Bartender: we have basic mead for one septim, or above average mead for three.
>Hopeless_drunk: still have incongruous standards and a two bottle thirst.
You decide to get one of each and try mixing them. Surely this can only go well.
>assess finances
You have one septim, something that looks like it might once have been a coin before a century of dirt and corrosion did a number on it, and a pocket full of bric-a-brac.
>try bartering
It's surprisingly effective! The bartender accepts your offer of one septim for the basic mead, plus an unknown coin, some disembodied eyes, a single cufflink and a decorative button for the above average mead. Whether he's just taking pity on you, knows something you don't about the junk that collected in your filthy pockets - or maybe the Mead - or is simply a magpie-like hoarder, you will never know and don't care to, as you've already uncorked both bottles and tipped them into an oversized stein you keep secreted in a hidden corner of your lengthy beard.
AMKitsune: @Tahrey: EXIF jpg meta data. Some cameras try to add 'rotation' data to the jpg that's created. Some site and programs use this data better than others...
Tahrey: Grah! If it's able to do that, why doesn't it just save it the right way up in the first place? JPGs can be rotated 90 degrees rapidly and losslessly after all.
Lunacy. But thanks for fixing it, whoever that was.
AMKitsune: @Tahrey: You're most welcome. And it's pretty ridiculous, not all programs respect/acknowledge this 'rotation meta-data' and the ones that do don't necessarily interpret it in the same way. There's absolutely no standardisation to the process.
While it's a pain to do, you'd honestly be better off removing the meta-data from your images before uploading them to the internet. Not only might they contain slightly annoying things like rotation data, but they'll also have things like the date the picture was taken, the camera make and settings and possibly even location data if the option's enabled on your camera (and possibly other things that I don't know about).
There are a number of ways to strip this EXIF meta-data from jpg's but one of the easiest ways would be to use one of the many online meta-data removing tools. I actually created a 'Daedric fun tip' a while ago mentioning the whole 'image rotation problem' and included a link to a website that lets you view/remove the unwanted meta-data. I can't imagine that many people would have noticed it though. Daedric isn't exactly the easiest thing to read XD.
Tahrey: Date/time the picture was taken: literally an hour or two before upload.
Camera make/model/settings: Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini, mostly auto but usually with flash forced on or off as appropriate and occasionally forced focus or exposure.
Location: I always turn that shit off as part of the initial device setup, so no fear there. The GPS only ever gets turned on when absolutely necessary anyway, because cellphone GPS in general and Samsung's in particular is utterly hopeless and mainly just drains the battery for no real benefit.
As for stripping it etc before upload, maybe a bit tricky on a smartphone that I was already having upload issues with, but I might try filtering through that site in future if needed.
But really I don't understand why it even bothers including that info when it would be just as easy to change the orientation of the picture before encoding it... I mean, if it knows enough to set a rotation tag, it knows enough to save it the right way up, right?
(I'd prefer that it did neither, in fact, rather than attempting to save some kind of corrective data and making things worse. At least then I'd only have myself to blame for not correcting the rotation before upload)
Tahrey: >TFW you find a small altoids-type box whilst doing a back bedroom clearout with a bunch of strange coins and silvery buttons in it that would have been just perfect to act as septims a few days after uploading this.
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Bartender: we have basic mead for one septim, or above average mead for three.
>Hopeless_drunk: still have incongruous standards and a two bottle thirst.
You decide to get one of each and try mixing them. Surely this can only go well.
>assess finances
You have one septim, something that looks like it might once have been a coin before a century of dirt and corrosion did a number on it, and a pocket full of bric-a-brac.
>try bartering
It's surprisingly effective! The bartender accepts your offer of one septim for the basic mead, plus an unknown coin, some disembodied eyes, a single cufflink and a decorative button for the above average mead. Whether he's just taking pity on you, knows something you don't about the junk that collected in your filthy pockets - or maybe the Mead - or is simply a magpie-like hoarder, you will never know and don't care to, as you've already uncorked both bottles and tipped them into an oversized stein you keep secreted in a hidden corner of your lengthy beard.
After that, things get a bit hazy.
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Lunacy. But thanks for fixing it, whoever that was.
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While it's a pain to do, you'd honestly be better off removing the meta-data from your images before uploading them to the internet. Not only might they contain slightly annoying things like rotation data, but they'll also have things like the date the picture was taken, the camera make and settings and possibly even location data if the option's enabled on your camera (and possibly other things that I don't know about).
There are a number of ways to strip this EXIF meta-data from jpg's but one of the easiest ways would be to use one of the many online meta-data removing tools. I actually created a 'Daedric fun tip' a while ago mentioning the whole 'image rotation problem' and included a link to a website that lets you view/remove the unwanted meta-data. I can't imagine that many people would have noticed it though. Daedric isn't exactly the easiest thing to read XD.
http://www.verexif.com/en/
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Camera make/model/settings: Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini, mostly auto but usually with flash forced on or off as appropriate and occasionally forced focus or exposure.
Location: I always turn that shit off as part of the initial device setup, so no fear there. The GPS only ever gets turned on when absolutely necessary anyway, because cellphone GPS in general and Samsung's in particular is utterly hopeless and mainly just drains the battery for no real benefit.
As for stripping it etc before upload, maybe a bit tricky on a smartphone that I was already having upload issues with, but I might try filtering through that site in future if needed.
But really I don't understand why it even bothers including that info when it would be just as easy to change the orientation of the picture before encoding it... I mean, if it knows enough to set a rotation tag, it knows enough to save it the right way up, right?
(I'd prefer that it did neither, in fact, rather than attempting to save some kind of corrective data and making things worse. At least then I'd only have myself to blame for not correcting the rotation before upload)
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grrrrg