the database” when they actually mean a spreadsheet. That’s not just a terminology mixup, these things were super complex, with pseudo-relational tables, lookups, links to other files etc. The sort of thing that should be in an actual database, that has less chance of breaking in obscure ways when someone inserts a row or types a value over a formula. It was actually pretty impressive, in an “impending doom at any moment” kind of way.

Also had one where there was a spreadsheet of everyone in the business top to bottom, shared by HR and IT. Both groups needed a list of staff, so why not just keep one, right? This thing had personal details like home address and medical conditions, plus things like salary (inc garnishments), performance management notes etc, as well as of course their username and password (which was assigned to them and they couldn’t change) and security questions and answers. It didn’t even have a password on the file. I noped tf out of that place as quickly as I could, but for reasons even worse than that stupid spreadsheet.

Walt Disney

My app doesn’t support spoilers so I don’t know if this has worked. Maybe collapse this comment if you don’t want to see it, just in case.

Edit: fixed maybe? Thanks @Zagorath@aussie.zone

I’ve not tried them but you can get replacement pads which apparently have a cooling gel in them. Eg these.

No idea if they’re any good but would be interested in hearing from someone with first-hand experience.

Aussie here, to me xmas = summer time. Xmas movies always felt irrelevant, and the idea of Santa wearing all his gear is mental when it’s often 40C+ and humid af.

Being cold would feel alien that time of year, even more so if it snowed because that doesn’t happen in 99% of the country regardless of the time of year.