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That's not a feature; it's antifeature (harmful/anti-user "feature"). I don't currently use smartphone; and if I ever needed to get one in the future, this is going to be one of many reasons I would get an old brand-model, or go second-hand entirely instead of brand new. Tangentially related...

Remember those WiFi-enabled SD cards? I haven't personally used one myself so I'm not too privy about specifics; but I have heard that it would either mirror everything the camera wrote into it onto a network server of your choice, or create a WiFi fake access point that you could connect to...

Slightly off-topic since it's not exactly about photography per-se: but in case anyone would like to read all those horror stories on Artificial Idiots in general that mainstream media refused to air, in the satiring+lampooning way; see this news blog: https://pivot-to-ai.com/

If you had been on social media about half decade ago, there was some small chance you might have heard of a Brit named Giles Turnbull. This bloke went on to shoot black-and-white photographs, and posted them daily on the Internet throughout the month of June 2019: not on Instagram, not Flickr...

Yeah, I got this 403 page too hour or so ago; triggered just few minutes after I visited the site using my main browser configuration (vintage Pale Moon + noscript); and it hit after I already finished logging in. (Heavens, why?) It was also triggered under "modern" (Firefox) browser as well, at...

For the question in the title: I came from the technical side of the craft, so I'll break the mold this time... Since the advent of automatic exposure control in electronic cameras (0): the point I would consider someone being graduated from the novice state, is when he finally managed to...

Because if any lesson was to be learned from my 2 years of live-monitoring my website's traffic and do real-time battling with unwanted bots, it is that I effectively cannot bar Artificial Idiot scrapers if I hot-link resources like image off-site; so I will not do that. (0) (Rant start) For...

In my current streetlight photography project, which I stroll through my hometown streets at night and take snapshots of scenes lit under old-school streetlights as many as I could: every so often, I would take photograph of street/intersection/cannal/bus-stop signs as "checkpoints" for me to...

I nearly always use my Sony Alpha-65 DSLR in JPEG mode; though small number of shots were made in JPEG + ARW raw too. My own way of photo management is intentionally software-neutral, so I give a lot of attention to folder trees and folder names-- needs conscious management effort, but allows me...

If you would like something that doesn't require you to read/agree to nasty EULA (1), more transparent, but a bit more manual; in libre software world, there is also a well-known PhotoRec: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec It has text mode interface though; so... use the force, Luke...

Went through a similar crap few years ago (in Thailand though, not UK) when a local state-enterprise provider changed a local exchange to a VoIP one. The main difference in my situation was the dial tone just gone out without notice (I did say "crap", didn't I), and I found out the hard way...

There is also RawTherapee; which I currently have in my setup, but still haven't make too much use of, since I don't really shot raw that often yet. However, if one likes rawdogging without adjustments, or would rather have adjustments done in regular editing programs like GNU GIMP, or would...

You are not the first person to say that; I have previously dealt with this kind of question in IRC. However, it is the first time I've gotten this kind of question in forum context. Granted, the method I use for drafting my posts may be a bit unusual (1); but drafted or otherwise, I don't...

derail start << "derail end;" Yeah, I'm daily-driving GNU/Linux system (not Mint though); and it is unsurprising that my non-business lower-midrange laptop I specifically bought for running that still continues to be usable today, as it have been for nearly 13 years now. The thing can look...

Me; but it might be for a completely different reason... I'm curious: was any of those guys bespectacled? Because if any of them was, then they might be in a situation similar to me. I have myopia and astigmatism; I wear glasses with different correction for each eye. As you might guess, using...