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unofficialgayawakening · 2 years ago

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hi, thank you for your work in trying to help keep gay awakening updated! Question: is there any way for someone to individually remove specific support options from the mod? I’d like to use it but would very particularly like to remove the chrom/Frederick option for my own playthroughs because Frederick is canonically stated to have helped raise chrom and lissa according to the drama cd so it makes me uncomfortable :’) if it’s not something that can be done I understand, but if it is id very much love to know how to do that!

Hey there, sorry to hear that Chrom/Frederick makes you uncomfortable! This is the first time I'm hearing about this part of the drama CD-I should really listen to/read that one of these days.

It's actually really easy to add/remove support options nowadays, you just need a program called Paragon and a full dump of the vanilla game's romfs (what the folder containing all of the game's files is called). I'll include instructions here below the readme. If you get stuck or can't get things working, feel free to join the discord and we'll be able to help you more directly!

Step 1 - Get a clean dump of your game's romfs.

Citra users: Right click on your game and select 'Dump RomFs'

Luma users: Launch your 3ds while holding Start to run GodMode9. (note: this guide was written for version v2.1.0 of GodMode9 and any older or newer releases may have different wording) - Physical: Select 'GAMECART' - Digital: Select 'SYSNAND SD' and go into 'title' folder. Open the '00040000' folder to find your games and select FEA's title ID. NA: 000A0500 EU: 0009F100 - Open 'NCSD image options…' and select 'Mount image to drive' then press A. Open 'content0.game' and press R+A while hovering over the romfs folder. Copy to 0:/gm9/out. This is the filepath you'll use to find it when you move to your computer.

Step 2 - Now that you have your romfs dump, you're going to download Paragon and start a new project. The project name can be whatever you want it to be, but make sure you select the right language and game. Your Extracted RomFS Directory is the vanilla romfs dump that you just grabbed, and the Output Directory is going to be UGA's romfs folder. The filepaths will be different when using Luma or if you move anything around for ease of access, but it should look something like this when you're done:

Step 3 - To remove the support options itself, you're going to open the Characters module in the section labeled "Core Data". From there, go to Chrom's name and switch to his Supports tab. Scroll down until you see Frederick's name, and change the Support Type from Fast to Non-romantic. Do the same thing for Frederick- select him and look for Chrom in his support tab to change the Support Type from Fast to Non-romantic. If the support type doesn't match for both characters, they won't be able to gain any support ranks at all, so make sure you change both of them!

Step 4 - The previous step removed the ability for them to support, but you probably want to remove the S support from the support log as well. In the main Paragon menu, you're going to look at the left side where it says "Nodes" and look for the option called "Support / Reliance List". From there, go to both characters and delete their last support (the one that says Support Level 4, with 0 as the Support Number). Make sure to select the correct Delete button as shown in this image:

For Frederick, you're also going to want to delete his PC supports with Lucina, so scroll down and delete all three of the Fredrick x Lucina posts that have the Support Type set to Parent/Child. Now, make sure you also go to select the first support in these lists (the first support with male robin) and select the Regenerate IDs option furthest to the right (not the one on top!). The automatic 0 it gives you is fine, this step is to ensure the game reads the edited support log correctly- failing to regenerate IDs may cause issues. Now that that's been done you're finished in Paragon, so you can go to File > Save to save those changes!

Step 5 - The last thing you can do (if you so desire) is delete the actual supports themselves. You can find the support files in romfs/m/E, where you'll see a ton of files named with Japanese characters. Chrom and Frederick's modded supports are named "クロム_フレデリク.bin.lz" while Lucina and Frederick's PC support is named "マルス_フレデリク_親子.bin.lz"

Step 6 - After that, just make sure your romfs folder is where your mods go and you should be set! You should be able to see the changes both in-game and in the support log now.

Lastly, here are a few things you should know when it comes to updates:

The two files you've edited are the static.bin.lz (this controls many things in the game, including support options) and the RelianceList.bin.lz (the support log)

Unless the support options in the latest update change, or there's a bugfix regarding support gain, you will not need to replace your static.bin.lz! Just keep the one you edited when you update, everything will work perfectly fine. I don't expect the static.bin.lz to be updated frequently, but I will be tweaking support options for the Spotpass characters later down the line so you will have to redo Step 3 when that happens.

The support log for UGA has not been finished yet, so the RelianceList.bin.lz WILL get updated in the next major release, so you will have to replace your own edited one. When that happens, you'll have to repeat Step 4 again, but that doesn't take too long so hopefully that's not an issue! When I finish the support log, you won't have to do this ever again.

And that should be everything! I hope it wasn't too confusing- after you set up Paragon for the first time it's honestly really easy to make changes to the game. It's a super friendly program, and you can do all sorts of silly things with it. Like I said though, you're welcome to join the discord for more direct help from us! We're friendly, I promise :P

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ukagakadreamteam · 2 years ago

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Hi! super quick question, is there a way to recover the data of an ssp ghost that randomly forgot, like, everything? home boi doesn't even know my name anymore and developed a few other issuies like not loading some options and not using any pronouns, like, at all. it's super confusing and made me really sad when i first opened it and they started off with one of the early stage lines. (which i was wayyyyy past.)

It sounds like your ghost's save data may have been corrupted/deleted. Unfortunately it's likely unrecoverable, unless you have a copy of it somewhere.

We're not quite sure why this happens sometimes; in normal use it usually doesn't, but if SSP crashes or something catastrophic happens during network updates, it can.

There is also the possibility that you are either running it out of a temporary folder (such as if you downloaded SSP as a .zip file and are running it out of that archive without extracting it), or you're running it out of a folder linked to some kind of cloud service (such as OneDrive or Google Drive) and those services are intervering with the save files.

It's hard to say more in this case without knowing what your exact situation was. If you're running SSP out of a temporary folder or have it stored in a folder linked to a cloud service, it is recommended to move it to a non-protected folder somewhere on your computer. Make sure that the folder name is plain alphanumeric characters as well; sometimes special characters in the file name can cause trouble with SSP and it will refuse to run, so in theory it's possible this could also have prevented ghosts from making their saves.

Either way, if you would like to make backups of your ghost's data in the future, here's what you can do:

If you're using a ghost that is written in AYA or YAYA, your save file is located in the ghost's folder, under ghost/master/

In YAYA ghosts, it'll be called yaya_variable.cfg. In AYA ghosts, it'll be called aya5_variable.cfg. (If you happen to be using a ghost written in a different programming language, you may need to do some digging to find out which file is the save file.)

While the ghost is closed, find the save file, and make a copy of it to a separate folder somewhere safe. That will effectively be a save state of your ghost at the time you copied the file. To restore that state, make sure the ghost is closed, then copy your backup back into the ghost's folder, making sure it's named appropriately.

It's really important to do this while the ghost is closed, since they always save upon closing, and you don't want them to overwrite the old file you just put in.

Hopefully that helps, if you're still having trouble or have more information to add, feel free to send us another ask! If it becomes a recurring problem, especially, then we might be able to help narrow it down.

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arsonway · 2 months ago

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I want to add a few technical details I noticed when removing GShade from an engineer's point of view. All of which contributes to why you should think critically about whether Gshade is software you should or should not trust.

If there is one thing that that breaks trust between the user and the developer, it's software that does not behave exactly as disclosed, either by doing something it shouldn't or by not doing something it should. This is bad practice and indicative of fundamentally poor engineering.

The three biggest things that set off more alarms than what was already going off during that debacle were these:

GShade requires ambient/permanent admin access on the computer. Most software asks for admin permission every time it needs it, and only keeps it the duration it needs it, rather than holding onto such access indefinitely.

The Uninstaller doesn't do what an uninstaller is expected to do (i.e. remove the software and all related files to it). Trustworthy software never tries to "stay" on your computer.

