I think may have figured it out.

"phenotyp" (phenotyp)
03/03/2020 at 11:11 • Filed to: computer bullshit, sketch, LMP, computer help, windows 10, photoshop, bluetooth

So the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , I *think* is related to the combination of touch sensitivity (so I have to turn that off) and bluetooth. Like the mofo thinks that my hand is the stylus, or the stylus is my hand. It makes me fucking crazy when things that work great just stop working for no reason. The solution isn’t ideal, but I use the keyboard while sketching, and I don’t rely on touch input most of the time.

So here’s what I scribbled this morning while trying to figure t hat out. Now to test out all the settings and make sure things are gonna get back to working normally soon.

If anyone has computery insight they wanna share, I’m listening.

DISCUSSION (7)

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > phenotyp
03/03/2020 at 11:39

In technical terms, that is called palm rejection. Software inherent in the OS and hardware drivers for touchscreen computers and digital tablets, like Surface Pro, iPad Pro, Wacom, and others.

It is the set of algorithms that differentiate between when to pay attention to multi-touch gestures involving multi ple finger-pressure points and their vector directions in tablet mode to manipulate the OS like a trackpad, vs knowing when to ignore larger areas of pressure (the side of your palm, for instance) in favor of the fine point of a stylus, Surface Pen, Apple Pencil, etc...

your palm resting on the screen may get ignored more than if your palm is sweeping across the screen... I imagine it has a harder time with palm rejection if there is motion involved, rather interpreting that the palm pressure motion is intentional.

In terms of how to change that performance by adjusting settings , I would have to do some research, but that may be more useful for you to gain more direct knowledge.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > phenotyp
03/03/2020 at 11:42

Pours one out for the Furai.

phenotyp > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
03/03/2020 at 11:55

Well aware. I’ve been doing this for 20 years. Something changed (see my linked post) in the last week or so, that made Photoshop menus blink on and off while I sketched. I’ve had the SB2 for 2 years now, and until this, it was a dream machine, after a couple growing pains. Microsoft and Adobe push updates all the time, but they don’t talk to each other, and some random thing you depend on is suddenly different.

It works fine with touch enabled if I now switch to full-screen without menus while sketching. Thankfully I have a separate (RF ) keyboard. Adobe and Microsoft update shit all the time, and one tiny change can throw your whole day off, if this is what you do.

I’ve been trying to figure out whether it was a software or a hardware problem. It seems like this one is an Adobe update bullshit change, rather than a Microsoft one (which is what I had to deal with 2 years ago when I got the SB2).

I still hate Wacom for trying to go super upmarket. It’s been at least 10 years since I thought about buying one of their things. But my 2003 Intuos 2 just crapped out on me two weeks ago, and now I have to use this tiny Intuos 5, and I hate it.

My Motion Computing tablet with a Wacom screen/stylus worked for me from 2007-14, when I got my Surface Pro 3, which is another whole thing.

I’ve worked on Intuos stuff since 2001. The stylus stuff has mostly always worked great. I built my first desktop in 1988. So I guess I’m saying: I hear ya, I know, I’ve been there, some things are out of my hands, and I gotta be able to draw for my living.

I guess what I’m saying is that I know my shit, and when something suddenly stops working, it’s a very problem.

phenotyp > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
03/03/2020 at 13:19

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phenotyp > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
03/03/2020 at 13:52

So good.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > phenotyp
03/03/2020 at 17:04

Yes, you do. I supported students at a design and architecture school as an IT tech running a laptop lease-to-own program for more than a decade, before I changed jobs.

After chewing through Dell, Gateway (god what a nightmare) and HP mobile workstation laptops... there was a reason I deployed MacBook Pros with Windows as a dual-bootable drive partition . Even with Parallels or VM Fusion, it wasn’t a virtual drive, and a reboot turned it into one of the most stable windows laptops possible, for use with Autodesk software.

The Apple hardware was much more stable, and the warranty process much more reliable than ‘PC’ vendors that were eligible for educational contracting. That is until relatively recently with Apple’s keyboard problems, and fetish for soldered-in, irreplaceable components... and slowing refresh cycle that doesn’t help their value-for-money proposition.

My spouse still loves her 5K iMac with illustrator, and her 12" iPad Pro and Apple Pencil with Autocad SketchBook for her graphic design work, though, and they have been working normally for 4 years now, without much trouble.

My Surface Pro at work refuses to recognize the facial-rec camera for biometric login , is ridiculous at scaling things sometimes, and while it mostly works, it never seems to be truly 100%... and there is always some sort of thing with Microsoft. Jack of many trades, but master of none sorts of things.

I can’t get Windows 10 on ANY machine to reliably connect to a wireless MIRACAST enabled TV that Windows 10 is supposed to support natively ... I always have to reboot the machine before it will connect... then it usually works, until the next time you try, and you have to reboot again.

However, that same TV (and we have several conference rooms with the same Samsung-series QLED TVs for wireless AV display) they work FLAWLESSLY with AirPlay 2 mirroring or wireless display extension from iOS or Mac OS.

Frankly, I am not sure that any tech company, hardware or software, is really and truly killing it right now.

phenotyp > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
03/03/2020 at 17:59

Until last week, I’d have said that the Surface Book 2 was the computer I’ve been waiting 20 years for. The stylus/pressure/reading was as good as my old Wacom stuff, which is to say: fine. Not Wacom-level great, but, hey, my work isn’t that great either. 1024/2048 levels of pressure? Cool. I don’t try to imitate an airbrush, so angle sensititvity is irrelevant. I just need a stylus that draws something close to what I do on

I had all the kinks worked out.

Thanks to whatever updated/changed on me, I’m at a loss. Because I haven’t changed anything, hardware or software. Something changed on me, and it really pisses me off. I pay for all my hardware and software, because I’m a “professional.” When shit like this just stops working, I get kinda angry.