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  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    At the very least Windows ought to have more verbose output as it's updating stuff.
  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    Corporations should be open about the stuff they know you won't like but want to do anyway?

    Edge mobile has it's "tabs" button at the bottom of the screen, but the tabs are at the top of the screen. This cannot be changed.

    Edge's homepage/new tab features a "News and More" feature that uses cookies you can't mess with. This cannot be changed.

    Edge's reading mode is online-only.

    This is somehow still better than NuFox.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2020-10-15 11:49:51
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    So this is obnoxious.

    > Settings
    > Update & Security
    > Delivery Optimization

    "Allow downloads [of Windows updates] from other PCs"

    okay, I can switch this on/off, makes sense

    > Advanced options

    > Download settings
    > Limit how much bandwidth is used for downloading updates in the background
    > Limit how much bandwidth is used for downloading updates in the foreground

    I hate how I can't reduce these to 0% (they're limited at 5%), but Windows 10 is already known to be zealous about forcing updates, so this wasn't a surprise. However...

    > Upload settings
    > Limit how much bandwidth is used for uploading updates to other PCs on the Internet
    > Monthly upload limit

    I can't reduce these to 0% or 0 GB.


    Edit: Microsoft documentation says that that first option applies to both upload and download, despite its wording: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-update-delivery-optimization-and-privacy-bf86a244-8f26-a3c7-a137-a43bfbe688e8
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Note to self: https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortdate/windows_update.html
  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    The last Firefox update was terrible with logging me out of everything.

    This one seems better but I'm not sure the problem's totally gone yet.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I am rather annoyed at laptop touchpads that aren't centered.

    I keep right-clicking on them.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    One laptop touchpad I used had that little bar on the side that served as the mouse's scrolling wheel. Gosh, did it piss me off. I try to move the cursor and suddenly the whole screen slides.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Oh I always use the edge of the touchpad to scroll!

    Well, until this current laptop whose touchpad doesn't have such a feature so I have to settle for two-finger scrolling. Which was technically on the other stuff I used to use but I just didn't use it back then.

    One of the silliest implementations of it though has to do with scrolling direction. Like, imagine you have two-finger scrolling but it's set so that you scroll up (move the "paper" down) when your fingers move down (which is often the default) but then sidebar scrolling but it's set that you scroll up when your finger moves up.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    To help secure your system, Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021.

    wow

    in a bad way
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Yeah.

    Also, my webcam which I need to work has some weird sort of issue with my system. I have to plug it in, go to the devi options, remove the drivers, unplug it, plug back in, and only then the drivers install as they are supposed to.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    https://www.carifred.com/wau_manager/

    I don't know whether this requires it to be constantly run in the background or just run once and then closed. There's only one executable to run and on a quick look I haven't found any additional processes that are spawned.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2020-12-24 18:53:47
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    https://superuser.com/questions/854797/why-does-ctrl-click-not-open-some-links-in-a-new-tab

    FYI the answer is:
    JavaScript behind the scenes
    This happens when developers of such web pages intercept mouse clicks with JavaScript and do asynchronous network requests inside the interceptor, potentially to track your clicks. When the async network call returns, the JS does a programmatic redirect using something like: window.location.href = url;

    This programmatic redirect will always load the page in the same tab, even if you hold Ctrl (Cmd on Mac)./quote]

    Jerks.
  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    I'm trying to utilize the power of Google more often rather than imgur.

    "Why does this stupid recommended items bar keep appearing in Google Drive?"

    W07TB9x.jpg

    "Ugh, I uploaded my images to Drive but they won't appear in Photos, I guess I'll download them to my computer and upload them to Pho-"

    SgUIIAG.png

    Now I can't figure out how to get share links for Google Photos.
  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    There is nothing worse in this world than the ongoing WEBP image rollout.
  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    So I tried out Brave.

    It is a Chromium, which is like, not what you want to start with if you're trying to sell me privacy or anything remotely good. I already dislike Google Chrome and it's many stylistic features.

    For example, the lack of additional windows, because everything is done in tabs. I danged hate that. I also didn't know how much the download bar being a giant fixture at the bottom of the window when in use would bother me.

    Add-ons are okay since it's all just the Chrome store stuff, but everything about switching GUIs to a Chrome type bothers me more than anything Mozilla says or does.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    Brave is what I use, not so much because of the privacy but because of the ability to pretend that I'm getting paid to browse stuff.
    Other than that, I find it the same as every other browser ever.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    You know what, I searched for something on DuckDuckGo, and an hour later, I get an ad for what should be for all practical purposes the same thing. Do you guys think it's time to lose my faith in the duck?
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    How specific is it?

    Also why not just spread your searches across Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, Startpage, and Qwant?
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    At this point I'm wary of giving out details, so let's compare it to a difference between a shop for vegans and a shop for organic nuts. Or a bike shop and a bike mechanic. You think it's the duck's fault, a pure coincidence, or does my data leak out through the browser itself?
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    I'm here trying to figure out what kind of porn you're talking about.
    Anyhows, the networking world really comes up with the worst acronyms. Do you know what DOH is? Why, it's "DNS Over HTTPS" of course.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2021-02-23 07:36:22
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    DNSOHTTPS DIN'S HOT TIPS

    @lrdgck my best guess is "coincidence" but honestly without knowing your computer usage there's not much I can say definitively.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Okay, for now I'm letting it slide. Perhaps I should try an experiment one day, search for something exotic and see if it shows up.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I'm now curious to know the results of this experiment
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    edited 2021-02-25 16:18:39
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Heh, yeah. I'll let you know once I get around to this (which may be at some unspecified point in the future to be honest.)
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I was wondering why my hard drive was so hot and my computer a little slow.

    Turns out Windows 10 just downloaded another update.

    I even set my connection as metered, so it shouldn't have done that. But I guess, since I used a native Windows setting to set this, it could decide that it couldn't wait any longer and ignore said setting anyway.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    There was something about metered connections, IIRC they only worked with connections through ethernet, I remember I had trouble with that when trying to connect through USB anchoring with my phone.
    Regardless, you didn't think you would get away with not updating Windows 10, did you?
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Stormtroper wrote: »
    you didn't think you would get away with not updating Windows 10, did you?
    *shakes fist angrily*
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    IJBM: when I open two things, then need to close the second thing, but the first window is already focused so I instead close the first one, or I need to close the first thing, but the second one steals focus just in the nick of time for me to end up closing that instead
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Welp, got that bluescreen again, this time browsing Reddit. Says something about pages and non-pages or whatever, I failed to remember the text and I don't want to crash on purpose to write it down.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    So, I wanted to say I seem to have fixed the bluescreen issue. If you ever have the same problem - PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA - on a relevant setup, here's where I got the solution:

    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-fix-page-fault-error-windows-10,36234.html
    Open a CMD window as an administrator.
    Type or paste ‘chkdsk /f /r’ and hit Enter.
    Allow the process to complete.

    Then perform a system file check.

    Open a CMD window as an administrator.
    Type or paste ‘sfc /scannow’ and hit Enter.
    Allow the process to complete.

    Apparently what I've faced is only one of several possible causes, but the link that had so far caused my system to crash, can now be opened safely, so I guess it works. We'll see if it ever happens in the future, but I hope that all the crashes I had so far were due to the same underlying error.
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