Premium upgrade version.

Those things have a fan with blades, just stuck in the base.

Eh I mean there are lots of connections I’ve made with people only on discord that would suck to lose.

It definitely can have a big impact, especially if the old nozzle wasn’t quite flat or smooth at the tip. Or if it was just worn out from lots of use.

The downside is it’s against their ToS, and you could have your account banned or similar if they do decide to take action.

It doesn’t matter, it might complain when you import but you can just override that.

Oh yeah I guess it could just only show them on old edits.

Unfortunately its not much better.

Why don’t they remove all the old modules? I feel like they’re frustrating all their new users.

Oh yeah if you’re editing JPEGs then it’s going to be way easier, as you start with something that looks fine.

The sliders are there but they don’t seem to work like I’d expect, so far I have not been able to replicate Lightroom results in Darktable.

Just basic exposure and black/shadow/highlight/white levels usually.

In lightroom opening a RAW file I can basically export it with no tweaks and it looks just fine, so the effort is really minimal. Darktable doesnt seem to be pulling in the camera processing and applying it to the RAW or something, because each photo needs a lot of adjustment to be usable.

Also darktable just doesnt have black/shadow/highlight/white sliders that I can find.

I’m on Windows on this PC, so nothing being isolated here.

You don’t need any guides for it except for really niche cases.

For example Ubuntu VM; click create VM, choose Linux for the type, click next a bunch and choose your ISO image, CPU cores, and RAM. And you’re done, there’s no specific settings to use.

There isn’t one that does catalog management too.

RawTherapee is OK for RAW editing, but that’s all it does. It’s a bit slow too at updating when you change things, it’ll take like half a second after moving a slider instead of updating right away as you move it.

DigiKam is OK for cataloging, but it’s very slow and you have to open photos in external editors, and then RAW edits you do don’t show up in DigiKam unless you export to some other format first, it’s a huge mess and hassle to use.

Darktable does both, but it’s so insanely difficult to use that I gave up after seeing people suggesting really long tutorial videos to learn how to do basic stuff. The photo output from Darktable also never looks right compared to other programs I edit in. It also has the same slowness issue as RawTherapee.

Is there some explanation as to why Darktable is different from every other RAW editor out there? It’s so complex to use even for the most basic stuff, and nothing ever looks quite right.

So you don’t want to watch anything about how it’s done or how it was built?

I suggest TikTok then. Or just don’t click on things you don’t really want to learn about.

I just gave it a try and it does not pick up my existing Thunderbird data automatically, or prompt to import it.

It works ok, I don’t use it much because its a web app, so doing stuff like opening a 6000 line CSV file when I was migrating our CRM software caused it to crash/hang, or large word documents can cause it to slow down a ton.

But as a basic editor for small documents it works fine, if a bit laggy feeling for my tastes.

I just watched this a few hours ago and it’s really cool! I never thought something of this speed would be possible in a garage with $1k or so in parts.

You could always add an Intel GPU in a PCIe slot, if you’re going for that kind of high end build.

Alternatively if you run an Intel iGPU you don’t need a Coral TPU either, as Frigate can use OpenVINO and it works as good as the Coral or better anyways.

Also if the LSI HBA is connecting to HDDs, it won’t need very much bandwidth so I’m not sure if the lane restriction there would matter?