Hey! Ich habe ja folgenden Post hier gemacht: https://feddit.de/post/10500853

Jetzt bin ich ein wenig unschlüssig, was ich will und bräuchte euren Input.

Hintergründe und Gedanken:

• Ich muss täglich 10-15 km einfach zur Arbeit hin zurücklegen, und möchte das mit dem Fahrrad tun
• Die Strecke ist zu einem großen Teil kurvenfrei und ohne Gefälle und ein ausgebauter, guter Radweg. Leider auf einer flachen Ebene, heißt, ich könnte Probleme mit Gegenwind kriegen.
• Ich will das Rad nicht unbedingt als Sportgerät verwenden, aber meine Fitness schon gerne verbessern. Ich will mich aber nicht jedes Mal in aerodynamische Fahrradleggins quetschen. Da ich aber kein Rennen fahre, wo ein paar Sekunden hier und da einen riesen Unterschied machen, sollte es egal sein, ob meine Jacke bisschen schlabbert.
• Mir ist die Geschwindigkeit schon relativ wichtig. Ein E-Bike schaltet (und bremst) sich nsch 25 km/h selbst, aber auf der geraden Strecke würde ich mit dem Rennrad vermutlich deutlich höhere Geschwindigkeiten hinkriegen (?)
• Vorteil vom E-Bike wäre, dass ich es in ein Lastenrad unwandeln und damit auch mal ohne Auto nen Kasten Bier von A nach B transportieren kann.
• Das Rennrad verschleist nicht so. Keine Technik (Akku, Motor, Elekronik, etc.) dahinter, nur bisschen normaler Wartungsaufwand.
• Preis: ein gutes Rennrad krieg ich auf Kleinanzeigen schon ab 250€, ein E-Bike fängt erst bei 400-600€ an. Da ich aber täglich damit fahren werde, ist der Preis eher nebensächlicher.

Ich glaube, ich tendiere zu einem E-Bike.
Alleine schon die Tatsache, dass der Begriff in dem anderen Post ein paar Mals erwähnt wurde, sagt schon viel.

Aber was würdet ihr mir empfehlen? Was sind eure Erfahrungen?

Fahrradanfänger hier.

Ich wohne eher ländlich und die Öffi-Infrastruktur hier ist hundsmieserabel.
Meine neue Arbeit ist ~10-15 km einfach entfernt, wobei ein Großteil davon ein perfekt geteerter Fahrradweg ohne Steigung ist.

Beim größten Teil der Strecke herrscht zudem eine Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung von 60-80 km/h für Autos, daher wäre ich mitm Fahrrad auch nicht unbedingt viel langsamer.

Jetzt möchte ich mir ein Rennrad auf Kleinanzeigen kaufen, weiß aber überhaupt nicht, wo ich anfangen soll. Preislich ist absolut alles dabei, von 200-4000€.
Ich tendiere zu einem Mittelfeld-Rad zwischen 250-500€.

Was soll ich beim Kauf beachten?

• Wie wichtig ist das Baujahr? Sind moderne Räder besser?

• Wie hoch sind die Geschwindigkeitsunterschiede?

• Was sollte das Rad haben, was ist nur Nice-to-have?

• Wie kann ich ein funktionales Alltagsfahrrad (mit Rucksack, Jacke, etc.) haben, das trotzdem schnell ist?
  Wie wichtig ist die Aerodynamik wirklich, wenn mir paar Minuten hin oder her egal sind?

• Wie mache ich das Rad verkehrssicher, ohne Einbußen?

• Und was habt ihr für generelle Tipps?

Configuration:

OS: Android (GrapheneOS);
Launcher: Kvaesitso (Available on F-Droid Izzy-repo);
Theme: Light theme prefered;
Wallpaper: Shot by myself, but I can share it if anyone wants it;
Icons: Arcticons Material You

Images:

Landing page:

Widget bar (when scrolled down):

App menu:

Dark mode:

I made this post mainly as discussion and suggestion for mods and posting people.

Browsing through this community (and before that, r/unixporn or r/usabilityporn on Reddit) feels a bit like wandering through a shopping catalogue. Sadly, a bad organised one.

Sometimes, I just enjoy looking at the awesome configs of other users and see what some WMs or DEs (or, to be more precise, their users!) are capable of, without any intentions to replicate it.
It's more of a "Oh, that looks neat, take my upvote!", but not much more. Similar to an art gallery.

And sometimes, I use it to find some inspiration and to recreate/ apply it on my setup.
In that regard, I always have a hard time sorting out or finding the right stuff.

