Notices by shom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚✊🏽 (shom@fosstodon.org)

@selea I've been wanting to but haven't figured out what hardware to get started with. If you don't mind sharing, what route did you take?

"We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity."
-Martin Luther King Jr
#MLK #MountainTop

@derek @frankie "Good News About Hell": Ben Stiller and Adam Scott are doing an episode by episode review Podcast¹ for the whole first season leading up to the first episode of season 2. At that point the podcast episode is released with the TV episode.
¹https://www.audacy.com/podcast/the-severance-podcast-with-ben-stiller-adam-scott-947fe

#Severance on #AppleTv

@_elena I'm also looking into hosting GoToSocial, I'm curious about how the backup works. If you're up for giving advice: Is it possible to backup only things you posted not all the federation? Having gone through it, would you recommend setting it up any different than the default documentation?

@abcdw @cnx wow, it's a really nice camera especially with plug n play on Linux. I wish I hadn't bought a 720p Logitech as a backup to my camera HDMI capture and just gotten this instead. Thanks for sharing!

@abcdw what webcam is that? Looks like it might have a nice optical element.

@skinnylatte how large? 4x5, 8x10, bigger?
I keep considering the Intrepid 4x5 and also using it as an enlarger. But might be more of a 2026 thing!

I haven't been big on year in review but I've really enjoyed the great accomplishments and personal wins that my people are sharing, I love to see it. I started thinking about my year and I actually did a lot more than I thought so I thought I'd give it a shot.

https://shom.dev/posts/20241231_2024-in-review/

#YearInReview #2024

@_elena thanks for sharing your journey, it's very inspiring and gratifying seeing someone get started with enthusiasm.

@skinnylatte The patronizing patriarchal-benevolence bullcrap is infuriating. If your solution to H-1B issues is to scrap it to prevent exploitation, instead of reforming it to assign the visa to the person and not the company (at a minimum to start with) then your solution is closed borders. I'd rather someone just honestly state their "nativist pecking order" position, than claim to be "helping" from their uninformed moral high horse.

@ironicbadger said the guy with literal ton of server, 3D printer, woodworking, and racing gear 😝
(P. S. I love all your interests and you sharing them!)

A beautifully crafted, paced, and filmed documentary by @sivertalmvik about a street photographer capturing vintage tram cars in Oslo, soon to retire after 45 years of service.

https://makertube.net/w/37299e82-dcb4-47a3-b609-f213d5c57e0a

#StreetPhotography #Documentary #Trains #PublicTransport #Oslo #Norway

@skinnylatte @petrikas would love that!!

Actually I have a post/poll composed asking the fedi film folks if they'd be interested in submitting for and buying a fedi film zine that I would like to curate (worked it out to $/£/€ shipped). I've been sitting on it wondering when is a good time to ask. I'm taking this as a sign!

@petrikas 💯
I've committed myself to printing at least one photo from every roll of film and just slap it on the wall. I have considered making a zine per year also and I'm getting closer to mentally committing to that.

@skinnylatte I would love to watch the Aunt Adriana version critiques, like the Uncle Roger reviews.

@skinnylatte Hugo is like coral, it will stay exactly how you last saw it, won't interact but allows many simultaneous visitors, unless the server gets too hot and the whole thing crashes.

So the thing that doesn't work reliably is blocking the film advance lever before the shutter has been activated. The problem would be advancing frames without exposing them first.

There's a VERY tiny wire that should keep tension on the feelers (is that the right term) but I don't think I can access it properly without taking the body apart completely. This might be a good place to pause the repair thread and put the camera back together. /🧵

#BelieveInFilm #Minolta7sII #Repair

So there is also this "random" screw that was stuck in the advance lever gear. That was an unrelated reason for why the advance lever was stuck. That was a red herring for a bit.

But, more puzzlingly I have no idea where this screw belongs. I cannot see where it should go. And everything is working. Well, kind of... 🧵

#BelieveInFilm #Minolta7sII #Repair

Happy camera repair day to all who celebrate.

Finally gathered enough focus and courage to crack open the Minolta Hi-Matic 7sII that had a stuck film advancer. Clearly it suffered some trauma in the past and the little bar popped above instead of holding the shutter cocked. Now it works, yay!! Well kind of... 🧵

#BelieveInFilm #Minolta7sII #Repair

Oh right, the most important part... the glamor shot!

#BelieveInFilm #Minolta7sII