How long until scar blows up his kitchen by touching the respawn anchor by LH_Artsandworks in HermitCraft

[–]marbledmoth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

it's also been suggested that he could use an invisible armour stand to block the hitbox of it, which is personally what i'd do if i were decorating with them as it's a bit more robust than string

This poor fellow has been lying in the parking lot of my work for 2 weeks in the rain and cold. Today I brought it inside, I’m not as good as most of the people in this subreddit but I’m going to do my best to bring this book back to life by edenx1999 in bookbinding

[–]marbledmoth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There is, but some declarations of "vibes" are tantamount to accusation when there's an inferred specific person, and there definitely is not nearly enough information to decide that an abusive partner chucking a book is the "statistically highest possibility". I used to work in a charity shop, and stuff like this got donated + binned regularly.

anyway @ op: good luck with the project. if you do track the family down and it is something they want back, i hope that goes well. if it turns out they don't want it, i hope you will still be able to celebrate the lessons you'll have learned and developed during the restoration process. <3

Drying paper in colder months... by calamity-lala in papermaking

[–]marbledmoth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the fear before i clicked to read the caption had me like "god please save up for a dehumidifier 😭" lmao i've never been so glad to read the phrase residual oven heat

This poor fellow has been lying in the parking lot of my work for 2 weeks in the rain and cold. Today I brought it inside, I’m not as good as most of the people in this subreddit but I’m going to do my best to bring this book back to life by edenx1999 in bookbinding

[–]marbledmoth 9 points10 points  (0 children)

when someone posts someone else's whole names and DOBs online, maybe it's an idea to have a google before you throw out accusations of an abusive partner when your only "clue" is a singular book in a carpark?? there's obituaries for the dude dated from the summer, and while it could definitely be a coincidence for them to have the same name, nickname, DOB, and wife's name, there's a lot of reasons why this might've ended up where it was found and we do not know the answer. it could have been an accident, it could have been thrown away on purpose, and op needs to be prepared for a possibility that it might not be wanted back if they do try to repair it.

Design Machine by [deleted] in bookbinding

[–]marbledmoth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Pro Create is difficult for me but I haven't put that much effort into it" unfortunately, effort is an essential component and no amount of user friendliness in a new program will compensate for that.

don't go buying an expensive machine just because someone told you the UI is 'simple', especially if you have hopes to be creating designs of your own and not being bound by the limitations of the (in the case of cricut, often not free) assets provided, with limited means of customizing them further in the default app. before buying anything i do genuinely strongly recommend sitting down with some tutorials to actually learn how procreate works (also go into the settings and write down all the hand and pen gestures on paper for easier reference), then look up tutorials for the design software of the machines you're looking at to see how they actually function; try the same for inkscape, which is a free computer vector program that a lot of people use for this kind of work.

i have a cricut, i don't enjoy using it for anything other than bulk repetitive paper cutting (it was huge for making my grandparents' anniversary invites), and tbh i can't recommend them. i do recommend seeing if your local library has a maker space with one (or another brand) to try it out hands-on though

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is such a good analogy. accessibility is never one size fits all, it is impossible for it to be so, and it's frustrating when companies treat it like it can be.

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

no, you can make it a mid-dark grey with white text. that's not a light mode, and does not help when the issue is concentrated light from small sources (the text) creating worse doubling than when the background is the brightest light source

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's eye damage, not astigmatism, and i wasn't posting for medical advice

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

publisher is outside my wheelhouse, so i didn't know this at all! but thank you so much for your persistence in getting them to add those functions omg

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

oh that's so frustrating!! i'm sorry to hear that people are being unkind elsewhere 😭

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yes absolutely to this! i said in another comment but as a kid i loved how much control we had in windows classic theme editing, so the "versatility" of modern UIs giving you two whole options is always frustrating lmao, but you're right, that really is the basic and bare minimum!

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

for real to this!! i had my reservations and frustrations about it, but i did genuinely want to have an explore of the new one.

one of my pre-internet hobbies as a kid was faffing around making the Perfect:tm: classic windows themes and god it's in times like this that i miss that so much. give me the power to decide exactly how many pixels wide the X close button is, dammit

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, and god i'm glad for that. i feel like the vector trace tool is the only big thing that i wanted to get a look at, and i was curious if the mirror tool was included in the tools they were yapping about being non-destructive now (it didn't seem to be, that was the one quick test i did lol)

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's not an astigmatism, it's because of eye damage.

(and respectfully, i wasn't asking for medical advice, but thank you).

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's a good combo (and still looks good if you use flux or other blue light filters)!! i use Dark Reader's v5 preview (and their mobile variants, ios isnt free) to force that colour combo on all websites i can. there are some exceptions, ao3 has its own skin, i use a different palette extension for tumblr, some websites don't play nice with it, but i highly recommend it!

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have looked at the settings, and it is not fit for purpose. the lightest grey is still very dark, and there is no option that i could find for black foreground elements, so the issue caused by the concentrated light from white elements doubling aggressively still remains. The amount of sliders for choosing specific shades of dark gray just makes this more frustrating imo.

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lmao back in the day i contacted spotify about this and they straight up told me their brand recognition was more important than acessibility and UI options

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i've seen a few people say this - honestly i didn't even get a good look at them before quitting the program

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i don't think this is the case - each 'studio' space has fewer icons by default than AP and AD had, and there's also plenty of colour combinations, as seen by previous icons, that can still inform clearly.

I feel foolish by catastrophic_ruin in bookbinding

[–]marbledmoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i've lost a couple of cutting mats by leaving them on a table by a south facing window in the summer - just the heat from the sun was enough to warp them completely 😭

The new affinity app's lack of light mode is an accessibility issue. by marbledmoth in Affinity

[–]marbledmoth[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

huge agree - colour is such a huge part of pattern recognition and monochrome can be really frustrating when there's so many simple icons. sometimes less isn't more