The [Disco Chives] Misplaced Parrot Complaint Thread
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I would think the rotation is metadata, it isn't changing the photo at all - most of the above methods would create a new image that included the rotation effect, so no metadata involved in its orientation.
Continuing Coffee Complaint: Somebody thinks they've cornered the Folger's decaf coffee market.
Are people that desperate for this particular coffee? Or does the seller know something we don't. Do his coffee beans grow from water of the Fountain of Youth or something? Regardless, at that price I'd give up. Thankfully, I can still find Folger's decaf instant, here and there for only about $9 or $10.
Still $2 or $3 higher than non-decaf, but $33 for a single jar is stupid.
Nobody that doesn't travel on private helicopters and private jets pays $33 for 8 ounces of bog standard instant coffee. Yes there are some exclusive, rare and special coffees, but this ain't it.
Why would you call a new HD figure Lores?
That puzzled me, but it seems to hav sold fairly well according to the scrolling marquees so perhaps people were intrigued by the contradiction.
...interesting, makes me wonder if MS ditched Photo Viewer with W10. I'm still on W7 and find Viewer the simplest: open, rotate the image, and close it. as it automatically saves the new orientation.
I also use Gimp for postwork and other photo manipulation but it takes a longer to open as I have a lot of Deviney's brushes and a few plugins loaded.
Spanish and Galician: habitational name from any of the places called Lores in Pontevedra and Palencia provinces of pre-Roman origin
*sighs* Photo viewer still exists in W10 and you can still use it to rotate images.
I don't have windows 10, I use 11.
Has anyone tried these? I got a box of them and probably will give them to my mummy. (or her cats?)
,..thanks, wasn't sure as Media Player. was removed in a W10 update.
Yeah. Hate them, they taste of fish. I hate fish. The cats, on the other hand seem to love them. To be honest, my advice is only to give them to the cats. For my Maine Coon Ozzie, the pot only lasted one inhalation and he wanted another. Mighty expensive way of feeding that cat. He eats 600-800grams a day (roughly 1.5-2pounds of cat food ), more when not supplementing his diet with mice, shrews & rats, and its really only treat size. Breakfast and supper he has 200grams in one snack, grazing the other 200-400g during the day - so 37.5g goes nowhere with him. Regards, Richard.
My cat loves them.
I think, as far as photos go, the iPad and smartphones all work like more traditional cameras. The camera knows whether it was upright or tilted 90 degrees to the left or right. And it saves that in the exif metadata. So if the camera is sideways, the picture is sideways, but any picture viewer that pays attention to that data will rotate the picture since the camera was sideways. The rest just show the picture sideways. In the case of a cat picture (or a woman who lies on the floor a lot) the camera might be pointed straight at the ground so if you rotate it 90 degrees, it doesn't actually realize it's being tilted left or right. It's still just pointed straight down. So you can have the camera say it's sideways when it's not, or not say it's sideways when it actually is. Then you have these pictures showing sideways on the phone and you try to rotate the phone to make the picture upright but the phone just detects that and rotates the picture sideways again.
I am not going to eat them. I don't eat fish and also the label says "premium cat food".
I'm going to eat it.
Hopefully my kitty friends will like them too!
Complaint: Last week we had a mini-Nor'easter... technically, I don't think it was called nor'easter at all, but it did have strong winds and lots of sky water... The good thing was that apparently previously we've had a small leak in the roof over the living room extension for a while that I've kept putting off repairing, which wasn't very big, but it created a small silver dollar sized brown stain on the ceiling... which while it was pretty ugly was also pretty easy to ignore... technically, I was waiting for a warm day when I had the time for go up on the roof to inspect it and repair whatever was leaking... well, after the biggish storm last week it was no longer a silver dollar sized stain but one dachshund sized stain, one iguana sized one, three Guinea pig sized ones and several northern prairie vole sized ones.
