lichtmetzger
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- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 4 days ago:
I agree, the forced auto-translation is really annoying. There’s a browser extension called “YouTube No Translation” that fetches the original titles and descriptions from the YouTube API and replaces them.
It’s ridiculous, I already need three extensions to make YouTube useable again. YouTube Row Fixer, YouTube No Translation and YouTube Enhancer. And it’s still garbage in some places.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 4 days ago:
That dialer change was evil. I have switched to Fossify Phone now and use that as a dialer. The Fossify apps are amazing, they also have a gallery and messages app, so Google’s proprietary BS isn’t neccessary.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 5 days ago:
My post literally says so :D It’s still a dickhead move to put the assistant in there as the default when setting up the device and hiding the option under “Gestures”.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 5 days ago:
If its the same as Samsung, holding power + volume down should bring up the power menu.
On my NP1, it’s Power and Volume Up. So much for consistent behaviour between different Android devices…
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 5 days ago:
It seems like they haven’t changed the setting retroactively for existing users, but I just reset my Nothing Phone 1 to factory settings and then it got set by default.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 5 days ago:
Yes, the Nothing Phone 1. I reset it, because I switched to a Unihertz Titan 2 now and only use it as a USB webcam. :)
- Comment on These are the types of Whatsapp Channels Indians get recommended 5 days ago:
I’m from Germany and I get recommendations for all kinds of German police forces (for each major city). Added to that, I often get channels for microwave recipes or random channels underage teenagers have created.
What a great system!
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- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 1 week ago:
Depends on the bank, mine doesn’t have a problem with root.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 1 week ago:
Nothing already lost me when they put a tiny, useless OLED screen on the back of their flagship and called it innovation. They had something great with the Glyph lights on the whole back, so of course they ditched it.
Not even Unihertz put Facebook garbage on their new Titan 2phone. And they also have an OLED on the back. A much bigger one. For a fraction of the price.
- Comment on just one more bro 4 weeks ago:
This reminds me of the sketch from Chris & Jack, where one person tries to outsmart a genie and almost succeeds, but still fails.
- Comment on OpenAI signs $1 trillion worth of chip deals to feed its AI habit 4 weeks ago:
Ed Zitron’s gonna have a field day with this. OpenAI’s motto seems to be scaling “to infinity and beyond”. But what can you expect from a techbro CEO that takes Dyson spheres seriously.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely. 😃 Someone even went through my recent unrelated comments in other communities and downvoted each one. I didn’t think blocking some ads would make people this mad!
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
You claimed that I was uploading and batch-processing images on the developers’ infrastructure. I tried to tell you it’s not true, because all of those features still work without internet. Load photopea.com, disconnect your internet - tadaa, you can still “upload” images, crop them, save them, draw on them…
I must be a magician if I can connect to the developers’ machine without any connection at all. There is only one person in this thread who cannot understand how basic technology works. And it’s not me.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
Was it the fact that Photopea isn’t FOSS?
That definitely plays into it, but the major point for me is that it’s an alternative to Photoshop, which it literally tries to mimick as best as you can in a browser, down to the same keyboard shortcuts Photoshop uses.
Most people here would probably agree that Adobe is a very greedy company. So when there’s an alternative to their software that works fine for many years and then gets turned into a subscription model while the author actively fights uBlock, it just feels…wrong. It’s just the same playbook, but with a slightly lower cost.
I also think it’s very hypocritical to accuse me of freeloading from Photopea, because that project uses other open-source libraries under the hood. Did anyone ask the developer if he financially supported the projects that he is profiting off? He doesn’t even mention them on the website (or if he does, it’s not easy to find), but you can see them when you deobfuscate the Javascript blob.
If someone criticizes me for using this project ad-free, it’s just as valid to criticize the developer for using open-source libraries in a closed-source project (as closed-source as a web-application can be).
But to break it down to a simple point: I would’ve paid for the software if it cost 5€/month. That’s 60€ per year, which is reasonable for an image manipulation tool that can run most of its features locally. But 96€/year is too much. I’m not moving away from Adobe to pay for another big subscription. Now that ship has sailed for me completely, after this whole uBlock fiasco.
You just called GIMP icky and didn’t do the bare minimum level of searching that’d tell you ImageMagick exists for batch edits.
I know about ImageMagick and as I’ve said in another comment, a commandline tool is not suitable for cropping different areas of multiple images, I need a visual representation. GIMP might have improved, you’re right on that point. I haven’t used it in a long time and I will try to see if it’s better now (2.x was painful and anybody saying otherwise is simply delusional).
lazy, entitled cheapskate
Not sure why this was neccessary. You started out so eloquently and then your emotions got the best of you. I believe you can do better than the typical Reddit “discussion”.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
I think you’re taking heat a little bit unfairly.
