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If you're an Android developer (I don't care about iPhone gaywads) and your app doesn't rotate with the phone, kindly neck yourself in Minecraft please.
Piece of shit software - Crappy software/apps/programs that make you MATI
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What kind of psycho uses the phone on the horizontal? It must be the same freaks who use light mode.
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That's often a lazy way to handle Android's incredibly stupid way of handling rotation internally. When an app rotates, the current activity destroys itself and then creates a rotated copy. Unless you specifically design your app around this behavior, this can very easily put your app into a bad state, causing errors at some unidentified point down the line.
There are better ways to do it, but a lot of people just lock the orientation because it's easy and guarantees the issue doesn't arise.
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The worst offenders of rotation-related problems are camera apps. They do this stupid bullshit now where instead of rotating the image they take the picture sideways and rotate it after the fact using metadata. And it doesn't work because more and more often I see pictures getting uploaded sideways on all kinds of websites and programs where they discard the metadata.
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Bittorrent.
Yeah yeah yeah, I get I'm retarded for using it, but I have legitimately never gotten my proxy credentials to work right in another torrent client and it's the only one that actually connects to any peers.
Anyway, the ads are completely broken (95% of the time they don't load, and the remaining 5% is divided between them actually loading, and escaping and delivering a goddamn "do you accept our tracking policy" cookie request), the whole thing constantly "refreshes" and reloads all of the gui elements (so it's flickering like a motherfucker), and nine times out of ten, the damn thing just locks up with no recourse or waiting, so you have to kill it via task manager, relaunch it, wait to see if anything completed... then have it lock up AGAIN when you either focus it or right click (to delete a completed task+.torrent).
I've updated Bittorrent pretty much every time a new update has come out and it's been like this for the past two years. I'd love to switch to qb or that other one everyone recommends (I think it's called like "bear something"), but c'est la vie.
Edit: Oh, yeah, I don't fucking know why, but for whatever reason having PIA's VPN on causes Captchas to never load... which is great, when pretty much every site that's not Google owned throws one up for logins or uploads... though to be fair I did fuck up a OCR site by uploading enough shit on it that they had to implement both a captcha and a file size limit to keep me from using it, so I guess I can understand why they exist.
Yeah yeah yeah, I get I'm retarded for using it, but I have legitimately never gotten my proxy credentials to work right in another torrent client and it's the only one that actually connects to any peers.
Anyway, the ads are completely broken (95% of the time they don't load, and the remaining 5% is divided between them actually loading, and escaping and delivering a goddamn "do you accept our tracking policy" cookie request), the whole thing constantly "refreshes" and reloads all of the gui elements (so it's flickering like a motherfucker), and nine times out of ten, the damn thing just locks up with no recourse or waiting, so you have to kill it via task manager, relaunch it, wait to see if anything completed... then have it lock up AGAIN when you either focus it or right click (to delete a completed task+.torrent).
I've updated Bittorrent pretty much every time a new update has come out and it's been like this for the past two years. I'd love to switch to qb or that other one everyone recommends (I think it's called like "bear something"), but c'est la vie.
Edit: Oh, yeah, I don't fucking know why, but for whatever reason having PIA's VPN on causes Captchas to never load... which is great, when pretty much every site that's not Google owned throws one up for logins or uploads... though to be fair I did fuck up a OCR site by uploading enough shit on it that they had to implement both a captcha and a file size limit to keep me from using it, so I guess I can understand why they exist.
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ks99
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Damn, I thought I was the only one who gave a shit about using a proxy. It's whatever, since I've since started using a seedbox instead, but qBittorrents proxy mode has been broken for like a decade at this point.
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rip lol
Idk, I've never trusted VPNs to completely cover my ass and I made the dumb mistake of paying for a year of Nord about half a year ago without checking what people were saying about it now, and lo and behold, it immediately started dropping at random. Tried canceling it and get a refund but those kikes told me they couldn't refund it even though I was still in my 30 day window. Add on that story from this year about that guy trying to steal shit from his employer over a youtube shill VPN only to get busted when it leaked his IP, and I'm never touching copyrighted shit again without double wrapping my e-dick.
ks99
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The cheapest way to do it is to get a VPS with a terabyte or so of storage, install rtorrent and setup rutorrent to use as a web interface, then SFTP shit when it's done using Filezilla or WinSCP. Syncthing works great too. The VPN market is a fucking scam and I swear to god it's because somehow marketers took standard piracy advice ("don't torrent without taking precautions") and turned it into "a VPN is essential to protect your privacy!", without specifying why. That shit is now shilled in nearly every tech and tech-adjacent video on YouTube now and has been for the past 4 years. Even my wife fell for the meme, and I literally pirate everything for her already.
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MTS mods/fan content is better than most official content.
Sims is notorious for its bad content stuff packs.
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Yeah I know but the IKEA stuff pack is one of the better ones. I see recolours of the furniture from it on MTS a lot. Although my personal fave is the H&M pack, which unlike most of TS2 included clothing that an actual IRL human being would wear unironically.
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I guess people are using it because it's easy and allows chatting/memeing/streaming and voice chatting, but I still cannot get over how retarded the channel system is.
That plus the fact, that you are at the mercy of janny trannies and cannot host your own is a huge drawback though.
