On 30/10/17 12:15 PM, Anthony Youngman wrote:
We're cynical greybeards - we've seen it all before. We've learnt by BITTER experience that usually "new == WORSE". I've got a magazine in front of me right now that says "ditch these dangerous old unsupported apps" (including Picasa). For Picasa, we're supposed to move to the online Google Photos. My internet is unreliable. When it works (admittedly most of the day, just not in the evening when I want it) it is running pretty close to the maximum theoretical speed, which gives me an upload speed of about 0.5 MBit. At 30 MBYTE per photo, how long is that going to take me to upload a day's shoot of, say 100 photos? That's before Google Photos complains that my photos are far too high a resolution for it to cope with. WE HAVE A REASON FOR BEING CYNICAL.
As a regular reader you may recall my references to the "Closet of Anxieties", the corporate closet of equipment that works just fine with Linux but was abandoned because of Microsoft upgrades and local tax/depreciation policies. Waste, waste, waste! Rescue it, put Linux on it, donate it to charities like the Feral Cat Rescue Society. Or use it myself. As a regular reader you might recall my problems printing a LO document; part of the problem was that the embedded image was from a screen shot. The flip side of this is that I just bought a camera that has "only" a 5Mpxl sensor (as opposed to the 24Mpxl and 54Mpxl ones that are filling the on-line photo magazine review pages) but has a great lens. And at 5Mpxl that's more than the resolution of a FULL screen screen-shot. And it blows up to a 10x8 just fine. Compared to the content, the composition of a lot I see on-line, Flkr, elsewhere...
Please, will YOU ask yourself, whether what you want is achievable. If you want this to be a support group, then one way or another you are going to have to pay for it. You can either pay people hard cash to provide said support, or you can provide a COMMUNITY AREA where greybeards, devs, etc etc LIKE to hang out. There's no other way round it. And by objecting to what WE want to discuss, you are NOT creating that nice community area.
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