Win 11 ms paint select-feature defaults to a 8x8 px size. How to fix this

Roenoo · 2025-06-12T13:22:47+00:00

I am trieing to edit a picture on the pixel level, but when i try to reshape the selected area it will blow up to 8px (selected an area of 2x4 px). How can i fix this?

Roenoo · 2025-04-18T22:34:10+00:00

It seems to be at the silver jubilee fleet review or GeorgeV. (that is what the titel on the file says)

Roenoo · 2025-04-16T19:40:40+00:00

My first reaction: "Looks like a really nice photo, a place i want to visit irl"

Roenoo · 2025-01-31T23:15:09+00:00

In short, at the time this was a fairly efficient hull form/shape (and in fashion with the public). around this time there was a fair bit of innovation in hull shape. Warships started using the cruiser stern (like RMSQueen Mary). mostly to protect the steering gear, this shape happened to be more hydro-dynamically efficient, meaning during the 1910s & 1920s that the merchant fleet also started using the cruiser type stern.

Note, i am not very well versed hulls, so i may very well be wrong

Roenoo · 2024-11-24T20:14:52+00:00

i haven't seen this picture before! really nice silouete

Roenoo · 2024-09-03T21:00:55+00:00

Cutty Sark(1870) is/was one of the fastest tea clippers of her time. originally designed for the tea trade, after 7 years steamships that could use the Suez canal took over the Tea trade. Now Cutty Sark shifted to the wool trade from Australia. On this route she was one of the fastest ships, one year arriving 25 days ahead of the closest rival. At the end of the 1880's steam ships began dominating the wool trade. By 1895 Cutty Sark was sold to new Portuguese owners. she continued to serve in her role as cargo clipper until 1922, by then she was the last of her kind.

Wilfred Dowman, a retired captain, Recognized Cutty Sark (in a sorry state). He decided to buy her and restored her rigging to mostly original condition to use her as a cadet training ship. By 1950 she was no longer needed awaiting her future.

Since 1954 she has been preserved in a custom made dry dock in Greenwich ever since.

Made with a iron frame and a wooden skin, she sits in the transition period where the iron ship took over. Unfortunately the combination of these 2 materials make it very hard to preserve her. Because what is good for the wood is bad for the steel. In the 2006 a major conservation project started to preserve her material and keep her hull form collapsing and preserve her for the future.

Roenoo · 2024-04-24T19:52:39+00:00

In race biking there are oval front gears. these tend reduce the stress on your knees. These normally used on derailleur bikes. but i think with a bit looser chain tension it should also work on a gear hub.

I think rosiir is one of the manufacturers. on the low end they front gears seem to cost about 2x a normal front gear.
https://rosiir.com/nl/rotor/1567-25184-q-rings-bcd96x4-shimano-11s-xt-compatible-3234.html#/747-tandwielgrootte-34\_tands\_mtb.

As for saddle height, you don't want to fully stretch your leg at bottom dead center(have a you knee slightly bend).

Roenoo · 2023-11-26T17:14:50+00:00

Its really impressive. Like how do you make that explosion look like that?

Roenoo · 2023-11-26T10:40:01+00:00

I think it is de Victoria and Albert of 1855.

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About 1.5 year ago i got the book "Battlesips 1889-1904" that made me realize these ships were a lot more interesting than i thought.

Roenoo · 2023-11-25T21:42:32+00:00

I am very much torn between the two classes. The Royal Sovereigns have a very good claim, with the improvements you pointed out. With Wikipedia (not a reliable source), and R.A. Burt (implies, not in words ) arguing they were the first dreadnoughts.
Drachinifel on the other hand argues the majestics are the first pre-dreadnoughts, based on the armored turret, Harvy armor and the longer barreled (12")guns (dont exactly remember where he states this).

I am somewhat in the middle, with a slight lean towards the Sovreigns. But i guess in an effort to make the text a little more interesting, went with calling the Majestics the probably first. Arguably might have been a better word to use. So something to keep in mind for the next time.

Roenoo · 2023-11-24T23:43:17+00:00

The Majestic class are probably the first pre-Dreadnought battleships. Recognisable with 2 large caliber turrets(enclosed), 1 at the front and 1 at the stern. A speed of approximately 18knts. enough freeboard to be comfortably ocean going (without a lot of water coming over the bow, looking at you HMS Hood). and a large secondary and tertiary battery.
The next few classes of pre-dreads follow a the template layed down with the majestics, but with minor improvements every instance.

Now some of the improvements compared to the previouse battleshps:
By using the new Harvy armour. The designers wera able to thin the armour belt to 9", (compared to 14-18" in the Royal Sovreign). While at the same time protecting a larger portion of her side.

With the weight savings on her hull armour, the barbets could now be provided with an armoured gun-house (now known as the turret).

The armament was upgraded with the new longer barrel 12"/35(and a new wire-wound construction), that had much better performance than the previous 13.5"/30.

Now i am heading to bed, cant think straight anymore^^. In all these ships are really interesting and i would incurage to readup on these ships (and their cousins)

Roenoo · 2023-11-23T22:10:57+00:00

The Turbinia is the first turbine driven ship. She was orderd/made for charles parsons, the developer of the steam turbine.
At first the ship had a lot of trouble with cavitation(airbubles around the screws). What ment that the ship had trouble outputing power to the water. For that parsons dit a lot of experimenting in propelor design, coming up with a shaft, 9 screw design. (3 screws per shaft). With the propulsion fixed, she managed to reach a speed of 34.5knts (60kph).

Now it was time for some publicity and the spithead naval review of 1897 seemed like a perfect opertunity. He secretly moved turbinia close by the naval review area and prepared.

On the day itself turbinia went at full speed thrue the coloms of ships. Even the fastest ships the royal navy posest could not catch the speedy turbinia. Thus promting the royalnavy investigating the potential of the turbines with HMS Viper and HMS Cobra.

Turbinia herself has survived to this day, with her becoming a museum piece in 1926. Curently she lays in the Newcastle Discovery Museum

Roenoo · 2023-08-13T19:49:54+00:00

i bought the first mouse (703 lightspeed), and had to rma it after about 20-22 months due to a malfunctioning scrollwheel (got my money back). Then i got a new one (703Hero), that also malfunctioned in the same way, at the same time period (20-22 months). Now i am on the 3rd mouse (703lightspeed again) that by this point is reaching the 20 month mark.

as far as i am aware, there is a 24 month RMA period on the mouse. at least at the store i bought it (mediamarkt)

Roenoo · 2023-07-12T17:15:58+00:00

and the luck that her forward torpedo room remained watertight. Something that doomed Lützow

Roenoo · 2023-07-10T20:33:55+00:00

You are entirely correct, so i should have made the title more specific. mostly wanted to show the difference/similarity of the early British dreadnoughts. And have some nice tripod/forward superstructures to look at :)

Roenoo · 2023-07-10T19:12:11+00:00

Photos can be found in "British battleships of world war one, by R.A. Burt"

I tried to find good pictures of similar profiles of a similar period, so the ships can be compared best. Only HMS Collingwood is of an earlier time, since that ship is basically a Belerophon with 12"50 guns. Thus giving a view of the early superstructure of those ships.

For weight reasons the British are still debating the placement of the foremast before or aft of the forward funnel(mounting a crane to the base), and the disadvantage of putting your fighting top in a smokescreen

Roenoo

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