Most of it seems to come from one user who seems to hate me in particular. :D But it’s fun to start a controversial topic once in a while. At least I’m not getting banned for having a different opinion (which would’ve definitely happened on Reddit).
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
You can’t just save the webpage as HTML and run it (which is what woelkchen doesn’t seem to grasp, even though I tried to explain it to him in another thread). But technically, all of the image processing code for cropping, saving, painting on the image etc. runs locally.
You can see that easily for yourself, just disconnect your internet after opening the site and it continues to work just fine.
That’s why all of the accusations that I’m freeloading and straining the developers’ server while not paying a dime are unfunded.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
Are you financially supporting literally any developers at all?
Yes, I’ve donated to the digikam project in the past, just to name one example. I also donated to Slackware when it’s creator was in financial trouble. And I am actively donating to the Fediverse instance that allows me to post this comment.
You think you got me here, but you didn’t.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
Keep trolling, my man! I’m outta here. :)
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
commercial-grade
Today I’ve learned that cropping five images in a row is “commercial-grade”. Sure…
Self-hosting is a good idea, though, if I can find some useful software in that field. See, despite all of the trolling you are actually giving me good advice. I don’t know if it’s intentional, but thanks nonetheless.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
Or save the page if “All of that code runs in your own browser.”
Sir, this is not how the internet works. I thought people on the Fediverse are a bit more technically-versed than the average population.
When I disconnect my internet, I can still crop images, save them to my machine in various and use the tools in the left sidebar. Photopea does not use the developers’ server to do these tasks, or otherwise I wouldn’t be able to do them at all, when I go offline.
That doesn’t mean I can just save the whole website locally and run it as is. Mostly, because the developers’ code contains references to online sources or might bug out in certain places if it’s not run on the intended domain, etc.
If I disassembled the obfuscated code and replaced those online references, I’m pretty sure the whole thing would just work. Not being able to save a website locally and just run it as is does not disprove my point that the application does not technically need a server to run. It’s just that the developer coded it that way.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
I am not paying another high subscription (yes, 96€/year is high for some people) for a tool that processes images locally, no.
That attitude has worked out fine in my life so far.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
You admitted that you do frequent batch processing of many images on their infrastructure.
I’m not sure why you keep commenting this as a fact, when it’s literally not true. As I’ve said in another thread, you can open up the site, disconnect your internet and process all of the images just fine.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
This won’t work because there is actual server-side code running
That is not true! You can figure that out for yourself - open up the site, disconnect your internet and resize/crop some images. It will do it just fine.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
If anything, you seem entitled and willfully ignorant
I understand why people might think that. As I’ve said in another comment, it’s the attitude of the developer that mildly infuriates me. I am not against paying money for a good product and I would’ve even paid the subscription, if 1. it wasn’t so high (96€/year for a tool processing images in your own browser) and 2. he wasn’t such a dick on Github to people.
I know developers need to put food on the table, but then they should at least be honest about that. Going into the uBlock Github and trolling people there while claiming you “always supported ad blockers” isn’t the right way and I am not financially supporting developers who act like this.
Also, some people don’t seem to grasp that I’m not actually processing images for free on the developers’ infrastructure. The image processing is done via Javascript on my own machine. So all I’m doing is loading the website initially, it’s not like I’m taking money out of the devs’ pocket by blocking his ads. Added to that, the site worked fine for many years, why do you need to put an aggressive Adblock detection in now? It’s a cat and mouse game against uBlock and he must now he will never win this game.
Of course, it’s his own tool and he can do whatever he wants with it, but it’s still shitty to do it.
After all, you’re right, I’ve decided to give tools like GIMP another chance. The problem for me is that I used Photoshop for many years (that’s what I learned when I was attending art school, blame the system) and moving away to another tool like GIMP is a lot of work, because it works very differently. I learned there are plugins for easing the transition and I’ll find another tool.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
The images get processed in your own browser. The only infrastructure I’m using is the bit of Javascript and HTML I am loading when accessing the site, the rest is handled by my own machine.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
Thank you, that’s my opinion as well. I know developers need to put food on the table, but then they should at least be honest about that. Going into the uBlock Github and trolling people there while claiming you “always supported ad blockers” isn’t the right way and I am not financially supporting developers who act like this.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
I’m not the one getting nervous at looking at other alternatives.
I am not nervous, I am mildly infuriated.
Use the right tool for the job
imagemagick certainly isn’t the right tool for batch-cropping, unless the cropped area is always in the same place. But thank you for at least trying to suggest an actual solution instead of patronizing me.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
Oh, that’s nice! I still remember Gimpshop but it’s been dead for years. But I see now that there’s at least PhotoGIMP, that’ll really help me out.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 4 weeks ago:
That’s true, I was working with Photoshop many years and it’s hard to unlearn that.
Maybe I’ll give it another chance.
