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fushuan , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Windows 10 is the last version of Windows

You say even more, as if it was comical to begin with. But yeah, it's annoying sometimes but I'm not dropping 1k for a new GPU anytime soon, I'll have to suffice with the one I have. Yeah I do update them weekly almost, every time I do yay there's a new driver version, it updates and it works. No major issues besides the explicit sync but that's being fixed soon and I installed a patch so yeah.

For sure I spent more time customising it than I did in windows, but that's kind of the point isn't it? Linux is about that, windows is not supposed to be. I don't mind spending time customising and tinkering if I know that a megacorp isn't taking my data. That was the trade-off, data and money for convenience. Now that convenience has been reduced and the data has increased, it's not worth it for me anymore.

So yeah, with windows you need to work against the system, disabling stuff that they intend to ship that is harmful, while on Linux you work with the system, tinkering and customising stuff the way you like it, with the defaults being a community thing, not a megacorp thing.

fushuan , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Windows 10 is the last version of Windows

Cool, as stated though, I would have persevered if it wasn’t for the vertical taskbar being removed. Oh you can't have the main taskbar only be shown in the secondary monitor either. Look, I get that they are implementing features and apps are adapting and all that, but these features missing make it feel like a regression, alongside weird interactions with sound volumes I'm having in my work laptop where even if I change the volume, it gets lowered again and I have disabled all the features that let apps take control, dunno.

I'm a developer, I get that beginnings are kinda rocky, but that's what I expect from a FOSS product, not a paid one. Is it weird that I feel that it's unreasonable to get out of beta with all these kind of issues? To suggest very aggressively to upgrade? Specially when the upgrade was free for all the win10 users? It's not like they had a big monetary incentive to push the release forward.

Win10 might have had tons of security holes and the cortana stuff, but it was really configurable, you could format the start menu as the win8 panel, as the simple win7 panel, or as the hybrid win10 panel natively, you could move the taskbar to wherever you wanted, across multiple screens, configure it as you liked natively. Now you need to install 3rd party stuff to emulate half baked imitations of those features, and if security holes appear in those products microsoft won't fix them. Win 11 feels way too restrictive, in a way that I feel like it takes a lot of decisions not for me, but from me, and I really dislike that.

Yeah, I know that the win10 panels can be re-enabled through the registry, but until how long will they be patched? They are clearly deprecated.

Anyway, sorry for the rambling, I'm happy that you like the product.

fushuan , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Windows 10 is the last version of Windows

For your first two points, I'm kinda against having to fight against the system, at that point I prefer to work alongside the system with Linux, but W/E. In any case, I would have fixed these if the taskbar wasn't impossible. No I'm not going to install a 3rd party program to fix the taskbar.

About the 4 monitors, it's cool that you like having 4 taskbars, wasting tons of space. I don't. I'm not asking that, I'm asking having a single taskbar vertically. It's one of the big complaints I've read about win11, not being able to have vertical taskbars on the side of the monitor.

I've not seen a way to remove the "recommended" space in the start menu, and I'm sorry but any recommendation I didn't agree with is an ad. You might think otherwise, and that's cool, but I don't like ads in products I pay.

That last sentence wasn't very nice, especially considering that you didn't understand one of the complaints (the taskbar thing).

Anyway, happy that you are enjoying win11 and I wish I was, but yeah, I don't fancy paying for less features.

fushuan , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Windows 10 is the last version of Windows

I wish. Most stuff I used to do now has extra clicks required, the right click 7z panel, the process monitor kill process button (now hidden on a submenu on a right-click), and I can't put the taskbar vertically!!! I use two monitors, I'm used to having it on the right monitor, on the left vertically. The reasoning was that not many people move their taskbar and while that might be true, after some regex modifications, the only thing that's completely broken if you put the taskbar vertical was the news button pop-up (it didn't align correctly), which is basically ads, and I'm completely against them gutting features because their ads need extra work (not that much work, just work).

