Although some would argue there's a lot of foreshadowing.
Maybe, although it's multiple people, so seems like it wouldn't be a camera fault.
Possibly it's how they are getting to me - I don't get them directly, they come to via someone else, and I think the someone else may be getting them via WhatsApp (which I don't use).
So in fact it's maybe the compression from WA, rather than an issue with HEIC? I should have thought of that before!
Maybe they're doing something else to their files then, but seriously they are grainy as hell.
Ah, that's a shame. Thanks anyway though :-)
Yeah I hate this too - one of my clients regularly supplies images as HEIC files and they are always crappy to work with. Plus the images just seem much lower quality, which is a problem when they are being used for professional purposes.
I considered that, but it's a paid app - yes it's only a token amount (99p in UK, ymmv) but just as a point of principal, am I fuck paying extra just to be able to open some photos.
I think I've got that but have never played it. Must get it running one day!
Oh, that would have been perfection! 😁
Was kind of hoping that at the end we'd hear a distant, "Ow!"
Can't disagree with that.
Re the anti-English thing, maybe I just saw it because I had a few mates from south of the border who got the odd comment.
For sure, most are fine with it. But as a teuchter I did find quite a few struggling to understand my accent, which is pretty mild, and I'm pretty sure making fun in hindsight. I socialised mostly with other Scots as a consequence.
Well, that sounds unfortunate, but it also sounds like at least some of it was stuff you were thinking (possibly correctly) might have happened rather than knowing for sure it did. And if "most are fine with it", that doesn't really explain you socialising mostly with other Scots.
I'm from Fife, have a bit of an accent, occasionally had to clarify for someone who didn't pick up what I said, but never found it to be a serious issue at all.
And it wasn't like I didn't have to ask for clarification myself sometimes. I had friends from Manchester, Liverpool, Norwich, London, Northern Ireland, the west of Scotland, Germany... At some point I probably asked all of them to explain something I hadn't caught, but not in a way that implied criticism or judgement.
Don't get me wrong, I was very aware of the whole "yah" phenomenon, but it certainly didn't put me off hanging out, or getting on, with people from all over the place, including some of those apparent "yahs" who often turned out just to be perfectly decent young people who happened to have what we might consider a posh accent, and found themselves in an unfamiliar town surrounded by a populace which in many cases was actively hostile to them, just because they were English.
become more prejudiced against the wealthy and the English
Quite a telling sentence. It's not just the wealthy, it's the English themselves, regardless of wealth.
Not the other UK nations, not non-Scottish students generally - no, it's specifically the English you hate. Slow hand clap...
As a football ⚽ fan, I can confirm that time moves excruciatingly slowly when defending a 1 goal lead, and absurdly quickly when a goal behind.
I was at Edinburgh and while there were some like that, by far the majority of students I encountered were just young people living their lives. Tbh I've seen more prejudice against English people than by English students against Scots.
Yeah it's terrible when people make over-broad and prejudiced generalisations, eh?
I don't think the article is saying that the university itself discriminates against Scottish students (other than some tutors asking for people to repeat what they said, which given a high number of non-Scottish/EAFL staff isn't surprising tbh).
It's saying that other students sometimes do though, which is a problem.
Yeah, likewise :-)
And you're right of course.
Not if the answer is Perth.
Referee David Coote suspended over video of foul-mouthed Klopp rant
Video footage has emerged showing the Premier League official explaining his disdain for the former manager
Well, that's a bit awkward...
"Coote was the video assistant referee when a challenge by the Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford on Virgil van Dijk that left the Liverpool defender with an anterior cruciate ligament injury went unpunished."
"Coote also drew the ire of Klopp as the VAR for the 1-1 draw between Liverpool and Arsenal last December after an apparent handball in the box by Martin Ødegaard did not lead to a penalty."
Is it possible to group favourited communities or users into a single feed?
Per this thread, I'm wondering if it might be possible to create feeds of favourited people or communities.
I guess this would be similar to how multireddits worked and since that's not available on Lemmy, this might not be either. But maybe some smart person out there knows of a way.
It's not even me that wants to do it, but I'm invested in an answer now! :-)
Actor Jay Johnston sentenced to one year for role in US Capitol attack | US news
Judge calls behavior of Johnston, known for roles in Bob’s Burgers and Arrested Development, ‘reprehensible’
He made a huge mistake.
Ricky Pearsall injury update: 49ers rookie WR returning to practice six weeks after shooting incident - CBSSports.com
Returning to practice a month and a half after getting shot? Goddamn...
Sunrise over Edinburgh
Love it when this happens to the clouds. Purple and red and yellow and on fire...
Question about Firefox - any way to open specific sites as if they were an app or program (similar to an option in Chrome)?
