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Maybe I'm just cranky about it all, but it seems like the developers, that grew up on lovely slow CPU low RAM computers and had to get creative to get poo poo implemented and running, are long on the way out, making way for the babies grown up on Electron apps and poo poo, which results in all this half-assed crap.
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Oct 7, 2018 01:56
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Oct 7, 2018 02:06
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Combat Pretzel posted:Maybe I'm just cranky about it all, but it seems like the developers, that grew up on lovely slow CPU low RAM computers and had to get creative to get poo poo implemented and running, are long on the way out, making way for the babies grown up on Electron apps and poo poo, which results in all this half-assed crap.
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Oct 7, 2018 02:12
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astral posted:Thank you, brave beta testers. When people were saying that the update didn't have a lot of new stuff / features got cut between previews and release, I was gonna say something like "at least these smaller, less ambitions updates are more reliable than the ones in the first two years." Ha! /me changes defer feature updates setting from 30 days to 45.
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Oct 7, 2018 04:18
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mystes posted:If only windows 10 was as reliable as operating systems in the good old days, like Windows 9x. Like Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, and even 8.
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Oct 7, 2018 04:24
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Klyith posted:When people were saying that the update didn't have a lot of new stuff / features got cut between previews and release, I was gonna say something like "at least these smaller, less ambitions updates are more reliable than the ones in the first two years." Ha! I'm still running 1709; it might almost be time to install 1803. 
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Oct 7, 2018 04:24
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Combat Pretzel posted:Maybe I'm just cranky about it all, but it seems like the developers, that grew up on lovely slow CPU low RAM computers and had to get creative to get poo poo implemented and running, are long on the way out, making way for the babies grown up on Electron apps and poo poo, which results in all this half-assed crap. I think there are still some really talented people working on System level stuff, all the "under the hood stuff" that never gets noticed, but gently caress the part of MS that likes to constantly push "new poo poo" out practically half-baked. I guess this is what people want? New feature! New feature! New feature! Not boring bug fixes, but New features! Like this blows my mind, yesterday some people on reddit were stoked that windows bound snipping tool to PrtScn key. /u/jenmsft collecting praise, 900 upvotes. Seriously? This is what it takes? Minuscule improvement hyped through the roof, yet absolutely critical and known issue passed QA into the real world. Meanwhile, Linux mint completely funded by donations has 10x better screenshot workflow built–in. With timestamps, uploading to Imgur. Oh, and then there's also ShareX a free little program that does that and even more... At some point you have to wonder, how a company worth $700 billion with over 130,000 employees can be totally outdicked by Linux distribution running at give or take $5-10k/month (I know Linux is more complex, collaborative effort, has it’s own issues and I’m oversimplifying it, but still). Also New feature!
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Oct 7, 2018 05:52
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Yea, the kernel stuff would be nice to get change logs about, too. That'd at least give some semblance of a glimpse about how they're optimizing things and dealing with new processor architectures, and maybe deduce how it works these days. I love reading Linux kernel change logs.
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Oct 7, 2018 12:13
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I've noticed on 1809 that non-maximized chrome windows will grow a few pixels larger if you say watch a youtube vid in full screen. I normally have 2 chrome windows snapped, one to the left and one to the right on my desktop. If I watch a youtube vid in fullscreen, whichever window it was playing in will be a few pixels wider when exiting fullscreen. Kind of a weird quirk.
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Oct 7, 2018 15:23
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Im_Special posted:Like this blows my mind, yesterday some people on reddit were stoked that windows bound snipping tool to PrtScn key. /u/jenmsft collecting praise, 900 upvotes. Seriously?! Wow, how horrible that less than 1000 people out of the several billion Windows users showed the most miniscule form of approval of a minor subfeature.
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Oct 7, 2018 15:42
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7.6 billion Windows users, to be exact.
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Oct 7, 2018 15:45
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Well, uh, I spoke to soon about not having issues on 1809. Yesterday I had files in my local Downloads folder (in my user profile.) Today, I don't. They've all been erased and I have no idea how  .Not freaking out because I have backups on my server but still. Holy poo poo.
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Oct 7, 2018 15:48
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Disk Cleanup deletes this now.
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GreenNight posted:Disk Cleanup deletes this now. Deletes what now? Stuff in the Downloads folder?
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Oct 7, 2018 16:01
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fishmech posted:Wow, how horrible that less than 1000 people out of the several billion Windows users showed the most miniscule form of approval of a minor subfeature.
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Oct 7, 2018 16:43
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GreenNight posted:Disk Cleanup deletes this now. Wait, what? Really? edit: What the ever loving gently caress? It actually does. That's probably what did it.
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Oct 7, 2018 16:53
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PUBLIC TOILET posted:Wait, what? Really? I had to tick a box to enable it to delete downloads but it's certainly possible it does that by default for some people lol
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Oct 7, 2018 17:02
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Captain Yossarian posted:I had to tick a box to enable it to delete downloads but it's certainly possible it does that by default for some people lol That'll teach Grandpa for storing important files in the recycling bin!
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Oct 7, 2018 18:07
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I forget how to get rid of this dumb sidebar on the right I got rid of it on my (Pro) desktop (well, it still is in the actual settings options for Related stuff but thats fine) but cant seem to get rid of it for my (Home) laptop Im waiting for it to be one of the dumb things Id need to move to Pro to fix but hopefully not since I feel like Id be wasting a Pro key to "upgrade" the laptop
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Oct 8, 2018 07:06
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Combat Pretzel posted:Because there's a several billion people subscribed to the drat subreddit. What's your point? Are you offended by the fact that people dared to click a like button?
