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Raldikuk posted:Apparently it is also because they are afraid of user dataloss since it is so close to the tab close button. I'm guessing no one suggested just moving the loving mute button away from the tab close button?
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Combat Pretzel posted:I wonder how Chromium Edge will work in regards to DRM video, like Netflix et al. Because Chrome enjoys all that fancy 1080p and 4K content so far. What I'm wondering is what Google's going to do with that idiotic 'please switch to chrome pretty please' popup that it shoves onto every page of every site it publishes when it encounters a user browsing with Chromium Edge.
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 20:37 |
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beuges posted:What I'm wondering is what Google's going to do with that idiotic 'please switch to chrome pretty please' popup that it shoves onto every page of every site it publishes when it encounters a user browsing with Chromium Edge. They'll just leave it there. Why wouldn't they?
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 20:41 |
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Microsoft should spoof the normal chrome user agent string
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 21:06 |
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c0burn posted:Microsoft should spoof the normal chrome user agent string Just like how they made IE say Mozilla in its user agent string back when Netscape was still relevant and better?
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 22:32 |
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Geemer posted:Just like how they made IE say Mozilla in its user agent string back when Netscape was still relevant and better? And now everything is Mozilla!
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 22:34 |
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I use Firefox on my phone because Chrome mobile doesn't support extensions (uBlock Origin) for some reason. I don't do much browsing on my phone but it works ok most of the time. Chokes on large images sometimes (like video game area maps).Javid posted:Jdownloader is great for ripping video or audio from YouTube, anyway. No need to use an extension. Tried this a while back for a request on another forum (a Twitch -> YT transplant/archive thing), thinking my gigafiber connection would make a quick easy project. Jdownloader is way too slow, and apparently to unlock the real speeds you need to pay them a subscription. Ofecks fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Mar 25, 2019 |
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Ofecks posted:I use Firefox on my phone because Chrome mobile doesn't support extensions (uBlock Origin) for some reason. I don't do much browsing on my phone but it works ok most of the time. Chokes on large images sometimes (like video game area maps). Samsung Internet is Chrome with adblocking extensions, it's great. And available for all devices (not just Samsung) through the Play Store.
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 23:21 |
Combat Pretzel posted:CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-D shows an overlay with debug info. There's a Playing Bitrate line that also shows current streaming resolution. Max bandwidth might just have been prebuffering.
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Lambert posted:Samsung Internet is Chrome with adblocking extensions, it's great. And available for all devices (not just Samsung) through the Play Store. nice
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# ? Mar 26, 2019 05:05 |
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I upgraded to 1809 recently. Since then, every time the computer boots I get a message in the notification center saying there's a problem with my Microsoft account. No real info, just "there's a problem". I use a local account, so I'm not sure what it's complaining about. The only thing tied to my Microsoft account is the mail app and that works completely fine. Anyone got a clue what that could be? Google'ing "there's a problem with my microsoft account" doesn't really give any useful info.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 18:19 |
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Probably fuckin OneDrive trying to connect to your MS account and it's not setup.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 18:27 |
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GreenNight posted:Probably fuckin OneDrive trying to connect to your MS account and it's not setup. Thanks.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 18:36 |
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Anyone have any ideas why Excel keeps launching at boot? Always a blank workbook, not a recovered one. It started a few weeks ago and I have no loving clue why. No obvious culprits in the Startup tab.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 19:08 |
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Hit the Start button and type Start and there should be a Startup Apps setting. See if Excel is in there. Otherwise you can do a repair install and see if that fixes it.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 19:10 |
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xylo posted:Thanks. It's showing 1080p. I've installed the leaked build, and it lists PlayReady DRM in the experimental flags, so they've added the necessary DRM. However, Netflix doesn't work in that build here. :[ UI looks nice, tho. I guess I can go back to a Chromium browser. Stock Chrome's pill style and lack of contrast edges on elements pisses me off.
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Raygereio posted:Yep. That was it. The 1809 update enabled OneDrive again. That is loving asinine. "You turned off OneDrive so we turned it back on for you but you're not using it and we want you to use it so we're gonna tell you there's a 'problem. '" God the unmitigated disrespect.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 02:58 |
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Yeah we have onedrive removed from our images but when a new build rolls out it gets reinstalled. Super awesome.
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Hipster_Doofus posted:That is loving asinine. "You turned off OneDrive so we turned it back on for you but you're not using it and we want you to use it so we're gonna tell you there's a 'problem. '" God the unmitigated disrespect. Reminds me of this heh: https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1107915637077139456 Was looking at migrating to Office 365 but nnnnope, who knows what other lovely growth tactics they have in store. IIRC disabling Onedrive also pops up a (permanent until overridden) Windows Defender Alert because of missing cryptolocker protection. eames fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Mar 28, 2019 |
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Sounds like a regional thing because I've never signed into OneDrive on my machine or been harassed by it - it's not even running in the background and I have full green ticks across Security.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 10:57 |
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Hipster_Doofus posted:That is loving asinine. "You turned off OneDrive so we turned it back on for you but you're not using it and we want you to use it so we're gonna tell you there's a 'problem. '" God the unmitigated disrespect. But who thinks just telling the user "There's a problem" is good design? I honestly got nothing from windows to indicate the problem was OneDrive.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 12:33 |
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Ghostlight posted:Sounds like a regional thing because I've never signed into OneDrive on my machine or been harassed by it - it's not even running in the background and I have full green ticks across Security. Dunno, its happened on almost every box Ive seen in the last months.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 15:22 |
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Raygereio posted:I honestly wouldn't be annoyed at it if Windows had just told me the issue was OneDrive. It's still dumb, but the problem would have been gone quickly. My suspicion about that error message isn't that it's a growth tactic but in actually a lack of effort in coordination between the Defender team and the OneDrive team - nobody bothered to tell the Defender team how to properly notify the user about error XYZ, so they just slapped on a generic message and called it a day.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 15:46 |
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I've been getting the "account problem" message for a while now. I thought I had uninstalled OneDrive, but no, it turns out it was still there. Hiding. Googled how to turn it off permanently so we'll see where we go from here, then.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 16:06 |
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When 1904 comes out in 2 weeks or whatever, it'll come back.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 16:09 |
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I can't wait for 1904 to come out, and then I have to deal with DCH driver bullshit.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 16:52 |
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DCH drivers work fine, seems like a good concept. For Intel Graphics, they now have a new "Graphics Command Center" that will replace their existing utility in the future: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/intel-graphics-command-center/9plfnlnt3g5g?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
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I have no problems with the concept. The bullshit that I'm talking about are device vendors either mislabeling drivers, not providing updated drivers, and/or Windows pitching a fit for no good reason at all.
