Technological/practical "backward steps" we all just accept now

but at least it prompted you to organise the pre-Pulp fap (in the future)

Space bar makes the video pause. Except when it instead selects the buttons on the video, a thing I have never once wanted to do.

* The web gradually filling up with images in strange, nonstandard formats, indigestible by a lot of very widely-used software: .webp, .heic, .avif...

that’s what people used to say about .png files, a format that was partially adopted as an alternative to the patent-encumbered .gif
(gif’s default compression scheme fell out of patent in 2003)
also at least one of those you mentioned was developed by a working group of note and is an ISO standard. my guess is you’re referring to Adobe’s heel-dragging on any format that’s not a new camera raw format

.webp can go straight to hell, back where it came from.

there's an entire realm of people shouting about google's creation of webp, their refusal to contribute to or implement jpegxl, all kinds of nonsense. the kind of circular nerd fight that goes on forever

i did eventually get a plugin working for importing webp into gimp. with avif i still have to run a converter from the command line before editing.

(avif is the still images version of some video format iirc, has been around for ages, just not used for this. webp apparently technically very good. both still annoying when i'm trying to filch book covers or album covers for ereader / media player)

i fucking hate webp but i guess it's a thing now and we all just have to learn to deal with it. technologically it probably _is_ a forward step... i'm just getting old and hate change. why can't we bring back DOS 5.0? i knew how to use DOS 5.0, and even more importantly, _no one else did_. knowing how to edit a config.sys file made me feel smart.

I am fucking delighted to find out that the working group mh mentioned is the Moving Pictures Expert Group, as I'd never realised what that acronym was till now.

The impossibility of dropping these things into PowerPoint or, yes, Adobe software is my main gripe. Every webp I inadvertently download, I have to open in Paint to resave as a jpeg.

My years-old version of Photoshop Elements can display my edits and modify WEBPs, but not save them as a JPG or anything else. Is the current version still like this? There are some WEBP to JPG (or other common format) converters out there, some as browser plug-ins but have no experience with these yet. Some programs/sites I use don't accept WEBPs as uploads.

https://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/ if you all need to batch a bunch of these, I suggest using Imagemagick

If that's too much, I think you can create a Quick Action in Mac OS to convert them using the right click of your mouse/trackpad

One trick that I also use (mostly with Google Slides/PPT stuff, not documents for press) is I use screenshots way more now than before, but with the shortcut to capture the image to my pasteboard directly instead of saving to file – but both strategies pay off.

And if you're using InDesign, I think there's a script that after you place non-compliant Links/Imgs to the Document, you can select them all and export/convert them all as JPEGs in their current size/needed DPI

I use the snip function on Windows so much cause Image saving is such a pain.

^^^^ otm

I am fucking delighted to find out that the working group mh mentioned is the Moving Pictures Expert Group, as I'd never realised what that acronym was till now.

this is why the mp in mp3 stands for moving pictures. (mpeg audio layer 3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM

just want to download images as full canvas paintings

lol thanks for that video

I use the snip function on Windows so much cause Image saving is such a pain.

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^^^^ otm

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yes!

yep I use Preview screenshot on a Mac, same idea

I highly recommend all that ffmpeg guy's videos

+1

I have finally come to terms with the new way to save screenshots on a PC … it’s actually an improvement over the ms paint way

(Greenshot is free, and great?)

^^^

there was a bug report for ffmpeg from someone frantically requesting a fix for some captioning issues with the plea that it was needed for very important software and it turns out it was a Microsoft employee freaking out

(the very important software was Teams, lol)

Websites that make me log in again even though I've ticked the box that says "remember me". I was under the impression that ticking the box sets a cookie but I never clear cookies and this happens to me all the time regardless.

why can't we bring back DOS 5.0? i knew how to use DOS 5.0

rusho OTM

The single most annoying tech thing for me is when I log into the site for my kid's 529 account, which I do five times a week. It has 2FA, which is fine, but when I get the code from text and go to paste it in the box, CMD/CTRL+V doesn't work! I have to right click and then select paste for it to work. I hate it so much, disrupts my whole flow.

what browser do you use? there are extensions that will fix that.

Chrome. I never thought of an extension, but I will investigate. It will save me seconds every day!!

