[–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I've had some success with the in-camera focus stacking, though it can be limiting and a bit frustrating in poor lighting. When that doesn't work I use focus bracketing and stack the images with Hugin (it's free and open source).

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    I like the intention behind your idea and understand the value, but I don't think this responsibility should be on the mods alone, or that it should be isolated to a single day each month.

    If I may, please permit me to make a friendly amendment: make it a pinned post for the month where the community can comment the deals they're aware of. This would distribute the responsibility to us all (not burdening the mods), result in a greater number and diversity of services/sales being posted (many eyes sourcing deals), and provide a single, highly visible place to find this information without it getting lost among the other frequent posts.

    Hopefully my comment is seen as helpful and respectful.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    In my wiki roundup post I complained about DokuWiki’s reliance on plugins, but after scouring the landscape of FOSS wiki offerings nothing else offers exactly what I need.

    This is generally how new open source projects are born. Someone can't find what they're looking for among the current offerings so they make their own, fulfilling what they perceive to be a niche use case. Once they release it, it takes on a life of its own because it turns out it wasn't a niche use case after all. Much to the horror of the dev, who now finds themselves the leader of an open source project.

    Its a story as old as time.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Somewhere in the middle. I generally avoid using plugins of any sort if I can avoid it, and prefer sane defaults over customization, but I also avoid software that comes bloated with features I'll never use.

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