I had to jump onto a win 10 machine for a couple of weeks. Came back to my new gaming rig and I have to say… I HATE windows 11. The right click menu sucks, the task bar is shit even if it is aligned to the correct location. Actually looking back, I think the last windows I liked was 7.
When I use 11 I feel like I’m using my left hand. That’s the best way I can explain it.
I’m a leftie and offended.
Believe it or not I can’t use a mouse with my left hand.
I am ambi with a mouse after retraining myself from RSI. I get really shat at computer training rooms that have everything tied down to the right.
YES!!! That’s exactly it isn’t it! I just aligned the start to the left of the screen and my brain is just throwing co-ordination errors.
And now they’ve put ads in the start menu. If I ever have to use 11 I’m going to use one of those ISO stripper apps to debloat the fuck out of the install.
I still haven’t used Windows 11. Given that I’m an IT nerd with 25+ years in the industry, and essentially live and breathe this stuff, it’s a little remarkable. My computer’s hardware doesn’t officially support it, and while I’ve gone through the checks I need to disable in order to upgrade, I haven’t seen what Windows 11 offers that makes me want to upgrade.
Other than turning the Start Bar into something more like the MacOS/Gnome dock, I haven’t really seen anything the new version brings to the consumer. It’s more of the same, but give us money please.
It won’t even let me upgrade to 11 on my old desktop. Why is everything requiring more and more power… cough Planned obsolescence
Edit: Huh. I thought my old computer was just a bit crap (it is) but someone more knowledgeable is also complaining https://aussie.zone/comment/1904977
I feel like I’m the only person who hasn’t had issues with win11. My crappy laptop apparently isn’t so crappy since it had no issues with win 11 and in fact got the update about 7 months before my main PC. During the transition, I was working with manually renaming a lot of old trip photos so it did break my workflow since the rename button was removed from the context menu (then later added back as an icon rather than a text box called rename), but then I discovered I could just single click the title of a file and it would rename in less time than it took to rename through the win 10 context menu anyways.
And before I get comments, I have used various Linux distros and also MacOS for periods of time, including as primaries. I’m not a big fan of windows, if I had more money, I’d probably daily an Intel MacBook Pro with MacOS but with Windows in secondary for the few things I use that will not work on Mac or Linux, even through wine or proton. But for my circumstances windows does what I need it to do, and if Microsoft would stop being a little bitch for longer than 5 seconds, I would probably even feel positively about windows
I would love MacOS on a laptop. It would be perfect for music production. It’s just so damn expensive for what you get hardware wise.
If the major audio applications and plugins ran on Linux without an emulator I’d switch immediately.
I think by this point the last generation of Intel MacBooks should be somewhat affordable. I think the 2017 airs are going for like $200-400 nowadays, depending on condition
That’s actually pretty good. I’ll keep an eye out. Would love to be able to add a laptop doing live music but windows is too sketchy.
It offers nothing at all. Honestly.
Not a single feature or reason to upgrade whatsoever.
I can’t say I have strong opinions on different Windows systems, but I did notice the Finnish Eurovision entry is Windows95man.
I swapped to Linux last year and haven’t regretted it at all. I can even style it to look like my favourite older windows designs. My laptop has vista style desktop widgets, which are just as useless as they were back then but I love them.
This is the way 🙂
I might end up doing that. It works really well for basics. Unfortunately it limits the options for games and I’m not hugely good at doing any further stuff with commands
Nah, gaming these days is on par with Windows. The steam deck runs Linux so valve put a lot of work into games in steam just working.
That sounds promising. I just saw fewer options. Maybe it’s time to head over to Linux Gaming and see what they have there
I’ll probably end up doing this on the laptop, but on the gaming rig sadly it’s just not an option.
It’s totally an option. Valves steam deck runs arch Linux and steam proton usually works out of the box to make games run.
Isn’t steam OS still a thing?
I love Win11. Whenever I go back to previous versions they feel clunky to me now. I prefer the center-aligned taskbar and I prefer the start menu now. Search is good enough that I never have to go into “All apps” aka the traditional start menu which lists everything. I just press the windows key and start typing what I want and hit enter. Usually that just means 1 or 2 letters of the app I want.
That’s how I interacted with 10 yeah. 11 feels different. I think it’s my work computer switching that’s really forced me to confront its shortcomings. If all it ever does is launch steam games it’s fine.
Win 11 is dumb on so many UI levels. I feel stupider for using it. Am forced to at one workplace and it legit slows me down so much. Why the fuck is it auto pinning things to Quick Access?? And why is paste an ICON with no text???
It’s the changing of things that don’t need to be changed that pisses me off. So much of windows is muscle memory and now they’re fucking with the basics.
Our fire extinguishers got replaced yesterday and the dude who replaced them replaced them with longer and thinner ones. The extinguisher in the kitchen lives just above and next to the kitchen drawers. Any guesses why this is a problem?