GShade left backups of itself, and all shader and preset files from every update, and never cleaned them up, even backups from years ago. RIP anyone who had limited storage space.

[ Let's start with software that requests "ambient" admin access to your computer. ]

GShade asked for admin access once, and kept that access for it's entire lifetime while installed on the computer. Usually admin access is granted to a program to install/update files for a particular launch instance, and is revoked after the program closes. Most software usually ask EVERY TIME it needs admin access -- not just once and keep it forever. Types of software that have permanent admin/root access would be ones that constantly monitor your computer's files and other running programs (i.e. anti cheat software -- and I'm already leery about those).

Having permanent access means the program could be accessing things it shouldn't be at any given time it's running. From a digital hygiene perspective, this is generally considered bad since the blast radius of something going wrong is the entire computer system.

GShade needing to update itself would require admin access, but only for when it needed to update. Instead, GShade asked for permanent admin access.

So couple this with the fact that GShade's developer willingly put in malicious data into a program that has constant admin access to the computer. A forced reboot, while bad, may not have been the absolute worst thing, but the fact that even happened begs the question -- "What else could they have done?"

[ Now let's see the removal process of GShade when it clearly wanted to just stay on the computer. ]

I still have my notes from doing the removal "surgery" as I jokingly called it. Since GShade is a private fork of ReShade, I had to go into ReShade's installation instructions to find out where files were injected and manually remove them. Individually. By hand. I can only imagine what doing that is like for someone who isn't as well-versed with the ins and outs of computer systems.

For good measure, here are my full notes... and some commentary lol

GShade's uninstaller did not uninstall the application executable, but it did delete the uninstaller (itself) though. lmao.

It removed the parts of the data under the hidden "ProgramData/" folder, which rendered the software essentially obsolete. Please note that the "ProgramData/" folder itself is usually a hidden folder. You'll need to update the File Explorer to show hidden files to get into it.

From here, launching FFXIV after only using the provided uninstaller leaves the update banner, Update Reminder executable, and presets around, BUT toggling the GSHADE overlay in-game doesn't load anything (as expected).

The uninstaller also restarts computer after installation with the promise of removing remnant files. To no one's surprise, it does not remove any remnant files in the FFXIV game folder (i.e. gshade-addon/, gshade-presets/, d3d11.symlink)

Of the remnant files in the FFXIV "game/" folder, the main concerning one is "d3d11.symlink" which would normally be the file doing the injection for all the fun shader stuff. Inspecting this thing's properties shoes that it points to "Program Files/GShade/GShade64.dll" which is the actual executable. That thing it's pointing to still exists at this point btw.

'lo and behold, the GSHADE control panel application still exists! At this point, I don't even want to run it, so whether it runs as intended or not, I couldn't say.

"GShade Backups" (literally, it's just every backup from every install ever that accumulates over time. Godspeed to those of you who've been using it for years) are still present in the "Users/Public" folder and will need to be cleaned up, along with "GShade Custom Shaders" in the same folder.

In other news, you know how you uncheck the box to not backup GShade while uninstalling? Yeah, that box doesn't work. I have a "GSUninstallBack" file with the uninstall date.

After deleting the core folders that remained (i.e. "Program Files/GShade/", "Users/Public/GShade Backups/", "Users/Public/GShade Custom Shaders/", "FFXIV's game/gshade-addon/", "game/gshade-presets/"; I left the symlink because I'm not entirely sure what to make of it yet.), I relaunched FFXIV yet again. This time I get an error saying that "The code execution cannot proceed because d3dll.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this program." -> this is the symlink that I deleted the file it was pointing to, but didn't delete the link itself. So I'll do that now too. Firing up FFXIV yet again, everything is running smoothly -> no update banners, no crashes etc.

There are still a bunch of remnant files in the FFXIV game folder, mostly text documents, config settings, the snapshot sound file that's unique to GSHADE... I'm deleting that too btw.

I'm also now doing a FFXIV game repair to remove any other files I might have missed that were injected. Don't forget to back up character settings!

Don't forget to purge your recycle bin! :>

tldr; while the provided GSHADE uninstall does render the program mostly non-functional, it leaves a whole bunch of stuff that -could- execute, but doesn't. So you'll need to clean up all the individual files, and if you really want to be safe, also do a hard uninstall of FFXIV and fresh install of FFXIV to make sure there are no remnant injected GSHADE files left. If you're still paranoid, nothing a disk reformat won't fix.

Why You Shouldn’t Use GShade

Even after two years, I still see people using GShade and claiming it's a safe program, when it’s really not! There are already some older Tumblr posts about this, but I figured it’s worth refreshing the issue.

So please read this

Around two years ago, GShade’s developer added a code that could forcefully shut down your computer, not because of a bug or security measure, but on purpose. Why? Because he was mad that someone, specifically a 16-year-old made an alternative way to install GShade without using the official updater. Instead of handling it professionally, the dev decided to add a malicious code as "punishment" for anyone trying to modify GShade. That’s malware behavior.

(The first spark) ↓

At that time you also HAD to update Gshade to unistall it. ↓

(Developers "Apology") ↓

Now, you might be thinking, “Okay, but that was patched out, so it’s fine now, right?” Nope. Because the biggest issue isn’t just what he did, it’s the fact that he still thinks he did nothing wrong.

The Problem with Closed-Source Software Like GShade

GShade is closed-source, meaning no one except the developer can see or verify what’s actually in the code. This is a issue when dealing with someone who has already abused their control over the software.

With open-source programs (like ReShade), anyone can look at the code, verify it’s safe, and contribute to improving it. If something shady is added, people can catch it immediately. But with GShade, you have to just trust that the dev isn’t hiding anything malicious. And considering his past actions, that’s a massive risk to take.

Even if GShade is "safe" right now, nothing is stopping the dev from adding another backdoor, data collection, or something even worse in the future. Since no one can see the code, you wouldn’t know until it was too late. And given that he still defends his actions, there’s every reason to believe he’d do something similar again.

“But I’ve Never Had Issues With GShade”

A lot of people say GShade runs better than ReShade or has better effects. That might be true, but no amount of quality or convenience is worth putting your computer at risk. Just because something hasn’t caused problems yet doesn’t mean it won’t in the future. Malicious code can be slipped in at any time, and because it’s closed-source, no one would be able to warn you.

And honestly? You shouldn’t be using software made by someone who has already proven they’re willing to mess with your computer. If a developer intentionally inserts harmful code once, they can do it again.

What Should You Use Instead?

There’s a safe and open-source alternative: ReShade

It’s free and open-source, meaning the community can review the code to ensure it’s safe.

It can do almost everything GShade does, and while it may take some tweaking, it’s worth the effort.

Most GShade presets can be converted to work with ReShade with a bit of adjustment.

There are guides available to help transition from GShade to ReShade Here is one: How To Move To ReShade From GShade

Final Thoughts

At the end of the day, it’s your computer, and you can do whatever you want with it. But if you choose to keep using GShade, just be aware of the risks you’re taking. The dev has already demonstrated that he’s willing to sabotage people’s computers when he feels like it. He still thinks he was justified. And because GShade is closed-source, he has complete control over what’s in the code without anyone being able to check.

So ask yourself: Is that really the kind of software you want to trust?

ReShade is a safer, open-source alternative that doesn’t put you at risk.

Thank you for reading

Here are some links that discusses the whole topic:

Twitter

The persons Blog the code was directed at

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linastudyblrsblog · 5 years ago

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Burnout, unfortunately, is everywhere. If you haven’t experienced it personally, you probably know someone who has self-diagnosed.

Defined by the World Health Organization as a syndrome “conceptualized as resulted from chronic workplace stress,” it causes exhaustion, “feelings of negativism or cynicism,” and reduced efficacy. That’s a big umbrella, and the condition has become something of a catch-all for chronic, modern-day stress.

