Completely feasible, especially if you have access to a 3d printer. There are even instructions available. With printed parts it shouldn’t even be that expensive.

If you want to build it in a more traditional manner (i.e. out of wood), that’s also possible. Large format cameras have a long history of DIY, loads of early photographers built their kit themselves.

If you want to reduce the costs a bit when getting the camera to a working condition I’d recommend using photographic paper instead of film. It’s also a thing that was historically done quite often. One example that comes to mind was the last market photographer in Finland, Valto Pernu, who shot most of his photos on paper and reverse-processed it. He also used mostly DIY cameras. Fresh in my memory as I just saw an exhibition about him in a museum in Rovaniemi last summer.

Keep them in a well ventilated space, if they rot too quickly it may be due to ethane making them ripen too fast. A mixed fruit bowl is one of the worst possible ways to store fruit.

Apples offgas ethane as an example, making other things around them ripen faster. In a cool, ventilated environment where you replace the ethane with something inert they can last over the winter.

I tend to get 1-2 weeks of shelf life from fruit, though I tend to only buy the stuff that stores well. (apples, bananas, oranges etc.)

Labs around here give a disclaimer when you buy either Delta 3200 or Kodak’s P3200 that developing according to box speed costs extra.

3200 is indeed difficult to shoot in daylight, especially with older bodies that run out of fast enough shutter speeds. That’s why you really should have multiple bodies with you for different lighting conditions, if you’re trying to get the best results. I usually carry three, color or BW ISO 100 for daylight, BW@1600 (typically HP5 or kentmere 400) for well-lit indoors, and BW@12800 (typically Delta3200) for poorly lit indoors and night time street photography. I don’t like shooting with a flash, so I tend to prefer pushing the hell out of fast film even when shooting in a dim environment.

Even then there’s an upper limit to things. Even with the “3200” films you start running into issues when pushing past +5 stops (50k ISO upwards). Metering becomes an issue as well, mine caps at 12800 and isn’t really that usable at the high end. My Canon A-1 can technically meter up to 12800 as well, though I’d advise pushing a stop extra if you choose to do that. It’s had a tendency to underexposea a bit, possibly related to reciprocity.

If you want to see how the 3200 speed alternatives fare when pushes to the extreme, attic darkroom is a good starting point.

I’ve two rolls pending development at ISO 25600, I’ll try to remember adding examples when I’ve mixed a new batch of microphen.

Or, if you do want to do illegal shit over unencrypted forms of communication, use your own encryption layer on top, so you can actually be 100 % sure that there’s real E2EE. This is the way e-mail encryption was meant to work, before someone added TLS to the “standard” and everyone thought it’s OK as they trust the e-mail service provider.

Yep, the issue is that the server stores the messages centrally in plaintext, and most email users nowadays assume that the server always has a copy. That’s why we have PGP and ring-of-trust, and why there used to be a lot of push to use that with especially E-mail. Especially with the preparation to post-quantum era, any communication you actually want to stay secret should be encrypted with (symmetric) keys you exchange in person. That way there’s no log or key exchange that someone can see or store, and thus break in the future.

Unfortunately people in general deemed the centralized solutions “good enough”, and for “more secure” contexts we got the abysmally horrible solutions like Secure Mail. PGP’s problem was, that the trust needed to be established in a distributed manner outside normal communication which the layperson found confusing. It also was problematic in corporate contexts, as proper client-side encryption meant that the company could no longer scan through employee messages.

It’s still the best way to make e-mail safe, though.

I Finland finns det en argument varje år av vilken är det rätta alternativet för semlor – sylt eller mandelmassa.

Svenskspråkiga områden (t.ex. Österbotten) använder mandelmassa, finskspråkiga sylt (typiskt).

Edit: här är en artikel från YLE med en poll. 56,9 % sylt vs 43,1 % mandelmassa.

One of the main historical reasons was the Debian project’s puritan approach to open source, meaning the distro was very picky about what it could easily run on. As an example, most network drivers for Realtek nics weren’t included out of the box as they contained non-free code, there was no direct way to install Nvidia drivers instead of nouveau, a lot of the hardware didn’t work in the installer unless you sideloaded the drivers from a usb stick and so on.

There was a non-free ISO version to get around this, but you needed to know of it to use it, and it wasn’t provided anywhere by default. The download page for it was just a barebone directory listing within the mirror. No link or information was provided for it on the main project page.

