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Jenny Agutter: Mar 18, 2009

In desperation I installed windows 11 and it seems to have fixed the specific issue I was having. and honestly it�s not that much worse than windows 10, which made me realize I had gotten used to how annoying windows 10 was in the first place

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# ? Apr 18, 2024 17:05

Jenny Agutter: Mar 18, 2009

microsoft laid off an ethics and society team that was supposed to guide ai development. on one hand, too on the nose to even be funny. on the other, I�m sure they had exactly zero influence ever and there are three other teams with an identical purview still operating somewhere in the ms hierarchy

# ? Mar 14, 2023 14:44

Cybernetic Vermin: Apr 18, 2005

i also kind of wonder how much nuts-and-bolts ai microsoft do themselves at this point, publicly at least they're certainly on the openai train.

# ? Mar 14, 2023 14:51

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

my parents ancient pc died last week and i had to throw something together for them quickly, which wasn't compatible with 7 so i had to install windows 10

gently caress me it's just an endless list of tiny annoyances. it's like they deliberately went out of their way to set up everything wrong

live traffic updates and weather reports in the taskbar. who greenlights this poo poo?

# ? Mar 14, 2023 14:52

Jenny Agutter: Mar 18, 2009

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

i also kind of wonder how much nuts-and-bolts ai microsoft do themselves at this point, publicly at least they're certainly on the openai train.

you�re right but microsoft is releasing openai stuff under their own brand, like image creation stuff, bing chat or whatever. that�s what the team was focused on, for example how to credit artists when people used image generation to rip off their style. none of that was implemented of course

# ? Mar 14, 2023 14:58

Private Speech: Mar 30, 2011; I HAVE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS BEANIE BABIES IN MY COLLECTION THAN I HAVE WORTHLESS POSTS IN THE BEANIE BABY THREAD YET I STILL HAVE THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE OTHERS' COLLECTIONS

IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.

Sweevo posted:

my parents ancient pc died last week and i had to throw something together for them quickly, which wasn't compatible with 7 so i had to install windows 10

gently caress me it's just an endless list of tiny annoyances. it's like they deliberately went out of their way to set up everything wrong

live traffic updates and weather reports in the taskbar. who greenlights this poo poo?

windows 11 is 10 times worse hth

# ? Mar 14, 2023 15:04

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

Private Speech posted:

windows 11 is 10 times worse hth

twice as bad eh?

# ? Mar 14, 2023 16:10

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

Chris Knight posted:

twice as bad eh?

No, it's just logarithmic.

# ? Mar 14, 2023 16:11

Private Speech: Mar 30, 2011; I HAVE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS BEANIE BABIES IN MY COLLECTION THAN I HAVE WORTHLESS POSTS IN THE BEANIE BABY THREAD YET I STILL HAVE THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE OTHERS' COLLECTIONS

IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.

Chris Knight posted:

twice as bad eh?

I was thinking about making a similar joke about it being a multiple but three is not twice of two and that's how far I got before giving up

# ? Mar 14, 2023 16:14

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

anyway my stupid powershell experiments keep going great, so I'm right pleased with that

# ? Mar 14, 2023 16:34

Pile Of Garbage: May 28, 2007

you can make the computer beep with powershell (or rather .NET) i like that feature

code:

#Requires -Version 7.3

[CmdletBinding()]
Param(
    [Parameter(HelpMessage='Starting frequency in Hz.')]
    [ValidateRange(37, 32767)]
    [Int32]$Frequency = 37,

    [Parameter(HelpMessage='Frequency increment in Hz, can be negative.')]
    [ValidateScript({ $_ -ne 0 })]
    [Int32]$Increment = 50,

    [Parameter(HelpMessage='Beep duration in ms.')]
    [ValidateRange('Positive')]
    [Int32]$Duration = 100
)

while ($Frequency -le 32767 -and $Frequency -ge 0) {
    Write-Verbose -Message "Beeping for $($Duration)ms at $($Frequency)Hz."

    # https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.console.beep
    [System.Console]::Beep($Frequency, $Duration)

    $Frequency += $Increment
}

# ? Mar 15, 2023 05:49

Pile Of Garbage: May 28, 2007

President-Beep.ps1

# ? Mar 15, 2023 05:49

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; a medium-format picture of beeftweeter staring silently at the camera, a quizzical expression on his face

make it play hail to the chief

# ? Mar 15, 2023 06:10

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Beeftweeter posted:

make it play hail to the chief

they'll point the Canon at you

# ? Mar 15, 2023 06:13

Soricidus: Oct 21, 2010; freedom-hating statist shill

I still haven�t gotten over the stupid pointless loving �3D objects� folder they shoved in everyone�s face like they were apple with a u2 album

# ? Mar 15, 2023 12:29

Cold on a Cob: Feb 6, 2006; i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually; College Slice

Soricidus posted:

I still haven�t gotten over the stupid pointless loving �3D objects� folder they shoved in everyone�s face like they were apple with a u2 album

are you my coworker that was complaining about literally this yesterday afternoon? :tinfoil:

# ? Mar 15, 2023 13:37

Pile Of Garbage: May 28, 2007

i tell you whut if child me had fuckin Paint 3D pre-installed on like windows XP it would have blown my fuckin mind

# ? Mar 15, 2023 22:53

mystes: May 31, 2006

Pile Of Garbage posted:

i tell you whut if child me had fuckin Paint 3D pre-installed on like windows XP it would have blown my fuckin mind

You're going to love AI Paint in windows 12 (ignore this post if this is already a real thing that they actually announced)

# ? Mar 16, 2023 00:36

Private Speech: Mar 30, 2011; I HAVE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS BEANIE BABIES IN MY COLLECTION THAN I HAVE WORTHLESS POSTS IN THE BEANIE BABY THREAD YET I STILL HAVE THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE OTHERS' COLLECTIONS

IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.