Here are 11 of our favorites to help you create your own escape plan:

1. Figure out which kind of burnout you have.

The Association for Psychological Science found that burnout comes in three different types, and each one needs a different solution:

1. Overload: The frenetic employee who works toward success until exhaustion, is most closely related to emotional venting. These individuals might try to cope with their stress by complaining about the organizational hierarchy at work, feeling as though it imposes limits on their goals and ambitions. That coping strategy, unsurprisingly, seems to lead to a stress overload and a tendency to throw in the towel.

2. Lack of Development: Most closely associated with an avoidance coping strategy. These under-challenged workers tend to manage stress by distancing themselves from work, a strategy that leads to depersonalization and cynicism — a harbinger for burning out and packing up shop.

3. Neglect: Seems to stem from a coping strategy based on giving up in the face of stress. Even though these individuals want to achieve a certain goal, they lack the motivation to plow through barriers to get to it

2. Cut down and start saying “no.”

Every “yes” you say adds another thing on your plate and takes more energy away from you, and your creativity:

If you take on too many commitments, start saying ‘no’. If you have too many ideas, execute a few and put the rest in a folder labeled ‘backburner’. If you suffer from information overload, start blocking off downtime or focused worktime in your schedule (here are some tools that may help). Answer email at set times. Switch your phone off, or even leave it behind. The world won’t end. I promise.

3. Give up on getting motivated.

With real burnout mode, you’re too exhausted to stay positive. So don’t:

When you’re mired in negative emotions about work, resist the urge to try to stamp them out. Instead, get a little distance — step away from your desk, focus on your breath for a few seconds — and then just feel the negativity, without trying to banish it. Then take action alongside the emotion. Usually, the negative feelings will soon dissipate. Even if they don’t, you’ll be a step closer to a meaningful achievement.

4. Treat the disease, not the symptoms.

For real recovery and prevention to happen, you need to find the real, deeper issue behind why you’re burnt out:

Instead of overreacting to the blip, step back from it, see it as an incident instead of an indictment, and then examine it like Sherlock Holmes looking for clues.

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5. Make downtime a daily ritual.

To help relieve pressure, schedule daily blocks of downtime to refuel your brain and well-being. It can be anything from meditation to a nap, a walk, or simply turning off the wifi for a while:

When it comes to scheduling, we will need to allocate blocks of time for deep thinking. Maybe you will carve out a 1-2 hour block on your calendar every day for taking a walk or grabbing a cup of coffee and just pondering some of those bigger things. I can even imagine a day when homes and apartments have a special switch that shuts down wi-fi and data access during dinner or at night – just to provide a temporary pause from the constant flow of status updates and other communications…

There is no better mental escape from our tech-charged world than the act of meditation. If only for 15 minutes, the ability to steer your mind away from constant stimulation is downright liberating. There are various kinds of meditation. Some forms require you to think about nothing and completely clear your mind. (This is quite hard, at least for me.) Other forms of meditation are about focusing on one specific thing – often your breath, or a mantra that you repeat in your head (or out loud) for 10-15 minutes…

If you can’t adopt meditation, you might also try clearing your mind the old fashioned way – by sleeping. The legendary energy expert and bestselling author Tony Schwartz takes a 20-minute nap every day. Even if it’s a few hours before he presents to a packed audience, he’ll take a short nap.

6. Stop being a perfectionist; start satisficing.

Trying to maximize every task and squeeze every drop of productivity out of your creative work is a recipe for exhaustion and procrastination. Set yourself boundaries for acceptable work and stick to them:

Consistently sacrificing your health, your well being, your relationships, and your sanity for the sake of living up to impossible standards will lead to some dangerous behaviors and, ironically, a great deal of procrastination. Instead of saying, “I’ll stay up until this is done,” say, “I’ll work until X time and then I’m stopping. I may end up needing to ask for an extension or complete less than perfect work. But that’s OK. I’m worth it.” Making sleep, exercise, and downtime a regular part of your life plays an essential role in a lasting, productive creative career.

7. Track your progress every day.

Keeping track allows you to see exactly how much is on your plate, not only day-to-day, but consistently over time:

Disappointing feedback can be painful at first – research shows that failure and losses can hurt twice as much as the pleasure of equivalent gains. But if you discover you’re off course, reliable feedback shows you by how much, and you then have the opportunity to take remedial action and to plot a new training regime or writing schedule. The temporary pain of negative feedback is nothing compared with the crushing experience of project failure. Better to discover that you’re behind and need to start writing an hour earlier each day, than to have your book contract rescinded further down the line because you’ve failed to deliver.

8. Change location often.

Entrepreneurs or freelancers can be especially prone to burnout. Joel Runyon plays “workstation popcorn,” in which he groups tasks by location and then switches, in order to keep work manageable, provide himself frequent breaks, and spend his time efficiently:

You find yourself spending hours at your computer, dutifully “working” but getting very little done. You finish each day with the dreaded feeling that you’re behind, and that you’re only falling farther and farther behind. You’re buried below an ever-growing to-do list. There’s a feeling of dread that tomorrow is coming, and that it’s bringing with it even more work that you probably won’t be able to get ahead on.

List out everything you need to do today. Try to be as specific as you can…Next, break that list into three sections. Step 1: Go to cafe [or desk, a different table in your office, etc.] #1. Step 2: Start working on item group #1…Once you finish all the tasks in group #1, get up and move. Close your tabs, pack your bags, and physically move your butt to your next spot. If you can, walk or bike to your next stop…When you get to the next cafe [or spot], start on the next action item group, and repeat…

When you’ve completed everything on your to-do list for the day, you are done working. Relax, kick back, and live your life. Don’t take work home with you because that won’t help you get more done – it will just wear you out.

9. Don’t overload what downtime you do get.

Vacations themselves can cause, or worsen burnout, with high-stress situations, expectations, and sleep interruption. Use it to help in recovery from burnout instead:

Make a flexible itinerary a priority. [A] study from Radboud University found that effective vacations give you the choice and freedom to choose what you want to do. That means two things: Try to avoid structuring your vacation around an unbreakable schedule, and plan on going somewhere that has multiple options to pick from depending on the weather, your level of energy, or your budget.

10. Write yourself fan mail.

Seth Godin uses self-fan mail as a way to keep motivated instead of burning out on a project that seems far from completion:

I define non-clinical anxiety as, “experiencing failure in advance.” If you’re busy enacting a future that hasn’t happened yet, and amplifying the worst possible outcomes, it’s no wonder it’s difficult to ship that work. With disappointment, I note that our culture doesn’t have an easily found word for the opposite. For experiencing success in advance. For visualizing the best possible outcomes before they happen. Will your book get a great testimonial? Write it out. Will your talk move someone in the audience to change and to let you know about it? What did they say? Will this new product gain shelf space at the local market? Take a picture. Writing yourself fan mail in advance, and picturing the change you’ve announced you’re trying, to make is an effective way to push yourself to build something that actually generates that action.

11. Break projects into bite-sized pieces.

Taking a task on in one entire lump can be exhausting and provide little room for rest in between. Breaking up your projects into set chunks with their own deadlines provides a much healthier, and easier, way of completing a large project:

The default take on deadlines is typically to consider them to be cumbersome and stressful. Yet, from another perspective, a deadline can be viewed as a huge benefit to any project. Without the urgency of a hard deadline pushing a project to completion, it’s easy for you, your team, or your client to lose focus. We’ve all worked on agonizing projects where the timeline just bleeds on and on, merely because the flexibility is there…

It turns out that the manner in which a task is presented to someone – or the way in which you present it to your brain – has a significant impact on how motivated you will be to take action. A study led by researcher Sean McCrea at the University of Konstanz in Germany recently found that people are much more likely to tackle a concrete task than an abstract task… It seems to me like the difference between being handed a map versus following the step-by-step instructions of a GPS device. Not everyone can read a map, but everyone can follow the directions. By breaking your project down into smaller, well-described tasks, the way forward becomes clear and it’s easy to take action.