Early nominee for the ‘Not my job mate’ award for 2024
He didn’t even know we had a 2nd fire extinguisher in the laundry. that one was due for replacement 2 years ago
That’s not on him. That’s on the owner/agent. If the job request doesn’t mention the laundry extinguisher, how is he meant to know it’s there?
Can you move the mount up a bit? Can you get the agent to move the mount up a bit? Can you leave the extinguisher on the floor because if there’s a decent fire, get down low and gogogo, will lead you to find the extinguisher on the way out.
Stop being logical. I’m just here to dog on tradespeople with the IQ of a misshapen door knob.
Oh, you think the tradie didn’t notice the drawer issue? That’s cute. Of course he noticed. But by ‘accidentally’ doing precisely what the job sheet asked for (replacing the extinguisher and nothing more), he gets called back a second time. $$$
Dude. He replaced the entire mount plate with a new one which he mounted lower down…
The obvious old screw holes might be a tiny clue
Yeah…
there is no spoon
No spoon for you!
Not quite the same, but I’ve got a wok burner that would set fire to the top cupboards if you actually used it
I use my wok burner outside like my Viet friends told me to.
Not portable in this case. I do have a movable induction one from IKEA : house stove deemed unsafe and it took forever to get landlord to replace.
Mine is a cast iron thing plugged into a gas bottle.
A fire extinguisher in the kitchen! Fancy plus!!!
ha just wait til you hear the smoke alarms and see the evacuation lights. I genbuinely can not communicate how loud the smoke alarms are. The best way I can describe them is that they’re so loud you can hear the air. Like on top of the high pitched squealey beeping they are so loud they cause the air inside to rumble. I’m surprised they don’t shatter a window
What did that cost you?
Me? $0.00
Someone? Probably many hundreds of dollars. Wouldn’t surprise me if they paid almost a grand for it. As soon as tradies hear “government job” the prices have a funny tendency of quadrupling
Coming into the last two months of this project. Watching the “go-live” dates of different components getting nudged back and back. Six months ago, we were going to be in Production for everything by May 31 and have June for documentation etc.
We’re now at the point where the last Prod deployment is June 21, and we get the last week of June for documentation. I half expect the go-live to be June 27, with one day for documentation at this point. Either that, or I’m going to be working the weekend of June 29/30.
Something about the whooshing sound of deadlines rushing by.
On June 26th…
What sort of project if you don’t mind me asking? Sounds very IT
I feel like the internet is getting worse for users
You’ve heard the term enshittification?
Oh yeah. It’s turned up to a gallop though
@melbaboutown @dumblederp Yeah, it’s not just you.
And it’s deliberate.
This article by Ed Ziltron has a really good rundown of what happened inside Google: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Basically, in February 2019, there was a some corporate politicking going on within Google.
The search/tech experts (some who had been there from the start) wanted to improve search results.
The finance guys wanted to deliberately make search results worse so people would search more often and there would be more money from ads.
The finance guys won.
They replaced the head of the search team (who had been there from the very start) with the guy who had been in charge of the search engine at Yahoo at the time Yahoo stopped having its own search engine.
If by “search more often” they mean searching the same thing on multiple different search engines trying to find better results I guess it worked 🤷♂️
I barely even bother with google anymore
I just go straight to wikipedia and if want further reading i look up the references on the wikipedia page ( I do pay for wikipedia , not much but something )
and yes, i search reddit quite a bit
Yep. The numbers must always go up, at the cost of killing the golden goose. And it’s not confined to Google. It’s in social media, any kind of tech, streaming services…
I particularly notice it on google searches. So cluttered with ads and promotional listings. It used to be that the most useful answer was in the top 3 results. Now you’re lucky if it’s on page 2.
Google search is dead. The alternatives aren’t much better but I barely use it anymore. Or if I do, I have to put the word “Reddit” in the query to get a decent answer.
Yep
I often have to go to Reddit, but the shit hit there too
it isn’t just sites like insta or fb or apps that are designed to suck your attention and time that are worse, the net has become a battlefield between countries
they are fighting for your approval and your vote and the bad guys will use lies to get it
I made my parents jealous with my weekend up on the border last weekend so they’ve taken off for there and I’m dog/housesitting for the weekend. I just rocked up with $9.95 for 24 nuggies to split with the doggo. Happy doggo.
My “boyfriend” didn’t message me on my birthday.
It’s time to sleep now
Happy birthday LE
I’m sorry to hear that. Happy birthday to you.
Happy Birthday!
I hope you had a good one or treated yourself to something.
Hugs and happy birthday.
Did you discuss with him a plan on talking each day so you wouldn’t feel anxious?
Because I don’t see his actions as being unreasonable, he needs to study and he told you.
