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kirbysuperstar posted:I've noticed the battery being blurry like that on my Surface since the last big update. I can't tell if it's only sometimes or if I've stopped noticing it, though I've never noticed it, but the proof is right there! I feel like maybe it updates more so it probably gets refreshed instead of melting forever. Dunno why it would do it in the first place when other system icons don't though...
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baka kaba posted:It's not that, best I can tell (second-hand info about what Nvidia thinks causes it) is that it's a scaling problem. If something doesn't have a high-dpi icon, Windows needs to basically enlarge the normal one, which is fine. But if you have scaling active (this is a 4K laptop at 200%) and you put the machine to sleep and wake it, it generates the icon again by re-scaling the already scaled version. Do that a lot and it gets progressively awful until you get a blurry mess like that I've got a similar issue at work on my win7 box (some CAD stuff is holding me back until it's all sorted for our Win10 SOE) I have 2x 27" 4k screens but poo poo eyesight so I have them both at 150% scaling (I'd do 200% scaling but at any point above 187% explorer's search bar become maximum size and unresizable, crushing the address bar to minimum size so you can't use thebreadcrumbs feature or see where you are). If I then log into, say, a travel laptop at 100% scaling, it'll shrink down the font on the laptop by the ratio of the two. Logging into my desktop then expands my desktop font by the ratio between the two. Successive logging in and out between devices means the 100% zoom one becomes literally 1 pixel high fonts and the 150% zoom one ends up having 4 rows in the start menu and the shutdown button falls off the bottom of the screen. How does microsoft get this so wrong. Why would DPI scaling features ever want to copy between devices on a domain account?
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Jul 16, 2018 11:00
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I see the battery icon turning ugly when switching from 125% scaling to no DPI scaling (specific use case: switching from using a laptop display to an external one). For some stupid reason, a lot of the Windows system stuff just breaks when changing DPI settings, despite third-party apps like Chrome handling it just fine. It's really dumb.
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Jul 16, 2018 12:17
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Y'know what would be weird? If some programs actually do handle it gracefully, and not just because they only have one size of tray icon. Unfortunately I'm not at my desk so I can't try it out.
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Jul 16, 2018 12:21
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https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/07/11/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-17713/quote:Notepad Improvements ....anyone else get this sudden sinking feeling? Like, "this is going to gently caress up my workflow immensely" sinking feeling? Like, "they probably put diagnostic hooks into it that have the unfortunate side effect of acting as a keylogger"?
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Jul 18, 2018 07:57
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SwissArmyDruid posted:https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/07/11/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-17713/ No.
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Jul 18, 2018 08:05
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SwissArmyDruid posted:https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/07/11/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-17713/  + 
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Jul 18, 2018 13:52
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If your serious workflow involves Notepad you probably hosed up
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Jul 18, 2018 14:20
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SwissArmyDruid posted:https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/07/11/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-17713/ No.
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Jul 18, 2018 14:48
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I have a lovely 2015 Acer R3 laptop. If I throw in one of my spare SSDs into it and install Win10 from the latest MS image, will it automagically grab the license from some magic onboard ROM? Is that how laptops work these days?
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Jul 18, 2018 16:58
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I'm liking the Earth Porn lock screens that the spring update's been rotating for me daily.
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Jul 18, 2018 17:12
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baka kaba posted:If your serious workflow involves Notepad you probably hosed up Yeah, I don't think I've intentionally opened Notepad since like 2000. If Microsoft quietly removed it, I probably wouldn't even notice.
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Jul 18, 2018 17:50
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I like notepad, I just keep it handy for jotting random work poo poo like initial ideas, stuff that isn't important enough to format properly. Like.... A notepad.
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Jul 18, 2018 17:55
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Yeah notepad is pretty handy when you need a notepad despite having Microsoft word. It’s like how I use paint sometimes despite having adobe cs. Maybe be force of habit though.
