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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Ha. No.
You're right. More people are buying desktop computers now than ever
I put my phone on my desk at work. 👍
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I put my phone on my desk at work.
I also have a phone on my desk at work
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
The desktop is becoming irrelevant. Most people are moving to smartphones and tablets.
Let me know when Outlook, Excel, Skype for Business, Notepad++, IE (because one business critical site won't work in any other browser), OneNote, PowerShell, and VSTS run on my Android phone, with an air gap between them and my personal email, web browsing, etc., with ergonomic keyboard and mouse, and multiple 1080 monitors, and I'll consider using my phone as a computer. Until then, no.
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@HardwareGeek IT professionals won't replace desktop/laptop with phone/tablet anytime soon
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And the politicians regard changing the legal requirements as vastly insulting to the imperial family.
This is as amusing to me as if the Germans were still worried about insulting the good name of the Fatherland.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Unfortunately (for Microsoft) Windows as a platform is starting to die. That's why they're stepping up their game. This means developing a better platform (UWP), and making their product cheaper.
So... When's Windows becoming cheaper? Because last I checked it still cost fuckloads for an OS with several broken components, shitty UX, force-installed third-party apps and all of the advertisements. The last two the major things that should make Windows a free OS (at least the Home version) because if MS are gonna stick ads in the base product should be free. No double-dippng.
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So... When's Windows becoming cheaper?
Protip: Install linux then delete the linux part. Free Windows!
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@mrl said in WTF Bites:
Also, 60-80 pairs a year? At one pair per day that's 4-6 wears each. Are your feet made of sulphuric acid?Yeah, 40-50 pairs would be more realistic, I guess. You must take into account that some will be lost, some will get torn, etc. So, about 10 wears each.
Holey Moley. I replace my (10-15 pairs) socks about every 3 years!
I believe that how fast you walk is a significant factor in how fast they wear out. Also, how short you keep your toenails, especially the big toe.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in WTF Bites:
In the fridge at work is a container of so-called "rice milk" (according to the ingredients, water with rice in it, presumably finely powdered and mixed to a milk-like consistency but it's not as if I've tried opening it to verify this). No, that's not the WTF, or at least not much of one.
The WTF is that the package proudly proclaims: "Organic!"
Yeah... just like literally every other milk-substitute in existence and, of course, milk itself.
TRWTF is that this probably does increase their sales....
No, that's not a WTF at all. There's a specific legal definition of it, and it basically means you didn't use (artificial) chemical insecticides, herbicides or fertilizers. You may not distinguish between naturally-arising chemicals and man-made chemicals (or, reasonably, just "chemicals" for short), but that doesn't mean that other people don't.
I prefer "organic", but I'm not really willing to pay much extra for it. This is of course, a different sense of the word than in the phrase "organic chemistry".
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@mrl said in WTF Bites:
Also, 60-80 pairs a year? At one pair per day that's 4-6 wears each. Are your feet made of sulphuric acid?Yeah, 40-50 pairs would be more realistic, I guess. You must take into account that some will be lost, some will get torn, etc. So, about 10 wears each.
Holey Moley. I replace my (10-15 pairs) socks about every 3 years!
I believe that how fast you walk is a significant factor in how fast they wear out. Also, how short you keep your toenails, especially the big toe.
Your shoes can be a significant factor, too. I had a pair of shoes that would destroy one sock every time I wore them. The lining of one shoe was damaged or defective, so that the rough interior surface of the leather was rubbing on the sock, right over my big toe (no matter how short the nail was trimmed). It was 100% guaranteed there would be a hole in the toe of the sock by the end of the day, unless I remembered to stick a little square of duct tape on the toe of the sock in the morning.
There is also, of course, the mysterious disappearance of socks in the laundry. I've gotten as few as a single use out of a pair of fancy, colorful argyle socks, because one disappeared the very first time I washed them.
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@gordonjcp Motorola?
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@TimeBandit Nor will teachers. I have (on my desk here at work, darn you 14-hour days) an iMac, a macbook air, an iPad, and my personal phone. Of those, the macbook gets 90% of the use. The iMac for programming and it's the one connected to the projector. The iPad...mostly for DM'ing D&D games, although theoretically I use it for some school stuff. The phone only for personal stuff and the occasional picture of the board so I don't forget what I wrote.
