Alfred's Serif Users' Forums — Problem with my computer

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (William) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:17:23 +0000

I saved the very enlarged picture, which was given the same file name as the 800 pixels square picture but with (1) afteer it and was a bit smaller.

Yet upon opening it in Paint it was 1024 pixels square, whereas the version saved from the medium sized picture was 800 pixels square.

So I seem to have recovered the original directly from this website.

William

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (William) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:50:37 +0000

Alfred wrote:

William wrote:
Is there any way to recover the 1024 pixel version from behind the scenes please?
I think the original version should still be available for download when you sign in to your Microsoft Bing account.

So if I can log in to Bing Chat AI from this computer using the log in that I used on the other computer, then I might be able to find the link to the picture which is, if I remember correctly, stored for 3 months.

William

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (Alfred) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:30:05 +0000

William wrote:

I clicked on the picture at top left twice and got a huge image. There is even a representation of text on the page of the book.

There’s also a representation of text on the page in the picture at top right. (In both cases the first click takes you to the Postimages page, so the second click is actually on the larger image on that page rather than the thumbnail image displayed here.)

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (William) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:47:14 +0000

Can you get the AI to generate a picture with the lavender and the aqueduct yet also more matching of the abstract picture, such as the lady at the left in a red dress and the elephant having the trunk curled up towards its body like in the abstract picture? So that the abstract and the realistic sort of resonate please?

William

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (William) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:41:48 +0000

I clicked on the picture at top left twice and got a huge image. There is even a representation of text on the page of the book.

William

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (William) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:38:48 +0000

I looked at the abstract designs from the font that had been produced using the Alphabet Synthesis Machine and imagined that those two glyphs were a lady reading haiku to an elephant.

William

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (William) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:34:53 +0000

Oh excellent.

Some readers might like these links.

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?id=567

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … -elephant/

Regarding the first image in the Affinity thread, I have an A3 landscape print of that picture.

William

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (Alfred) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 09:53:13 +0000

I have just given Bing Image Creator the following prompt:

A painting of a lady in a blue dress, the colour vivid against a purple lavender field, reading to a small elephant, with a Roman aqueduct in the distance.

Here are the results:

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (William) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 09:11:52 +0000

Thank you.

William

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (Alfred) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 09:06:24 +0000

William wrote:

Is there any way to recover the 1024 pixel version from behind the scenes please?

I think the original version should still be available for download when you sign in to your Microsoft Bing account.

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (William) — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:31:48 +0000

I have the picture open in Microsoft Paint and I have just zoomed-in that picture and there are brush marks in the painting of the clouds.

William

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (William) — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:14:56 +0000

Supposing that the computer is broken, which it may or may not be, I have saved a copy of the picture A lady reading haiku to an elephant from the following post.

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=4035#p4035

Far better than no picture at all, what is saved is 800 pixels square whereas the original uploaded was 1024 pixels square.

Is there any way to recover the 1024 pixel version from behind the scenes please?

William

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (Alfred) — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 10:18:11 +0000

As far as I’m aware, running the computer via the power adapter/charger should — all other things being equal — work whether the battery is dead or not, which suggests that other things are not all equal! A broken power switch does sound like a possibility.

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (William) — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 08:02:55 +0000

Thank you.

Is there an option to remove the battery and then be able to run the computer only if the charger is plugged in?

Does a broken battery stop the computer being used on its power cable?

I am wondering if the physical power switch on the computer is broken.

William

Re: Problem with my computer

null@example.com (Alfred) — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 06:28:43 +0000

William wrote:

Plugging in the power lead, which works fine on this computer, on the computer with the problem produced the effect of the orange light for the power input being on for a few seconds, then off for a few seconds, so I am wondering if that means something, like either that it is trickle charging or that there is a fault.

From http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06328250.pdf (for HP Stream 11 Laptop PC, Model numbers 11-ak0xxx, 11-ak1xxx):

AC adapter and battery light
● White: The AC adapter is connected and the battery is fully charged.
● Blinking white: The AC adapter is disconnected and the battery has reached a low battery level.
● Amber: The AC adapter is connected and the battery is charging.
● Off: The battery is not charging.

In other words, you’ve managed to get the battery charging intermittently.

William wrote:

The STREAM computer does not have feet as such. but two long, about 6 inches or so, grey rubber strips. They do not obviously come out, so maybe there is a way to do it, perhaps needing a special tool, or maybe they are glued in so that the computer is regarded as being "as is" and if it fails then that is that.

Those long rubber strips are the ‘feet’. They’re not glued in, you just need to free up one end and pull!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opm8Me78tOY

Once you’ve done that, you should be able to unscrew the Phillips screws (assuming you have a suitable screwdriver!) but the rest of the battery replacement procedure looks as though it isn’t for the faint-hearted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_5zg6CAwTc