Also the fact, that Discord wants your phone number as the first thing after your email in the registering process is a huge red flag to me (maybe not everyone gets this. Do they frisk gmail adresses the same way?). Smells of censorship already.
Wasn't there also some doxxing rumors going around in the beginning? (officials Discord mods doxxing unwanted users, so I heard).
I would have suggested Octave, but I think they went along with Matlab's way of doing things in order to make it easier to switch over.
The older colorful UI was bad, but I could at least figure out what I was clicking on. Now every Icon in the toolbox is almost indistinguishable from each other.
As you say, it could easily be a better, but somehow it got even worse. The feature set is theoretically very good though ... urgh.
My guess would be: You can upload through Tor, have a seperate encryption key for the data etc.
Lots of services these days just put you in the "Verify you are human"-Loop when you come from Tor, and/or block your registration outright.
Mega also doesn't have this evil thing where it tells you "check your verification email", when the backend just deleted your user account for using an email-provider not on the white list (e.g. Spambog/Tempr.mail, but also less known providers), effectively banning you from using the service.
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MidnightSto
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AutoDesk/AutoCad.
Been using it for 2 months now due to university and half the time it refuses to fucking work.
Whether it can't verify my license or shitty sudden crashes it always find's a reason to be shit.It doesnt matter u just activated the fuckibg license,it still cant verify it and will kill itself.Ofc deconnecting from internet also makes it kill itself
Been using it for 2 months now due to university and half the time it refuses to fucking work.
Whether it can't verify my license or shitty sudden crashes it always find's a reason to be shit.It doesnt matter u just activated the fuckibg license,it still cant verify it and will kill itself.Ofc deconnecting from internet also makes it kill itself
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Aah, FlexLM I hate it so much. One time, many years ago, they did a surprise license check at a place some friends worked at. They were all using the pirated version and just pointed to the long row of legit boxed copies. They didn't want to deal with FlexLM because it's a piece of shit. The response from the AutoDesk license inspectors was "we completely understand, as long as you have a license for every computer it's ok"
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Rockstar Launcher.
Why do I have to launch, a launcher, from a launcher to launch my games. Games for windows live sucked ass but atleast it was easy to remove.
Why do I have to launch, a launcher, from a launcher to launch my games. Games for windows live sucked ass but atleast it was easy to remove.
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Uninstall the Adobe suite. Uninstall the Autodesk suite. Support Open source projects or cheaper alternatives that offer even more. Learn to turn the chess table and dont use a fork for eating cereal and milk just because other professionals use it.
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Gotta learn Maya and 3DSMax, but I'm definitely gonna stick to Blender as much as I can.
Software prices are nuts.
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BootlegPopeye
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This doesn't matter for me on a phone, but it really fucks up tablets, where alot more people (Including me) use it in landscape mode. After Android 7, the system itself won't remember what position (portrait or landscape) you had it locked in, so if you use some shitty app that has a load screen that forces itself in portrait, your system will be stuck in portrait. W/ Android 7 and before, even if the app did force portrait, the system would remember you had it locked and put it back into landscape.
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Sometimes the free/open source alternative is worse than the paid thing. Synfig is an animation program and is often recommended as an alternative to Flash Pro or Animate CC, it's fucking shit. Or you know there's the few dozen video editing softwares, the only one that's good is VSDC and I'm still happy to this day that it was recommended to me. I tried out Kdenlive and it's so featureless, so empty, might as well download a Microdicks powerpoint rip off to edit my videos. Also lol at how many free programs there are for vector editing/creation. If the 3 free options available don't please you, you're shit out of luck.
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If you are into animation, you can already work with OpenToonz which is still used into the Ghibli pipeline and its currently free. Tahoma 2D is a version of OpenToonz easier to understand, but the functions are the same. You can also learn Blender and master the Grease Pencil tool which is currently used severely to make masterpieces. Hell, have you got notified that Krita (waaaay better than photoshit) has already launched their 5.0 version with TONS of amazing features not only for digital art, but also for 2d traditional animation.
If you are into vector animation, synfig is probably kinda shitty as its not very appealing I must admit, but... OpenToonz, Krita, Enve, DragonBones Pro, Cavalry. Those are very powerful software that helped. Mostly OpenToonz and Enve when it comes to vector.
As far as for Video editing, I struggled to find some back in 2014. I dont know when you tried the kdenlive software, but it has improved some things along the way, however its not my main software to go. I currently use Hitfilm Express and from time to time Natron when I wanna play with some advanced things. Hitfilm express is such a precious software to me, but... yeah, you have to pay for some bundle effects, but the most important features are already on a plate. I never heard about VSDC (might check it out, but their website looks like it wants to cum virus in my PC)
Now... for vector editing and creation you are kinda limited I have to agree, but Inkscape is the king. I use it too and their latest update is sweet. I even recreated some works I made back when I studied Illustrator and got better. Not gonna show, because this thread is not an art thread. lol, but you get the point.
We are almost in 2022 and we have tons of posibilites and options. I dont even use Microsoft Office. I use LibreOffice and im in love with it. I would say you are pretty FUCKED when it comes to audio and music production. Theres no free path there. Theres always a sacrifice.