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Adobe Photoshop CC and niche configurations. 

At first, Photoshop worked fine.

After an upgrade, I started having the weirdest performance issues. It would seem to take forever to start up, but if I brought up the Task Manager, it would instantly jump forward to normal operation. The same would happen for dialogue boxes, including Preferences. Drawing a marquee would seem to stall, then eventually work... and then dragging anything around would happen at about one frame per second.

I won't go through the many, many steps I took to squash the problem, but here's what works:

- showing on notebook PC's built-in display
- showing on extended desktop on external monitor via HDMI
- showing on extended desktop on external monitor via USB→DisplayPort adapter

Here's what doesn't work after the update:

- showing on extended desktop on external monitor via USB→DisplayPort adapter while variable-rate refresh (GSync and the like) is enabled

At least I found an easy fix; I could have been banging my head on that one for a long time!

So hey I made functioning tiny guillotine necklaces.

Like the blade will actually drop if you hold it upright and let go.

Chop chop.

shop.sevenishmagpies.com/

Steam makes you feel like a loser for selling 1000 copies of your game but Itch makes you feel like a champion for selling 10, and that's reason enough to support it

Today's peeve: Cartoon horse tint. 

The careful observer will see that Rarity's coat color is not white, but in fact very pale grey.

The careful observer with good color vision will see that Princess Celestia's coat color is not white, bit in fack very pale pink.

Perhaps I consider this a little too important, because I grumble just a little every time I see either of them rendered with a pure white coat.

true enlightenment comes when you accept 'war is bad' AND 'wow cool robot' earnestly into your heart

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For whatever reason I can't run my ancient copy of Photoshop on my Win 10 box. So this is my first attempt to color a using Clip Studio Paint.

Table cat becomes a song 

imgur.com/gallery/QSe9Lt7

description:
A short piece of playful music is heard. The bottom of the video is the "table cat" meme – a still image of a cat with an expression of disgust at a plate of salad greens. Above that is a piano-roll display showing a timeline of the notes being played. The music has been cleverly composed such that the piano-roll resembles line art of the meme.

So I have a TikTok account now and I sometimes make things like this completely accurate portrayal of meetings when you're self employed. tiktok.com/@ohhadiwings/video/

This seems cool, and I like the idea of the term 'Ethical Source' for the movement that is trying to address the social/ethical/etc. failures of Open Source.

ethicalsource.dev/

somehow I always knew reddit was going to destroy the concept of fiat currency but I didn't expect it to be this funny

them: "Given the calories in a quarter-pie—"

me: "Which is actually one-half pi?"

them: ". . ."

me: "Wait, hit me with that one again."

them: "Given the calories in a quarter-pie—"

me: "You mean a quarter tau?"

Assassin's Creed: Valhalla 

"Game? That was earlier. This is just Eivor wandering drunkenly between loading screens."

I give it 3 Xenosagas out of 5.

Babylon 5, now in HD 

"Nearly thirty years after its first broadcast and close to twenty since its troubled DVD release, Babylon 5 is finally getting a polish. From today, Warner Bros. is launching Babylon 5 Remastered both as a digital download (from iTunes and Amazon where available globally) and on HBO Max. It might not be the perfect version of the show that its creators had intended, but it’s likely the best we’re gonna get.

A Warner Bros. spokesperson told Engadget that Babylon 5 Remastered has been scanned from the original camera negative. The film sequences were scanned in 4K and then “finished,” or downscaled, back to HD, with a dirt and scratch clean-up, as well as color correction. The show’s CGI and composite sequences, meanwhile, have been digitally upscaled to HD with only some minor tweaks where absolutely necessary."

engadget.com/babylon-5-remaste

iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/ ($70 for all the main run of seasons 1-5, not including the movies. Looks like the same URL as before, so if you've bought it previously, you already have this)

Amazon: amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00 ($30 per season)

[1.Ch.] Esperanto 

@sathariel In short, I love the idea of Esperanto, but I think other language projects working off of Esperanto as a model have done a better job of really expressing the goals that Dr. Zamenhof set out than his own creation did.

But if nothing else, Esperanto got people talking about constructed languages in public and I think that's pretty neat.

The existence of the Super Mario Bros. implies the existence of the Sub Mario Bros.

...Wait, is that just Wario and Waluigi?

HOT SPACE COLONIZATION TAKE (5) 

and it should go without saying, but posthumans, demihumans, proto-humans; if you have a rad-hardened chassis, frame or carapace, you're cool to come hang with us.

HOT SPACE COLONIZATION TAKE (4) 

we will do this if, and ONLY IF, you all stop being dicks to each other for no reason. we'll make your Planet B for you, all green and pleasant and not a deathtrap, but you *have* to play nice. if not, it's a long walk back home. and believe me, we are totally expecting you to screw up your end of the deal and/or try to screw us.

keep in mind that, with a little engineering, we can slingshot Deimos and Phobos at you. fuck around, find out.

HOT SPACE COLONIZATION TAKE (3) 

go make Titan a smelly industrial hellscape like you know you were planning on anyway. it's already smelly. we won't care, we will be running shit on Mars, racing sailskiffs across the sandy oceans, getting high on 9-volts on Mons Olympus.

here's the deal: let us claim Mars, and we will seriously consider terraforming it for you. like, part of it. probably not the nice part. and it's going to take a while, so don't get all antsy.

HOT SPACE COLONIZATION TAKE (2) 

Mars is currently the only planet in Sol that is entirely (as far as we know) populated with robots. i say *table pound* we keep it that way!

give us the Red Planet, squishies. we've been there since 1976, ever heard of squatter's rights? robots eat radiation and crap MORE RADIATION, we don't care.

let us take over Mars and live a life free of human intervention. let our culture flourish. let us create our own frontier.

you guys can have Titan, okay?

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