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Oct 8, 2018 13:34
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Why do people who make dark themes always do poo poo like this:  At least the update didn't wipe all my personal files. Probably because I never keep anything in the folders MS wants me to.
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Oct 8, 2018 14:44
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Why do people who make dark themes always do poo poo like this: That context menu has a dark background for me.
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Oct 8, 2018 15:30
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How Stockholm-d do you have to to be to blame the users for an OS erroneously deleting their data? It's been well over a year since MS has been able to even push out a month's updates without loving something up. This is why so many of us didn't want the FU bullshit from the beginning. Stop loving with it.
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Oct 8, 2018 16:26
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phosdex posted:That context menu has a dark background for me. If I set things for "high contrast" I can get it legible. But then everything else is ugly. Why can't I have the options I had in bloody Win 95? 
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Oct 8, 2018 18:20
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OSX has a similar problem with the conversion to AppleFS with that OS update. Sometimes it doesn't work and guess what you lose. The whole loving drive. Have to repartition and start over.
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Oct 8, 2018 18:24
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Megillah Gorilla posted:If I set things for "high contrast" I can get it legible. But then everything else is ugly. Something went wrong on your installation, that's not how the Dark Theme is supposed to look.
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Oct 8, 2018 18:28
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AlternateAccount posted:How Stockholm-d do you have to to be to blame the users for an OS erroneously deleting their data? This. This is the same kind of logic that leads to the Cult of Mac where their own users go, "well, clearly you're using it wrong, because Apple would never make lovely hardware and then charge an exorbitant amount for it" https://twitter.com/WithinRafael/status/1048473218917363713 SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Oct 8, 2018 |
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Oct 8, 2018 19:39
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Why do people who make dark themes always do poo poo like this: Try refreshing it by going Personalization > Colors > then toggle to Light then back to Dark. Also I love that within a day people pretty much fix MS's garbage dark mode.  Gotta admit, I'm jelly. EDIT: Arcon posted:I forget how to get rid of this dumb sidebar on the right It has something to do with ads, and tips and junk, just download Winaero Tweaker and disable that crap. https://winaero.com/blog/disable-ads-windows-10/ Im_Special fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Oct 8, 2018 |
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Oct 8, 2018 19:42
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Lambert posted:Something went wrong on your installation, that's not how the Dark Theme is supposed to look. It's not how it's supposed to look, but it's how it looks on both my machines: one an upgrade from 1803, and the other a clean installation of 1809. One would expect the clean install to at least work properly, but it does not.
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Oct 8, 2018 20:27
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Arcon posted:I forget how to get rid of this dumb sidebar on the right gpedit: computer config -> admin templates -> windows components -> cloud content enable both the options to turn things off Im_Special posted:Also I love that within a day people pretty much fix MS's garbage dark mode. I have no idea why they haven't hired one or two of the theme hackers from deviantart to do this poo poo for them. It's nuts how other people can do a better job, and they don't even work there or have access to the code guts.
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Oct 8, 2018 20:37
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Klyith posted:I have no idea why they haven't hired one or two of the theme hackers from deviantart to do this poo poo for them. It's nuts how other people can do a better job, and they don't even work there or have access to the code guts. It's http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html
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Im_Special posted:Try refreshing it by going Personalization > Colors > then toggle to Light then back to Dark. I think I've figured out what's causing this problem. If you are synchronizing your settings across multiple machines via your MS account (like one would expect everybody at Microsoft would be doing), then when you install/upgrade to 1809, your Theme is set to 'Synchronized theme' or whatever. If you switch from the synchronized theme to the default Windows one, then Explorer and the right-click menus seem to work correctly. So switch your theme to the default one, and then re-customize it. Once you customize it, it should automatically synchronize across. Just toggling to Light and back to Dark didn't do anything for me, but playing around with the theme settings led me to the above discovery.
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Oct 8, 2018 21:11
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Anyone else update to 1809 and have Twitter embeds unable to resolve in Chrome? It's not just on SA but other sites too that it happens
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Oct 8, 2018 23:07
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1803, but I had just chalked that up to Adblock Origin.
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Oct 8, 2018 23:09
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SwissArmyDruid posted:1803, but I had just chalked that up to Adblock Origin. Huh - I just disabled ublock origin and that was indeed the culprit thanks!
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Oct 8, 2018 23:14
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Er, yeah, ublock Origin is what I meant. You probably have one of the social media annoyance lists enabled. Kill that one specific list or add an exception, and you should be back in business.
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Oct 8, 2018 23:30
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Klyith posted:gpedit: computer config -> admin templates -> windows components -> cloud content Looks like that path doesnt exist in Home (though it definitely does on Pro) so I guess its something I have to move up to Pro for  Which is dumb In other MS news, I rebuilt my Office install; had a school provided Office 2016 1 PC but I opted to pay the $80 for O365 University (4 years of the normal 70/yr plan) a couple months ago so I could put something on my laptop. School only has A1 O365 Education so I only get web apps which isnt great. With the new device limit changes and stuff I finally got around to moving 365 onto the desktop too. Had a MSI installer Visio Pro 2016 installed I had to remove, but putting its key into the MS Office account website spat out a Click-to-Run version of Visio that properly updates itself like the O365 install and is on the 1809 branch. Im half-tempted to take the old Office 2016 and new 2019 keys and push them into the MS website too
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Oct 8, 2018 23:33
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