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By luxian, 29 August, 2024

How to fix Grafana not loading in Firefox Developer Edition

A short tutorial on how to fix Grafana not loading in Firefox

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  • tech
By luxian, 16 March, 2024

Today I debloated my Android tablet

How I disabled a lot of Android apps and packages from my tablet to make it run smoother without rooting it or flashing another ROM. Everything is reversable.

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  • android
  • tech
By luxian, 7 March, 2024

George Carlin AI generated special

In one of the podcasts that I listened to, I heard about this new AI-generated George Carlin special: I'm Glad I'm Dead. 

As a fan of George Carlin, I had to listen to it, even though I knew it was fake. The situation is a bit unclear. The Carlin estate sued the producer, and the details are hard to come by. The uploader says that most probably the jokes were written by a human, and probably, just the voice was generated. 

Regardless, I think it's a cool achievement, despite not really feeling as good as a Carlin show.

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  • standup comedy
  • Artifical Intelligence
By luxian, 24 February, 2024

Fairphone co-founder replies to Linus Tech Tips' Fairphone 5 review

What I noticed in Fairphone's reaction to Linus Tech Tips' Fairphone 5 review.

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  • fairphone
  • tech
By luxian, 21 February, 2024

Laowa 10mm F2.8 Autofocus - A lens that I want

First impressions about the newly announced Laowa 10mm F2.8 Autofocus lens

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  • photography
  • tech
By luxian, 21 February, 2024

Good enough

A very catchy saying from the Van Neistat about perfectionism that will probably get stuck in my head from now own.

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  • philosophy
  • personal
By luxian, 21 February, 2024

youtube-dl: How to convert landscape thumbnails to square by adding blur using ffmpeg filtering

This is a small tutorial on using yt-dlp together with ffmpeg filtering to download just the audio of a YouTube video, convert it to mp3, and transform the thumbnail to a square by adding blur.

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  • bash
  • script
By luxian, 5 October, 2023

Upgrading to Fairphone 5 (from Fairphone 4)

These are my thoughts on the Fairphone 5 a few months after upgrading from Fairphone 4.

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  • fairphone
  • tech
  • smartphone
By luxian, 11 September, 2020

Switch to Sony and other updates

Short update regarding the blog and my new camera system change.

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  • smalltack
By luxian, 23 October, 2019

I'm very tempted to ditch Canon

In the last year and a half, I was looking for an upgrade to my old camera without any success. I own a Canon 6D (first generation) since 2015 or so. Despite the beating it took so far, it still works great. Unfortunately, it lacks in certain areas. The focus system is pretty poor (I miss a lot of shots due to it), and it's video is not that great (only 1080p and contrast based autofocus with not focus peaking option).

Based on what I feel it's missing and what I like about my camera, my criteria for the new camera are:

  • full frame sensor
  • phase detect auto focus
  • 4K recording without cropping

Canon has all these technologies, but they never put it all together in a camera. Mainly because they have so many products lines and they want to protect them (read cinema cameras).

In the current DSLR line-up, the closest I get to meet my criteria is the 1DX Mark II. I say closest because it has 1.3x crop in 4k. Initially was released with a 1.7x crop, but Canon pulled it down to 1.3x with a firmware upgrade.

The new EOS R is also pretty close, with the same caveat. A 1.7x crop in 4k that's a defying common sense. I don't expect them to improve it via software upgrade. In my opinion EOS R it's the state of Canon (in)competency in the mirrorless word. Its ergonomics leave a lot to be desired, and the rest (image quality, eye detect auto-focus, 4k video) is years behind competition (mainly Sony).

The rumours are not giving me any hope either. 1DX Mark III is supposed to launch next year. At this point you need to have a tons of old EF lenses to buy something like this. If you don't own a lot of cool EF lenses you should stay away from this soon-to-be-outdated system. Everything is gonna be mirrorless in 5 years and you will basically throw money out of the window buying lenses that will be worth nothing in a few years.

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  • canon
  • sony
  • photography
  • cinematography

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