And the acquisitions...
I've had countless minecraft sessions ruined because of microsoft account / store issues. Don't even get me started on realms and the chat policing bullshit.
Github new PR review UI is great on paper yet completely useless to review large PR because of performance issues.
It took me one month to upgrade a zoom account to pro because the checkout would just show a blank page. Oh and I can't stay signed in on zoom.us because I disable "Functional Cookies", yet that's the only website that's ever had an issue, and I'm not using a hardened setup, just vanilla FF.
So much for the modern, developer and open source-friendly narrative.
It's even worse. I want to open Notepad++ and begin to type
N -> notepad.exe
No -> notepad.exe
Not -> Notepad++
Note -> notepad.exe
Notep -> Notepad++
Notepa -> Notepad++
Notepad -> notepad.exe
The times I actually wanted to open notepad.exe is exactly 0 but the stupid algorithm sees me mistakenly opening notepad.exe because of the aforementioned stupid algorithm and recommends it even more often. It's like it's designed to create the most annoying search experience possible.
N -> OneNote.app
-> Then (maybe) quickly changes to Notes
No -> Notes.app
-> Then (maybe) changes to OneNote
Not -> OneNote.app
Note -> Notes.app
At least that's how it was before. I wouldn't be surprised if they broke it.
R -> "R, the project for statistical computing" (fair I suppose)
Ru -> Run (what is "run"? It's that little dialog box from Windows 3.1 where you can type in an executable to run)
Run -> Run
Rune -> RuneScape (not something I have installed)
Runem -> Some Hearthstone game file
Runemac -> Search results for "run amok".
Runemacs -> Hey the thing!
This is the best. It opens immediately, no animations, ads, etc. I have a .bin folder in my home dir with full off shortcuts, this folder added to the $PATH so I just need to type my shortcuts to open any app.
If you want fuzzy searching to work, add a shortcut in the start menu for runemacs by placing the shortcut in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
This makes it even more inexcusable for the default Windows behaviour to be stupid.
[0]Honestly how? I have 32GB of ram, the name and directory of every program I've ever run probably fits in 100kB. You could even presort the list by the first two possible letters (26^2) at a tolerable memory usage.
[1]To my tastes anyway.
I use both of these, and it looks like Windows has remembered I select one or the other at a given point, so is saving that suggestion.
It also likely has built in associations for the default applications (notepad, camera, etc.) that you've overridden by selecting notepad++ at those points. If you select/locate notepad++ at the other positions, I wonder if it will start suggesting that instead.
I would be completely happy if my win10 stopped deciding I really want to search the word notepad on the internet with edge/bing
Heh, try KDE's KRunner. I type 'kt' and it matches ktorrent. But if I type 'kto' it switches to matching "Desktop 8". 'ktor' once again matches ktorrent.
"Chery"
I'm misspelling CherryTree.
Instead of getting note taking software, VLC starts playing "11 - Pulmonary Archery (Explicit).flac"
This is annoying not just because it's not what I wanted, but also because I already have music playing, music which is now abruptly cut off.
I hate this behaviour, as I'm usually looking as my fingers type the last bit, and if I keep adding matching letters, please don't change?
When you enter your birthday during Windows installation (yes, you have to have a Microsoft network account to log in to your own computer, and you have to supply a birthday), the button for confirming the date is a small, grey checkmark hiding below the date picker. Clicking the big, blue “Continue” button in the lower corner will discard your date choice (since it wasn’t picked) and then fail form validation because you didn’t pick a date.
There is a certain cubicle masochism associated with this kind of system. I’m convinced that computers did not get easier to use since all of them had command prompts. But you know, it’s got windows!
That's exactly what it is: encouraging "developers", some of whom IMHO shouldn't even be writing software, to indulge in "coding" while completely ignoring and antagonising the user perspective. Countless users' workflows just broken with no recourse just because some selfish bastard wanted to use something "new and different" without considering the wider effects. When the culture only cares about promoting new and shiny tools/frameworks/etc. to developers and feeding their appetite for otherwise useless things, and in doing so, forsakes the original purpose of software, this is the result.
As an engineer I feel like it's a great investment and loving my setup has a big impact on the enjoyment I get from work.
If you spend the time, can all the annoying stuff be turned off in Windows?
I can't seem to get two Windows installs to be functionally identical the same way. I also can't believe winget is a relatively new invention.
You can turn off most of the annoying stuff, for a time. I'm convinced that sometimes settings just change on their own.
This (requiring elevated privileges) is a very niche thing, though (raw access to the serial port).
Yes, for this very niche thing Windows works out the box. For other not so niche things, Linux works out the box. For the not so niche thing of "set up a LAMP stack" and similar, Windows is pretty poor at it, compared to using apt-get.