Well, yesterday I patched up what I believe was probably the area that was leaking and today I sealed and repainted the ceiling... and of course tomorrow evening it's gonna do the same wind and sky water thing all over again... yay... I was hoping it wouldn't rain hard for a couple of days in case it's still leaky... at least long enough for the barrier coating on the ceiling to cure completely... there's a chance that if it's not completely cured and it leaks again the coating might peel... Booo.
*sighs* No it wasn't. Windows Media Player is very much still here. And still works just fine.
What am I doing? oh it is past bed time! I probably should go to bed? Ja!
I had a bare bones Win7 home premium without any of it at all, think just Internet Explorer
first I installed Chrome
I had to install media player etc from Microsoft, there was a bundle but first I installed Irfanview, VLC etc
but I didn't want a lot of crap I wouldn't use so was quite happy
this Win11 I am slowly uninstalling all the bloatware I got back after my C drive died
I used the support chat.: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/home/contact?SourceApp=smc2&ContactUsExperienceEntryPointAssetId=Smc_home
You click that link. Type in your question and will be directed to a chat screen where someone helps you!
Don't Miss the "Contact Support" button on the bottom of the screen..
No, it's still there. It's just called Photos, but also include Video Editor. Although, MS Clipchamp is the new and preferred video editor...also free.
Not so...I still see it and I have the latest W10 Pro. Movies and TV is my preferred one, though...and also comes free with Windows 10!
Clipchamp is awful, I hate it
I quite liked the other one but Windows 10 is forcing me to use Clipchamp so now I use Blender or Hitfilm Express
sometimes I can get the Video editor to work but it mostly interupts me and tries to get me to reinstall ClipChamp so then I close it
Clipchamp is watermarked to and wants me to buy stuff to do anything so stuff that
rat in my gutter caught on my security camera
There are a few alternatives to Photoshop that aren't too bad.
1. Krita - https://krita.org/en/ ; Absolutely FREE. Not intuitive, but very powerful. Can use Photoshop brushes. Can not only do what photoshop does, but also creates SVG and other vector files as well as allows you to design and create typeface. Actually really love this one. There are resources for learning online and on YouTube
2. Gimp - https://www.gimp.org/ ; Also Free. Kinda hated this one, and there isn't as much support for it as there used to be. But also uses Photoshop brushes and is pretty okay. Some people love it.
3. (Not Free, but Cheap) - Corel Paint Shop Pro. (Not Corel Draw) About $50 bucks - Very robust. Uses Photoshop assets as wll. Has some unique features, like Tubes - https://www.paintshoppro.com/en/
I use Gimp for image editing and drawing
Irfanview is just my default image viewing program and I can do quick simple edits like rotations, file types etc
Clipchamp is for for video editing and it's not very good
For video try DaVinci Resolve: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
or Capcut: https://www.capcut.com/tools/desktop-video-editor
Both are free without watermarks and have a paid upgrade version, but the free versions are pretty good.
Haven't used ClipChamp much, but it doesn't seem to have watermarks or ads. You sure you aren't using something else? It's free in Windows.
CapCut stuffed up my security settings on both my computers, I think it is malware
Not fond of DaVinci Resolve, tried it a few times
I do 90% of my video editing in Blender TBH
...I actually have all three. Krita is more of a digital paint programme similar to Corel Painter. I use both Gimp and PSP pro for photo manipulation, modifying textures, and for postwork as they both have their strengths. I've been using Gimp before I even started with Daz as at the time I could never afford Photoshop. As I mentioned, Gimp is also compatible with Photoshop brushes as well. I have the most recent version of PSP Pro which supports Windows 7
I feel I'm at the end of the line with my graphics "suite" as pretty much everything, has abandoned W7 (including Daz due to the Nvidia driver requirement for Iray). Never going to go back to glacial CPU rendering.
From what I have read about Windows 11 getting an AI assistant in a forthcoming update, I am having second thoughts about updating the hardware to support it. Not thrilled about having an AI bot roaming around in my system "fixing" and "updating" things the way it thinks I need them to be.