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Jul 18, 2018 18:06
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Shaocaholica posted:I have a lovely 2015 Acer R3 laptop. If I throw in one of my spare SSDs into it and install Win10 from the latest MS image, will it automagically grab the license from some magic onboard ROM? Is that how laptops work these days? It usually has a key baked into the UEFI.
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Jul 18, 2018 18:12
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I can't imagine how anyone would look at those notepad changes and be unhappy, since the only one that changes how the program works is "Arrow keys now correctly unselect text first and then move the cursor." Like, if you've somehow built your workflow around that feature you've got brain damage. I've used metapad as a notepad replacement for years now, highly recommend people check that out if you like notepad for plain text editing (so don't need code highlighting or whatnow). My favorite feature is that it has two font / color settings and a toggle button -- I have #1 as the normal courier black-on-white and #2 is a easy reading non-monospace yellow on dark blue. Also it has a very good find & replace tool. However it doesn't do non-ansi characters so not great if you ever interact with non-latin-character languages.
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Jul 18, 2018 18:45
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My main use for notepad is to unformat copied text into plaintext before I paste elsewhere. I do that routinely when copying tables and such because the tab delineation seems to be preserved more often that way and I can then paste it into Excel. I am sure MS will find a way to gently caress notepad up but I am more worried that they're wasting time improving it when there are much larger fish to fry. Like getting scaling right...seems like they've given up on that dream.
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Jul 18, 2018 19:05
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Housh posted:Yeah notepad is pretty handy when you need a notepad despite having Microsoft word. It’s like how I use paint sometimes despite having adobe cs. Maybe be force of habit though. Hell I use it, but for like making a quick note or pasting something I need to copy later or whatever, or opening some file I want to glance at. But look at that list of feature updates, for something that does nothing but the most basic text editing and display (and rudimentary find and replace). Wow ctrl+backspace works now! No word on whether ctrl+delete still deletes the rest of the line! If you're doing anything more than minimal text editing, just use like anything else. For your health! It's nice that they made improvements though
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Jul 18, 2018 19:10
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Anybody who wants "notepad, but better" is probably already using notepad++ or another equivalent.
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Jul 18, 2018 19:11
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Yeah I was just looking up some code yesterday to replace notepad with notepad++ on my new windows install. Mostly use it for some basic css/ahk scripting, can't stand the default notepad.
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Jul 18, 2018 19:36
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Klyith posted:#2 is a easy reading non-monospace yellow on dark blue. Javid posted:Anybody who wants "notepad, but better" is probably already using notepad++ or another equivalent. 
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Jul 18, 2018 19:53
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It's great that Microsoft has finally gotten Windows to such a stable, consistent, and useful state that they can start working on trivial poo poo like Notepad, which we all abandoned and replaced for anything serious >10 years ago. PRIORITIES.
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Jul 18, 2018 20:21
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Raldikuk posted:My main use for notepad is to unformat copied text into plaintext before I paste elsewhere. I do that routinely when copying tables and such because the tab delineation seems to be preserved more often that way and I can then paste it into Excel. Boy, have I got the app for you. http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
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Klyith posted:I've used metapad as a notepad replacement for years now, highly recommend people check that out if you like notepad for plain text editing (so don't need code highlighting or whatnow). My favorite feature is that it has two font / color settings and a toggle button -- I have #1 as the normal courier black-on-white and #2 is a easy reading non-monospace yellow on dark blue. Also it has a very good find & replace tool.
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AlternateAccount posted:It's great that Microsoft has finally gotten Windows to such a stable, consistent, and useful state that they can start working on trivial poo poo like Notepad, which we all abandoned and replaced for anything serious >10 years ago. Pretty much this. 90% of what I used notepad for was jotting down small things like URLs and such. The other 10% was composing effortposts or stuff that's gotta go into a webform that times out. For the former I now just dump it in an irc window that my irccloud client is in so it's saved and available on my phone; the latter gets np++. Exactly nobody gives a gently caress about them adding poo poo to notepad.
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Jul 18, 2018 23:08
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I just do all my computing in an emacs buffer as god intended. 