Wait … how are you Ctrl V ing on your phone? I have to wait for the “copy | paste | some other dumb thing” option to appear after tapping the code ??

On my Mac.

i hope you aren't one of those Mac users that assume that just because someone has an iphone that you can send them long-ass texts that should actually be emails because you can text using your computer, whereas those of us who have PCs are stuck responding to your long-ass texts with the dumb iphone interface, thus we prefer not to have to respond at the length that your text requires/implies?

Haha, that's just when I respond with a good old-fashioned 👍

i have an 11yo dell desktop computer running windows 8.1

sometimes if i watch a large-enough video for too long, the video card locks up and i need to reboot. rebooting takes about half an hour.

that said, it essentially does everything i need it to, like run a plex server, read ilx, play music, browse the internet, etc.

zoom long ago stopped working, which is totally fine, i can see that. but now slack won't work, and i've been skirting around whatsapp no longer working by using third-party apps. no idea what advanced features slack or whatsapp might be trying to send me, but jfc why am i gonna have to buy a new computer (and figure out all its shitty administrative privileges and port forwarding again) when i just want my current functions to not disappear

I am sorry for your loss…

11 years is a great run, pour one out for the homie

you could probably install some lightweight version of linux on that old PC and extend its use by a couple more years, assuming there are no serious issues with hardware issues, but obviously that is a hassle and it is annoying (and wasteful) when things just stop working even though nothing is actually broken.

I get mookie's point because, dammit, the computer still works.

I've got a 2009 imac that both Chrome and Firefox have left behind in the dust. Fine. But yet, I'm still greeted with the (Download | Dismiss) pop-up everytime I log on.

there's no way a 11 year computer is "old", this is nothing like using a 1980 computer in 1991, or a 1991 one in 2002

there's something *seriously* wrong with mookie's pc if a reboot takes half an hour, not even windows could be that shitty.
software or hardware issue, i have no clue, but it's certainly not obsolescence causing those issues

reminds me of this: https://cohost.org/ghoulnoise/post/5286766-do-not-buy-hisense-t

2fa is killing me these days.

About 9 years ago, we got little RSA keyfobs at work to log into our Windows profile, which was annoying.

At the beginning of the pandemic, they made us switch to an app, needing to use authentication to log into the VPN as well as our Windows profile. It's possible that we needed 2fa to log into the VPN before the pandemic, but I wasn't working from home that much.

They soon added the intranet, our timekeeping software, and several internal databases as needing separate authentication.

In the past year, we have now needed to use the 2fa app every time we lock the screen, meaning I either have to authenticate dozens of times per day or I just stop locking my screen when I walk away from the computer.

In the meantime, one of our external vendors started requiring 2fa on a cloud-based product (using a separate app), but there was a checkbox you could click on their login screen that would remember your individual computer remain so you could remain authenticated for 30 days.

However, last week, the vendor updated their login screen. It still has the checkbox, but thus far, it has not remembered me as promised, so I have had to use their 2fa app every day.

I don't know if this is an appropriate amount of 2FA, given the world's cybersecurity challenges, but it feels like overkill.

You're right. Probably need to go to 3FA.

there's something *seriously* wrong with mookie's pc if a reboot takes half an hour, not even windows could be that shitty.

lol i am hardly an expert but i periodically run several tune-up/bot-check programs, all of which tell me things are theoretically fine. my windows is updated (if deprecated), as are my drivers. i don't even care about the lengthy bootup process! i just want the shit that has always worked to *not stop working*

I think it's a symptom of something bad but who knows

Google can stop popping a window offering me a login with my Google I.D. on sites that already have pop-up windows with my specific login info already in them, login info that I likely saved in my Google account.

i wonder if it's applications in the startup process that makes it take so long? Have you tried disabling everything except the bare minimum windows stuff from running at start up? My laptop is only 4 years old and it has gotten more sluggish starting up because of this and the background processes from all the applications that seem to be designed for the newest/fastest computers ... bloatware, isn't that the term?

also -- applications that decide I should change my mind about not wanting to take advantage of their new features and redesign, even though I constantly say "switch to classic view"

Google can stop popping a window offering me a login with my Google I.D. on sites that already have pop-up windows with my specific login info already in them

ugh this is truly one of my major annoyances as well ...