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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.​

i ramble about aerospace sometimes
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I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory

they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"

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ok this is the weirdest darn thing that's driving me up the wall

i have a surface pro tablet that i do my work on and lately it's been...
well, maybe it's not the tablet. Maybe it's the pen. I got a third party pen, and it used to work fine, but now it's doing what you see above

it wiggles

ever so slightly.

It doesn't matter if I use a straight edge or whatever, it just wiggles

what's really going on is that the tablet is interpreting any kind of passage of the stylus as it being twisted around. It's most noticeable if i turn on brush outlines for a non-symmetrical brush. The brush outline goes nuts, spinning as I drag the stylus across the screen.

Program used doesn't matter. It does it in Krita, MyPaint, Gimp. It's a hardware issue, not a software issue. Or at least, that's what I think it is. I've been trouble-shooting this for the past week, and I've made no headway. X or Wayland, it still wiggles. About the only thing I haven't done is reinstall Windows, because fuck that. The last time I had Windows on this thing, a Microsoft Update nearly bricked it. I'd like to keep it on Linux.

I suppose I could buy a new stylus, but what if that doesn't fix it? I don't have the cash to just be tossing around for new styluses.

but yeah, this has been my white whale this past week or so. I can still sketch stuff just fine, but I literally cannot draw a straight line to save my life.

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Oh shit, my intuos3 just started doing this too! i'm more likely to believe in my case that the tablet itself is showing it's age. The replacement pen i use is like, 10 years newer than the tablet, but it was also a third party pen so, who knows! I tested it out with a ruler for a while when i started noticing it, and it seems to be mostly in the direct center of the tablet face. Afraid i haven't yet found a good answer though.

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adorablesergal
@adorablesergal

that's a bit unsettling. i would hope it's not the tablet, because the tablet itself is the PC, and is relatively new (got it last xmas). I havent' really noticed any areas on the screen it does this more with, and i have noticed that if I do rest my palm on the surface it wigs out, creating large "scratches" of colour and that makes me think the pen is turning off and on really fast and causing the tablet to pull the brush over to my hand then back to the pen...

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lilrawk
@lilrawk

Try using a fingerless glove on your pen hand! I've also seen older drivers do things like this too in certain programs (actually just gimp) where some tools "forget" which input is being used midstroke, resulting in lines across the area with the wrong tool. Could be a similar issue! I am no tablet scientist, unfortunately :eggbug-nervous:

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Ongion
@Ongion

Have you tried changing out the stylus tip? Idk if thats a thing you can do with the third party stylus, I just know they have replacements for the first party ones.

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