CapraObscura @ CapraObscura @lemmy.world

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I don't use the mouse itself (it's hell for my RSI) but do use the keyboard and trackpad. I just have a Lightning cable hooked up to the computer and maybe once a week I'll plug it into one or the other before I go to bed.

It's really no different from a phone, smart watch, laptop, tablet, MPC Live, SMG with LiPO, Tesla Roadster, or anything else with batteries that die really quickly. Is the location of the port a dumb wank exercise in "design" over function? Yes, but the whole thing is and that's the least of its problems. lol

My thoughts exactly. But way more mundane. The Scarlet Suburban Boredom.

All spot on!

I will mention as an add-on that it's entirely possible to take IR photos using a standard camera and an IR filter such as a Hoya R72. The downside to this is that normal cameras don't take in much IR due to filtering so you have to do a long exposure. The image ends up mostly red (since the filter itself is very dark red in visible light) so you then just turn it monochrome. Skies become dark, foliage becomes bright.

It's all super cool and the best part is nobody can tell you you're wrong. You just make it look the way you want it to be.

It doesn't.

If you're taking a pure "infrared" image it will look like night vision goggles. Since infrared doesn't have a color that we can see, it just ends up as brightness value data going into the camera's sensor. It's just black and white since the sensor only has a brightness value to reproduce.

For this image I used a filter that allows the infrared through, making things like foliage brighter and giving it sort of an orange hue, while kicking out other wavelengths. I then use basic color adjustments to make the orange-ish foliage that the camera produces look super bright red. You can alter it to pretty much any color you like. All infrared pictures are ultimately false color, so it's up to you what you want it to look like.

I have a writeup on my terrible 1998-ass website. Complete with no ads or monetization, just like 1998 intended.

https://capraobscura.com/infra.html

Long story short: You can rip the infrared filter out of most any digital camera, then use various filters to alter the wavelengths that actually hit the camera's sensor.

Totally agreed. I'm just seeing far too many people here and elsewhere hailing this as some kind of massive win "FOR LINUX" when in reality it's a massive win for "THE STEAM DECK."

No, they're not. Not anymore than someone using Android is "using Linux" or you're "using OS/2" when you find an ancient ATM. This is just more goalpost moving by Linux apologists to make themselves feel better about the "year of the Linux desktop" still being at least 6-8 months away.

For anyone that doesn't see my post lower down: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-June-2023-Statistics

Steam breaks down OS user numbers by distro. This information is out there.

Valve is not about to start lying about numbers and it's utterly baffling that anyone would think they would. They rely 100% on the trust of publishers and developers. If they lied about their numbers, which these companies use to generate sales projections and make seriously massive financial decisions off of, they would be immediately dumped by everyone and subject to massive antritrust lawsuits.

Valve has done little to upset the games industry, because they understand their position is actually quite precarious.

The point is that the Steam Deck is as "Linux" as ChromeOS or Android are.

In other words, Linux means absolutely nothing to the end user on these systems because they're so clamped down as to be useless beyond the provided playground. The Steam Deck is a bit different but even then what percentage of users actually use Linux directly rather than the provided Deck interface?

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/nearly-40-of-linux-gamers-on-steam-are-on-steam-deck/

So what was that you were saying about nobody know what percent is actually the Steam Deck?

Or maybe this one: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-June-2023-Statistics

Or any of the other sources that break down Steam numbers by distro?

Oh but of course Valve is lying because they totally don't have literally thousands of developers (many of whom are multi-billion dollar corporations) relying on these numbers for sales projections or anything...

Come on. Use brain.

Many MANY other reasons, but the charging point location isn't one of them and I'll die on this "just plug it the frick in before you go to bed like once a week or so" hill. 🤣

What the other person is saying about "discoverability" is not entirely accurate. The Mac mouse has traditionally had one button, going way back. No, I mean waaaaay back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pointing_devices Cost was a massive factor given the tech of the time and the fact that they were shooting for the home market using hardware that wasn't readily available off the shelf.

Macs have COMMAND, OPTION, and CONTROL keys. CONTROL+click is the equivalent of a right mouse click, but it may not be implemented by developers as standard in games and I'm not sure if the MacOS system hooks CONTROL+click to the same output as an actual right mouse click.

Modern Mac mice have what's basically a touchpad instead of buttons, which is awesome since it gives you things like a scroll wheel and a right button. But it's absolute RSI-buggering trash for the most part.

"A dedicated gaming system with an available OS that most people will never directly access has slightly more users than an operating system that is openly antagonistic to most games" is one of the weirdest flexes I've seen from the Linux community, and I've been around it for about 20 years.

Really makes me want to go face-first into astrophotography. Dig it.

Dang, nice timing with the clouds.

It depends on how the image was captured. I have a camera I converted to "full spectrum" by removing the IR/UV cut filter. It can still collect visible light, no problem, and you can use various filters to utilize whatever wavelengths you want.

That said, given the amount of noise, this looks like something that was taken with a standard camera and a long exposure through something like a Hoya R72 so there probably isn't a color version in this instance unless OP took a separate one.

Fun Fact: Basically all sensors are IR sensors, but most have a IR/UV cut filter that keeps it from getting through.