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It's cool, the S1Ws will be crashing through Tracer's windows at any moment now to liberate the child.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
Windows 10
That's all, just Windows fucken 10
Whatta sack of trash
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
ooh good we’re about to move on to that at work.
― Fizzles, Friday, 6 December 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
Made the mistake at home a while back, had it foisted upon me at work a couple weeks ago. Sucks.
C'mon, Microsoft. You cranked it all the way up to 95 at one point, only to slide all the way back down to 10? Weak, bruh.
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
I've been on Windows 10 for a couple years and haven't had any problems.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
DIdn't ILX once have a "Subscribe to this thread!" function? That was insane.
― pplains, Friday, 6 December 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
Seriously, the postman couldn't even fit that effing DMB thread in my mailslot.
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
worst euphemism ever
― "Big Joe Fuck and the Bogalusa Maniac" (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 6 December 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
my experience of windows 10 was basically like the launch of Coca-Cola Classic after the New Coke nightmare that was Window 8. it's still slightly less functional and slightly more cluttered than 98/XP which is basically as far as PC operating system software actually needed to evolve for my purposes. so yeah, fits for the thread.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 6 December 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
Like, much of the reason I've remained a PC head is that I can't stand the infantilizing 'here, let us handle that for you, techno-n00b' philosophy that seems to inform so much of Apple's stuff. But now Microsoft is gradually adopting the same approach. Really, it's the inability to opt out of their constant mandatory updates that sticks in my craw the most. No no, Windows, it's totally cool that you had to restart everything while I was away and close out the programs I was running and those unsaved files I had up. Whatever you think is best, father.
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
I am so tired of microsoft disabling 'stereo mix' input every time they update, one day I know it's not going to be fixable.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 6 December 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
And while we're at it, just in case it hasn't been mentioned already, Apple hardware evolving into a variety of differently-sized smooth white obelisks with no pesky vestigial ports for things like 'headphone jacks' or 'physical media discs' is really just the dumbest shit in the world and it baffles me that people just roll with it. Like at some point they'll decide that screens are superfluous and their customers will just nod as they strain to understand the complex set of faint atmospheric tones and chimes that Apple has decided is the logical step beyond the primitive concept of a GUI.
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
^^^
I agree, but I don't really think it's that people have been just rolling with it, there's been a pretty sizable negative response and complaints every time they remove the ports and jacks. Apple just doesn't give a shit and people are so invested with the "ease of use" already that they have no choice. I'm not sure what effective pushback would look like, but I'd love it.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 6 December 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
Yeah nothing will ever be as bad as Windows 8, everything after is a sweet relief
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 December 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
we've all said "dongle" more times in the last two years than in all of human history, so that's a neat side effect.
― andrew m., Friday, 6 December 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
Well, I guess some of us were raised by people who allowed us to refer to a penis by its proper name rather than forcing us to use a ridiculous and humiliating neologism.
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
yy I wish people wouldn't feel they need to buy this stuff that doesn't actually do what they want
― kinder, Friday, 6 December 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
That's nearly every piece of technology at this point afaict. Feels like I spend roughly equivalent amounts of time using a device and swearing at that device to effing do what the gee-dee aitch it's supposed to effing do already for the love of pete.
― Masters of Engilsh Litera-ture (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
xpost buying a penis?
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
Thankfully, I don't have to lay down money for that privilege.
― Masters of Engilsh Litera-ture (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
subsidized penis?
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
We all just accept it now, whether it works the way we want it to or not.
― Masters of Engilsh Litera-ture (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
infantilizing 'here, let us handle that for you, techno-n00b' philosopy
vs. m-soft's 'we know better than you how to handle action x and will make it aymptotically almost impossible to override our auto-implementation.'
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 6 December 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
I don't believe this beautiful disaster has appeared itt yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKo
― Masters of Engilsh Litera-ture (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
How is that real?
If I ever have to install those and go through that process, that's when I just go "full oldster" and stubbornly sit in the dark.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
lolllll, how many minutes of youtube clips does it take to change a lightbulb
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 6 December 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
I'm pretty sure that video is GE employing hyperbolic absurdity as a method of gently breaking the news that they accidentally happened to snare the consciousnesses of all living humans in a simulation of their devising. It's the only explanation that makes any sense.
― Masters of Engilsh Litera-ture (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure what has changed, but it's worth noting that this appears to be an updated version of the video that was making the rounds earlier in the year for its depiction of an utterly hilarious dystopia. The fact that they didn't manage to shave like 2:45 off of the video tells me that GE didn't really take away anything worthwhile from getting hardclowned.
― Masters of Engilsh Litera-ture (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
claps for MI5 being disbanded!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
haah whoops
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
windows 10 is grand tbh
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
last good windows version was XP.
― akm, Saturday, 7 December 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
Why, in 2019, is on-hold music always so awful? I'm sitting on the phone waiting to get a washing machine serviced and the music sounds like it's being played on a scrunched up cassette tape at the bottom of the ocean. It also loops round in a really annoying way so that the tune cuts off after 10"s, a short gap that sounds like someone's about to pick up, and then it starts again.
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Thursday, 12 December 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link
Telephones in general still sound like absolute shit.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 12 December 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
The main problem for me with on-hold music is that it's almost always really loud
― silverfish, Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
People who have on-hold music on their telephone systems are rarely on hold on their telephone systems.
Ours probably says something like "Our offices are closed for the Memorial Day holiday...."
― pplains, Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
We once had a customer escalation cos he was on hold for ten minutes and at one point the hold music played a Christmas song
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
when did it become ok for them to show 4:3 clips on a 16:9 tv and fill the gaps on the sides with a blurry copy of the edges?
― koogs, Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
Truly the comic sans of video presentation.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
must be linked somehow to news/entertainment shows deciding on standards for using cell phone footage shot in the vertical orientation
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
They could at least fill the black space with like fractals animations or something. Dancing babies? I'm just spitballing here.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
Used to be that time traveling machines were simple to program. You set the destination date and time, and boom, you're on your way.
Now you have to pick a primary day and a secondary day if the time jump doesn't work, and the secondary defaults to 12/12/2019 for some reason.
it's downloading a fuckin' system update so I can't jump back to my native time.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
Y'know, it sure did seem to me like there were an awful lot of extra people wandering around today.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
wait til u see what happens to you in 5 minutes
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 December 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
u get zinged. and it winds up on the "zing" thread.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 December 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
I am preemptively mortified.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
shit maybe now it won't happen.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 December 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
maybe discussed upthread, but a big one that's been cropping up on various sites over the past few years: weird algorithmic "smart" searches so that even if you know very specifically what you're searching for, the site tries to find other related/similar/machine-identified stuff.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 16 December 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
ha i was venting about it back in august apparently
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 16 December 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
otm now and in August
― kinder, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link