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liquidcrystalsky · 3 months ago

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also yeah, give linux a try. you can run linux inside of a virtual machine or you can "dual boot" it so you can run it on your computer without deleting your windows installation. Put it on an old laptop or something.

I've not personally used it but Mint is often recommended because of the Cinnamon Desktop with how similar it is to windows.

I prefer KDE Plasma, which also is very reminiscent of Windows, but is VERY customizable. It's available for a wide range of distributions but for beginners i'd say try Debian, or Fedora.

KDE Plasma as well comes with "Discover" basically a sort of "app store". and unlike windows or macos, you shouldn't ignore it! it's actually very good, and just a frontend for the package manager you already have. You do not have to go to websites and download installers and stuff, very often everything you need can be found in there. Things that are not in there can often be found as "appimages" which are whole apps in a single file, flatpaks, which, idk but there's a lot of them and you can add them to discover for auto updating. and then just packages you can manually install, which are ".deb" files for Debian, and ".rpm" files for Fedora.

One thing a lot of people will ask about is compatibility, and it's true a lot less things work for linux, but this is getting increasingly rare. Games especially, the only ones that dont work these days are games which SPECIFICALLY and INTENTIONALLY block linux, (Apex Legends, Valorant, Fortnite), otherwise most games run completely fine, even if there isnt a native version, Steam is able to run things through a compatibility layer, and i've had great results with it. Check what games you play here, out of the 524 games i own (jesus christ) ONLY 15 flat out refuse to work on linux.

Adobe products can work, though with quite a bit of setup and it REQUIRES piracy (or a legal copy, but you have to crack it). Microsoft Office can be used in a browser. Unless you are doing industry level stuff, most stuff just works and if it doesnt there's workarounds. Adobe is stupid though i'll give it that.

You don't need to use the command line, you dont need insane computer knowlege to install it or use it.

Other goodies:

Most things to do with the system can update without restarting. On the rare occasion it needs you to, it just waits for the next time you reboot, it will never force you to restart. The system packages are managed with the same thing as your apps and stuff, so everything can update all at once from one place.

Much less bloat, like. There are some distributions which basically come with nothing but the bare minimum, like my current one didn't come with a GUI. Most distros though come with everything you need to get started using the computer immediately, without any fuss.

if you dont like something, hit da bricks! all of your stuff is in your home folder, configs for apps, all your user data. if you dont like a distro move somewhere else and move your configurations and stuff to the new one. Also, if you have an issue with something, it's likely someone else doesn't like it as well, and has made a fix or an alternative.

As someone with a lot of computer knowlege, linux is so much easier to troubleshoot and fix issues when they happen. There's also so much support and help and forums for linux compared to windows, and with windows the top answer is just always "did you run the stinky troubleshooter which takes an hour and tells you nothing" and "did you DISM and sfc /scannow" and if the answer is yes to both and you still have the issue you're just screwed and have to reinstall

btw when windows 10 goes out of service, move to windows 11 or linux. by staying on an OS which doesn't get security updates, your computer is much more at risk for attacks.

also yes everyone hates windows updates it makes you restart ur computer or whatever but please do them for security reasons. it is also a good idea in general to restart your computer once every few days regardless.

Windows 11 is perfectly fine for me as long as you:

DO NOT link a microsoft account to it

Remove all the copilot and ai crap and revert a few things like the right click menu. you can do it registry tweaks but winaero tweaker is a much easier GUI option. it works for windows 10 as well i would recommend it

i cannot stress this enough (assuming those two things), other than some UI stuff it is literally the same exact operating system and i got used to the change almost instantly

The settings app is a lot better on windows 11, and the control panel is still there and still the same

It's not any better or worse performing for games or productivity.

Nothing that i previously used on windows 10 broke, and there wasnt any huge annoyances or issues that windows 10 didn't also have.

I AM AWARE of the TPM 2.0 chip requirement. TPM 2.0 has been standardized for 10 years now, if your computer's motherboard was made in that time, it very likely has it. Windows might say you dont have a tpm 2.0 chip, you probably do, it's just not enabled, mess around in your bios, look up guides and stuff.

if you actually don't as your computer is quite old, i would try out linux honestly it is much nicer towards older hardware and can run much better on it (basically any hardware actually).

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ohaithe-re · 4 years ago

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I want to write two posts, and they're about things that people call "Turing Complete" that aren't actually that. This happens for two reasons. The vast majority are for the first reason: you have a system that is "able to work like a computer", but only one with a fixed amount of memory, which is very different from a Turing machine.

The latter is about the few things that are "Turing Hard", that is, they can do anything a Turing machine can do; but they're not computable themselves. This is pretty rare because we don't often encounter noncomputable things in our lives. That will be for a later post.

Okay, what does "Turing Complete" mean?

A Turing machine can be defined by the following model (informal and unconventional, but accurate):

A storage device that can hold an arbitrary amount of binary data (bits). We can call this the hard drive.

A CPU:

It holds some fixed amount of bits in its memory. Let's call this the RAM. The amount of RAM is fixed (say, 100 bits) but could vary from machine to machine.

It can add/subtract/multiply numbers.

It can read and write to any location on the hard drive. How do you refer to potentially arbitrarliy large addresses in memory? Well, the hard drive is organized into folders: each folder has a "0.txt" and a "1.txt" and a folder called "0" and a folder called "1". The CPU can move up or down the layers of folders by issuing the right command, or it can read one of the two files in a folder (and each file contains one bit of data).

The CPU is 'hardwired' to do a particular pattern. Based on its 100 bits of RAM, it modifies those bits of RAM, and issues "READ", "WRITE" and "CHANGE FOLDER" commands to the hard drive.

The conventional idea of Turing machine has an infinite tape and a head, and while it one of the most useful ways of then doing theoretical analysis of the machine, it doesn't translate very well to how people "feel" about computers these days.

In the version of Turing machine I give above, when I say I have "a Turing machine", what I mean is that you tell me how many bits of RAM it has (say, 100), and then you give me a giant table that tells you, "given this arrangement of the 100 bits of RAM, output this, input this, and set your 100 bits of RAM to this new set."

And so if something else (say, a video game) is "Turing-complete", that means that if I give you the table of some Turing machine, then you can give me an instance of that thing (say, a video game save file; a map) that behaves like that Turing machine.

What "behaves like" means precisely depends a bit on the context of what the "thing" is. Often a Turing machine will be defined to have an additional "accept"/"reject" state, saying that it succeeded or that it failed. In the context of a video game, this could be the game ending or a character dying, or one of two different items being deposited into my inventory.

I need an example!

Fair. Well, most programming languages are Turing complete (but see below). In Java, for instance, I could define something like:

class Folder{ boolean txt0, txt1; private Folder fold0, fold1, parent; //Yada yada, get and set //and make new subfolders as needed } class CPU { final boolean[] RAM = new boolean[100]; Folder currentFolder f = new Folder(); void step() { //your code goes here } public static void main(String[] args){ CPU cpu = new CPU(); //We might need to fill in the hard drive //with some input data here while(true) { cpu.step(); } } }

So if you give me some Turing machine, I can fill in the step() function and give you an equivalent Java program. You can do the same in Python, or Perl, or bash, or Ruby, or JavaScript, or ... you get the idea.

That's boring, that's just programming

Also fair. How about Factorio, a game where you build a factory? There's no "folders" or "bits" here in any obvious way. But you can make a factory that continuously builds itself bigger and bigger, as in that first link. And you can make a computer that accesses memory and modifies it according to hardwired rules. So, you give me a Turing machine's table, and I'll build you a Factorio map. Then as the game runs, the CPU does its "steps", maybe accessing some bit of the hard drive. If that folder hasn't been built yet, the CPU will have to wait. But eventually that bit will be built, and execution will continue. And when your program finishes, it will have computed the same answer that the original Turing machine would.