Besides that, having a fat suggested apps bar on the windows menu that takes 30% of the space is a thing again, which is ad space too. Great

Anyway, KDE is cool. Thanks Microsoft, I would have persevered if it wasn't for the vertical taskbar, now I'm happier.

fushuan , 3 months ago to Memes in Where did that lead you?

Any app that works with the Spanish weather provider will have the best predictions possible for me, it's sad that most don't let you swap providers.

fushuan , 3 months ago to 196 in Shrimp-Fried Rule

Yeah yeah, he did fuck whatever dared move in his way, he is Zeus's son after all.

fushuan , 3 months ago to 196 in Rule

I didn't interpret it like that at all.

The initial Barbieland is depicted as an inverse society where Barbie's are in power and Ken's are just there as an addendum (way less toxic than reality yes, because it's toy world not real world).

Then after contact with the real world, Ken completely misrepresents reality in his toy/simplistic way, and tries to implement it in Barbieland, with the objective that if he does so he will be able to be with the sole reason for his existence. That pain is also explored.

Finally, after some talks, the conclusion that Ken can be his own person is reached, this is not that developed because the movie is about Barbie ffs.

To me personally, the Kens were initially a simplistic depiction of women in the real world, which then gets tangled up with the actual real world, and end up with some societal progress for the Kens, albeit small, and a huge emotional progress for them.

It's normal that their societal progress is small, since women in the real world didn't get the rights they have from day to night.

fushuan , 3 months ago to 196 in Shrimp-Fried Rule

It's incorrect though, Heracles is the Greek demigod, Hercules is the Roman one, but also the name of that shitty Disney adaptation baby hero.

Disney Hercules will never live up to Heracles.

fushuan , 3 months ago to Memes in H.A.R.D.C.O.R.E

It's grim dawn.

fushuan , 3 months ago to Technology in The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS.

I'm not sure if fennec has it, it's the core Firefox android build that is not published to the store.

fushuan , 3 months ago to Technology in The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS.

Firefos add-ons don't work on iOS, I literally just googled it to ensure I was informed before writing what you wrote.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios#:~:text=Add%2Dons%20for%20the%20desktop,%2C%20Mac%2C%20Windows%20and%20Linux

fushuan , 3 months ago to Privacy in An app called Bless Every Home, which has been backed by some of the biggest names in evangelical circles, is mapping the names and addresses of immigrants and non-Christians.

And even then it's not really a choice, since you can't really choose to stop having feelings. I guess that for bi people it's easier to pretend, but where there's love, there's love.

It's like, being a hetero dude and vlbeing forced to go with a girl when there's another one you love. It's hard in any case.

fushuan , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down

Oh, it's coming for more countries. In Spain no new ebike/scooter is sold without plates since 2024, and in 2027 it will be illegal to go through puvlic spaces without a licensed plate. This 3 year gap is so that people that bought a scooter in 2023 don't feel too cheated out.

fushuan , 3 months ago to Technology in IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states

Here in a Spanish province the app had the correct information prefilled with my job changes, the stupid 50 euros I earned from the gamestop craze and all the special savings accounts that were dax deductible. I only had to add the special rent deduction (amount paid and % of that amount that's was mine), and the app calculated the amount that I was to be deducted from that and my age.

It's great, in has an explanation of all the deductions, it lets you edit everything before submitting, and it's free.

fushuan , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in According to my camera's focus assist, this is perfectly focused

My camera is the a6400, and it has an option to manually set the focus, I believe that it's the PRO mode, where you can customise the exposure time with a number and the focus with the lens thingy.

You maybe did not set things correctly, but if that's the camera you have try tweaking the options so that you can set things like focus and exposure time manually. I mean, it's the sky, you don't need fast or dynamic focus or anything like that, all you need is a tripod and to point the camera up.

For sky photos I would set the focus as far as it lets you. Sadly, you will never be able to correctly focus stars because their focal point is just way too far, so manually setting is a far as the camera lets you should suffice.

Here's a guide to take sky photos with your camera model, but should work with any decent one: https://realisticwanderlust.com/2018/10/16/photographing-the-milky-way/