Same. I’m still primarily a Plex user for the player (it’s just easier for sharing libraries with everyone) but I love the arr stuff. Just got readarr setup for audio books and audiobookshelf for the player which is really nice.

Probably my favorite feature of the arr suite is in Radarr and list subscribing. I’ve got mine connected to some good letterboxd lists along with things like tmdb popular to keep my library up to date with recent stuff. Also there’s some podcasts I listen to like The Rewatchables. I just subscribe to the lists of movies on letterboxd and I can easily keep up with the podcast.

https://youtu.be/sTJ7AzBIJoI

I’ve literally gotten spam emails that include a real password I’ve used in the past in the subject with some vaguely threatening message. Thanks to all these leaks, spammers are getting more targeted. Luckily I’ve been generating all my passwords for the last few years so I don’t have to worry about specific passwords getting out as much anymore.

There isn’t a bump where the lens would come in contact with the table while it’s set down unless you have a case that makes it flush with the phone again.

Here’s some pictures from a Google Pixel 1. There’s a reason they never advertised low light handheld photos because you basically had to take 20 pictures of the same subject to get one that didn’t exhibit some kind of motion blur. Optical stabilization reduced all this dramatically.

They had to have large amounts of post processing to make up for the small sensor and relied on AI to clean up your image. Personally I always prefer to have good source images and leave upscaling as a last resort.

Phone thickness is definitely up for debate but as someone who takes a lot of photos, the cameras of todays phones are vastly better than the early ones.

Here’s some photos from my collection I found from that era.

I have a bunch of really good examples of pub nights but I don’t want to post anything with people in them.

Unless you had perfect lighting conditions they looked like ass. In order to fix the problems you see in these photos you need a combination of larger sensors, larger lenses and optical stabilization. All of which we’re bumping up against the limitations of physics.

Digital zoom is definitely not a replacement for optical zoom. Digital zoom is just cropping your photo on the fly, you might as well just do it yourself in post. Optical zoom retains the full sensor image. You can also modify focal length with optical zoom. I find myself lately standing further back and zooming in to get that background compression for more intimate shots that you get with a telephoto focal length.

Cameras on phones are getting good enough that I don’t find myself reaching for my SLR much anymore.

I like how the Pixel 6 (my current phone) handled the bump, just one long bar across the back. It doesn’t rock when you have it lying on a table and the bump actually slightly angles it towards your view. I wish there was more of that rather than the stove top bump on one side.

Reddit is gonna be just fine and the shade we like to throw around here isn’t even a blip on their radar