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I just use Win11 at work and home and it's fine. I hate that they initially left poo poo out like a clock on a second monitor, or removed being able to make title bars and scroll bars bigger or smaller, but I honestly don't give a gently caress anymore. I just post on SA, play games, stream movies, and discord. That's it. Works great.
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Nettle Soup posted:
How does that compare to yeahboard?
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Pistol_Pete posted:I miss Windows 7, used that right up until MS stopped supporting it. Absolutely nothing that's come in the later versions has improved my computing experience at all. Windows 7 was really good, though I did like XP a lot. Agree that nothing since Win7 has been any sort of improvement at all.
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# ? Dec 26, 2023 11:12 |
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When was the start menu even useful for the last time? I recall in like maybe Windows 2000 or XP you still found predictably placed buttons for control panel and every program you’ve installed. Now I only ever use it to type in the initials with the keyboard. But it sometimes manages to stall for several seconds before it’s responsive. Downloading the ads? Also while I’m whining, whatever formerly-inoffensive random podcast listening app (”Podcast App” for iOS) I picked thousands of listening hours ago has now started to show long in-app video ads with audio, half the time it’s someone screaming at a casino win. I’ve developed a quick reflex of just killing and restarting the app because it’s less hassle and wait than closing the ad. Time to switch I guess.
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I hate clicking "more options " in the windows 11 explorer context menu. It's not even a view setting, you have to regedit that poo poo out
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bitterandtwisted posted:I hate clicking "more options " in the windows 11 explorer context menu. It's like they knew which options I use the most and hid them in that second menu on purpose
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My work just switched everyone to iPhones and I can confidently say that the wost operating system is, in fact, iOS. It has to be the most unintuitive bullshit I've ever seen in my life. Why can't I access my browser settings from my browser? Where tf are you saving poo poo? Why do I have to scroll/swipe instead of just typing poo poo? Why are there no batch select/unselect options? Why is everything based on gestures that weren't explained? Why is every native app bloated with data scraping, ad-serving bullshit? Where are the loving accessibility options? Why can't I customize literally anything? Why can't I turn off half the poo poo that's obliterating my battery? Why can't I use my Firefox add-ons? Why am I losing battery charge while I'm sleeping? I didn't think the switch would be a big deal because I thought jailbreaking was still a thing, but I was wrong. I was so goddamn wrong. Modal Auxiliary fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Dec 26, 2023 |
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It's an iphone. Answer calls, make calls. Post your burger on facebook. Done.
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# ? Dec 26, 2023 15:40 |
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You are using it wrong.
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# ? Dec 26, 2023 15:43 |
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You gotta hold it like this
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withak posted:You are using it wrong. When you can't figure something out with an Apple product, assume it's your fault. Cuz Apple "just works".
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redshirt posted:Big Windows 7 fan here, but Windows 10 got real solid for awhile. But then they started adding news and weather on the task bar, notifications increased, and now I'm seeing pop up adds for some Microsoft game on work computers. 10 is good as long as you have the Windows 10 Debloater script to get rid of the extra/hidden stuff you don't need - https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater Also I hate that my laptop has gotten that stupid Win11 upgrade prompt, I booted up the other day & saw the default 11 background like "aw poo poo, they forced it on me". Thankfully it was just a preview screen & I was able to decline the upgrade but talk about a terrible implementation. bitterandtwisted posted:I hate clicking "more options " in the windows 11 explorer context menu. Reminds me of (I think) early Win10 when you had to modify the registry to keep it from installing outdated, garbage drivers in Windows Update that inevitably jacked your system up. BOOTY-ADE fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Dec 26, 2023 |
