A fantastic thing I've discovered in the Edge browser is the read aloud option, which obviously enough reads the text for you. You can change the language, so that it works in a lot of countries presumably. But... you can change the language even for English text, which results in quite accurate and heavy stereotypical accents. So you can listen to the posts on here in Allo Allo level French accents, or as Manuel from Fawlty towers. It passes the time, anyway.

I like the shake the windows feature. If you want to minimise everything but one window just shake that window about. Doing it again reverses it.

My mouse pointer disappears when moving over certain Windows. Mainly VLC and OBS, as soon as my mouse pointer travels over the window or disappears, you can interact with the window but you're flying blind. Anyone seen this or know a solution? It's difficult to Google as you only get solutions about mouse pointers not disappearing when watching videos or streaming.

My laptop was having some weird screen flickering issue and after messing about with drivers and startup settings, all seemed fine til this morning.
Nothing obvious was jumping out and I eventually decided to try a safe mode boot to see if it still occurred but I couldn't log in because my PIN wasn't available under safe mode!!
I've now reset Windows and it appears fine but I'll have to gradually reintroduce programs to see if it pops up again.
If it does, I'll probably move to Ubuntu!

Gimp?

Roujin wrote:

I also like Gimp

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I haven’t tried Gimp in years. Is the UI still a multi-panel mess?
Krita is a decent open-source photoshop alternative. Worth a look. It’s even got a python console.

Photo pos Pro, or Krita, are supposed to be good.

Gimp and other comprehensive image editors definitely make me question how things have got this far without a someone coming up with a much better conception of what an interface should do for the user. Usually what you need to do will be really simple, but all the myriad of tools and menus for functions that you don't need right now tend to just obfuscate the few things you actually need.

I wouldn't mind a program which had a natural language processing frontend, where you could just type in "I want to make it look like this guy is holding something else" then it would give you only the necessary tools and would lay out the interface so as to naturally guide you to do the steps in the right order.

GurtTractor wrote:

Gimp and other comprehensive image editors Microsoft office suite definitely makes me question how things have got this far without a someone coming up with a much better conception of what an interface should do for the user. Usually what you need to do will be really simple, but all the myriad of tools and menus for functions that you don't need right now tend to just obfuscate the few things you actually need.

I wouldn't mind a program which had a natural language processing frontend, where you could just type in "I want to make it look like this guy is holding something else" then it would give you only the necessary tools and would lay out the interface so as to naturally guide you to do the steps in the right order.

Anyone know a place for cheap windows 10 licences?

SpaceGazelle got scammed (credit card details stolen I think) buying a cheap license, so be careful.

Was that on ebay?

GooberTheHat wrote:

Can't you use a current license? I thought you could carry them over now?

Only some licenses. You have to use command prompt to determine if you have a retail version.

Cheers all. The accessibility looophole seems to be for upgrades only but this is a clean install on a macbook. My PC is OEM so that's out. You can still use a Windows 7 licence apparently which I had once but that's long gone. 

Googling brings up plenty of places to buy them cheap. But they're all covered in messages telling you how legal and legit it is. Which is actually less reassuring. 

Won't be a problem. I'll just dig around a bit.