Another good example is Conway's Game of Life, in which cells switch between "alive" and "dead" depending on their neighbors. There are self-growing patterns of cells, and ways for cells to act as circuits. See a pattern? So these are both Turing complete.

Okay, so what are you whining about?

People love to say that things are Turing complete: * Here's a very popular video about PowerPoint being Turing complete. * Here's a claim that Portal 2 is Turing complete. * Here's a claim that even CSS is Turing complete!

Wow, everything must be Turing complete, huh?

Well, no. Let's look at the PowerPoint example.

PowerPoint is Simple

PowerPoint is, for the purposes of this discussion:

A collection of shapes that (1) take up particular areas of the screen and are (2) enabled or disabled

A collection of animations that move a list of shapes to a particular location

A map saying that, when I click on one area, if it's enabled, that it (1) runs some animations and (2) enables/disables some other shapes.

So, if you give me a PowerPoint, could I analyze it to figure out everything it could ever do? Yes! Each shape has only a fixed list of locations it can be (its starting location, and each place mentioned in some animation). So I can look at every possible configuration of which shape is where, of which there is some fixed list, and figure out which configuration leads to which other. Or, which others, if the user has multiple choices.

If I have N shapes and K animations, I can "solve" PowerPoint in at most K^N steps. Given that Turing machines cannot be solved, this actually proves that it can't be Turing complete.

The most disappointing part is that the author acknowledges this -- see the section titled "Turing Completeness". His defense seems built around the idea that some programming languages aren't Turing complete. This is true, and has been discussed a few times. This doesn't mean that PowerPoint is Turing complete though, any more than the existence of bicycles means a tricycle is a kind of car. And as pointed out above, plenty of other programming languages are Turing complete. C is definitely the exception, not the rule!

Okay, but every computer is finite!

Yep! Yep, they are. We can never build a Turing machine in real life. We'll also never find every prime number. But the statement "there are only finitely many prime numbers" is still false. Turing completeness is a statement about an abstract model, and programming languages like Java and Python, and video games like Factorio and Conway's Game of Life also describe abstract models. Our silicon bricks will do their darndest to accurately implement that model, and eventually they will fail, but that doesn't mean the abstract model is changed somehow.

The Java specification doesn't say "ah, but if you hit 1 exabyte, quit"; the Java specification allows you to keep going, and barring exceptional behavior (like an OutOfMemoryError), the Java program above correctly models a Turing machine. C is unusual in that specification actually directly limits you to a certain memory size.

So what should I say, then?

When people say things are Turing complete, they usually end up being PSPACE-Complete. (In rare cases, they might only be P-Complete.) PSPACE aligns, roughly, with what can be computed on real world hardware, if you're very patient: if I want to run a program on a particular piece of input of size n, then I need memory proportional to nc for some constant c. If I have a traffic network of n cities and I need to keep track of the best route between each pair, then n2 is enough memory. I can still solve problems that might take a very long time to run, including checking each possible route through all the streets (which could take n! many operations, but not much memory).

PSPACE is broad enough to encompass lots of very hard problems, like breaking (just about any) encryption: assuming the password is not crazy long, a program can just try each password until it finds the one that works. If it always overwrites the last guess with the new guess, so it never needs much memory at any moment in time, even if it might be running for a very long time. PSPACE is actually powerful enough to do anything that a quantum computer can do, just maybe very slowly.

So why are some phenomena naturally PSPACE Complete?

Generally, yeah. A good way to think about PSPACE completeness is:

You give me a Turing machine, and you tell me that this machine will never need more than nc memory. You then want me to build you a machine (in a video game or whatever) that can run this machine for a certain size n. The machine will need to vary a bit with n, but that change should be according to a simple recipe.

The "simple recipe" part is about something called uniformity, and is really here so that I don't give you a gigantic ridiculous machine that has every possible answer to every possible problem already baked in or something. In practice this can pretty much always be turned into a description like,

You give me a Turing machine. I build you a "circuit" in the video game. Then you tell me how much memory, M, you need. I build you M identical memory units in the game, and hook it up the circuit. Now it can do what your Turing machine can do, as long as it doesn't need more than M memory in the hard drive.

So how does this show up? Earlier I linked to this Factorio post where he claimed that it showed Turing completeness. In fact, he only built a fixed-size circuit, with a fixed-size memory bank. Following his formula, if you give me a PSPACE program, I can build a Factorio circuit that runs that program, and takes up an amount of floor space for the memory proportional to the amount of memory your program needs. Similar arguments mean that Minecraft's redstone circuits, or real-world digital logic in silicon, are PSPACE complete.

P Complete

Some systems seem to "act like a digital circuit", but aren't even PSPACE complete. This happens if, intuitively, the circuit can't "loop back on itself". I just have logic gates going in, going to more logic gates, going to more logic gates, and eventually reaching the output. This class of complexity is only P Complete. (Side note: no one has actually proven P Complete and PSPACE Complete aren't actually the same thing! Although it very much seems this way. It's arguably one of the most important problems in complexity theory, and solving it would be a necesssary first baby step to proving that P does not equal NP.)

A simple example is gravity-fed water logic gates or even water computers. Water flows down a pipe, interacts in some way with another pipe to determine where more water gets routed, and eventually reaches some set of buckets at the bottom to show you the output. This is P complete: I can build any arbitrary circuit this way. But this kind of circuit has no notion of saving a variable and returning to it, no idea of "while loops" or addresses. This kind of feedforward setup will be P complete, even though it's still meaningfully a computer.

A trickier example is this popular demo which claims to show that CSS+HTML is Turing complete. Click the various squares and see how it changes. More people talk about it here. This is an HTML document with an element for each square on a grid. As you click on squares to set them green, some squares in the next row turn orange. If you do as you're told and click the orange squares, this pattern propagates down, and the computation result at the bottom. The rule for which cells turn green, opaquely known as rule 110, is Turing complete, when run on an infinite size grid for arbitrarily long time periods. This grid is, as you can see, only finitely wide and only finitely long. Like the water circuit, data only passes downwards, so the result is actually only P complete.

But wait! I can just build more stuff!

This is a common sticking point between PSPACE and P. For a PSPACE complete program, I'm allowed to build memory proportional to how much memory you need for your program to run. I can give my Redstone circuit enough memory to do what it has to, as long that isn't crazy (exponential). With the CSS example above, it might feel like I can just give you more cells as needed too, right? Just expand the HTML to account for it!

But if I did that, I would need huge amounts of HTML. I would need exponentially much HTML to be able to run PSPACE programs. And I would need uncomputably large amounts in order to run a Turing machine. It's really not Turing complete: remember, to be Turing complete, there shouldn't be any variation in the construction at all! The memory should be able to just grow as needed.

So what is Turing complete?

I'll probably compile a separate list. But here are some things that really truly are Turing complete: * Conway's Game of Life * Manufactoria (and its remake) * Programming languages like Brainf***, Java, Python, etc. * Repeated find-replace * The Excel LAMBDA function

and some things that act like computers, but are not Turing complete: * PowerPoint, because the shapes bound the memory. PSPACE complete. * Minecraft Redstone Circuits, because the circuit is a fixed size. PSPACE complete. * Note that when combined with pushers and appropriate mods, it may be possible to build a self-growing redstone computer, which would be Turing complete. AFAIK no one has done this. * The C programming language, because of fixed-size pointers. C is actually EXPSPACE complete when parameterized by the word size as written in unary. * That Portal 2 map, because of a non-growing circuit. Caveat: Some items in Portal 2 can create infinite mass, like cube dispensers, thus it's hard to definitely state the complexity of Portal 2. Also, depending on qualifies as "Portal 2", the scripting available in the Hammer mapping tool is quite flexible and might be powerful. * Excel spreadsheets themselves. This is only P complete, much like the CSS example earlier. * The type system in C++ or in Rust

This is ridiculous nitpicking and dumb

Sure. A computer is a computer, and building a computer in an environment is a cool achievement and usually also decently productive, as finding ways to build new computing fabrics is useful. Water-flow based computing is actually being used in consumer products. But Turing completeness is also a very strong and precise statement. If someone claims they build a computer in Minecraft, great! If they claim they showed that Minecraft is Turing complete, they should be ready to have their language scrutinized a bit.

