newshophours

I love my Panasonic M43 cameras, but the wifi experience with them is miserable. The android app looks like something from 2010, and performs worse. I've tried it with every permutation of four android phones and three Panasonic bodies (GX85, G85, G95) and every combination performs miserably.

When I ditched my 5Dmk3/fast-zoom setup for weight/size reasons, Fuji was high on my list for the replacement system. But in the end I went Micro 4/3rds. I think Fuji made a misstep by choosing a 3:2 ratio for the X sensor. X lenses are still pretty big and heavy in order to project that big imaging circle over that elongated ~24x~16mm APS-C sensor. I think they'd have been better server by something like 20x16mm sensors.

But I gotta say, the Fuji X bodies are beautiful, both in handling and aesthetics. I played with a friend's X-T3. I don't think I've ever enjoyed using a camera more. My Panasonics are fantastic from compactness/features/quality/lightweight standpoints, but Panasonic ergonomics and handling is pretty, uh, "workmanlike".

I'm one of those "don't mind ads, do mind privacy intrusions" crowd. I'd be perfectly willing to turn off my adblocker for good if only advertisers would be willing to turn off their tracking and scripts and stick to only serving up JPEG banners.

Alas, that's not likely. So I do what I can to use web services ethically - pay for services where possible (like Fastmail), whitelist when a site owner seems to be using ethical non-tracking ads, donate where appropriate (like open source developers looking for help with hosting fees).

This concept is literally used in the Ghost in the Shell manga, often for comedic purposes. There's one funny set of panels where a character is shown in a video-chat window as neat-and-tidy and wearing a nice business suit, but is shown in a subsequent panel as videochatting while she's on the toilet in messy hair and a tank-top.