Oh no, I bought a new camera. I blame you guys on here. Being able to post my photography here and your feedback has been great, and encouraged me to keep going, so thank you 😃👍👍

This is good news, and matches what I've seen myself.

Goooooood morning nostr

A polaroid i took at a local fun fair. Taken on an old 80s polaroid camera with new film. #photography

The island. #photography

People at work are now using AI for everything and its totally depressing and chaotic. Need a report? Get AI to do it. Need a presentation? Get AI to do it. Need to write an email? Get AI to do it. Its at the point people are presenting reports with completely nonsense data and recommendations because no one checked to see if the AI was correct, or they didn't know how to get the AI to do what they wanted properly. Whole projects are started and stopped because of incorrect AI reports. And yet management keep pushing it, "everybody use AI more". It's almost as if they're seeing how much they can get away with without people being involved, obviously 😁 No one seems to realise this and they just keep plugging away, handing over their jobs willingly to AI just because it means they don't have to think.

So about 3 months ago i had a strange impulse to buy a crucifix necklace. I don't know why, I never had one before and didn't consider myself religious. However it just felt right, I had a sense that it was something i needed to do, it seemed important, I really cant explain why. Since then I've worn it every day and I feel im becoming more religious. A very unexpected turn of events.

Portrait. A faded style photo of vixen. #photography

Man I miss the 80s. I know everyone gets nostalgic for whatever era they grew up in, but the 80s had that mix of exciting new technology, good music, a thriving youth culture, impending nuclear doom (well that bit not so much fun really), community spirit (your town or place you came from was important, it was your tribe, something that's died off now), optimism for the future and a sort of innocence that feels crazy now. Its a shame gen z won't and haven't experienced it.

Favourite android keyboard? I'm using Heliboard (openboard fork), anything better?

GM to all you human beings (and other living things I suppose).

With google getting ready to cripple android, and appple already being locked down, we need an alternative. The pinephone was a decent attempt at a Linux phone, and it does (sort of) work, though its very fiddly. There is a decent amount of apps and it does make and receive calls and texts. They released a pinephone pro as well (which I bought) but it was barely better than the original (which is underpowered to be honest) and not great build quality. However, it made enough progress to show that a Linux phone, with enough development, is feasible. With more modern hardware and a few more developers thrown at it (pine64 didn't do any development at all, they just released the phone and left the rest to the community. I think it has potential.

PINE64

PinePhone

An Open Source Smartphone Supported by All Major Linux Phone Projects The PinePhone is a smartphone that empowers users with control over the devic...