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galagazombie posted:Do you think the power plants are natural formations that create electricity ex nihilo or something? Energy is meaningless without the labor to extract, transform, and use it. Power plants are not a source of energy, they do nothing without fossil fuels, which are natural formations, and furthermore they are finite, nonrenewable natural formations that have already peaked and will get more and more expensive and difficult to extract (because the cheapest and easiest sources of a resource get used first) until the energy cost of energy becomes so high that industrial civilization can no longer be sustained. Capital and labor alike are only made useful on an industrial scale with fossil energy; without it human labor can only create agrarian societies at best. Furthermore, civilizations (even agrarian ones) are dependent on other largely nonrenewable (e.g. minerals) or very slowly renewable (e.g. fresh water, forests, topsoil, unpolluted land) material inputs, so every known civilization, if it has lived long enough without getting colonized by another civilization, has invariably overshot its resource base and fallen in on itself, and ours is no exception. There is a model for truly sustainable human living over millennia, but it looks like pre-colonial indigenous Australians or the ancient Jōmon people of Japan, not solarpunk or Star Trek. Russell Means' speech at the Black Hills International Survival Gathering in 1980 is particularly relevant here. Russell Means posted:At this point, I’ve got to stop and ask myself whether I’m being too harsh. Marxism has something of a history. Does this history bear out my observations? I look to the process of industrialization in the Soviet Union since 1920 and I see that these Marxists have done what it took the English Industrial Revolution 300 years to do; and the Marxists did it in 60 years. I see that the territory of the USSR used to contain a number of tribal peoples and they have been crushed to make way for the factories. The Soviets refer to this as “the National Question,” the question of whether the tribal peoples had a right to exist as people; and they decided the tribal peoples were an acceptable sacrifice to industrial needs. I look to China and I see the same thing. I look to Vietnam and I see Marxists imposing an industrial order and rooting out the indigenous tribal mountain people. Even as our products themselves become enshittified, they also enshittify the world. Every single gadget that rolls out of a factory represents permanent damage to the world and a loss of resources for the future. There is simply no way it can be otherwise. Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Dec 26, 2023 |
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Philthy posted:It's an iphone. Answer calls, make calls. Post your burger on facebook. Done. Yeah, I'm slowly coming to terms with this and I'm already seeing a reduction in screen time as a result of not even wanting to touch my phone, so maybe it's for the best.
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redshirt posted:When you can't figure something out with an Apple product, assume it's your fault. Cuz Apple "just works". For a given definition of works.
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Modal Auxiliary posted:my phone Don't let your work phone be your main phone, and only have it turned on when you're on the clock
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This thread is getting shitter because all you computer touchers can’t stop complaining about the dumbest poo poo in the world (software. It’s all bad). Tools are way shittier these days. Hand tools, power tools, doesn’t matter. They’re all plastic junk with pot metal. I’ve started buying used hand tools from estate sales and old guys on Craigslist because they’re better than new in box.
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Linux might be hot garbage but it's my hot garbage, cooked up just the way I like it.
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Peter Falk posted:This thread is getting shitter because all you computer touchers can’t stop complaining about the dumbest poo poo in the world (software. It’s all bad). Yeah I'm ahead of you there too. Been buying most of my tools 2nd hand for ages because it's cheaper and the quality is superior. My oldest tool is probably my handplane from 1899.
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Woolie Wool posted:Power plants are not a source of energy, they do nothing without fossil fuels, which are natural formations, and furthermore they are finite, nonrenewable natural formations that have already peaked and will get more and more expensive and difficult to extract (because the cheapest and easiest sources of a resource get used first) until the energy cost of energy becomes so high that industrial civilization can no longer be sustained. Capital and labor alike are only made useful on an industrial scale with fossil energy; without it human labor can only create agrarian societies at best. Actually this time it will be different, because
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This poster catabolizes and I am here for it
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His Divine Shadow posted:Yeah I'm ahead of you there too. Been buying most of my tools 2nd hand for ages because it's cheaper and the quality is superior. My oldest tool is probably my handplane from 1899. It’s not even close, a modern hand plane is 50% lovely plastic, and I have a measuring square that’s not even 90 degrees… clown poo poo.
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Peter Falk posted:This thread is getting shitter because all you computer touchers can’t stop complaining about the dumbest poo poo in the world (software. It’s all bad). There was a time when Craftsman wasn't hot garbage, I miss those days my dad still has some of their old tools from like 30+ years ago, way more robust than whatever crap they make now.
