@CommonMugwort The last time I checked, the EU electronic passport gates didn’t stamp passports, check stay durations, or ask questions about the nature of your visit. All stuff that’s pretty high on the EU’s list of requirements for third countries.

I miss the ease of quickly entering and exiting Schengen at major hubs, and hate the inevitable search in my passport for where border control put the stamp this time, but unfortunately the masses voted, and these were the consequences.

@thelinuxEXP It’s a fine balance, but if you don’t know where to create an account, or your communities don’t have established servers here yet, going straight to a general instance, at least to start with, makes perfect sense.

I do wonder if the issue is with mastodon.social being the first choice, as opposed to the fallback. If the first choice was “find a community for you”, and the second was “if you’re not sure, here will be fine”, I don’t know if it’d help, or confuse people more.

@themeparktrib I’d seen photos of the track on site, and assumed that was what was going on.

Usually, I’m not a fan of stuff like this, but in this case, it seems like the right call. Mine Blower’s layout has a lot of promise, but when I rode it last year, it was a disgustingly violent ride. If they can fix the roughness, and make it rideable again, I’m all for it.

@christyxcore That’s a nice home park to have.

I visited both US Disney resorts last year, with California being the first of the two. There’s just so much to like. How much they put in a single park. How much charm the original park design has. How great the Matterhorn Bobs and Space Mountain are.

Walt Disney World is amazing, but to me, it felt like they tried to build bigger and better, but lost something along the way, especially with Magic Kingdom.

@PhilGastwirth Personally, I use IMatch as my asset manager, and don’t have a lot of experience with most others, but that’s because I have a really weird workflow.

The basic principle of “cull first, with a good asset manager” still applies, though, as long as you can find one that works for you.

I’m not sure what Adobe Bridge is capable of, but it might be worth a look. It’s not something that I ever used myself, but some people seem to like it.

@PhilGastwirth I find a good asset manager is essential for doing this stuff at scale.

Lightroom would probably help, at least for organising/sorting/culling, even if you use Photoshop to edit. Alternatively, if you don’t want to go the full Lightroom route, there’s stuff like Photo Mechanic that a lot of people use to sort out their initial intake. Basically, something that lets you quickly iterate over batches of photos, removing the weaker ones as you go.