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A recently-uncovered fresco in Pompeii's House of the Painters at Work showing the god Dionysus.
  • So, in classical (Greco-Roman) visual arts there were some pretty serious studies about proportions and how to portray humans. This is why there are some pretty distinguishable styles. This one I think is an example of contrapposto, which is supposed to give the idea of movement, and increases perceived attractiveness. Not different from modern day influencer posing to take photos that, to our eyes, look very natural but make them prettier.

  • Question about switching to mirrorless and available systems
  • Older Sony mirrorless have most of what you're looking for. I got a Sony a6000 for 350€ and it has auto iso with cap (but not auto shutter speed with cap), pretty good custom controls although I wish for more, great size, great autofocus. It does lack great low light performance, I also struggle with that, but maybe a full frame would be better for that.

    You may want to try it out for cheaper and then buy lenses, and once you're committed to the ecosystem buy a nicer more recent Sony.

  • English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense
  • You can't speak french without using it, because the gender of a word changes the gender of particles attached. Think as if in English there was a male "the" and a female "the", like "mthe" and "fthe". You can't just not choose on of those to talk about fthe sun!

    Gender in nouns exists to reduce ambiguity (in general, complexity reduces ambiguity), especially in times before widespread dictionaries or even the internet.

    More ancient languages with more widespread use tend to be even more complex: think of latin, where particles are inserted within the word depending on their function in the phrase. It's as if in English to say "I go to work" we'd say "I go workt", but to say "this is for work" we'd say "this is workf" Again, more complex to be less ambiguous

  • My HD is chocking but I don't want to throw away culturally precious mataerial (mainly movies)
  • I don't know why no one mentioned it yet, but those are very well known movies, albeit old, and will probably remain pretty easy to find in the near future.

    If you still want to hold on to them you could download handbrake. This software lets you shrink a file size by a lot depending on the settings you're working with, and how much you want to compromise the quality.

    Also in terms of cost, local storage will always be cheaper than web, mostly due to the fact that cloud storage is paid periodically, while you can buy a decent sized SSD for 40 euros

  • Deciding between Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8
  • Ah nice. I'd have assumed it was replaceable with screws or something, not pop out and replace. This idea of having a phone and two batteries is really interesting and is definitely raising the possibilities I buy a fp5.

    Edit: would be even cooler if you could charge the second battery independently.

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