I've decided (after seeing the advice repeatedly!) to try and move away from Chrome and use FF instead. However I've immediately come across an issue which is a bit of a deal-breaker for me, and although I've looked into it, I haven't seen an answer anywhere.
One of the best features in Chrome is the abilty to create a shortcut for an individual URL. This shortcut can then be placed on the desktop, start menu or quicklaunch toolbar (Win 10) and opened as if it were a program in its own right - so, no URL bar, no tabs, no bookmarks, just the site content.
I use this method every day for a number of different sites - Outlook, Gmail, Calendar, Keep, Sheets, Docs, etc, and it's perfect. So much so that I usually forget that I'm technically opening all of these in Chrome at all, not least because the site favicon shows in the taskbar in place of the browser logo.
So, I assumed that FF would be able to do the same thing... but apparently not. Am I missing something? I've found people discussing old features like SSB (site-specific browsing) and PWA (progressive web apps), but as far as I can tell all work on this in FF has been discontinued.
I would maybe just put up with this, and use Chrome shortcuts for these sites, and FF for everything else, except that links clicked from within them will open in Chrome intead of FF, which makes for a confusing experience.
Anyone know of a good solution to this? Thanks in advance!
Some Helenium Moerheim Beauties at Juniper Artland near Edinburgh
Or at least that's what Google says they are... :-)
YSK: It's possible to get search results from Google without the annoying 'AI' answers at the top
Already getting sick of seeing 'AI' results at the top of a search when all you want is a link to a site?
I just discovered this article showing a way to not see it (although it doesn't disable it altogether).
TLDR:
- In Chrome open settings menu, choose Search engine on left menu and scroll down to site search
- Click Add button and choose a name (eg Old Google, Google Web or whatever)
- Add a shortcut word (eg web, og, or whatever)
- Add this URL string: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14
- Save that, and now if you search for something and use the shortcut word you set you'll just get proper results, no 'AI' shown
- Or, if you don't want to have to add a shortcut word, you just make that search your default (use the 3 dot menu next to the name you set) and all searches will show that way, no shortcut word needed.
EDIT - meant to add that there are detailed instructions for Edge, Firefox and Safari in the article if you don't use Chrome
Hope that helps someone - I really don't like all that extra nonsense when I just want a link to a site that I know exists!
[Obligatory - "or don't use Chrome/Google...", I know - but people do, so this might be useful]
(Win 10) Move all windows of a single programme to a different screen?
Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to do this?
Here's my use case in more detail
I have a laptop and a PC, with the laptop connecting to one of my 2 monitors via an HDMI splitter. This allows me to use my PC on both screens most of the time, but then quickly switch one monitor to show the laptop, when required.
Only thing is that doing that causes all PC windows* on Screen 2 to jump to Screen 1, while Screen 2 now shows the laptop's windows. That's fine, and I get why it does that (effectively the PC thinks I've disconnected Screen 2).
\* (usually it's a bunch of Chrome windows, 5-7 of them - for work/multi-client reasons this works best for me and my PC handles it fine)
When I switch the HDMI splitter back, all PC windows remain on Screen 1, while Screen 2 is once again showing my PC desktop, but with no windows. Ideally all windows would flip back to where they were before, but I don't think there's a way to do this, and again, that's fine.
My next preferred option is to be able to able to move all Chrome windows over from Screen 1 to Screen 2 quickly - and this is what I'm looking for advice on. I can't seem to find a way to "select" all/multiple Chrome windows and shift them to Screen 2, but it feels like there must be a way?
Any help greatly appreciated :-)
Guardian article and interview with Joan Chen
Thirty-seven years after her Hollywood breakthrough in The Last Emperor, Chen is back in new drama Dìdi. She discusses her roots in China, objectification and the protective power of creativity
Not much for a mention for TP though, but in case Josie fans are interested :-)
RIP Martin Mull
Mull, known for his droll and esoteric comedy, dies after ‘valiant fight against a long illness’, says daughter
More sad news, as Gene Parmesan/Colonel Mustard himself passes away. RIP Martin 😞
To Norway: An Apology
Sorry Norway. Our jammy win in Oslo robbed you of a chance to experience a major tournament. Instead, your place went to a badly organised rabble, with no urgency, no ambition and not even basic ball control.
You should have been in this tournament, and that disgraceful excuse for a Scotland team should have been languishing in 3rd or 4th. How in god's name did we beat Spain?
Sorry Norway, you deserved better.
Scotland qualification scenarios
Of limited interest, I'm sure, but I spent a bit of time working all this out, and wanted to post it before Scotland go 2 down after 5 minutes tomorrow and render it all moot...
So.
