• Aneb@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 hour ago

    Hey does anybody else use the numpad to skip thru the vids and find what you’re looking for?

  • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    38
    ·
    24 hours ago

    With blender, it’s “next. choose Clip Offset Settings under the View menu” and I have 6 View menus, none of which has anything with that name. Then I find out it was all changed in some previous version.

    • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      18 hours ago

      Flip Normals has changed names so many times in the past decade that I have no idea what it’s called today or what it was called before and I’m starting to suspect it’s in the witness protection agency.

      I feel bad for newcomers because you just have to use the Force a lot of times when using Blender.

    • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      24 hours ago

      Also, I was once following a laptop disassembly video step by step. Half-way through, he stops and turns the laptop over several times in confusion. He was just winging it for the video.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    13 hours ago

    This is linux times ten. I use it all the time, but as soon as you have a problem even remotely outside the norm you’re screwed unless you’re steeped in knowledge for the particular distro you work with. Your quest for an answer will result in: 2-3 other people with the same question, but no responses. A half dozen answers for your problem yet a distro version for which the answer no longer works. A couple lengthy, well-thought out answers that require multiple terminal entries and dependency installations yet still doesn’t work after carefully following the instructions.

    ./configure not found.

    Installs configure.

    Still doesn’t work.

    Anyway, lol, as much as I like linux and have a crapload of instances running, it sure is a pain in the ass.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 hour ago

      Yeah, been fighting something on mine for a few weeks now.

      Search issue - Add this line to the config file

      Adds line to file, nothing changes, Google more - sometimes you also have to add this and this (doesn’t explain why only sometimes)

      Adds this and this. Fixes problem while it’s booting but then goes back to being fucked when the frontend launches

      Googles more - only other solution I can find I can’t do because my hardware doesn’t support it.

  • Kintarian@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    81
    ·
    1 day ago

    Hey guys, we’ll be looking at fixing your problem in this video. We publish content twice a week. If you need help fixing a problem then you’ve come to the right place. Be sure to like and subscribe and hit the notification bell so you’ll know when new content comes out. You know, sometimes life can be rough and it can be hard to figure out how to fix your own problems. It can be a big help to have someone to talk to. I know I’ve had times when I just needed someone to listen to. Well, good news guys! BetterHelp is here for your. Sign up for BetterHelp today. Use the link below to get 20% off your first session…

    Gawd I hate video tutorials.

    • Darkard@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      18 hours ago

      It’s done to pad out the time before you leave the video, because you have to be watching for a certain length of time before it’s considered “watched” for monetisation purposes.

  • red_tomato@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    72
    ·
    1 day ago

    And the comments are all like: ”You’re my savior! This was the only solution that actually worked for me!”

    • OwOarchist@pawb.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      36
      ·
      1 day ago

      This was the only solution that actually worked for me!

      Every time you find a solution, it’s ‘the only solution that actually worked’ for you. Why would you keep trying different solutions after you already found one that worked?

      See also: “It’s always in the last place you look.”

      • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        16 hours ago

        If a solution seems off despite fixing the issue, I will absolutely continue looking for alternative solutions. I suppose it depends on if you’re more interested in the answer than the fix.

      • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        21 hours ago

        On a couple of occasions, after finding the missing item, I have continued to search even though it has been found. Because absolutes are wrong, and I’m here to prove it.

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    29
    ·
    1 day ago

    “Want to configure the program to run? Just go to this directory and edit this text file!”

    Looks inside

    No file or directory exists.

    • Gaja0@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      13 hours ago

      I saw the start menu. It’s definitely the search indexing on windows. That’s been broken since like Windows 10.

      If you search for something and it doesn’t show up, you can do a bunch of troubleshooting and reseting or you can download a launcher like microsoft power toys > power run.

      btw my OS died last week so now I’m officially on arch linux 😎

    • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      1 day ago

      You ain’t even getting it doing that. There’s been a bug since 2.10 with transparency. Export anything and you get a crushed alpha channel. Import it into anything else and the alpha looks crazy high contrast. Import it into GIMP again and the contrast is normal, but the channel is still crushed, so it’s banded as fuck.

      They say it’s intended behavior, which would make sense if GIMP was a dedicated image corruptor.