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@Benjamin-Hall
I was talking more about Joe User that mostly browse the web, Facebook, send and receive emails who will not buy another desktop and use his phone/tablet instead.The market for desktop computers is way smaller since smartphones and tablets are available.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@HardwareGeek IT professionals won't replace desktop/laptop with phone/tablet anytime soon
What's especially funny to me is that my parents have primary devices that are completely useless for their primary purposes:
- iPad 2 that can barely load any website without crashing
- Laptop that cannot boot if the battery is plugged in
(yes, you read those words correctly)
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
iPad 2 that can barely load any website without crashing
The iPad probably kills itself because it's tired of waiting for the packets to arrive
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Laptop that cannot boot if the battery is plugged in
My son's laptop might as well not even have a battery. It won't turn on unless the charger is plugged in. He duct-taped the plug to the laptop because he's so often lost power by accidentally unplugging it while using it (usually when a game is in the process of saving).
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@mrl said in WTF Bites:
Also, 60-80 pairs a year? At one pair per day that's 4-6 wears each. Are your feet made of sulphuric acid?Yeah, 40-50 pairs would be more realistic, I guess. You must take into account that some will be lost, some will get torn, etc. So, about 10 wears each.
Holey Moley. I replace my (10-15 pairs) socks about every 3 years!
I believe that how fast you walk is a significant factor in how fast they wear out. Also, how short you keep your toenails, especially the big toe.
And how often you play “attack the foot” with your cats...
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The last two the major things that should make Windows a free OS (at least the Home version) because if MS are gonna stick ads in the base product should be free. No double-dippng.
Suuuure. Just like cable TV should be free.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Just like cable TV should be free.
That's why I don't have cable. Paying for the signal and watching ads is like paying twice.
I watch free-air TV, so I only pay by watching ads
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Unfortunately (for Microsoft) Windows as a platform is starting to die. That's why they're stepping up their game. This means developing a better platform (UWP), and making their product cheaper.
So... When's Windows becoming cheaper? Because last I checked it still cost fuckloads for an OS with several broken components,
nope
shitty UX,
nuh-uh
force-installed third-party apps
negatory
and all of the advertisements.
Ah, the absolute goddamn assault on your eyes that a one-time notification that OneDrive exists is.
The last two the major things that should make Windows a free OS (at least the Home version) because if MS are gonna stick ads in the base product should be free. No double-dippng.
nah
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in WTF Bites:
In the fridge at work is a container of so-called "rice milk" (according to the ingredients, water with rice in it, presumably finely powdered and mixed to a milk-like consistency but it's not as if I've tried opening it to verify this). No, that's not the WTF, or at least not much of one.
The WTF is that the package proudly proclaims: "Organic!"
Yeah... just like literally every other milk-substitute in existence and, of course, milk itself.
TRWTF is that this probably does increase their sales....
No, that's not a WTF at all. There's a specific legal definition of it, and it basically means you didn't use (artificial) chemical insecticides, herbicides or fertilizers. You may not distinguish between naturally-arising chemicals and man-made chemicals (or, reasonably, just "chemicals" for short), but that doesn't mean that other people don't.
I prefer "organic", but I'm not really willing to pay much extra for it. This is of course, a different sense of the word than in the phrase "organic chemistry".
IMO you're washing your food wrong if there's still pesticides in it when you eat it, but it's nice to eat food you know hasn't been bug-ridden.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Ah, the absolute goddamn assault on your eyes that a one-time notification that OneDrive exists is.
I seriously can't emphasize this enough.
*six months straight of flawless execution*
mhm
(unobtrusively) hey did you know we have file backup services
https://i.imgur.com/claQWSF.mp4
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Status: Confuzzled.
This should have looped, no?
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Just like cable TV should be free.
That's why I don't have cable. Paying for the signal and watching ads is like paying twice.
I watch free-air TV, so I only pay by watching ads
I watch all the cable TV shows I like on their official websites or YouTube channels.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/25662/windows-defender-is-quality-software
I can barely understand what's going on in that video.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/25662/windows-defender-is-quality-software
I can barely understand what's going on in that video.
Legitimate question: is your graphics card broken?
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@ben_lubar Oh, no, there's no codec errors. You just gave absolutely zero context or explanation at all. AFAICT you're just navigating menus.
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@ben_lubar Well, yes, because the videos that I post tend to look like a tie-died shirt in a kaleidoscope when he watches them. But I don't think that was the issue with your video...
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar ... You just gave absolutely zero context or explanation at all.
YMBNH.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
You just gave absolutely zero context or explanation at all.
I see you've met Ben.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar Well, yes, because the videos that I post tend to look like a tie-died shirt in a kaleidoscope when he watches them. But I don't think that was the issue with your video...
I just tried to watch your video on my Chromebook and apparently my Chromebook does not like VP9.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
You just gave absolutely zero context or explanation at all.
Which part do you need explained?
