Films from all around the world. For the past couple of years, I enjoy watching 3-4 films a week in average.
Much like literature and art, quality cinema gradually makes you a better person, and has a profound effect on acquiring good taste, and having a love affair with beauty - you see something, and you immediately know if it's special.
If you don't know where to start, open Wikipedia pages for past film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, etc.), and e.g. select randomly a decade, then a year, then a film from one of the winning positions. In time, you will develop your own taste and opinion about the filmmakers, and the actors, and the countries of origin, and the themes, and the genres, etc.
French, Italian, Swedish, Taiwanese, Japanese, American, or so many other places - there are great filmmakers nearly everywhere around the world, and you can enjoy it.
Many bad things can be said about contemporary society but one of the things I love the most about the 21st century is how we're starting to appreciate cultural things in a global sense. I also want to read more about postcolonial literature, history of all the parts of the world we didn't study in school, and so on. It's starting to get ridiculous how in school we study "history" just about Europe, and "literature" 90% of our language.
About cinema specifically, mainstream Hollywood cinema has become largely repetitive, big franchises, sequels, etc etc, feels culturally sterile to me. It's so refreshing to see that, say, Korean cinema is becoming so popular.
A good reason to own a Ricoh GR IIIx (or Ricoh GR III, which has a 28mm equiv. lense instead of 40mm on the "x" version). It looks very simple and non-professional, but the picture quality is comparable with the latest Fuji X100 series cameras.
Thanks! I'll have to check it out. I've got an RX100 VII that I picked up for this purpose a few years ago, but haven't been particularly impressed with the concert results.
I'm personally not into analog photography at all, but I understand that part of the appeal is that it's simple and reliable -- a camera can be a chunk of metal with little complication and no need for batteries. It makes for a simple, solid, reliable tool that's easy to maintain and fix if needed.
Leica's approach is alien to me -- rather than being a tool it's more like jewelry you'd be afraid to even breathe on.
My idea of a camera, even a high end DSLR is as a tool for a job. It has to be able to take getting wet, getting dirty, getting scuffed up a bit and handled a bit unceremoniusly when the situation requires it because the point of it is taking pictures, not being decoration on my neck.
Is it wrong to find the result aesthetically pleasing? In short, it's about the art of photography, those expired films are not for archival family photos, and surely it's not about saving $5.
I know you asked specifically about mailing lists, then most answers, including mine below, are more newsletters, but if you want a mailing-list type feel, there are also Patreon, Reddit, individual blogs, and other communities that communicate in much the same way and have the same sort of interesting mailing-list feel, with similar volumes. Not sure how much you'd considered those, but a lot of the Reddits I'm in would have been mailing lists/usenet topics pre-Reddit,
Even some public Slack and Discord servers have the same mailing-list feel. eg. I'm in the monitoring.love Slack with a monitoring/SRE focus, and the r9y.dev Discord which is Reliability/SRE/Monitoring focused, and both have the same mailing list type feel.
Consider the Handmade conference newsletter [0]. We're an indie conference focused on low-level programming (nuts and bolts kind of thing) and we occasionally send interesting emails on these topics. Of course we also announce ticket sales and all that, but sparingly :)
I hope somebody has a solution for a problem that I have and can't find anything online.
I have a simple Pipewire setup. When plugging a regular 3.5mm headphone (/w a mic) it always ends up in maximum capture settings, so if I forget to open `alsamixer` and decrease the mic capture and boost levels to a reasonable level, people behind the other end of Zoom calls suffer.
If I unplug it and plug again, it resets to 100% again. How to fix this?
Meta: I really don't like when media suggests how the reader should feel about an article by prefixing the title with "Anger as" or something like that. That's just a propaganda tool.
> The newspaper was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Irish Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to the Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer Alexander Lebedev in 2010.
The information is sourced from the users' about page. People who don't want to be exposed tend to not put links to their websites in their public about page.
Much like literature and art, quality cinema gradually makes you a better person, and has a profound effect on acquiring good taste, and having a love affair with beauty - you see something, and you immediately know if it's special.
If you don't know where to start, open Wikipedia pages for past film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, etc.), and e.g. select randomly a decade, then a year, then a film from one of the winning positions. In time, you will develop your own taste and opinion about the filmmakers, and the actors, and the countries of origin, and the themes, and the genres, etc.
French, Italian, Swedish, Taiwanese, Japanese, American, or so many other places - there are great filmmakers nearly everywhere around the world, and you can enjoy it.