This distinction has its own applications too. P complete systems are generally "safe" to have running, in the sense that they won't take up too much computing power. If Gmail offered some text-substitution rules for my email signature that were P complete, they don't need to worry about it eating up CPU power. If it was PSPACE complete, they should watch out and will need timeouts or recursion depth limits to stop people from DOSing it.

These distinctions also tell me something about what kind of computer someone has built. If you built something P complete, then you built a logic circuit. If you built something PSPACE complete, you built a real useful computer that can run programs. And if you have something Turing complete, then you have a monstrosity that will grow without bound and eat up all the resources in the universe, if left alone long enough. :)

#turing complete #computer science #programming #c++#rust #minecraft #portal 2 #powerpoint

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quaranmine · 3 years ago

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you'd think it'd be easier to figure this out but most of what i'm getting is like "go to the catalog portal and add data from your organization or the web!" like yeah if i wanted random california wildfire data from 2016 that might help BUT THE DATA I NEED TO MAP DOESNT EXIST ONLINE BECAUSE IT'S MINE, NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S

fully aware i am probably just blatantly missing some tutorial that does tell me exactly that but i haven't found it yet lol

stumbling my way through arcgis pro by googling the absolute most basic questions like "how do i add a new layer"

#then it’s also like 'well you can add data from a folder on your computer!'#like ok that's nice. what format does the data in the folder need to be in?#like if it needs fo be a .txt or a .xml file thats fineeeee just Tell Me That #sadly i only sort of remember this from my qgis class 2 years ago #and this is arcpro so. It’s different anyway #i'm fine with doing some minor python or formatting data #i just dont know how/what that needs to be

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shoploading553 · 4 years ago

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How To Save File As Jpeg On Mac

How To Save A File As A Jpeg On Mac

How To Save File As Jpeg On Mac Computer

Convert Any File To Jpeg

Where Is My Jpeg File

Raw image, as its name implies, refers to the image file that contains all original image data captured by the camera sensor, there is rare compression or changes onto the image. It is in high quality and hence quite large in size. However, sometimes we have to convert a raw image to JPEG format for convenient sharing or other purposes.

And that’s how we come to the topic “How to Convert Raw Image to JPEG”, especially on a mac. In this post, we will share 7 ways to finish such a conversion easily.

Save PDF as JPEG on Mac. On the right side of the window, choose 'To Image' and then 'JPEG(.jpg) as your output file format for the imported PDFs. Below that, you can specify the image quality. Next, choose whether you want each page of each PDF as an image file or if you need to extract the images from all files and save them as separate images. Step 1: Select the photo you want to convert to JPG. First you need to open Finder and get to your HEIC photos. I just searched for 'heic' in the search bar, but if you have a folder where you keep them you can go there. Next, select the photo (s) you want to convert, and right click on it (two-finger click on your laptop's trackpad). Locate the PDF files you want to convert to JPG and open them in Preview. Go to the File menu and choose the 'Print' option. Click the 'PDF' drop-down menu and select 'Save PDF to iPhoto'. Then, each page of the PDF files will be automatically saved as JPEG image format by the Preview.

Part 1. Batch Convert Raw to JPEG on Mac

To batch convert raw image to JPEG on mac, or require high on conversion quality, a desktop converter would be the best choice, since all paid choices persuade users into a purchase by offering better performance. Speaking of top raw to JPEG converter for mac, here are 2 options as well, one is lightweight with simple yet effective conversion, while the other one provides extended features.

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Follow the Steps to Batch Convert Raw to JPEG on Mac

Grab a copy of BatchPhoto Pro on your mac, install and open it.

Click Add Photos to import raw images for conversion.

Optional. Go to Edit Photos and customize your raw images before conversion on mac.

Click Setup, choose output as JPEG and configure the settings according to your needs.

Click OK and export raw images to JEPG on mac.

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Pixillion Image Converter from NCH Software is a compact and easy-to-use program to convert images, it allows to import more than 50+ image formats, which covers virtually all raw image formats for different devices. You can export the images into 20 output formats in batch. And it offers some basic photo editing features.

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Follow the Steps to Batch Convert Raw to JPEG on Mac

Grab a copy of Pixillion Image Converter ,install and open the application.

Click Add Files or Add Folder to upload raw images for conversion, also you can directly drag and drop raw images to the program.

Choose output as JPEG.

Click Convert to start the conversion.

Part 2. Convert Raw to JPEG on Mac with Preview

Mac Preview is a free utility comes with MacOS to view and manage PDF or images. However, many mac users just overlook the power of Mac Preview. Actually, it can open and export lots of raw image formats.

Right click on your raw image, for e.g, a CR2 file, open with Preview.

Go to File>Export.

Then choose JPEG as the output in the menu, and click Save to convert raw image to JPEG on mac.

The Bad

How To Save File As Jpeg On Mac Computer

However, Preview doesn’t allow batch convert raw images to JPEG on mac, and the output option is not that outstanding.

Part 3. Raw to JPEG Mac online, free

As you may have searched in Google to find an online Raw to JPEG converter online for free conversion, but the choices are quite few. There’s something you need to know. Raw images don’t refer to image files in a specific format, different brands of cameras apply different format to save the raw image, including CR2 for Canon, DRF for Kodak, ERF for Epson, SR2 for Sony, etc. In this case, if you want to find an online raw to JPEG converter, you’d better figure out which raw image format you are working on first.

After studies and tested a dozen of online image converters, we finally pick Zamzar and online-convert as the best 2 online, free raw to jpeg converters.

1) Zamzar

If you need to convert document very often, you should know about Zamzar. It is one of the most popular online converters to convert documents, images, videos, audios, and even ebooks. And particularlly, it supports almost all raw image format, including 3fr, arw, cr2,crw, dcr, erf, etc. You can find the details of supported raw formats here. Furthermore, Zamzar is absolutely the cleanest and safest platform to perform image conversion.

Go to Zamzar. For example, if you want to convert CR2 to JPEG, go to https://www.zamzar.com/convert/cr2-to-jpg/

Click Add Files to upload raw images for conversion.

Choose output as JPEG.

Click Convert to change raw image to JPEG on mac for free.

2) Online-Convert

Another online raw to JPEG converter is Online-Convert, not only supports most of raw image formats, Online-Convert also allows users to customize image output. You can tweak the quality settings, change size, adjust color/dpi, even crop pixels. Still, it does quite good to support import from Mac, Dropbox, Google Drive, even with a single URL.

Head to Online-Convert in your web browser.

Click Choose Files to upload raw images for conversion.

(Optional) Tweak the setting to customize your JPEG output.

Click Start Conversion to change raw image to JPEG online, free.

The Bad

Online raw to JPEG converters are free, but often sacrifice the image quality during the conversion. Also, you need stable Internet connection to get a successful conversion. Anther concern of using online, free services lies in the risk of information leakage when uploading files to a 3rd party server.

Part 4. If You Have Installed Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom

For users who have installed Adobe product, such as Photoshop or Lightroom, you can follow the steps to convert raw image to JPEG on mac.

Convert Raw to JPEG on Mac Using Adobe Photoshop

Right click on raw image and open with Photoshop.

Go to File>Save As.

Choose Output as JPEG from the output menu.

Click Save.

(Optional) Tweak the JPEG options according to your needs.

Click OK and save the raw image as JPEG on mac.

Convert Raw to JPEG on Mac Using Adobe Lightroom

Right click on raw image and open with Lightroom.