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@ben_lubar If I had to hazard a guess, you clicked 'take recommended actions' and it was in the middle of taking them.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar Well, yes, because the videos that I post tend to look like a tie-died shirt in a kaleidoscope when he watches them. But I don't think that was the issue with your video...
I just tried to watch your video on my Chromebook and apparently my Chromebook does not like VP9.
Which one?
And the issue that @pie_flavor was having was that his computer doesn't like VP9 with a certain color profile (I forget whether YUV or RGB was the one that worked, and the other didn't).
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar Well, yes, because the videos that I post tend to look like a tie-died shirt in a kaleidoscope when he watches them. But I don't think that was the issue with your video...
I just tried to watch your video on my Chromebook and apparently my Chromebook does not like VP9.
Which one?
And the issue that @pie_flavor was having was that his computer doesn't like VP9 with a certain color profile (I forget whether YUV or RGB was the one that worked, and the other didn't).
The letter menu one.
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@ben_lubar ...I'm not remembering that one...
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar ...I'm not remembering that one...
The one where the restaurant website was using a separate image for each letter. It looked nearly identical on my screen to @pie_flavor's video of it.
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@ben_lubar ...oh. Well, that wasn't my video.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar ...I'm not remembering that one...
The one where the restaurant website was using a separate image for each letter. It looked nearly identical on my screen to @pie_flavor's video of it.
That video is encoded yuv444p. Interestingly enough, the first Google result for "vp9 yuv444p" is this:
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@anotherusername Use a wacky encoding, get wacky results. Why would you encode as anything other than H.264, or maybe VP8 if you're posting to 4chan?
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@anotherusername Use a wacky encoding, get wacky results. Why would you encode as anything other than H.264, or maybe VP8 if you're posting to 4chan?
HEVC? CMV? VP9? All of these give much better compression and quality than H.264 and VP8.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Unfortunately (for Microsoft) Windows as a platform is starting to die. That's why they're stepping up their game. This means developing a better platform (UWP), and making their product cheaper.
So... When's Windows becoming cheaper? Because last I checked it still cost fuckloads for an OS with several broken components,
nope
shitty UX,
nuh-uh
force-installed third-party apps
negatory
and all of the advertisements.
Ah, the absolute goddamn assault on your eyes that a one-time notification that OneDrive exists is.
The last two the major things that should make Windows a free OS (at least the Home version) because if MS are gonna stick ads in the base product should be free. No double-dippng.
nah
May I direct your attention to
https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1388124
where I complain about the shitty UX (yay regedit) to disable the force-installed apps that is nothing other than advertisement. This has nothing to do with the OneDrive thing (which I've seen like once).
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@Atazhaia Oh, that screed. I still don't believe you did it correctly, because shockingly enough Microsoft actually cares about its business customers. But, again, this is the flailing furry creature line of blithering. 'This app did not have permission to infect my nice clean start menu, removable permanently and tracelessly by one click or not.'
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@pie_flavor Ah, yes, the great care about its business customers that they show when they install Candy Crush and Disney Magical Kingdoms on the editions geared towards businesses by default. What part of Professional or Enterprise says "Let's install games made for the below 12 demographic!"?
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@Atazhaia Those refer not to the context the computers are likely to be in, but in the context the computers are likely to need tools for. If a computer is actually being used in a business environment, then the custom image should already elide the preinstalled apps the business does not want. Otherwise, there is no guarantee that any features of lesser editions won't be wanted in greater editions. Some people, for example, may get Pro just to use BitLocker, and not actually need their computer for work at all.
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@pie_flavor For one of those editions the context is pretty damn obvious from the get-go. But yet, it gets the thirdparty crapware regardless by default. Even if there is something like 99% certainty that the thirdparty crapware is 100% unwanted in that particular edition.
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@Atazhaia If it was wanted, they wouldn't need to install it by default.
Oh the absolute pain and fucking torment involved in right click > uninstall.
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@pie_flavor So you're defending Microsoft in their quest to waste bandwidth and harddrive space by installing apps? There would be one thing if they'd just put up a link (annoying ad) to download and install, but this is them DOWNLOADING and INSTALLING crapware on MY COMPUTER and they do this WITHOUT ANY PERMISSION to do so. And it does add to annoyance if I have to keep tracking down and uninstalling whatever crapware-du-jour that MS decides to infest my computer with. And it does turn the entire OS into the very definition of malware.
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And it does turn the entire OS into the very definition of malware.
Oh, you mean the way it locks all of your personal files and won't release them until you pay a ransom? Or the way it secretly records things you do without telling you? Or the way you're massively overreacting?