Say, for example, if I want a good looking KDE setup, and I search for "Light mode", "Minimalist", "Elegant", or some other term, individually, I get random stuff like an anime hyprland configuration or someone posting their Cinnamon setup, because it had above keyword in the title. Meanwhile, the exact thing I searched for is named "Here's my comfy KDE style" and isn't listed in my results.
On Reddit, it was just as bad. And it's not because of the search capability, it's because of missing information.

If I search for all keywords together, I of course don't find anything because it's too restricted.

A question mainly for the mods: For future search accessibility, what do you think about making a rule (or, at least suggestion) to include category key words (for example "Hyprland, neon, anime, modern, dark mode, minimalist") aswell as the exact things used (icon theme, dotfiles, etc.) in the description?

In that way, we maybe could make an automated website/ category catalogue where we can filter and search better, where we can search hierarchically, e.g. "Desktop Environments > Plasma > Light mode > Modern" and see all posts linked there.

Another idea would be to link them in the sidebar, e.g. "List of Light KDE themes" or "Captppucin window managers".

What do you think of that?

Ich möchte auf c/Pilzzucht ein paar Tutorials veröffentlichen.
Dabei handelt es sich um Videos mit einer Länge von 1-3 Minuten.

So weit ich das richtig verstanden habe, kann man auf Lemmy generell keine Videos hochladen, nur Fotos.
Man soll/ kann sie aber auf Pixelfed veröffentlichen, da gibt's aber ein Größenlimit von 15 MB. Sollte ich stattdessen Peertube verwenden? Kann ich das irgendwie mit meinem Lemmy-Account verknüpfen?

Oder soll ich das lieber auf einer anderen Plattform uploaden und dann verlinken?

Aus ideologischen Gründen würde ich bevorzugt im Fediverse bleiben, oder zumindest nichts auf YouTube und co. veröffentlichen.
Was würdet ihr da empfehlen?

Was bevorzugt ihr - Dark Mode oder Light Mode?

Ich bin eher Team Hellmodus.

Ein Argument für den Dunkelmodus ist ja, dass er besser für die Augen ist.
Ich (und viele Augenärzte und Forscher) sehe das aber bisschen anders.
Ich finde schwarzen Text auf hellem Hintergrund, wie es bei Papier ist, deutlich angenehmer zu lesen und alle Icons/ Buchstaben schärfer und kontrastreicher.
Immer, wenn ich vom dunklen Modus auf den hellen umschalte, ist es so, als würde ich von HD zu Full-HD wechseln.
Im Dunkelmodus ist alles leicht unscharf und ich muss meine Augen mehr anstrengen.

Außerdem finde ich den hellen etwas stylischer und eleganter.

Abends aktiviere ich den Blaufilter, dann wirds nochmal angenehmer und augenfreundlicher.
Blaufilter + Darkmode = man sieht gar nichts mehr

Die Energieersparnis ist bei den meisten Bildschirmen ohnehin egal, weil sie beim LCD sowieso fast immer weiß leuchten, selbst wenn man etwas dunkles sieht.
So wirklich stark fällt das nur auf AMOLED Screens auf, z.B. am Handy. Da hält der Bildschirm ca. 10% länger bei mir.

Die häufigste Aussage für Dark Mode ist "Mir brennts sonst die Netzhaut weg.".
Schon mal dran gedacht, den Bildschirm dunkler zu machen? Wenn man drin ist, sollte er eh nicht heller als 50% sein imo.

Es gibt zwar Darkmode-Zwang-Addons, aber bei denen ist die Leserlichkeit meistens fürn Arsch. Darkmode kann sehr gut aussehen und leserlich sein, aber das erfordert viel UI-Umstrukturierung.
Wenn man dann 90% der Websites im Darkmode nativ hat, und aus Versehen eine der 10% hellen Seiten öffnet, ist das scheiße.

Was ich tatsächlich auch gut finde ist der Graumodus, insbesondere bei Bildbearbeitung (z.B. RawTherapee und Darktable). Der sieht zwar kacke aus, aber ist recht angenehm und kontrastreich.

Was bevorzugt ihr so? Wieso findet ihr Dark Mode besser? Wieso ist er, besonders bei Programmierern, der Standard?

I've always been a Gnome fanboy and couldn't imagine using something else.

I've dabbled into KDE every few months (by rebasing from Silverblue to Kinoite for example) and I've always switched back after a few weeks.

I always wished I liked KDE, because it's more powerful, but there always were show stoppers. Inconsistencies, bugs and crashes, too many options, cluttered UI, and more. My main argument to dislike it was that KDE tried to do everything all at once, but fails everywhere because nothing is polished and only 90% there.

Gnome on the other hand was simple and just worked, because every feature has been worked on thoroughly and integrated perfectly.
Still, there are just a few things I dislike on Gnome, especially the core problem of "sleeping" devs who decide against implementing stuff like fractional scaling or a good app tray.
The lack of modularity in Nautilus is also hugely annoying, especially when working with RAW pictures, where you don't see a picture. I had to install a photo viewer that is basically a second file manager just because of that. Dolphin does that out of the box.

