@peemee Will we be seeing lots of lovely self-portraits of you now?
@matigo Most people here drive manuals (though not me), so going into a low gear on a down slope and feeling the engine braking is an every day thing. Therefore engine braking is just expected. Whether it’s a good thing, I don’t know. Lots of braking with the foot pedal certainly gets tiresome after a while. Mind you, my car has very sensitive brakes. That might be partly why I find them tiresome.
I learned something worth remembering from my local, friendly mechanic today. 'Brake pads are cheaper than transmissions'. I was chastising myself for ruining my brake pads by driving around hilly places and not using the 'L' or 'S' settings on my car's stick which can invoke some engine breaking. But the mechanic said I'm better off just using the brakes most of the time. That's what they are designed for and they are cheaper than transmissions. I'll hold my hands up and say that I don't really know how engine breaking works anyway. I just rely on the knowledge of others.
@peemee Thanks. I read a bit more about it here:
https://www.lux.camera/introducing-process-zero-for-iphone/
I recently dabbled with one or two raw photo apps on my iPhone but I can't get the raw files onto my laptop. These apps all seem to be predicated on the idea that you develop the raw on the iOS device then share the jpg/HEIC. It's a bag of hurt for me.
It’s interesting seeing how other languages work when you watch foreign films with subtitles. The German words for rooms in houses don’t finish with 'room'. Bathroom is just 'bäd'. Living room is just 'zimmer'. Kitchen is just 'küche'. It surprises me, given that Germans generally like adding words together to make really long ones.
@phoneboy There seems to be a tiny discrepancy between how big companies treat us and what their adverts suggest motivates them.