The [Disco Chives] Misplaced Parrot Complaint Thread

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  • McGyver said:

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    I cannot turn it around for you, tried 

    <p><a href="https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/90/e357c1c98f2a55ba7670b393fb1d3b.jpg"; target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/90/e357c1c98f2a55ba7670b393fb1d3b.jpg"style="height:394px;width:700px;transform:rotate(90deg)" /></a></p>

    but the forum software deletes the transform: rotate(90deg);

    You probably know all this, but here are a couple of ways (that work for me) to force the forum software to accept the photographic reorientation.

    1)... Rotate and then duplicate the image (top right of screen, small circle with three dots > Duplicate), for some reason this works most of the time (98.9% of the time), but occasionally it randomly doesn't... it seems like the the duplicate usually retains the transformation.

    2)... Rotate and send it to yourself via a text or email.

    3)... Rotate and take a screenshot, crop screenshot and use that... it's stupid, but it works.

    4)... I don't know if this still works, but rotate then slightly crop the photo... one version of iOS or weird episode of forum software oddity this worked well...

    5)... Use anything but the forum software to post the picture... like some image hosting site via a link... least desirable, but I've just given up wasting time with all the new and improved problems the image uploading developes constantly, not to mention that the forum since probably 2018, still doesn't upload images using Safari.

    I figure you know all that (you've given me good suggestions in the past, so I figure you generally know more about iOS), but the above is more for anyone who may not and is perusing this thread and while using iOS.

    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.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,507
    edited December 2023

    Continuing Coffee Complaint:  Somebody thinks they've cornered the Folger's decaf coffee market.frown  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.yes  Still $2 or $3 higher than non-decaf, but $33 for a single jar is stupid.cheeky  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.devil

     

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583

    Why would you call a new HD figure Lores?

  • Fixmypcmike said:

    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.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,042
    edited December 2023

    ...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.

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  • Spanish and Galician: habitational name from any of the places called Lores in Pontevedra and Palencia provinces of pre-Roman origin

  • kyoto kid said:

    ...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. 

    <snip>

    *sighs* Photo viewer still exists in W10 and you can still use it to rotate images. 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,262

    zombietaggerung said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...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. 

    <snip>

    *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. 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,262

    Has anyone tried these?  I got a box of them and probably will give them to my mummy.  (or her cats?)

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,042

    zombietaggerung said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...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. 

    <snip>

    *sighs* Photo viewer still exists in W10 and you can still use it to rotate images. 

    ,..thanks, wasn't sure as Media Player. was removed in a W10 update. 

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,666
    edited December 2023
    Sfariah D said:

    Has anyone tried these?  I got a box of them and probably will give them to my mummy.  (or her cats?)

    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.

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  • Sfariah D said:

    Has anyone tried these?  I got a box of them and probably will give them to my mummy.  (or her cats?)

    My cat loves them. 

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,809

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    you know I can turn them around on my ipad too yet this forum still shows them sideways

    I need to use the Fiirefox app to even upload

    of course I can do everything on my PC, Irfanview is my prefered image fixer for simple stuff (default for displaying)

    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.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,262

    richardandtracy said:

    Sfariah D said:

    Has anyone tried these?  I got a box of them and probably will give them to my mummy.  (or her cats?)

    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.

    I am not going to eat them.  I don't eat fish and also the label says "premium cat food". 

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,809

    I'm going to eat it.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,262

    AgitatedRiot said:

    Sfariah D said:

    Has anyone tried these?  I got a box of them and probably will give them to my mummy.  (or her cats?)

    My cat loves them. 

    Hopefully my kitty friends will like them too! 

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited December 2023

    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.

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  • zombietaggerungzombietaggerung Posts: 3,725
    edited December 2023

    kyoto kid said:

    zombietaggerung said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...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. 

    <snip>

    *sighs* Photo viewer still exists in W10 and you can still use it to rotate images. 

    ,..thanks, wasn't sure as Media Player. was removed in a W10 update. 

    *sighs* No it wasn't. Windows Media Player is very much still here. And still works just fine.

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,262

    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 yes

    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

  • JasmineSkunkJasmineSkunk Posts: 1,902
    edited December 2023

    Richard Haseltine said:

    JasmineSkunk said:

    Sfariah D said:

    Charlie Judge said:

    Complaint: I've been geeting even more clodflare errors than usual. Did DAZ forget to feed the server hamsters? 

    Sfariah D said:

    I don't know why but I keep finding myself having to update DIM everytime I go back to it.  I am trying to download my content but I keep getting asked to update DIM.

    Well... Let me tell you about the adventure I've been on for the last couple days... I think it qualifies as a complaint..

    My PC started randomly crashing. Blue screen. Saying Driver IRQL not less or equal ..blah blah blah...

    Which I have no idea what that means, so I contact Microsoft and they run me through a bunch of stuff... A cold boot, an update... several days, kept crashing. So I go to check my video driver settings in the software, but the software won't load. Tells me the driver I have is not compatible... ????

    So I go to the driver update page and update my driver. So far, so good. Things were working and my system stopped crashing. Cool. 

    Next day... happened all over again. Couldn't access my driver software, got the same incompatiblilty error message... and I'm thinking, "huh?" So I do it again...

    Happened again the next day...

    The problem? Windows... for whatever reason... didn't recognize my CORRECT updated driver and kept reverting back to an older one that was crashing my system. AND I COULDN'T figure out how to make it stop doing it. Finally... an agent from Microsoft took control of my pc and made a few adjustments and seems to have made it stop doing that... for now. I have no idea how long it will last. But, it was extremely frustrating! LOL

    You managed to talk to a peson at Microsoft? And get support from them?

    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! smiley 

    Don't Miss the "Contact Support" button on the bottom of the screen.. wink

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,209

    kyoto kid said:

    ...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.

    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.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,209
    edited December 2023

    kyoto kid said:

    zombietaggerung said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...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. 

    <snip>

    *sighs* Photo viewer still exists in W10 and you can still use it to rotate images. 

    ,..thanks, wasn't sure as Media Player. was removed in a W10 update. 

    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!

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,208
    edited December 2023

    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

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  • WendyLuvsCatz said:

    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

    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/

     

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,208
    edited December 2023

    JasmineSkunk said:

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    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

    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

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  • WendyLuvsCatz said:

    JasmineSkunk said:

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    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

    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. smiley

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,209

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    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

    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.

     

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,208
    edited December 2023

    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

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,042

    JasmineSkunk said:

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    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

    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 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.

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