Like I said before, what would you have done in the days when people didn’t have phones or what would you do if your BF was in the military?
You would have to trust him and you would have to learn to cope with anxiety, even learn how not to be anxious.
Thank you! I tried to, but he’s been ignoring my attempts to reach out for a week. No calls or texts back. I know he has been on his phone. His friends have posted videos on social media of them goofing around a bit. He probably wants to break up with me if he’s gone this long without talking to me.
I totally understand the studying thing because I am studying too. But to never return a call or wish your partner a happy birthday because you’re so focused on giving them the silent treatment? That really hurts.
Time to give him the flick. You are the one doing all the emotional labour here - he’s coasting and exploiting your anxieties. He has time to goof off with mates, but can’t spend 15 seconds texting you. Time to call it quits and move on.
Got an interview next week! Looks promising!
Also, I’m playing this game called “Cult of the Lamb” and I have to say, it’s adorable, addictive and a hell of a lot of fun. That’s my evening sorted.
Enjoy your night everyone :)
We love cult of the lamb!
I can’t believe I never noticed it before. It’s the perfect blend of genres. There’s a bunch of mods for it as well, but I’m not touching them just yet.
You can get as involved as you want with it too. It’s an easy way to waste some time!
Nice one!
Good luck on the interview!
I’m not sure what sort of game Cult of Lamb is but hope you’re having fun.
I’m playing Crypt of the Necrodancer at the moment while taking a break from Astral Ascent.
Not an easy game!
Thanks heaps 🙂. It’s a great opportunity if it works out.
Crypt of the necrodancer is on my list.
Cult of the lamb is a mix between dungeon crawler and base building. It’s really clever and fun even if you’re not a fan of those types of games generally.
I admit defeat. My head congestion is slowly clearing but I can’t hold a thought in my head. Coffee helped for about 6 mins. I am going back to sleep
sore back, resting, a little concerned 🤞
🤞🤞hope it comes good again soon.
I hope it’s properly healed. Go gently on it
Gentle hugs for you.
Hope everything is ok :)
Cracker Barrel cheddar is a very delicious cheese and as good as some of the fancier cheddars.
I love Cracker barrel. Also Mersey Valley classic cheese. Nice and crumbly.
I like their tasty cheese.
They’re great on crackers.
Gimme vintage cheddar cheese - ordinary even tasty cheddar just doesn’t have enough bite. I’m not all that fond of Cracker Barrel - I quite like the Aldi vintage one though.
I like the Aldi one too, but they carefully label it “vintage cheese” (no mention of cheddar anywhere on the packaging, AFAICT). I guess they’re taking a shortcut that means it can’t be called cheddar? 🤷
Would not surprise me. I don’t actually mind, as they’re a LOT more careful with their labelling than some supermarkets I could mention (cough cough colesworth cough cough). An honest label is fine by me. Anyway, cheddaring is a separate process in cheesemaking, and an optional one in my opinion. It’s the end result that counts with me.
I did not know that cheddaring was a thing. Thanks! And yeah, I really like their vintage cheese, it just seemed odd that they didn’t call it cheddar.
No drinky-poos tonight. Got places to be tomorrow. For those of you who are, cheers anyway🧃 Back to regular programming next week.
Cheers!
May your juice box be chilled and your sleep be restful 🍻
Ta. May your beer hit the spot and have a great night. Cheers.
Not even 1?
Nah I’m good.
I’m not… cheers!
So, I’m coming out the other end of this sick, my lymph nodes don’t hurt as much, and I feel a bit more clear headed. Helps that the cat let us sleep last night lol.
A few days ago, when it was bad and quite painful and I was having a weird lightness in my chest and kinda heart palpitations (the night I passed out), my partner kinda rolled his eyes and was a tad dismissive.
Well, guess who’s in the throes of it now and just called to apologise profusely and unreservedly?
I just said “as an afab, it’s par for the course to be disbelieved, but apology accepted haha.” We laughed and it’s fine, but man, I don’t complain for attention, I’m just telling him my symptoms in case I need to be taken to the hospital and am incapable of advising the professionals of lead up symptoms.
I love him, but he is such a man sometimes lol
RDO today, yay… Dentist also today, boooo
Edit - lo-fi beats and Morgan Freeman narrated Netflix doc on the ceiling TV. Would recommend
Ooh, is today mediaeval combat day?
May the Fourth be with you, young Baku-wan
Edit: damn, I am sick, it’s the 3rd still 😭
HEMA go brrr-clangggg
SCA scream too many insurance issues; and then permit horses….
yes, I have been watching and listening to lots of Beowulf
Hwæt!
It’s Friday and I am very, very ready for the work day to be over. 7 minutes away from being half way through…
Nothing I have to do this weekend, except dinner with my sister tomorrow night. After over a month of moving, cleaning and just life in general, this feels WEIRD. I can’t wait!