Also, for this very niche thing, I'm pretty certain that the arduino IDE I installed from the repository worked out the box for serial port access.
I'm guessing that you pretended the Linux boxes were Windows, and installed on Linux by downloading it off the arduino distribution site?
Yes, that was a mistake. But it was not as simple as saying "install from apt-get" because some where using Arch-based distros (pacman), a few were using Fedora (yum) and others Ubuntu. Even so, not always that the user is added to the right group. Also, we wanted to show the new 2.0 IDE.
Had some issues after Win10->Win11 beta Insider build updates, but that's other story.
Win + WSL gives you both Linux and Windows tools at your disposal.
my solution is to use windows for GUI things, and a remote linux instance for actual building/running/deploying services. vs code server is really nice for this, you can essentially run it as a GUI thin client locally that controls a headless remote that does all the heavy lifting. it's pretty seamless if you're willing to accept that you need a network connection to get any work done.
Not sure where powertools come in, but I’m personally agnostic wrt. shell scripting flavours.
1) find my mouse
2) search through windows titles (I tend to have 15-30 terminals with ssh)
Not to mention their new loan scams. Edge is a spyware/adware first and browser second.
I still prefer Firefox, though.
The research concluded that Microsoft Edge is the most invasive, along with Yandex.
[0]: https://executor.dk/
If you want to read the specifics of my transition to Linux: https://www.scottrlarson.com/publications/publication-transi...
Another anecdote is that minecraft 1.19 doesn't work on Ubuntu 18, as it uses glibc 2.29. D:
It's a dark pattern Apple repeats with a lot of notifications - they are not dismissible and give the appearance they are only resolvable by completing the notified request, but it actuality just starting the setup and then cancelling will resolve it.
Inside the *CONTROL PANEL* of the latest iOS.
[ ] Show me the Windows welcome experience after updates ...
[ ] Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device ...
[ ] Get tips, tricks, ...
this person complained about it and switching to Linux would solve their problem
someone makes a single, half sentence including the word Linux, and now they are a Zealot? Calm down dude.
It seems by your logic, calling a Linux user a zealot is fine. Also by your logic, if someone casually suggests trying Linux, then that person is abusing their privilege and lacks empathy.
Calling someone who says „just use Linux“ from a position of privilege due to a lot of domain knowledge, and therefore being uncompromising, does make sense though.
- The keychain is an essential part of macOS and iOS; if an application wants to securely save data then that is the interface it uses. This is not optional because a huge proportion of applications would break if it were removed.
- iCloud Keychain is the feature of iCloud that syncs your keychain to iCloud. iCloud itself is opt-in, and this particular feature of iCloud is opt-in as well, I think, or at the very least optional even if you use iCloud.
- Safari has a built-in password manager, like every other browser these days. This saves to the keychain, whether that’s synced or not.
It is worth noting that KeyChain was introduced in Mac OS 8.6 in 1999, and has been part of every version of macOS since then, as well as every version of iOS ever. It's basically the user credential subsystem for Apple operating systems.
As I understand it, 1Password came out in 2006.
When I looked at it last, it seemed that 1Password didn't interoperate well with KeyChain and also required a subscription - decisions which I found unappealing.
It really needs to be possible to say "no means no". But somehow, continuously nagging seems to have become acceptable.
It's a system app. You also didn't explicitly install the TV app yet here we are.
Settings -> Passwords -> Password Options -> uncheck iCloud Passwords & Keychain
To be sure, this isn't just restricted to "please install this" dark patterns, and in certain ways it's been central to the ad-supported business model ever since the first television ad was shown on a network channel. But arguably we shouldn't give any of these examples credit for truthfully being "opt out."
Edge even has special behavior to show you the same bullshit when you try to download another browser [1] [2]. But no worries, they might get a slap on the wrist for it.
[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-edge-chrome-2008/
- PDFs (sometimes, even if you don't have Edge set as your default PDF app) (even though Edge is actually the least unusable non-paid PDF viewer for Windows)
Besides that, Edge will randomly reset itself as the default on updates.
It happens all the time, for lots of people.
But this goes way beyond the browsers - I've never explicitly installed Keychain on my iphone and yet it shows as an option next to 1password every time I fill in a password field. Google calendar asks me to install an app every time I open a web version on my phone, my work laptop has 1 active notification in system settings for a year because I didn't enable iCloud backup.
I'm not sure what's the solution here. I stick to the apps I use because I know what I'm doing, but so many users will just click "yes" when shown a pop-up. On the other hand, the built-in integrations provide value (e.g. it's better that people use and save random passwords in Keychain than using the same one everywhere). I feel it's always a cat-and-mouse game where the big tech is punished after they've already gained a lot, so they win anyway.