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  • I use different things for different edges.
    Most of my hard working tools end up with a convex edge, I like them better for chopping stuff like wood and asklemmy posters bones and its good durability doing so.
    So that’s either automotive sandpaper in various grits, or 3M’s paperless abrasive sheets (easier on curvy stuff). Slap a thin foam sheet or two on your work surface, choose your paper grit, work it, change to a figer grit, repeat until happy.
    What I like about those is they’re huge and easily replaced. I’ve done flat edges with them too by simply not using the foam.

    For more traditional flat edges, I’ve mostly been using a pair of DMT’s dual sided butterfly thingies, so that’s indeed 4 different grits. That’s what I use because that’s what I got ages ago and got used to them. They’re ok. Nothing amazing, but it works and it’s small enough to sit in the kitchen drawer.

    I also have a fancy kit that clamps on the blade with a metal arm that keep the tiny stone a the same angle and whatnot but it’s kinda annoying to setup.
    It’s probably more consistent than anything I do by hand, but I never bother using it because it’s clunky.

    In the end, whatever you actually use is gonna be better than anything that sits in storage.













  • Just be honest with him, like, send him roughly the info that you wrote in this post.
    I personally wouldn’t date someone with such differing religious beliefs, but I also know people who’ve made this work… although expectations are something to manage for sure.

    Anyways, the guy seems a bit confused here, which is probably not too surprising since it seems your feelings for him are maybe unclear, even for you?
    If you don’t know what you want yourself, there’s little chance that the other person does either.

    Good luck, whatever happens.



  • A1: probably, although that’s more processing power. The tool I used to fix it would have outputted a second image file if the extra data had been an image, which is then a weird case to handle. (Upload both? Make 2 links?) Certainly, it could output a better error message though.

    A2: Should be lemmy-wide, although technically a malicious server could disable that somehow, which I think would only affect their local users. ie: don’t make an account on a server you don’t trust.

    A3: It is a server specific setting. It’s easy enough to change the setting. Bigger limits uses more storage which costs money

    A4: Possible, I would think. No idea if that’s ever on the devs’ roadmap. I think that would be added to the pict-rs code which is then used by the lemmy server.
    Both are open source projects, so an instance implementing this could then share the code so it’s eventually a feature for everyone.

    I’ve ran into bugs before on some public image host I don’t remember where it wouldn’t strip metadata if you uploaded an album. It’s probably a good practice to strip metadata before uploading, although much less convenient. I double-check that it still works here from time to time, doubly so after upgrading versions.




  • Got it.

    Your PNG contains extra data after the PNG’s IEND marker which pict-rs probably errors on.
    Your images aren’t stored as-is, among other things, their metadata is stripped so people don’t unwittingly share their geolocation, etc.
    It rewrites the file in the process, but in this case doesn’t know what to do with the non png compliant data appended at the end.

    Here’s a fixed version of your image that uploads fine.

    Using pngcheck -vf on the original image will give you the starting hex offset (0x10fc31) of that invalid chunk of data, which can then be browsed with whatever hex editor.
    I haven’t investigated that extra data much.
    It might be part of a ‘capture the flag’ game, or not.

    The fixed image is just the first bytes of the file upto that invalid extra chunk.