maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

it's a complicated issue but i think it's important to make people aware of it and discuss how we need to deal with accountability without turning it into abuse. that's something the mob mentality of twitter just isn't suitable for.

however, i do want to point out that that thread is from january 11 and since then juniper "cyelatm" has since deleted all her apologies and rebooted her comics anew like nothing happened (and since then, locked her account again to prevent more abusive people ganging on her)

the thread i'm retweeting above is a good level-headed look at what happened, and i want that to be all i'm promoting here. and i don't want to add anything to it other than "hey think before you act on your feelings"

if you have the patience for the 5-6 tries it takes until it focuses properly, the lens on this thing is actually really nice. 3x optical zoom and a surprisingly impressive macro

when i took it apart yesterday i still didn't manage to get all the way down to the sensor, so it's possible the sensor is dirty or something like that. the marks on the camera body do suggest this might've been banged about a bit in the past

this is what i mean by the autofocus randomly not working, on pics 1 and 2. i made the camera run through autofocus a couple of times, made sure it was set to focus to infinity, and the camera reassured me it was in focus. this mess came out

other picture came out fine tho

oh also i opened this camera up today (to try to see if i could find anything obviously wrong causing the erratic auto-focus, but i didn't) and i found clearly labeled serial port test pins 👀 something for a future test maybe

i finally got it working on virtualbox and it's just as bad as you can expect, super dark and no focus control (gotta use the autofocus in point-and-shoot mode, then plug it in while it's still on)

i love camera jank

upgrading to a multi-tasking operating system so i can kiss all of my girlfriends at once

or BBQT