Go to File>Export.

Choose output as JPEG.

(Optional) Rename, adjust image settings as needs.

Click Export to convert raw image to JPEG with Mac Lightroom.

It is essential to know how to save a PDF file into an image file in many cases. For example, if your eBook reader does not support PDF format, you can convert PDF to image files for reading. When you need to insert a PDF file into a webpage, you'd better save PDF as image. When you want to include pages from the PDF in a presentation, as a Mac owner you can also choose different methods to convert the PDF file to images.

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Solution 1. Convert PDF to Image Mac with Preview

Apple makes it easy to convert PDF documents to JPEG files with Mac built-in Preview application. Below is the detailed guide:

1. Locate the PDF files you want to convert to JPG and open them in Preview. 2. Go to the File menu and choose the 'Print' option. 3. Click the 'PDF' drop-down menu and select 'Save PDF to iPhoto'. Then, each page of the PDF files will be automatically saved as JPEG image format by the Preview. After that, you can launch Finder, open iPhoto and view the converted images. You are allowed to rename these images as you want.

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halleyj96 · 4 years ago

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allinfoworldbd · 4 years ago

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Personal health records and patient portals are powerful tools for managing your health.

If you are like most people and have multiple medical concerns, you may consult with different doctors and pharmacies. Keeping track of everything can be challenging. With a personal health record, you can gather — and control — all your information in one easy-to-access place.

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A personal health record is simply a collection of health information. If you have an immunization record or a folder with medical documentation, you already have a basic personal health record.

And you've probably encountered the big downside to paper records: You rarely have them when you need them.

Electronic personal health records solve this problem by making information accessible at any time through devices with access to the network, such as computers, smartphones or tablets.

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In general, your personal medical record should include everything that helps you and your doctors manage your health, starting with the basics:

Your doctor's names and phone numbers Allergies, including allergies to medications Your medications, including dosages List and dates of diseases and surgeries Chronic health problems, such as high blood pressure Living will or advance directives Family background Vaccine history You can also add information about what you are doing to stay healthy and prevent illness, such as:

Checking blood pressure at home Exercise and eating habits Health goals, such as quitting smoking or losing weight Personal health records, electronic medical records, and patient portals Personal medical records are not the same as electronic medical records, also called electronic medical records, that are owned and maintained by doctor's offices, hospitals, or health insurance plans.

The records electronic medical generally contain the same basic information that give a personal medical file , such as your date of birth, list of medications and allergies to them. But electronic health records contain more information because they are used by healthcare providers to store visit notes, test results, and much more.

A personal medical record that is linked to an electronic medical record is called a patient portal. In some but not all cases, you can add information to your chart, such as blood pressure readings taken at home, through a patient portal. If that's the case, you may not want to create a separate and independent personal medical record .

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You could use an app like the health app for iPhones, which includes medical identification, which makes critical information available on the lock screen and can be used by the first people to respond to an emergency. Medical ID can show medical conditions, allergies, medications, blood type, and emergency contacts. You can also use it to indicate if you are registered as an organ donor.

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Similar apps are available for other smartphones as well. Or, you can skip the technology and wear a medical alert bracelet or carry a medical alert card in your wallet.

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Having a personal medical record can literally save your life. In an emergency, you can quickly give emergency personnel vital information, such as information about the illnesses you are being treated for, the medications you take, drug allergies, and your doctor's contact information.

If you see multiple doctors and they don't use the same electronic medical record system , a personal medical record is a good way to keep all of your health information in one place.

A personal medical record also empowers you to monitor your health between visits. For example, a personal medical record allows you to do the following:

Record and evaluate your health. Record and track your progress in relation to your health goals, such as lowering your cholesterol level. Make the most of doctor visits. Have some questions ready to ask your doctor and information you want to share, like your blood pressure readings since your last visit. Check your health between visits. Upload and analyze data from home monitoring devices, such as a blood pressure monitor bracelet. And remember your doctor's instructions from your last appointment. Get organized. Keep track of appointments, vaccinations, medications, and preventive or screening services, such as mammograms. In fact, studies have shown that when parents use their children's personal medical records, they are more likely to get preventive well-child exams on time. Are personal health records inconvenient? Building a complete medical record takes some time. You have to collect and enter all the information about your health. Only a minority of doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, and insurance companies can submit information electronically to a personal medical record that is not part of a patient portal.

In most cases, you will have to update your personal medical record manually each time you see the doctor, fill a prescription, get an exam, or go to the hospital.

Even if you use a patient portal, you still need to review the information that is added to it. The electronic health data transfer process is not always perfect and errors can occur.

Will my information be kept private? Perhaps the most common concerns about personal medical records are about privacy and security. To address these issues, reputable personal health record systems follow industry best practices, such as making their privacy policies public and being vetted by independent organizations. Additionally, federal laws have been established to protect the security of personal health information.

How do I start? If your primary care physician offers to use a patient portal, do so. The staff at the entrance desk will inform you how to go about registering. (If your doctor doesn't offer to use a patient portal, ask if there will be one in the future.) Then take advantage of its features. Most portals offer the following:

Medical appointment reminders Drug List Summary of medical appointment, sometimes with related educational material Secure messaging with the healthcare provider Analysis results

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Hi I'm having an error with social townies moving into apartments. Whenever I send my sim to the computer to look for a potential roommate, the game gives me a "Missing Neighbor for Data Access" error message. I've read that the hacked computer can cause this issue but I've tested it in a new hood after deleting the global sim menu package as people recommended and the problem persists. Any help would be appreciated

Hello! I might be able to figure out this issue for me if you give me at least part of an error log, but I’ve also decided take this chance (and the fact I have an error of my own to resolve) to offer a little crash course in using information from error logs to skip the 50/50 method that’s been the staple for finding problematic mods, since I’ve wanted to do so for a while.

Here’s an error log for an error I recently got in my game. You can see the top gives the following useful information:

Object id/name: this is the object that is “me” in the BHAVs being run

Error: this tells you why there was an error. In my case, Nutmeg tried to perform a nonexistent anim; for you, the BHAV is trying to access the persondata of a non-sim.

Then there will be a bunch of frames, each is a BHAV that was run for “me”, in reverse order of when they were run (meaning the top is the one run when the error actually occured). Each frame will give you:

Stack Object id/name: the stack object. BHAVs often need to set an object as the stack object to perform different checks and actions with it.

Node: this is the last line run of the BHAV; in the topmost frame it’s the one the error occured in.

Tree: the name of the BHAV

from: the group of the BHAV

although for some CC objects, the BHAVs will have unhelpful labels here because the creator didn’t set the NREF to something relevant. You can get hints to what CC object it’s from by knowing what the sim was interacting with when the error occurred, or sometimes the object is also “me”/the stack object and you can figure it out from name/stack object name if the creator at least changed the OBJD name.

Params and Locals:

this provides you information on the value of the param and local variables of the BHAV when it errored (or called a different BHAV, for the non-topmost frames)

You can also Ctrl + F for terms like “temp” or “attribute” to find the values of the temp variables and the attributes and semi-attributes of “me” and the stack object when the error occurred, but that’s probably only useful for debugging mods you’re working on yourself.

Okay, now you have some things you can look for in your mods. My issue appears to be occurring in a Maxis BHAV, but I want to also check if I have any mods overriding it in my downloads folder.

In SimPE, open Extra > Preferences and select the FileTable tab. There’s a button to add your downloads folder, and then you can put a checkmark next to it in Advanced Settings and hit Reload. Wait a bit while SimPE reads all your downloads.

You’re going to want to uncheck that box and reload it again before closing SimPE, since otherwise SimPE will open up (and set as in use) every file in your downloads folder every time you open it which is a) time-consuming and b) means you can’t do things like save edits to files in your downloads folder, but for now loading everything will be useful.

