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How can I fix major problems with font rendering and copy/pasting?

https://lemmy.world/post/32711786

How can I fix major problems with font rendering and copy/pasting? - Lemmy.World

I’m assisting someone with their newly bought laptop. I’m not real used to windows, been on Mac for a long time now. We did some manually uninstalling of things, got them setup with their existing license that they still had for office 2016. We had to change the GPU drivers for intel ARC in order to run Premiere and I also ran the powershell script here https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat [https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat] . Which, with no particular evidence, I do have some suspicions might be where the issues has arisen from. I mostly just wanted to disbable telemetry. Anyway, we noticed that opening some PDF documents resulted in inconsistent text rendering, some characters had dodgy kerning, some were missing bits of a letter, and all letter 'a’s simply didn’t render at all. Worst of all, when they copied text from the PDF and pasted elsehwhere, completely different text was pasted. This persisted using firefox to open the PDF so it’s not narrowed down to just Acrobat. Also in acrobat, opening PDFs typically returns and error message along the lines of"the font ‘KLZARO+EX_CFF_Wingdings’ contains a bad /BBox" though whatever bizarre random combo of letters font name is displayed varies. It looks like we have corrupted system fonts. Is there a good way to fix this?

How do you track a package where the online store only provides a download link to the shop app, not the tracking number

https://lemmy.world/post/18493714

How do you track a package where the online store only provides a download link to the shop app, not the tracking number - Lemmy.World

The confirmation page says the order is confirmed but instead of providing tracking information, it has a button that says ‘Download Shop to track package’. Obviously I’m not going to do that, but I do want to track my package. I thought I could at least click the link to see if somewhere in the chain of steps that would normally follow if one were going to download the app, I might glean the tracking number so I can track the package, but unfortunately, the shop app that I refuse to get on principal because of the shady tactics used to coerce people in to downloading it is even worse than I expected because it can’t even scam people competently. The download button is supposed to generate some kind of QR code for you phone. I hoped this QR code might actually have embedded the tracking number in it, in which case I could just grab it that way, but it looks as though the QR code is failing to generate, instead I’m seeing what looks like a heavily zoomed in screencapture of a website with home search trolley and account icons and a sentence partially covered up by a swirly arrow logo. I thought it might have been my browser, but it’s the same even on Chrome. I now can’t even use the shop app even if I wanted to, because whether I allow it to be installed on my phone or not, there will be no means I can think of where the tracking number can be transmitted to it so, and because the online store hasn’t provided a real tracking number I can’t do things the normal way either. Anyone know how to get around this? Or at least force the QR code to actually generate so maybe I can extract something useful from it?

How do you extract the individual stills from a pixel "MP" jpeg file?

https://lemmy.world/post/16941526

How do you extract the individual stills from a pixel "MP" jpeg file? - Lemmy.World

I’m backing up my photos from a trip to my computer and have just discovered how frustratingly difficult it seems to be to use a computer to make my selection of a single still from the image sequences the Pixel sometimes takes (forget what it calls them). I know you can you use the photos app but I want to use my computer (a mac). Preview just considers them stills, so it essentially picks one for me (I assume it’s the last still in the sequence), that’s usually what I want but they take up more space and if I can’t choose a different still then it defeats the purpose.

Can you buy travel insurance (before leaving home) for one leg of a journey, where that leg takes place after transiting through another country?

https://lemmy.world/post/14600120

Can you buy travel insurance (before leaving home) for one leg of a journey, where that leg takes place after transiting through another country? - Lemmy.World

Planning a trip to 2 countries. Want to buy travel insurance for the leg of the trip taking place in the second country, after the first. As far as I understand, this should be fine, I specify the dates of the trip to the insurance company from the day I arrive in the 2nd country to the day I leave it and if need be I’ll be able provide proof that I was there (boarding passes, tickets, passport stamps) if needing to make a claim. I’d also buy the insurance prior to leaving my home country, which I know is important. It all sounds theoretically fine but I’m just worried there’s going to be some unexpected gotcha in doing this. Obviously this will depend on the fine print of my specific chosen insurance and I’m reading through all 100+ pages of it, but nevertheless the ability for this to somehow contravene something in a counterintuitive or unexpected manner even if I don’t see it explicitly spelled out worries me given how tricky insurance companies can be and I wondered if this was something generally known to be a problem.

So far for my best efforts at searching I’ve gone with open board. I like it a lot but it doesn’t fit my requirements in that there appears to be no swipe to type functionality and emojis are, like in many keyboards, sorted in to unhelpful categories with no ability to search. I also don’t like that there’s no kind of numbers page where the keyboard consists exclusively of numerals which are on larger than normal keys.

For the sake of it at least not being gboard it’s worth putting up with this I think, but it’s a shame nothing could just completely replace it with no compromise. Very pleased that it looks nearly identical except a a bit cleaner and has this great feature where you can use the space key like a track pad to scroll left or right through text.

Any keyboards similar to gboard that don't collect data?

https://lemmy.world/post/9200403

Any keyboards similar to gboard that don't collect data? - Lemmy.World

Really as similar as possible but I guess the must haves for me are: * Dark theme * Swipe to type ability (I usually tap but definitely want swiping as well) * Searchable emoji’s * Word suggestions Nice to have: * Text editing tools for moving cursor just one character at a time through button presses * Clipboard button * Copied text automatically becomes next suggested word the first time the keyboard is invoked after copying the text * Suggested next word.

Any reason why I wouldn't be able to see the contents of a time machine backup drive made on a Mac OS Ventura machine, in Finder on a Mac OS High Sierra machine?

https://lemmy.world/post/2511811

Any reason why I wouldn't be able to see the contents of a time machine backup drive made on a Mac OS Ventura machine, in Finder on a Mac OS High Sierra machine? - Lemmy.world

I did not encrypt the time machine backup on the Ventura machine. High Sierra supports APFS. I can see that the disk has a large quantity of used space and yet I can’t see any accessible files or folders on the drive.