Starting from version 12 or 13 (don’t remember exactly) proprietary drivers have been included in the installation images, which removed the biggest pain point (IMO) for novice users. Apart from that Debian has been one of the easier distros to install, and has things like a considerably better experience when updating to the next major release. It’s not really slower to update packages than Ubuntu, as I’d be wary of recommending the non-LTS versions to novice users. They tend to be quite unstable compared to LTS.

Personally I’ve daily driven Debian for close to five years, on all my devices except the work laptop. That one is running Ubuntu 24.04 as the employer requires either that or Fedora for Linux users.

Android Open Source Project, it’s the open base that the actual Android releases are built upon. It’s not really usable as is, since it lacks the required kernel blobs and software that people have come to expect (like Google’s proprietary stuff).

I think I encountered it first in (old school) Runescape, where one of the songs in the soundtrack is named yesteryear. That was back before the old school distinction, when I was still in elementary.

It’s one of the first tracks you hear when you start playing, in case you’re not familiar.

The ID10T encoding scheme

Året runt tycker jag. Jag använder en hybridmodell mellan själv gjort och köpt: djupfrysta bullar och hemlagad sylt. Årets nyhet har varit en semla med biscoff i stället för sylt eller mandelmassa.

(Jag hoppas min Svensk kan förstås, det här är bara vad man lär i gymnasiet i Finland)

Back in the day the super rich couldn’t bother to write any better, but at least they had the decency to hire a secretary so their messages were even somewhat legible. Seems like the habit of dictating your messages has all but vanished, even in professional contexts.

Maybe the 14-16 year olds they now “hire” are too young to write professionally, compared to the 18-20 somethings of yesteryears.

Just a cheap imposter

https://spaceballs.fandom.com/wiki/Pizza_the_Hutt

Or put the laptop/cellphone you watch the porn on

Siistiä nähdä että tollanen on olemassa. Oonkin ihmetellyt miten ei oo tullut vastaan sellasta sopparia missä pääsee itse pelaamaan suoraan futuureilla.

Juu, Oomilla on ainakin tullut noita yhteissopimuksia vastaan. Sinänsä ihan kätevä tuote, joka on omasta mielestä toimivampi kuin esim. keskihinta kulutusvaikutuksella.

Luonnollisestihan mielenrauhalla on hintansa. Kiinteähintainen sähkösopimus on pohjimmiltaan kuin vakuutus, eli keskimäärin aina kalliimpi kuin maksaa ne kulut kun niitä tulee. Kuten myös vakuutuksissa, useimmiten se riski kannattaa, mutta kaikilla ei ole mahdollisuutta säästää tarpeeksi sukanvarteen sen riskin kuittaamiseksi – ja siihen tilanteeseen esim tuo yhteissopimus on aika kätevä.

Makes sense, there wouldn’t be many 200-300 € laptops if Windows cost 80-100 € for them.

Yep, and not a small price at that. While the home license is not as expensive, it’s still mid two digits. IIRC pro version typically costs around 100 € even as the bundled OEM license, especially if you’re buying a laptop from a smaller manufacturer. That’s the amount I remember the price going down if you drop windows licensing from a corporate laptop lease.

In any way it’s not an insignificant price.

Ehdoton +1 muutaman autopaikan ottamisesta lautaparkiksi. Turku on täynnä hallitilaa keskustassa, ja kadunvarsipysäköinnin hinta muutenkin keinotekoisen alhainen. Kyllä siellä pysäköintitilaa riittää vaikka muutaman ruudun ottaisikin pois. Muutenkin kestämätöntä rakentaa kaupunkia niille, jotka ei halua asua siellä, vaikka kantakaupungin asukkaat kantaa merkittävästi suuremman määrän verorahoja kirstuun vrt. kustannukset kaupungille.

Taas on ollut saatavilla suhteellisen edullisia kiinteitä sopimuksia (7-8 snt/kWh) ja yhteissopimiksia, joissa on talvikaudelle kiinteä 9 snt/kWh ja kesäkaudelle pörssisähkö. Noita yhteissopimuksia on nytkin saatavilla tuohon hintaan. Mikään pakko ei ole olla kiinni pörssisähkössä jos sen riskejä ei halua joutua kantamaan, etenkin nyt kun noista hintapiikeistä on jo useamman talven kokemus.

Vuoden keskiarvolla pääsee edelleen parhaisiin hintoihin piikeistä huolimatta, mutta pitää kesän mittaan varata sukanvarteen talven hintapiikkejä varten.