This time I open Tools > PJSE > Simantics Resource Finder.

If the group name didn’t have globals in it but you’re pretty sure it’s a Maxis object you’re having problems with and not a CC object, you can first check NREF name and copy in the group’s name. Search and you should get the object it corresponds to and be able to copy the 8 hexadecimal digits right after “Group”.

I checked the BHAV name box, typed in the name of the BHAV from the error log, set the group filter to BookCaseGlobals since that’s what the from line said if the paragraph before this applied to you, instead paste hexadecimal digits you copied into the box next to the group filter dropdown menu), and clicked Search.

There’s only one result and it’s from the program files, so I actually don’t have any overrides, but if I did they’d show up here with their filenames. Then you can remove them and related packages and test the game to see if your situation is resolved without doing a full 50/50.

At that point you can usually just stop and remove the mod causing issues, pass the information along to the mod creator to hopefully get it fixed, whatever, but for those prepared to read the BHAVs and try solving the issue themselves you can find exactly where in the BHAV the error is occurring.

For me the error log said node 6, so I looked at the line labeled with a (6) (make sure you’re paying attention to the number in the parentheses, not the hexadecimal numbers before those!) and sure enough, it’s an “animate sim” line, and it says that missing animation is meant to be in line 0x0035. A quick glance at the other bookcase semiglobals and the secret door bookcase this interaction appears to be related to reveals bookcases have no anim lists for cats like Nutmeg, so it’s no mystery why line 0x0035 was found to be missing. Yet, the TTAB reveals the interaction is revealed for pets anyway. Well, now I know how to fix it at least.

So there you go! Hopefully this is useful to some people.

#tutorials #ask midge #fix for the maxis error i was troubleshooting coming soon #also a list of error names and what they mean #replies

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teamred · 6 years ago

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how to apply psds and adjust colouring for gifs

*** DISCLAIMER: i am only a basic user of photoshop and have been using it for less than a year. i rely on other creators’ psds and adjust the colouring within them. this tutorial is for beginners to learn how to apply psds to gifs and to adjust the colouring to their liking.***

how to get gifs to go from this:

to this:

please see these resources on how to gif if you do not know already or need more information: X X X

i use photoshop cc extended 2018 (downloaded from here)!

1. after you have converted your frames into a smart object as one layer within your timeline and smart sharpened it, open up a psd file you would like to use. for this example, i’m using itsphotoshop’s base psd.

2. next, drag your the psd folder (under layers) over to your gif’s window and onto the gif itself. see how i do it in this video. the psd folder will now appear in the layer section of your gif.

3. let’s take a closer look at the gif and zoom in a little.

my gif’s brighter, but not enough. i’m going to use another psd and drag it onto the gif. this time, i’m using selenapastel’s psd #156.

4. an improvement, but it still looks too dark and i’m not feeling the yellowish vibe... i’m going to add another psd to this - using glossypsd’s singularity psd.

now it lacks yellow because it’s heavy on grays and it’s darker than i wanted. there’s also something else...

right when peter shrugs his shoulders, it’s as if the lights dimmed. something is up with the psd’s colouring within the folder. also, there’s a flash of gray at the end, meaning the psd went over the gif itself.

5. go back to your gif. we’re going to zoom out of the timeline. slide it to the left until you can see all the psds and gif layer’s stop points.

and now we see that the psd files overrun the gif layer. how do we fix this???

6. click on the arrow beside the psd file you want to adjust (in this case, the singularity psd). you will now see a breakdown of all the layers in the psd file.

that glitch when peter shrugged his shoulders was because the gray layers didn’t start from the beginning. drag the beginning of the files to the start of the gif.

7. if you scroll down or increase the size of your timeline box, you notice the overrun of all the files within singularity psd over the gif layer.

we gotta fix the overrun of the psd files by shortening it to the end of the gif layer. drag each individually to the left until it reaches the end of the gif.

once i finished shortening them all, all the other psds shortened as well since the singularity psd was the problematic child in this situation - but we good now!

8. now back to colouring! i won’t adjust the base psd and the second psd that i used (i like them as is), but i’ll adjust the singularity psd. what i do when i adjust is turn on/off the layer visibility of the layers under the layers section on the bottom right hand corner (they look like eyes).

9. i turned off the first layer, which is a gradient map, and it brightens the gif without it. i like it, so i will decide to delete the layer.

to delete the layer, you can either press delete on your keyboard or right click the layer and click ‘delete layer’. i try to delete unnecessary layers as much as possible to keep it under the 3mb limit (the more layers and editing, the more space and data it will take).

i keep doing this until i end up with the layers labelled as five, seven, eight, and nine.

sidenote: you can also play with the opacity of the layers and psds. notice how the preset opacity of this layer was at 14%.

as an example, if i adjust it to 100%, it’l look like this:

aaAaaAand i’m keeping the opacity at 14%!!

10. so, we’re here:

but i want a softer look to it. i’m going to use the adjustments (above the layers box). i’m a basic beginner hoe, so i tend to use vibrance, brightness/contrast, and selective colouring. other ones i use are levels, curves, and exposure, but i won’t be using them for this tutorial.

vibrance:

click on ‘vibrance’ (the upside down triangle). often with adjustments in general, i just drag the arrows to my liking. i’m going to drag the vibrance level down to see what it’s like.

this is starting to become what i envisioned - a more softer look to it! i adjust the vibrance and saturation and end up with -28 vibrance and -8 for saturation.

selective colour:

click on ‘selective colour’ (second last icon on the third row; looks like four triangles in one rectangle).

because this scene/gif is mostly yellow and brown colours, especially for what i want to adjust, i will adjust the yellows and the reds. play with the adjustments in any order and you’ll begin to see what you like.

for the reds, i ended up here:

for the yellows:

brightness/contrast:

we’re almost done! click on ‘brightness/contrast’ (first icon in the first row with the sun).

i want the gif a little brighter and adjust the contrast a bit:

i think we’re good to go!

11. to export it as a gif, go under ‘file’ > ‘export’ > ‘save for web legacy’!

12. wait for it to finish exporting. when it’s finally finished, make sure to have the settings that you want.

these are my default settings:

ensure it’s GIF and that the animation looping is on ‘forever’. for my gif settings, i prefer to use selective pattern with transparency on (these settings depend on preference).

oH NO!!! my gif is over 3mb!!! do not fret!!! we will fix that in a moment. just save the gif once your settings are good!

13. find the saved gif file in your computer and drag the file into photoshop. it will open it with all the frames displayed like so:

14. delete the frames you don’t want to make it less than 3mb! a rule of thumb is that for each frame, it’s about 0.1mb. my gif is around 5mb right now, so i’ll have to delete around 20 frames (1 frame = 0.1mb * 10 = 1mb and we have to get rid of 2mb so 0.1 * 20 = 2mb).

to delete frames, click on the beginning frame of what you want to delete, hold down the shift key, and then click on the ending frame of the section you want to get rid of. press the trash button.

continue this process until you have the gif under 3mb. to see if it’s under 3mb, export the gif to see how much mb it will be!

15. last, but not least, your gif may be at a speed you don’t want. highlight all the frames by clicking on the first frame, holding down the shift key, and clicking on the last frame of the gif.

then, click the arrow on the bottom right hand corner of any frame and select ‘other’ for the frame delay.

the gif was originally at 0.03 frame delay. the optimal frame delay time is 0.05, but it depends on the quality of the video and what your preference is. generally, it ranges from 0.04-0.08. i decide to go with 0.05!

lastly, export the gif and voila!

upon completion of this tutorial, i realize some of the pictures may be unclear, so let me know if you have any questions!! feel free to message or send me an ask! also check out my resources side blog!

again, i want to reiterate that i am NOT an expert with photoshop, so i may not be able to answer all your questions. if i can’t, i’ll try my best to find an answer and if not, there are many great gifmakers on here who are willing to help!

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