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I don't feel like working on megapixels anymore
in fact, let's do this
well.. there you go. go enjoy libcamera then
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@martijnbraam
Is it really a "either or"?
@martijnbraam I wouldn’t want Linux to disappear just because most folks use windows, and I’d rather megapixels didn’t disappear just because 60% prefers libcamera.
I consider the design of megapixels to be a lot cleaner and. And I’ve really enjoyed your blog posts on its development.
Ultimately, I hope you can work on what you enjoy. Even if these than half the folks out there use it, it’s still valuable to them, and the dev blogs are really interesting learning material.
@whynothugo it's not that 60% prefers libcamera, it's that 60% of my mastodon followers prefer I don't work on megapixels.
@martijnbraam @whynothugo libcamera isn't the application. It's the framework, whats the blocker to deliver great camera based on libcamera? Everything isn't about backend.
@okias @whynothugo libcamera api is fundamentally flawed to make a good camera app.
@martijnbraam @whynothugo Propose changes, fork it, etc... V4L2 seems to be even worst than libcamera.
@pavel @martijnbraam @whynothugo Right, big project, but consumer survey shows camera is one main factor in choosing a phone. 1/2
@pavel @martijnbraam @whynothugo If Linux aims to be a viable option, we need people who can invest serious time into designing it and that's why I value your and Martijn work a lot. But it won't be easy. 2/2
@martijnbraam @whynothugo I mean... more than 60% of your followers have never used megapixels because it's very device-specific whereas libcamera is prevalent, mostly as used in Snapshot
@martijnbraam i would not pretend to have any right to impose you to work on anything, but i can absolutely thank you for your work. megapixels was the raison mobile linux got daily drivable to me. megapixels take great pictures on the pinephone thanks for all your great work. i hope you can enjoy yourself on other passetime, and that you would feel lighter, it's sad to get as much pressure... i hope the best for you.
@martijnbraam Well, it's been a wild ride. You definitely did help adapt original Pinephone much more into my daily life and showed we can have cameras on Linux smartphones.
Megapixels meant a lot to me especially in the beginning. I also enjoyed the blogs about development as a peek behind the scene (I don't understand the code, but love reading about coding). Thanks for that. I'm looking forward to your next journey 
It seems you go away a little more from #linuxmobile @martijnbraam 
... but thanks for all your work, you made lots of things possible ...
I just wonder, with all your investment in those systems (pinephone, pmos, megapixels ...), why aren't you daily driving a Linux Phone ? What are the blockers according to you ?
@fdlamotte I don't daily drive linux phones because everyone is fucking around with making flashy apps and porting 20 desktop environments instead of making a phone distro I dare to run upgrades on while being more that 5 meters away from my PC.
@martijnbraam I agree and that's why I stick with sxmo, and that is also what I liked with megapixels ... and you know what, one of my inspiration was this post :
https://blog.brixit.nl/do-you-really-want-linux-phones/
Please keep on blogging ;)
@martijnbraam Hey, I don't know if this will be helpful, but I feel like there is a bit of miscommunication going on here. I think that the mastodon community is just trying to be supportive and appreciative of developers (i.e., you), but that it is being conflated as them not caring about your project.
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@martijnbraam Allow me to provide an analogous example: Imagine you posted that you didn't really feel like eating pizza anymore. Then immediately followed up your post with a poll that said "dinner tonight: [option 1] pizza, [option 2] not pizza". People aren't going to want you to eat what you are getting tired of eating, they are going to say, hey pick the other option (which they arguably did).
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@martijnbraam Now I've been following your work on megapixels for quite some time now, probably over a year or so. I know that I've read about some of the stuggles you had, but even as informed as I am, I couldn't remember off the top of my head that these two options were diametrically opposed. So I suspect the poll result you got was more a reflection of people biasing their response based on what would be supportive of you (needing a break).
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@martijnbraam Anyhow, I will echo the sentiment that other people shared in that if you are feeling burnt out, please take a break. We don't want developers to feel burnt out like that. That being said, I just wanted to clarify things a bit because I can certainly see how the community may look ungreatful or unsupportive based on those poll results. However, like I said, I think people responded that way specefically because they don't want you to feel burnt out.
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