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Ghostlight posted:I like Notepad precisely because it doesn't have any of this frivolity. Same. I just make a few .txt files with notes in, zero distraction from anything but "scribble down words / urls / code snippets etc". Anything I end up using and need to keep I'll format in Word, and code edit in Notepad++.
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Avenging Dentist posted:I just do all my computing in an emacs buffer as god intended. I do all my notes in WordStar.
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redeyes posted:I do all my notes in WordStar. When will we finally get Windows of Winter, George?
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Lambert posted:When will we finally get Windows of Winter, George? Had to google this.. LOL! Crazy fucker.
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Jul 19, 2018 00:31
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For basic note taking, just use OneNote.
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AlternateAccount posted:It's great that Microsoft has finally gotten Windows to such a stable, consistent, and useful state that they can start working on trivial poo poo like Notepad, which we all abandoned and replaced for anything serious >10 years ago. This feels like a painfully obvious thing to say, but since you're not the only person trying to make this point I have to note that Microsoft probably has different teams working on Notepad vs. whatever other features you want out of them. Eletriarnation fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Jul 19, 2018 |
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Eletriarnation posted:This feels like a painfully obvious thing to say, but since you're not the only person trying to make this point I have to note that Microsoft probably has different teams working on Notepad vs. whatever other features you want out of them. Yes, but they're making this a real cornerstone of this update. I get what you're saying, but it's bizarre and disconnected that they expect people to give a gently caress. I mean... Wordpad still exists???
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Is it also painfully obvious that this opinion is voiced in the context that, “No poo poo they’ve got a myriad of teams, so how about having more net effort paid to fundamental stuff, huh?!”? Yes, yes it is. Ever get a massage where more effort than you’d care gets paid to areas that don’t need it, to the detriment of your sore spots? It’s like that, but no one thinks we’re standing here unaware that they’ve got multiple hands.
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I dunno, I figure Notepad is where you put the new hires and the interns to acclimate them to Microsoft development processes before handing them off to their "real" teams. Maybe they just had a big hiring spree recently!
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Avenging Dentist posted:I dunno, I figure Notepad is where you put the new hires and the interns to acclimate them to Microsoft development processes before handing them off to their "real" teams. Maybe they just had a big hiring spree recently! That's a drat long hiring freeze, then. No wonder they had to eat their QA department.
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I like notepad Occasionally I use it to write lovely batch files and prank my friends. I'm still stuck in 2003
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Tapedump posted:Is it also painfully obvious that this opinion is voiced in the context that, “No poo poo they’ve got a myriad of teams, so how about having more net effort paid to fundamental stuff, huh?!”? You don't know how much effort is being paid to "fundamental stuff" though, you're just assuming that it's not enough and could be increased since you saw Notepad getting features you don't care about. Maybe there's one guy working on Notepad and he just came out with his yearly update, versus ten working on [whatever you want] who already have their hands full trying to bring new engineers up to speed. AlternateAccount posted:Yes, but they're making this a real cornerstone of this update. I get what you're saying, but it's bizarre and disconnected that they expect people to give a gently caress. I mean... Wordpad still exists??? Won't argue that it's a funny thing for them to focus on. Notepad is like vi to me, it's just the thing I have to use on a fresh system where I can't install/haven't yet installed Notepad++ (nano). Eletriarnation fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Jul 20, 2018 |
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Notepad is a very simple program and these are some completely trivial changes / additions. Anybody bitching about time taken away from core OS work is wasting a vastly greater proportion of their own time to complain about it than microsoft spent to do it.AlternateAccount posted:Yes, but they're making this a real cornerstone of this update. I get what you're saying, but it's bizarre and disconnected that they expect people to give a gently caress. I mean... Wordpad still exists??? It's the cornerstone of a fast ring insider preview build. They come out about once a week. Here's another one where the "cornerstones" are a swipe gesture keyboard and the Game Bar.
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Anybody having problems downloading KB4345421? Mine is stuck at downloading 0% so I went and got the standalone installer but even that gets stuck on "searching for updates on this computer"
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