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Ghostlight posted:Sounds like a regional thing because I've never signed into OneDrive on my machine or been harassed by it - it's not even running in the background and I have full green ticks across Security. The last couple updates have not reinstalled it, but for that to work you had to fully uninstall OneDrive, not just disable it. SwissArmyDruid posted:I can't wait for 1904 to come out, and then I have to deal with DCH driver bullshit. a. It's 1903 even if they don't get it out until May. b. What is changing with that for 1903?
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I just looked up what DCH drivers are after not hearing the term before and, ummm:https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000031572/programs/intel-corporation.html posted:As of November 2018, driver updates for Intel products on these operating systems will begin transitioning to Windows DCH Drivers. After a driver has been updated to a Windows DCH Driver, it's possible to roll back to a legacy driver; however, rolling back isn't recommended as it involves a complex process that could result in system instability. This system instability is especially pertinent to graphics drivers. You can find more information on this subject.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 18:32 |
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Because of course
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gourdcaptain posted:I just looked up what DCH drivers are after not hearing the term before and, ummm: You can switch back, you just have to manually uninstall the DCH driver and then install the standard one, rather than use a rollback or the friendly "double-click an exe" installer. Like you stepped back in time to 2004 when we had to do that every time we upgraded drivers. DCH drivers are not a thing anyone needs to worry about. They're not mandatory and standard driver packages aren't going away. It's a MS initiative that's actually full of good design principles, except for the part where MS wants everyone to use UWP app control panels. DCHU drivers are probably gonna be encouraged by MS to the OEMs selling PCs, because having some actual standards means drivers can be automatically maintained easier. Driver updates being done by random poorly-secured OEM apps has proven to be a bad thing recently. It's a good thing that MS is gonna make them ditch that poo poo and just use MS update to do drivers. Power users can continue to pave over your PC after you take it out of the box and install standard drivers that you maintain yourself.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:22 |
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Klyith posted:You can switch back, you just have to manually uninstall the DCH driver and then install the standard one, rather than use a rollback or the friendly "double-click an exe" installer. Like you stepped back in time to 2004 when we had to do that every time we upgraded drivers. TBF, I wasn't sure given past experience with Intel if this was a particular problem with DCH or with Intel's DCH drivers in specific. Both seemed believable.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 19:27 |
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Klyith posted:DCH drivers are not a thing anyone needs to worry about. They're not mandatory and standard driver packages aren't going away. It's a MS initiative that's actually full of good design principles, except for the part where MS wants everyone to use UWP app control panels. The last non-DCH driver for my integrated Intel graphics was released in 2017
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Klyith posted:except for the part where MS wants everyone to use UWP app control panels.
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baka kaba posted:The last non-DCH driver for my integrated Intel graphics was released in 2017 So... use the up to date driver? And turn off windows automatic driver updates if you want to manage it yourself? DCH isn't some sort of totally different driver, it's just a different packaging. Nvidia has both DCH and standard and it's the same driver on the inside. If Intel has only DCH then it is just "the Intel driver". I don't know what this is, but I'm against it!
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 20:37 |
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Well I mean you said standard driver packages aren't going away so people don't need to deal with DCH, I was giving an example where they have and you do? And Intel's own advice isquote:After a driver has been updated to a Windows DCH Driver, it's possible to roll back to a legacy driver; however, rolling back isn't recommended as it involves a complex process that could result in system instability. This system instability is especially pertinent to graphics drivers. so they seem to think it's a bit more complicated than "it's the same driver it just comes in a different package", so the average user isn't going to want to deal with whatever rolling back involves So yeah, if you upgrade and it's all good, cool? If it's not, you might have problems. My OEM Intel graphics drivers seem to get released on a yearly basis, the last one was a month ago but the actual driver version is pretty old. If I want to just update to a newer one, I'll have to change over to a DCH version, because that's all they have now. But what if there are issues? What if it doesn't play well with Optimus or the OEM colour management software? What if rolling back ends up a nightmare, I regret even trying, and things are still messed up because I can't get everything back to the original state?
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 21:47 |
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I believe their announcements also say that they're not going to issue DCH drivers for chips before 6th-generation Core processors and their associated graphics chipsets. So it may not even be a question for you.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 22:12 |
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Nah it's 7th gen and there are a good year or two of updates, I'm just real leery about installing a non-OEM driver I can't roll back reliably (and not because Dell don't gently caress up, more because even they manage to run into issues with this, really don't want to tempt fate)
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You can roll it back no problem. Also, non-OEM drivers are fine 99.9% of the time.
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