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I have a bunch of ryobi stuff that has lasted years at this point with very regular use. Maybe I just have gotten lucky
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MrQwerty posted:I put the most effort into cutting linux and macos out of my life by not using them because I didn't pay $2k to build a computer to sit around loving with a command line for 3 weeks over a driver or $7k to buy a computer that can't play games I spent $800 to build a retro PC and I really did spend three actual weeks trying to get a Yamaha ISA sound card to work in MS-DOS and eventually gave up and got a Sound Blaster AWE64, that is true command line hell and working on Linux doesn't come close. I personally have had pretty good experiences with Arch Linux () and terrible experiences with *buntus. The more software tries to help you the more it gets in the way and at this point I'd rather just RTFW and set things up myself than trust some "wizard" not to cast the wrong spell and turn my config files into a frog. Computers are not and will never be "smart", the only smarts exist in the chair. Also the feeling of booting from GRUB to a text mode boot to a TUI display manager with ASCII flames dancing, all themed in matching color schemes, that I set up myself, is one of the most gratifying things ever and it happens every time I turn my computer on. Just give up on "Just Works" and learn some elementary consumer janitoring and computers are much less scary and confusing. Even things where most people would assume the system is hosed and reformat (e.g. your boot loader exploded) are generally fixable on Arch with chroot surgery. If you configured yourself you can reconfigure it yourself. If you're relying on somebody else's config (or worse, Windows' registry) and that explodes, welp Of course if you don't want to do it because you do it at work, sorry about your miserable career, I only have to do that poo poo for an hour or so once every few months unless I'm deliberately changing poo poo E: come to think of it most of those times were consequences of deliberately changing poo poo too Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Dec 26, 2023 |
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If anything goes wrong with your Craftsman screwdriver you can just take it back to Sears and they will swap it for a new one.
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withak posted:If anything goes wrong with your Craftsman screwdriver you can just take it back to Sears and they will swap it for a new one. A screwdriver is way less complex than a computer, costs less, and doesn't lead to huge quantities of toxic, unrecyclable e-waste. It's literally a metal rod shaped funny at one end. don't want to throw away my computer or pay someone to fix it for me. I don't even want to trade it for a new one for free because that creates waste, hastens the catabolic collapse of industrial civilization that little bit, and could give an unscrupulous employee access to my data. A personal computer is not some disposable appliance, and even if it was disposable appliances are evil. My computer is 7 years old and, now that Moore's Law is basically over, it might still be useful even at 17 years old, but only if I can fix it. Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Dec 26, 2023 |
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Apple just "works" in the way professional wrestling does.
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# ? Dec 26, 2023 19:30 |
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Your Operating System is a Piece of poo poo.
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Salt Fish posted:Your Operating System is a Piece of poo poo. Exactly, so I pick the one that most empowers me to make up for the inherent shittiness of all software
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I operate the system
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Salt Fish posted:Your Operating System is a Piece of poo poo. lol yeah I'm in IT and this shits going way over my head, let's move on from operating systems and back to stuff we can all nod at and grumble about like old ppl
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Why does Youtube Music insist on playing loving music videos in my browser. After 4 loving hours it is like "hey you seem idle we'll stop playing videos soon" and I'm like gently caress yes please why are you doing this and I can't figure out how to disable it by default?!
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withak posted:just take it back to Sears Lol I dunno if Lowe's honors it but the Sears process got real lovely over the last decade or so
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Last time I took a broken Craftsman ratchet to Sears for replacement, the person behind the tool counter dug in a bin of obviously used ratchets and handed me a replacement from that box. That was probably 10 years ago. I've had that Craftsman socket/ratchet set for almost 25 years now. I still have most of the sockets and the 1/2 ratchet. The other two ratchets have been replaced by whatever HF's "premium" store brand is. I also use HF brand electric tools and they have been working great for the five years I've had them. They look just like Milwaukee brand.
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I thought I was making a joke about Sears not existing any more but apparently it still exists. I apologize for wasting the thread's time.
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Are there even any Sears left. I thought they all closed because of psycho management.
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Barely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KUcjGb57CE
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Here, have some more content.
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We got a Soda Stream for christmas. I read up on it because I wanted to see about refilling them, then I read an article from a soda stream user that says the units last on average 2 years before breaking. That sounds like utter poo poo to me? I know my aunt has a soda stream from the 1970s that still works. That also takes glass bottles. I mean I can see why that's bad to make a product like that though.
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