This is just a total guess and I could be completely wrong, but if you have something like a MacBook with a Retina screen, by default the screen resolution is slightly scaled (not 1:1 pixel ratio).
If any of this applies to you, try changing your display resolution so that its not scaled and see if that helps.
(Again, I could be way off base here)
Not a bad suggestion, the same could apply to Windows where screens are often scaled too. My Surface Pro is scaled at 200% by default.
Sadly it wasn’t that. And after some playing around, it wasn’t the ruler settings either. And it is happening on the Mac version after all. So I think maybe this is a Photoshop bug. Or I’m doing something consistently dumb across all platforms.
What are the settings for your document?
It could also be a Snapping/ align to grid issue?
I just tried to zoom in on a 10x10 pixel document and it all worked fine, though my issue is that a 1 pixel Pencil size is actually about 1.25
You’re a genius. It was Snap to Grid. Still not sure why it’d work that way but problem solved. Thanks!
I now have too many computers in the house and want to get some network storage to use primarily as a media server I can access from all computers, but also as a backup.
I’m looking into NAS setups with mechanical drives in some kind of RAID arrangement but with SSDs getting as cheap as they are, it feels a bit weird to buy redundant mechanical drives that are probably both going to fail before an SSD does. That said, it also feels weird buying an SSD to use on a network that’ll probably be slower than the speed of the drive. Does anyone have a sense of what the smartest play in 2022 is?
How much storage do you want?
How bad would losing the data be?
Even without that info, SSD’s are a lot more expensive than mechanical drives and as a media server, your bottleneck will be your network not the speed of the drives.
I have a Synology 1515+ with 5 x 8Tb drives giving me 32Tb of storage with hot-swappable replacement. It runs Emby, Sonaar and SabNZB to automate TV downloads. from Usenet and Torrent sources and automatically catalogue, rename and update Emby.
I’ve got a Synology DS415+ (4-bay). I bought it to replace a DS413, which unfortunately had it’s single LAN port fried by a lightning strike, otherwise I’d probably still have that.
It’s populated with 4 x Western Digital 2Tb drives, giving a total storage volume of 5.4Tb.
(I only have a small library of ripped DVDs and downloaded Torrents, but mostly I just watch streaming these days…so it’s primarily used for general file storage and Time Machine backups etc.)
I’ll probably jinx myself by saying this, but the drive ages are:
If I had to replace these drives today, I’d probably get some larger spinning drives just because I don’t see a need for SSD speeds, and Gb/$ is probably more important for this sort of thing.
For offsite backup I have Synology Cloud Sync pushing data up to Backblaze B2, and I pay about US$4-5/month for roughly 1Tb of data backed up.
Most of the media will be music. I have about 800 GB already but part of the dream is to archive another 300 or so albums I have physically so that’ll be another 150ish there. The backup data is mainly Logic projects which are big, and then text and code which is small. The media would be annoying to lose but the backups would probably be more than annoying.
So the immediate need is probably only 4 GB but I’m getting it with the expectation of generating more files in the short term. I was thinking of maybe doing 2x8GB in RAID1, but maybe I just get a 4-drive for the possibility of moving to RAID5 down the track. Are the drives marketed as NAS drives (Ironwolf, WD Red etc) the way to go?
I’ve been continuously for years adding my cd’s to hard drives. I’ve finally realised i will NEVER get the chance to listen to them all, EVER again. And if i for some reason did want to listen to a past memory enjoyment, i could still do so online, somewhere.
I’ve had to accept, it’s the past. Always better in memories.
I’m still choosing to keep the ones that would be hard to find. Like some rare aussie 90’s stuff.
I only think of them when i get the chance to go through my boxes. So what am i losing?
Never getting rid of my CDs. Binned my tapes and they are now valuable.
Fortunately I hung on to all my vinyl and accumulated more in the 90s/00s.
Money value or sentimentality? or both mixed up? Oh the human mind.
If you only have music online, what do you do when the interwebz is down?
Sheesh, no porn either…
Kill me now
It’s less of an issue with newer music but there’s still a handful of releases I own physically that haven’t made it onto streaming services.
I still tend to buy the albums I love outright so I might as well have them backed up.
I have a load of stuff cached on my phone so even if the internet is down I can still play music. Mind you, in an acopolyptic situation where the internet is down for more than 30 days, well, I’m screwed. Although, I could open the box of hundreds of CDs that I still have but it’s like a time capsule dating back to the early 2000s. There will be a point though that I don’t have any device with CD player.
I prefer streaming I must say, and I upload any content that the provider doesn’t have so I can still listen to it. It’s one of the reasons I changed from Spotify to Google Music (now YouTube Music) about 10 years ago.
I have an older monitor as my second monitor.
It’s connected via a VGA port.
If it keeps cycling through different display modes without any buttons being pressed is it probably dying?
Sounds like one of the buttons might be jammed?