Soricidus posted:

I still haven’t gotten over the stupid pointless loving “3D objects” folder they shoved in everyone’s face like they were apple with a u2 album

I think that was partly for wmr/vr

# ? Mar 16, 2023 13:17

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

Private Speech posted:

I think that was partly for wmr/vr

I have a reverb g2 headset that uses wmr and the fronted to that is so weird and abandoned

# ? Mar 16, 2023 18:37

Private Speech: Mar 30, 2011; I HAVE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS BEANIE BABIES IN MY COLLECTION THAN I HAVE WORTHLESS POSTS IN THE BEANIE BABY THREAD YET I STILL HAVE THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE OTHERS' COLLECTIONS

IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.

akadajet posted:

I have a reverb g2 headset that uses wmr and the fronted to that is so weird and abandoned

hell yeah me too

I actually like the virtual condo environments, but yes it's mostly a steam frontend

it's not bad at displaying virtual desktops though, also works quite well with WSA since the touch interface maps nicely to it (and windows notifications too)

# ? Mar 16, 2023 19:15

Cybernetic Vermin: Apr 18, 2005

i mean as far as that goes some vr/ar/whatever support in the os seems cool and good, narrow use, but it was probably also not some huge effort. even then adding "paint 3d" as a demo app for the apis seems reasonable. but what does *not* make sense is asking oneself "well, where will every single windows user want to put all their 3d models?!"

# ? Mar 16, 2023 19:28

Jenny Agutter: Mar 18, 2009

I maintain the wmr home is much better than steam vr home, better optimized, much faster to load , easier to interact with. ms weirdly had a much better handle on vr interactions than valve to start with

# ? Mar 16, 2023 19:40

Archduke Frantz Fanon: Sep 7, 2004

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

but what does *not* make sense is asking oneself "well, where will every single windows user want to put all their 3d models?!"

when you put it this way it absolutely sounds like something a c suite would say in a meeting to 0 pushback

# ? Mar 16, 2023 19:42

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

oh cool, an unremovable advertisement for bing in the edge toolbar in the latest release.

remind me why i like this browser again?

e: merely hovering over it re-enables the sidebar. gently caress you.

# ? Mar 16, 2023 20:36

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

carry on then posted:

oh cool, an unremovable advertisement for bing in the edge toolbar in the latest release.

remind me why i like this browser again?

e: merely hovering over it re-enables the sidebar. gently caress you.

yeah, this sucks. I did the registry thing from this page
https://techdows.com/2023/03/disable-or-remove-bing-button-microsoft-edge.html

# ? Mar 16, 2023 20:47

Perplx: Jun 26, 2004; Best viewed on Orgasma Plasma; Lipstick Apathy

you can disable it with a registry tweak, a command line switch, or the gui in the alpha build

microsoft is all about giving you options!

# ? Mar 16, 2023 20:53

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

binged again! :argh:

# ? Mar 16, 2023 21:18

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

Chris Knight posted:

binged again!

I don't care how much cloudflare says it isn't their fault. if cloudflare is delivering that page to me it's cloudflare's fault.

# ? Mar 16, 2023 21:25

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge]
"HubsSidebarEnabled"=dword:00000000

Its really loving dumb and they added a toggle for it in the next release

# ? Mar 16, 2023 22:58

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

Shaggar posted:

code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge]
"HubsSidebarEnabled"=dword:00000000
Its really loving dumb and they added a toggle for it in the next release

really wish I was in the room for whatever meeting got called where the development team just read negative reviews over and over to whatever marketing exec rammed that feature through

# ? Mar 16, 2023 23:38

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; a medium-format picture of beeftweeter staring silently at the camera, a quizzical expression on his face

edge is just as bad as chrome

# ? Mar 16, 2023 23:40

Last Chance: Dec 31, 2004

Beeftweeter posted:

edge is just as bad as chrome

Correct

# ? Mar 17, 2023 00:30

Celexi: Nov 25, 2006; Slava Ukraini!

lately with win 11 whenever I reinstall, it asks which to restore and restores all settings, store apps, among other things. it was kinda janky in win 10

# ? Mar 17, 2023 04:04

Cybernetic Vermin: Apr 18, 2005

Beeftweeter posted:

edge is just as bad as chrome

i mean, worse in some ways. better in others though, so they'll get to abuse me a bit more yet v :shobon:

# ? Mar 17, 2023 07:44

Pile Of Garbage: May 28, 2007

so you can drag+drop pinned chats in Teams to reorder them. had no idea it was a feature so i freaked out when i misclicked and suddenly i was dragging an entire chat across the monitor

# ? Mar 17, 2023 17:07

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

cool feature, would like to be able to pin chats in different categories though for like my team, product folks, devops team, etc

# ? Mar 17, 2023 17:57

Sapozhnik: Jan 2, 2005; Nap Ghost

at some point they started making active calls float over the whole rest of the interface and while i can kinda see why they chose to do that i'd still prefer it if they remained confined to the tab for that call

# ? Mar 17, 2023 18:12

r u ready to WALK: Sep 29, 2001

I'm shocked by how much I hate Teams now that I have to use it on a daily basis

I'd rather have separate apps for meetings, chat and document collaboration than one giant piece of poo poo that tries to do everything badly

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jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

don�t sign my posts

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