If Scotland lose to Hungary, we're out. No ifs, buts, or maybes.
If we draw then we need at least 2 out of 3 scenarios to happen in order to sneak through:
- Spain beat Albania AND Italy beat Croatia
- Turkey beat Czechia AND Portugal beat Georgia
- Denmark beat Georgia AND England beat Slovenia by 5 or more (I think)
If Scotland win against Hungary then any 2 (or more) of these scenarios gets us through
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Spain avoid defeat to Albania (Scotland would finish better than Albania and also better than one of Croatia or Italy, regardless of their result)
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Netherlands beat Austria (Scotland would be ahead of both Austria and Poland)
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England avoid defeat to Slovenia (Scotland would be ahead of Slovenia and also at least one of Denmark or Serbia).
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There's also the possibility that Slovenia hammer England (Scotland could finish better than England on goal difference and also would be ahead of at least one of Denmark or Serbia)
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Portugal avoid defeat to Georgia (Scotland would be ahead of Georgia and also ahead of one of Turkey or Czechia)
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Even if Georgia did win, we could beat them on GD, but we'd have to thrash Hungary, so not likely.
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No draws on match day 3 in group E. Doesn't matter who wins, as long as two teams do.
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Or, if there are 1 or 2 draws in group E then it comes down to goal difference, so we would have to hammer Hungary, see above.
And yes, I made a spreadsheet to work all this out... :-)
Gibralter v Scotland Euro 2024 warm up friendly
Come on Scotland fans, let's get this community up and running in advance of Scotland's forthcoming run to becoming European champions!
0' - Game has just kicked off, 0-0 15' - Decent start, couple of really good chances already for Hanley and Forrest, both probably should have been buried. 30' - Scotland in control, but can't get a shot on target. HT - Same old Scotland, never scoring... 58' - GOAL! Christie slams it home after getting into a bit of a fankle with Shankland (a shankle? A fankland?) Nice ball in by Robertson too. 85' - GOAL! Adams. I didn't see it, but apparently it was a good one 👍
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Lineups:
>Gibraltar (Manager: Julio Ribas, Formation: 5 - 4 - 1)
1 J. Hankins | 2 E. Jolley | 12 J. Olivero | 8 J. Scanlon | 6 B. Lopes | 4 J. Sergeant | 9 A. El Hmidi | 5 L. Annesley | 19 T. De Barr | 10 L. Walker (c) | 20 E. Britto
Subs 3 J. Chipolina | 7 L. Casciaro | 11 E. De Haro | 13 C. López | 14 T. Carrington | 15 E. Llambias | 16 J. Bartolo | 17 K. Ronan | 18 L. Jessop | 21 M. Ruiz | 22 K. Ronco | 23 D. Coleing | 24 E. Santos
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>Scotland (Manager: Steve Clarke, Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1)
21 Z. Clark | 22 R. McCrorie | 3 A. Robertson (c) | 23 K. McLean | 15 R. Porteous | 5 G. Hanley | 11 R. Christie | 14 B. Gilmour | 19 L. Shankland | 7 J. McGinn | 25 J. Forrest
Subs 1 A. Gunn | 2 A. Ralston | 6 K. Tierney | 8 C. McGregor | 10 C. Adams | 12 L. Kelly | 13 J. Hendry | 16 L. Cooper | 17 G. Taylor | 20 R. Jack | 24 C. Gordon | 26 S. McKenna
Lyndon Dykes: Scotland striker ruled out of Euro 2024
Scotland striker Lyndon Dykes will miss Euro 2024 after sustaining a training ground injury on Friday.
Could have done without this. Not that I rate Dykes all that highly, but we're already thin on forwards. Someone wrap Shankland up in bubble wrap!
Manchester United decide to sack Erik ten Hag regardless of Cup final outcome
Manchester United have decided to sack Erik ten Hag as their manager after the FA Cup final against Manchester City
Great timing. Unless they're thinking they might get a new manager bounce without actually appointing a new manager?
VAR: Premier League clubs to vote on whether to scrap video assistant referees - BBC Sport
Premier League clubs will vote on whether to scrap video assistant referees (VAR) from next season at their annual general meeting next month.
Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please... 🤞🤞🤞
Jack Nicholson, Charles Bronson and Robert De Niro were some of the actors whose careers he helped develop.
RIP Roger, thanks for Gunslinger, The Undead, Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell and so many more.
Fans’ body pledges ‘studs to the knee’ response if Game 39 plans are revived | Premier League
The Football Supporters’ Association hit out at renewed talk of plans to stahge Premier League games outside England and Wales after Richard Masters had said ‘the door looks ajar’
FFS, not this bullshit again... Hopefully fan pressure can fight it off just like last time.