u/Animats — reddlx

Convert game map aerial image to high quality aerial image

Input: aerial image from the map builder used by Second Life. It's worse than a straight-down screen shot, but easily available.

Output: improved version from https://ezcreate.ai/

Prompt: "This is an aerial map image. Convert it to a good looking aerial photograph. "

Yes, the conversion is inserting fake detail, but that's OK. It recognizes trees, ground, roads, buildings, and water, which is good enough.The goal is to make this big-world visualization look better. Think Google Earth, but for a game. Only distant areas would go through this system. Nearby ones are full 3D renders.

I need to do a lot of these and would like an open source tool.

u/Animats — 43 minutes ago

▲ 5 r/hpcalc

Battery recommendation for HP 11C?

After about 25 years, I need to replace the batteries in my HP 11C.

I know it takes three SR44 coin cells, but which one to buy for long life? Probably not the alkaline cell Amazon Basics offers. Who has coin cells as good as the originals?

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u/Animats — 9 days ago

▲ 129 r/law

US / Iran current negotiation positions, from Axios

Iranian position, from Axios:

>Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, reported that Iran's text "stresses the necessity of lifting U.S. sanctions, ending the war on all fronts" and ensuring Iranian management of the Strait of Hormuz. According to the report, Iran demanded an immediate end to the U.S. naval blockade upon signing.The response maintains the proposed format of an initial memorandum of understanding (MOU) followed by 30 days of negotiations, but insists on lifting U.S. sanctions related to Iranian oil sales during that 30-day window, Tasnim reported.Iran also demanded the release of frozen assets upon the initial signing of the MOU.

Trump reply:

>"I don't like it".

Previous US position (from Axios) here. Both sides are no closer to agreement than last week.

It's rather difficult to find one news article that has the positions of both sides.

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u/Animats — 12 days ago

▲ 1 r/OpenShot

Similar problem to that reported 2 years ago. Editing worked fine, can play the video in the editor, but export produces an audio-only file. Tried MP4 and WEBM exports. Even tried MPEG1. Audio only.

Running on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS. OpenShot-v3.5.1-x86_64.AppImage download from OpenShot site.

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"**OpenShot Version Info**

Version: 3.5.1 | libopenshot: 0.7.0

Build: OpenShot-v3.5.1-release-candidate-15816-b9b5c882-48516e0b | Released: 2026-04-05

OS: Ubuntu 24.04

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor (12 threads) | RAM: 31 GB

Cache: Memory, 250 MB, 600 frames, ahead 70%, pre-roll 24/48

Performance: Threads: OMP 12 | FFmpeg 8, Cards: Decode: None (0) | Encode: 0

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Reset everything to defaults. No change.

Tried reading the exported files with OpenShot itself as a test. Same result: Audio, no video.

Tried exporting to older OpenShot-v3.4.0-x86_64.AppImage - same result. So it's probably NOT a problem with the OpenShot version.

Exporter is set to "Export video and audio".

I've used OpenShot many times before without seeing this.

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u/Animats — 25 days ago