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Tommix11··on How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)
I recently started using fossify's photos app to get away from this popup annoyance! The app SO DESPERATELY wants to backup my photos that the app is no longer usable.
Tommix11··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
It seems they chose the Fiskars Axe, good choice I own five of them.
Tommix11··on Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up
It is also an actual Mega Drive game
Tommix11··on Perceptual Image Codec: What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression
What if someone gets convicted of a crime based on generated details in an image.
Tommix11··on Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU
I began my career as a graphic designer on the Amiga and Deluxe Paint series.
Tommix11··on Inkscape 1.4.4
I use 0.92 for extracting HPGL data from cutting machine software and converting it to better vector formats sometimes. I use that version because I think HPGL support was removed in newer versions. Inkscape is a great program, keep up the good work. Kind Regards A user
Tommix11··on Craig Venter has died
I attended a lecture of his once. One of the topics was emailing biological viruses. Svante Pääbo was there too.
Tommix11··on Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses
The tar ointment I bought in Mariehamn is fantastic for healing small infected cuts and bruises. Highly recommend.
Tommix11··on Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera
Great work! I have a GB camera (and printer) in my collection
Tommix11··on My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary
I loved that they changed the ending. I did not like the ending in the book.
Tommix11··on Learnings from training a font recognition model from scratch
Graphic designer here. A font recognition ai is sorley needed. Gemini and its competitors flat out lie when asked and Adobe Illustrators Retype is laughably bad. The problem I face almost every day is not to find a close match but to find the actual font in use, commercial or not.
Tommix11··on Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up
There are great CRT-shaders these day that would remedy this.
Tommix11··on VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]
As understand it the battery is 26 Ah and looks to be the size of my 20 mAh powerpack at home.
Tommix11··on Gradient.horse
I saw a xenomorph, who drew that one?
Tommix11··on Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
I would like WOPR's voice from Wargames.
Tommix11··on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
My Outlander rarely needed repairs and I always plugged it in. The car even complained about me needing to use the gazoline in the tank because it risked getting old in the tank and needed to be replaced. That was a great car. My new EV, a Subaru Solterra is great too though.
Tommix11··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
The German philosophy is also very much prevalent in Sweden.
Tommix11··on Ozzy Osbourne has died
One of the great ones are gone. RIP Ozzy.
Tommix11··on More than 1,500 new fonts – including all-time favorites – come to Adobe Fonts
I think Steve Jobs said it best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo8zdPNMRdY
Tommix11··on Pinball Brothers – A Swedish-Italian Pinball Company
I had no idea they existed until this morning. They are sadly being hit hard by tariffs as reported by Swedish media.
Tommix11··on Blocking the telemetry of Adobe apps
I don't think anyone in their right mind has ever trusted Adobe, they were like this in the 80's too.
Tommix11··on [dead]
Thank you, I'll check it out.
Tommix11··on Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
I couldn't believe my eyes when I read that they had hired Elop and was concentrating on Windows phones. I immediately knew that was the end. Unbelievably incompetent by the board.
Tommix11··on A free, unlimited online PDF converter with Privacy focus
Also, html 2 pdf would be nice too. :-)
Tommix11··on A free, unlimited online PDF converter with Privacy focus
also check out jpegli. https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/04/introducing-jpegli...
Tommix11··on A free, unlimited online PDF converter with Privacy focus
This looks very good but I would like some more features. 1. Extract bitmaps from PDF (without conversion of any sort) 2. Extract typefaces from PDF 3. Convert to SVG 4. Extract and/or Remove Adobe Illustrator part from PDF 5. Convert all text to vector paths

Also, embedded png's and even jpg's can many times be compressed using lossless techniques see what Imageoptim can do for example.

Good work though. I have bookmarked your site.

Tommix11··on Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History
Typo discovered - Swedish King's name is Karl IX not Kerl IX
Tommix11··on Apple acquires Pixelmator
Apple and Adobe have always had a sour relationship. Adobe's crappy font licensing led to truetype and they're crappy implementation of Flash led to Jobs dropping flash in the iPhone just to mention a few things from their history.
Tommix11··on A Clone of Deluxe Paint II Written in Python
Deluxe Paint is what got me into graphic design. The hours I spent in front of that my Amiga pixellating away, no wonder I didn'g get at girlfriend in my teens.
Tommix11··on Atkinson Dithering (2021)
Also in the retro computer demo scene is dithering very important. I've seen some outrageously great dithering on C64 demo art.
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