• Kintarian@lemmy.world
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    Hey guys, we’ll be looking at fixing your problem in this video. We publish content twice a week. If you need help fixing a problem then you’ve come to the right place. Be sure to like and subscribe and hit the notification bell so you’ll know when new content comes out. You know, sometimes life can be rough and it can be hard to figure out how to fix your own problems. It can be a big help to have someone to talk to. I know I’ve had times when I just needed someone to listen to. Well, good news guys! BetterHelp is here for your. Sign up for BetterHelp today. Use the link below to get 20% off your first session…

    Gawd I hate video tutorials.

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      It’s done to pad out the time before you leave the video, because you have to be watching for a certain length of time before it’s considered “watched” for monetisation purposes.

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    And the comments are all like: ”You’re my savior! This was the only solution that actually worked for me!”

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    With blender, it’s “next. choose Clip Offset Settings under the View menu” and I have 6 View menus, none of which has anything with that name. Then I find out it was all changed in some previous version.

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      Also, I was once following a laptop disassembly video step by step. Half-way through, he stops and turns the laptop over several times in confusion. He was just winging it for the video.

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      Flip Normals has changed names so many times in the past decade that I have no idea what it’s called today or what it was called before and I’m starting to suspect it’s in the witness protection agency.

      I feel bad for newcomers because you just have to use the Force a lot of times when using Blender.

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      I had half a donut and was progressing in harmony. Then, everything changed when the update nation attacked.

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      Always always check what version of blender the tutorial is for! Later versions have automated and fixed so much annoying shit that you had to do/fix manually in older versions. Blender 5.1 is way different to 2.8! Also it doesn’t matter what menu it’s in because you can just search for that tool with the search function, bind it to spacebar.

      Blender is actually amazing now (>5.0) and I feel like lots of people tried 2.8 and got scared because it was janky and it turned them off Blender forever.

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        Thanks for the tips! I mostly use it for occasional video editing, so never take time to really get to know it.

        Searching sounds really useful.

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        Thanks for the tips! I mostly use it for occasional video editing, so never take time to really get to know it.

        Searching sounds really useful for my situation!

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    “Want to configure the program to run? Just go to this directory and edit this text file!”

    Looks inside

    No file or directory exists.

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      In Linux, this is the pain of multiple installation methods.

      My regretful condolences go out to anyone that installed Steam as a flatpak.

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      I saw the start menu. It’s definitely the search indexing on windows. That’s been broken since like Windows 10.

      If you search for something and it doesn’t show up, you can do a bunch of troubleshooting and reseting or you can download a launcher like microsoft power toys > power run.

      btw my OS died last week so now I’m officially on arch linux 😎

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      You ain’t even getting it doing that. There’s been a bug since 2.10 with transparency. Export anything and you get a crushed alpha channel. Import it into anything else and the alpha looks crazy high contrast. Import it into GIMP again and the contrast is normal, but the channel is still crushed, so it’s banded as fuck.

      They say it’s intended behavior, which would make sense if GIMP was a dedicated image corruptor.

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    This is linux times ten. I use it all the time, but as soon as you have a problem even remotely outside the norm you’re screwed unless you’re steeped in knowledge for the particular distro you work with. Your quest for an answer will result in: 2-3 other people with the same question, but no responses. A half dozen answers for your problem yet a distro version for which the answer no longer works. A couple lengthy, well-thought out answers that require multiple terminal entries and dependency installations yet still doesn’t work after carefully following the instructions.

    ./configure not found.

    Installs configure.

    Still doesn’t work.

    Anyway, lol, as much as I like linux and have a crapload of instances running, it sure is a pain in the ass.

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      Yeah, been fighting something on mine for a few weeks now.

      Search issue - Add this line to the config file

      Adds line to file, nothing changes, Google more - sometimes you also have to add this and this (doesn’t explain why only sometimes)

      Adds this and this. Fixes problem while it’s booting but then goes back to being fucked when the frontend launches

      Googles more - only other solution I can find I can’t do because my hardware doesn’t support it.

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        Problems like that are incredibly frustrating. What entries you make look right, but somehow the result is wrong. I usually just assume somewhere along the way the authors of the instructions forgot something incredibly basic like permissions. Because they have their system set up so that they already have them set for their user or something so they don’t have to enter them every time they work on something, so they never think about it and spell out those steps when writing help responses. While help is often well intentioned (and I always appreciate someone’s help) there’s always the opportunity for them to forget what they didn’t know at the most basic level.

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          It’s extra frustrating because I’ve gone to the actual documentation for those settings and even that is vague hell. Short of talking to the actual dude who programmed it (which admittedly is sometimes possible with FOSS) I don’t know where to go from here.

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      Been on linux full time for under a week, I’d say linux is more like.
      “I have issue”
      “Here’s 10 extremely techincal solutions that will take you hours to work through and may not work”
      “I still have issue”
      “Oh yeh there’s just a button you can press that fixes it instantly”

      On the bright side thats more my own lack of familiarity than anything and once an issue is fixed it stays fixed and generally works a lot more cleanly than if I had a similar issue on windows where fixes are always kind of cludgey.

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    Hey does anybody else use the numpad to skip thru the vids and find what you’re looking for?

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    Every single time I need to look up something for Google products. This preceeds AI. Since the advent of AI it’s a gamble on whether a tutorial will actually match reality.