Still, Gnome felt like the lesser evil for me.

This has changed now!

I rebased to the newest F40 beta (including KDE 6) and WOW!

Everything feels so polished and reworked. I have the feeling, on Plasma 5 were a lot of innovations and new features, but they were just thrown into the room incoherently.
Now, those have been reorganized and finished.

• The design language is almost the same, but cleaned up and less cluttered,
• I don't feel the need to change my themes, only the accent colour and the GTK theme. Breeze looks very mature and good now.
• The gestures are pretty much on par with Gnome, which means A LOT.
• It works pretty reliable, even though it's a beta and I will report bugs if I can.
• Future stability should also be better now, due to the bundles release schedule like on Gnome. Devs had a hard time with that in the past, and I think many bugs were caused by that. Now, Plasma might ship as the default DE for some distros.
• The settings are way more legible now and everything is easier to find.
• I also liked KRunner more than Gnome's search and Dolphin is way better/ capable anyway.
• And much more!

To the developers, you did a fucking great job! Keep going!
KDE feels SO professional now and finally reached its potential in my eyes. The last days have been very pleasant and I can't wait to rebase my devices to the stable release in 1-2 months!

Ich komme von c/Renaturierung und wollte fragen, welche Pflanzen denn für unsere Natur am nützlichsten sind.
Insbesondere diese, die von Insekten und Vögeln als Futter verwendet werden können, als Unterschlupf dienen oder Schadstoffe aus dem Boden ziehen bzw. diesen mit Nährstoffen anreichern können.

Pluspunkt wäre auf jeden Fall, wenn sie entweder hübsch sind (z.B. Blumenwiese) oder auch für uns Menschen essbar sind (z.B. Beeren, Fallobst, etc.).

Sie sollen dem Hauptzweck der Renaturierung bzw. Stärkung und Erhöhung der Artenvielfalt dienen und sollen hauptsächlich durch Samenbomben (Bäume ggfs. durch Sätzlinge) ausgebreitet werden.

Ich hätte folgende Beispiele bzw. Ideen:

• Blumenwiesen-Mix: da weiß ich leider nicht genau, was da drin ist, und der Freund von mir möchte nur ungerne nicht-heimische Arten verbreiten. Ich weiß auch nicht, wie wertvoll die tatsächlich für Insekten sind, oder ob die nur hübsch aussehen.
• Sonnenblumenkerne: ideal für Vögel, sehen auch noch toll aus.
• Vogelsamenmix: Hirse, Sonnenblumenkerne, Hanfsamen, etc.
• Nutzhanf: erzeugt tiefe Wurzeln, die Kohlenstoff speichern und den Boden auflockern.
• Versch. Bäume, z.B. Edelkastanie. Gut für Wildschweine und co., können auch wir sehr gut essen
• ...?

Was würde euch noch einfallen?

That's a question I always asked myself.
Currently, I'm running Debian on both my servers, but I consider switching to Fedora Atomic Core (CoreOS), since I already use Fedora Atomic on my desktop and feel very comfortable with it.

There's always the mentality of using a "stable" host OS bein better due to following reasons:

• Things not changing means less maintenance, and nothing will break compatibility all of the sudden.
• Less chance to break.
• Services are up to date anyway, since they are usually containerized (e.g. Docker).
• And, for Debian especially, there's one of the biggest availability of services and documentation, since it's THE server OS.

My question is, how much of these pro-arguments will I loose when I switch to something less stable (more regular updates), in my case, Fedora Atomic?

My pro-arguments in general for it would be:

• The host OS image is very minimal, and I think most core packages should be running very reliably. And, in the worst case, if something breaks, I can always roll back. Even the, in comparison to the server image, "bloated" desktop OS (Silverblue) had been running extremely reliably and pretty much bug free in the past.
• I can always use Podman/ Toolbx for example for running services that were made for Debian, and for everything else there's Docker and more. So, the software availability shouldn't be an issue.
• I feel relatively comfortable using containers, and think especially the security benefits sound promising.

Cons:

• I don't have much experience. Everything I do related to my servers, e.g. getting a new service running, troubleshooting, etc., is hard for me.
• Because of that, I often don't have "workarounds" (e.g. using Toolbx instead of installing something on the host directly) in my mind, due to the lack of experience.
• Distros other than Debian and some others aren't the standard, and therefore, documentation and availability isn't as good.
• Containerization adds another layer of abstraction. For example, if my webcam doesn't work, is it because of a missing driver, Docker, the service, the cable not being plugged in, or something entirely different? Troubleshooting would get harder that way.

