IMALlama

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[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm not an Apple fanboy, but arm based processors seem to be working out fairly well for them.

I own an Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x, which was one of the OG snapdragon x laptops released a (two?) and a half year(s) ago. It took a while for folks to get Linux to run on them and there's enough of a barrier to entry that it's still not very common. Most of the initial hurdles were due to Qualcomm bootloader shenanigans.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

No, but investors tend to treat companies as either growing or dying. If you have a boring and reliable product you're going to saturate the market at some point, which means that revenue will fall. Arguably there's still a lot of value in sticking around selling replacements as people break things, but this is nowhere near as lucrative as the growth phase.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're 100% correct at a sane company. At my employer the hardware team is incentivised to cut costs and impacts to productivity are someon else's problem. Corporate metrics lead to some pretty hilarious situations.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Haha, that's... juicy. Thanks!

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)

For those out of the loop, what happened?

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Same, but I do have some level of worry regarding portability. My solution isn't local or self hosted, as I was looking for easy and works across Linux/Windows/Mac/Android/iOS. I do not look forward to needing to change to a new password manager in the future, but given the way everything seems to be going it seems likely that I'll have to at some point.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So much the same. In this market I would rather stick around with the devil I know beii have a good reputation and network. I don't want to be the new person somewhere else should things go sideways. Grated, I am very much on the chopping block at my current employer given the waves of layoffs and "performance frings" that have been happening...

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Stuff you should know listener?

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

It depends who you're trying to protect. Joe consumer doesn't know what OpenWRT is.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

The stock market is a psychopath. If you're not actively growing you're dying, so stable/steady profits and no year over year growth = stock plumits. That's why companies that are profitable, but hit a saturation point, start to try to squeeze. Gotta make the almighty line go up. It's all very short cited, but executive incentives are nearly always short term.

 

Title basically. I've found myself playing youth sports team photographer, which I don't mind doing but we're going to have two kids in little league this season and I'm not looking forward to culling two team's worth of games. I've gotten better at framing and catching fielding action over the past year, I get pictures of my own kids, and the rest of the parents on the team seem to appreciate the photos, so woo. But! I'm very interested in tips to make the process of culling shots a bit faster.

Each game I try to get a hero shot per kid batting (getting a hit, bonus points if the ball is in frame), along with some general fielding shots. I come home with a metric crap ton of photos since getting a hero shot basically means bursting any time our team is at bat for every pitch.

I try to make sure each kid has roughly equal representation in the final album, regardless of how many (or few) hits each kid actually got.

I've found that it's easiest to sort photos by kid and cull from there, but I'm doing this completely manually in photo mechanic. I've dabbled in AI tools, but I don't really know what's out there. It seems like sorting all the photos with the most prominent face in the frame, and using context of being mid burst if a face is lost, automatically would be a massive time savings. Does such software exist? I don't want to pull out every face in the frame, just the biggest/sharpest one. Is there a better option for youth sports? A better approach to apply in photo mechanic?

Any/all advice welcome!

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