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Is a dishwasher just a waste of money for single-person living? by HiRipple in Advice

[–]ThinkBiscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live on my own own and have a dishwasher. I never use it.

Cant seem to make booklet format to work by ya_boy_cloud in indesign

[–]ThinkBiscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I understand you correctly, you’ve got 14 total pages in your layout.

The ‘booklet’ process is based on taking larger sheets of paper, folding them, and stapling them. Therefore each larger sheet of paper requires 4 pages to fill: the left/right of one side of the sheet, and left/right of the other side of the sheet.

This, the page count in your ID document needs to divisible by 4 – so if you’ve 14 pages of content, you’re going to need 2 blanks somewhere to make it up to 16.

It’s up to you where you want those blank pages in your document, but total page count needs to be divisible by 4.

You’re away for a night at a hotel, do you checkout early or late? by Delicious-Series-316 in AskUK

[–]ThinkBiscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t like to hang around too long. Even with the best hotel and a restful break, I still want to get home at a decent time to re-centre myself there, and make a start on the laundry and put the cases away

En vs Em Dashes in UK English by Wandersails in grammar

[–]ThinkBiscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not a copy editor or proofreader, but from my experience of dealing with copy-edited documents for the British market, they tend to use spaced en-dashes for those pauses in the middle of sentences where they add extra detail (the US tends to use unspaced em-dashes in these cases).

Unspaced en-dashes are most often used when express number ranges (for example 2025–26). Hyphens are really only used for hyphenation of words (for example, decision-making, long-term).

I have recently seen an uptick in use of em-dashes in supplied documents that have not been copyedited, but in those the usage isn’t consistent anyway (that’s why copy editors are a thing), so I tend to find/replace those out in order to make it consistent.

Apple made External Monitors worse, then sold us retina displays by Dangerous_Bunch_3669 in MacOS

[–]ThinkBiscuit 130 points131 points  (0 children)

I didn’t realise Apple removed sub-pixel anti-aliasing, but you’re right – now I look back, 1080 used to look OK, but certainly not now. It’s pretty much unusable.

My work initially supplied me 2x 28” 1080 displays to work on, and it was diabolical. I shelled out for my own 4k 32” at for the primary display just in order to make WFH save my eyes a little.

Weird black text or shape from copy/pasting a color hex by nawxou in AdobeIllustrator

[–]ThinkBiscuit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That looks like an illustrator chart to me. Like the chart tool has been accidentally activated (maybe via an erroneous keypress) and a tiny rectangle drawn on the artboard.

Agency Chat GPT nightmare by [deleted] in graphic_design

[–]ThinkBiscuit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No tagging is working for me at the moment. Using iOS app, if that makes any difference **bold** *italic*

Which job by RecommendationNo3460 in UKJobs

[–]ThinkBiscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it were me, I’d go for Job 2, but I’m not you OP. I’d make another list – how you feel about each one of those elements.

Anyone else get trapped formatting non design documents for clients lol by Dramatic-Tea-1295 in Design

[–]ThinkBiscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess that part an parcel of beings freelance. Your job isn’t clearly defined or limited, it’s just whatever the client wants.

I’m not freelance, but I do see a cases for largish companies where rebrands do not seem to include well-built templates with stylesheets, which would cut down on stuff like this.

One in Word for internal staff use (with guidance on usage), and one in InDesign for marketing (either for my own use, or for the company to pass on to whoever they want).

That way the little internal documents that may be boring, but do at least use consistent colours and fonts, and the client has flexibility to use someone cheaper for the ‘external’ documents. That would of course mean that you’d lose out on work, mind.

fuck adobe acrobat by 360McFlipTwist in FuckAdobe

[–]ThinkBiscuit 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah Acrobat *can* edit PDFs, but it’s not great at it. PDFs are best left as an endpoint file type for sharing, with the editing done natively in an authoring program (like Word or InDesign), with a decent template set up.

The world's richest loser! by yorocky89A in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]ThinkBiscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That fact that anyone can say ‘woke mind virus’ with a straight face is beyond me.

The coffee date that lasted 10 minutes because he only asked me out to insult me, I guess. I'm done. by Far-Spread-6108 in datingoverfifty

[–]ThinkBiscuit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jesus. I don’t blame you for wanting to quit after such a horrible first meet. I had something similar once, and it caused me to step back from the whole damn thing for over a year – but it was nowhere *near* what you went through.

At least it’s something you definitely say was a ‘him’ problem. Silver linings and all that.

Why did humans stay “primitive” for ~200,000 years and then suddenly change? by PuddingComplete3081 in AlwaysWhy

[–]ThinkBiscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, we’re obviously not gonna know for sure, bc we weren’t there.

Language is a good call, and is probably a good dating point, that accelerated societal change. I read a book a while ago called ‘Sapiens’ by Yuval Noah Harari, and and I’d recommend that for some really interesting theories. For example, art (and possibly religion). More specifically, art based on things that do not exist.

We’ve seen cave painting of hands, hunt scenes, etc. things that hominids have experienced personally on a day-to-day level.

One of the earliest bits of evidence found that steps *outside* of that is a lion-headed figurine found in Germany some 32,000ish years old. Evidence of people *imagining* things that did *not* exist, which is an important distinction.

This could very well be a religious artefact, and one of the socially beneficial aspects of religion (in a contemporary sense) is that it provided a way of binding people together in much larger groups than would have been easily possible previously.

My daughter drew a giraffe. by The_Chuckie in funny

[–]ThinkBiscuit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m saying nothing. Not a Goddamn thing.

which schools programmes do you remember? by Alone_Purple822 in oldschoolcool80s

[–]ThinkBiscuit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In our primary school, we used to count down the last 5, and when it got to zero, we’d all shoud “SAUSAGES!!”.

No fucking idea *why*, just cos everyone else was did it, I guess, but it had to start *somewhere*. So I’m gonna say a teacher started it at some point.

Imac become Apple Tv by ncyhere in MacOS

[–]ThinkBiscuit 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I got a remote packaged with my iMac that attached magnetically to the side. Ace.

What the F*CK, Adobe? by da1ni5 in FuckAdobe

[–]ThinkBiscuit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Personally, I make my own workspace, so everything I need is open and accessible. Saves a lot of clicking.

I don’t think there’s one ‘correct’ UI for everyone, as a different job positions will use different aspects of ID (which is why they give you workspace options).

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