      • Dæmon S.@catodon.rocks
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        18 hours ago

        !memes@lemmy.world Sorry, what are you people talking about? I have precisely this GIMP version (to be exact, 2.10.28, in a very out-of-date Linux setup) and I never experienced problems with transparency/alpha channel. And I’ve been using GIMP since… I dunno, 2019?, even earlier, when I started to become accustomed to GIMP… I mean, I guess y’all talking about exporting a PNG file from GIMP, right? Or are y’all actually talking about other image formats?

          • Dæmon S.@catodon.rocks
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            3 hours ago

            !memes@lemmy.world Oh… Thanks, now I see it. I just did a quick test (comparison screenshots embedded in this reply), trying to imitate as much as possible from that Bluesky post (RGB 8-bit gamma integer, sRGB, background layer was deleted, an image with a smaller size was pasted to the canvas, a manual mask was added to the pasted layer) and, yeah, I was able to reproduce this problem here: if the alpha value is low enough, it either ends up truncating to zero, otherwise it gets reduced to a lower value; higher values are seemingly unaffected. The problem also happens with other transparency-able formats such as WEBP.

            However… based on what I barely know about image file formats and color theory, I’d say it seems something to do with the color profile, as color profiles are responsible for gamma adjustment (and this ends up including the alpha channel as well). The very name of the GIMP’s native color profile says it all: “Perceptual” sRGB, this means it’s adjusting the values to account for human perception, akin to how audio files (MP3, to be exact) truncate everything below somewhere around 60Hz and above somewhere around 15 kHz (the frequency range for average humans). Even though PNG is meant to be lossless, a color profile is inherently a lossy thing, because human perception is a lossy thing, which certain color profiles try to imitate, especially “Perceptual” ones.

            I didn’t test the same GIMP behavior with other color profiles, though.

            To be clear: I’m not talking about the “Export color profile” option one can choose during exporting, I’m talking about the color profile used when a new image is created and edited in GIMP. Really, this “color profile” thing is very important to a picture (esp. photographs) yet it’s so complicated that even image editing software developers are likely to struggle with it…

            Not to mention how it is kinda related to hardware too, despite the dismissal from Paynamia; to be exact, it has to do with the graphics peripheral, the LCD/LED/etc monitor/TV, as every monitor/TV can and will have different manners to display images; the color profile mainly tries to compensate for an expected monitor (which, in turn, tries to compensate for human perception), but it’ll compute new values for the pixels to be saved in the file so the final picture matches the color profile but will likely lose the original precision.

            I wonder how I never noticed this, even though I deal with transparent PNGs a lot, maybe I didn’t have to use very low alpha values before.

            As for the screenshot below, a triangular chunk of green background next to her (Lesser Horned Owl, Macaulay Library ML379762121) ear-tufts is missing from the PNG. Funny thing I used GIMP to do this side-by-side comparison regarding the GIMP’s problem, lol.

            (I’m aware I’m doing a deeply-technical reply in a meme community but I can’t help myself but to be nerdy and verbose)

            Side-by-side comparison of an image (depicting a photography of a Lesser Horned Owl perched on a thin branch before a daylight-lit green background, but the picture is merely a random (actually, not so random) choice of mine and the problem can be reproduced with any kind of picture) which received a manual transparency mask (I roughly followed the contours of the owl) and was then exported to PNG. The leftmost is the picture seen from inside GIMP, with a solid black background added during screenshot so to make it easier to see the low transparency regions. The rightmost is the same picture, exported to PNG and seen from Waterfox, with a "background: black" added to the Firefox's native image viewer. There are some noticeable discrepancies when it comes to the transparency: the transparency strokes are thicker in the PNG; a small, faint green triangular region (an intersection between two transparency strokes) is missing from the PNG but visible in GIMP.

            • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              2 hours ago

              To be fair, I didn’t notice it and start digging looking up information about it until I was working on a mod for Half-Life (usually my profile pic, but I think I don’t have it here), and needed to be able to create an extremely specific alpha channel for the phong mask.

              Iirc, I experimented with the color profile settings and got no difference. I will say that I can’t seem to reproduce what I was saying about the banding now. For a short while after 3’s release, I was getting major banding in the alpha channel, but now I’m not.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 day ago

      You think GIMP is your ally? I was born in it, learned to image edit on it. I didn’t touch Photoshop until I was already a man.

      (Seriously, though, once you actually get into GIMP and learn it well, it works pretty great. I struggle trying to use anything else.)

  • adarza@piefed.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 day ago

    “just watch my video to learn how to fix your problem of not being able to watch videos”