On my "proper" server I mainly use Nextcloud, installed as Docker image.
My Raspberry Pi on the other hand is only used as print server, running Octoprint for my 3D-printer. I have installed Octoprint there in the form of Octopi, which is a Raspian fork distro where Octoprint is pre-installed, which is the recommended way.

With my "proper" server, I'm not really unhappy with Debian. It works and the server is running 24/7. I don't plan to change it for the time being.

Regarding the Raspi especially, it looks quite a bit different. I think I will just try it and see if I like it.

Why?

• It is running only rarely. Most of the time, the device is powered off. I only power it on a few times per month when I want to print something. This is actually pretty good, since the OS needs to reboot to apply updates, and it updates itself automatically, so I don't have to SSH into it from time to time, reducing maintenence.
• And, last but not least, I've lost my password. I can't log in anymore and am not able to update anymore, so I have to reinstall anyway.

What is your opinion about that?

Probably a dumb question, but I have to report pretty much the same post (some website-link + some mentioned usernames, but always sent from different instances) multiple times a day.

The weird thing is, that this happens only here in this community, and not in any else I have subscribed to.

Is this some targeted attack, because due to the self hosting, we're a more valuable victims, or is it just due to time shift because the mods are in a different time zone and asleep when we report the posts?

I think the latter one isn't the case, since there are many active moderators here :)

Is there something we can do about it?

Hey all!
I just made following post: My current learning experience as a noob in astrophotography, with very shitty/ minimal equipment (includes pictures too!)

I'm a total beginner, and even my currently best work looks really sad compared to the stunning pictures you share here as real and experienced pros. I have to say, the further I progressed in my journey in the last months, the more I began to appreciate your work. Great job on that! <3

I wanted to encurage you all to make a similar post or comment in this thread and share your past about this special and lovely kind of photography.

I think nobody here has started with equipment more expensive than my annual income and more knowledge about the night sky than any astrologist (Edit: astronomer, I don't think anyone here believes in horoscopes :D) here on earth.
What were your first results, with what equipment? What did you learn over time, and what stuff or trick has improved your results the most?

I'm particularly interested in the stage of you back then, where I am currently am - of just owning a damn (simple + universal) camera and learning the basic stuff.
One of the reasons for that is I want to see what "best result" I can get with this stuff, and what my limits could be.

Hey! I wanted to share my "experience" as a newcomer, starting not only with astrophotography, but also with photography in general recently.
Just a few months ago, I didn't even know what an aperture, stacking or other basic stuff is, and now, I feel a bit proud and think I'm getting there.

I know, it really is not much, but I'm trying to not compare myself with other photographers here who have 30 years of experience and equipment worth more than my yearly income.
I just wanted to share my learning experience with you all, aswell as all issues and stepping stones I've had and (hopefully) grown out of.

As a camera, I use a Sony RX100 III compact camera, which is probably the least thing any of us here think about when talking about astrophotography.

Don't take this post too seriously :) It's only a small anecdote and hopefully a bit entertaining for you all 😊

Btw, I also tried to include a few pictures (stacked + edited, aswell as one light frame to compare) in each paragraph for visualization. They're "hidden" behind a spoiler-tag for better readability.

First pictures

They were literally just taken as-is out of the window of my apartment, without any mount, and with 30s shutter speed. No stacking or whatever.

Pics

First stacking tests

Without DBF, usually shitty.

Pics

Using DBFs + better camera settings

In the beginning, I only used the -withoutDBF script.
I started using the display of my E-reader (white, diffuse light) to capture my flats, reduced the shutter speed from ~20-30s to 10s (no more trails) and increased the aperture by one F-stop (2 or 2.2 instead of 1.8, the lowest), which resulted in sharper images with less noise.
Also, I got a cheap camera mount :D

Comparison

Without DBF: Same picture, with DBF added later:

Better software skills

I began to learn better how Siril works and developed my workflow. It's fascinating how much I was able to "rescue".

Learning curve

Edit, just two months prior: Exact same photo/ .fit-file, opened today and edited with my current skills:

Better spot and conditions - Today

Many of the pictures were taken in or near a city, and now, I only have to go a few minutes by foot to get my perfect spot with barely any light pollution.

I also learned to hate our fucking moon - as soon as I notice that we have more than crescent moon, I don't even leave my house, except if I want to make a few pics of the landscape.

Final pics

Additional ones, just because I can

They're single takes or star trails, but still taken at night.
I found them neat too, so I just included them :D

Pics

Future path

I really don't know what this will lead to.

• First, I definitely want to learn my stacking software better, because I think I didn't unreavel all of its' potential yet.
• Also, I want to get a better camera some time, when I have the money for it
• Fight some more issues, namely those from my last post here (lens condensation + tracker)
• and probably much more!

Thank you for reading! :)