Adobe Playpanel
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So I rebooted my machine today for unrelated reasons and up pops the Adobe Flash Player updater. Fine. I'll do that.
Then it tells me about this thing called Adobe Playpanel and I'm suddenly thinking... is this a modified or hacked version or something?
Then I looked it up... seems like it's actually a real thing. Surely there's a WTF right here that isn't just 'Adobe == WTF' or 'Flash == TRWTF'?
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Surely there's a WTF right here that isn't just 'Adobe == WTF'
The name seems to me to be a WTF; this is the image it brings to my mind:
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Imagine a world without an Adobe reader or Flash nag update request... I know, I struggle too.
Filed under: Siri? Play John Lennon's Imagine...(beep beep) Cueing John Wayne in a mansion.
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At first I read it as 'paypanel', and thought "that makes sense".
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Adobe® Playpanel lets you quickly access your favorite games and
discover new ones. Enjoy the convenience of managing your games from a
single application. Find out which games your friends like, rate the
games you’ve played, and share your game reviews. Plus, don’t miss the
featured games for avid gamers.In short, Adobe® got pisssed at the lack of Flash games on Steam so they rolled their own?
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Imagine a world without an Adobe reader or Flash nag update request... I know, I struggle too.
You could have this if you used an OS with a sane software management system.
Filed Under: Here we go again
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False.
Even in a world where a perfect software management system existed that was standardised and implemented in every OS, Adobe would still use their own crappy updaters (including the updater-updater).
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Looks like a total Steam-killer!
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Even in a world where a perfect software management system existed that was standardised and implemented in every OS, Adobe would still use their own crappy updaters (including the updater-updater).
That's true, but it still gets rid of the Adobenags, which was all @Frank wanted.
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Even in a world where a perfect software management system existed that was standardised and implemented in every OS, Adobe would still use their own crappy updaters (including the updater-updater).
onyx@jarvis:~$ sudo apt-cache show flashplugin-installer Package: flashplugin-installer Priority: optional Section: multiverse/web Installed-Size: 137 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Bart Martens <bartm@knars.be> Architecture: amd64 Source: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 11.2.202.378ubuntu0.13.10.1 <snip> Description-en: Adobe Flash Player plugin installer Downloads and Installs the Adobe Flash Player plugin. The Adobe Flash Player plugin supports playing of media and other dynamic content online. . The Adobe Flash Player plugin will work with a range of web-browsers including, limited to: * Firefox * Chromium * SeaMonkey * Iceweasel * Iceape * Galeon * Epiphany * Konqueror . WARNING: Installing this Ubuntu package causes the Adobe Flash Player plugin to be downloaded from the Adobe web site. The distribution license of the Adobe Flash Player plugin is available at www.adobe.com. Installing this Ubuntu package implies that you have accepted the terms of that license. Description-md5: a03e9ebc20ce82c05567d088e79bf750 Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html Npp-Applications: ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384, 92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a, aa5ca914-c309-495d-91cf-3141bbb04115 Npp-Description: Adobe Flash SWF Player (http://www.adobe.com) Npp-File: libflashplayer.so Npp-Mimetype: application/x-shockwave-flash Npp-Name: Adobe Flash Player (installer) Description-md5: a03e9ebc20ce82c05567d088e79bf750 Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Origin: Ubuntu
Close enough for me.
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Adobe would still use their own crappy updaters
You're confused. Flash has no auto-updater.
You have to go to the site and download the executable every time. The only automatic thing about it is that it tells you when to do that.
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up pops the Adobe Flash Player updater
The flames of 3 billion degrees of hatred burn once more!
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I am getting a MacBook Pro in a few weeks. They are kicking me off my Windows development machine.
Filed under: Hold me, I'm scared.
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- Download Boot Camp drivers.
- Install Windows 7.
- Install Boot Camp drivers.
- ???
- Profit.
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Great! I can have this Macbook running windows proper (in no time).
Hey Girl....
I see you have a MacBook Pro.
But you are doing it wrong.
Filed under: Doing you the windows way.
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Bitch, you ain't classy, you trashy.
Hoe!
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It does have an auto updater. They just keep nagging anyway you to remind you that Flash still exists. I actually remember reading the text of the "updater" window with the Playpanel thing and it said something like this (true story):
There is a new update for Adobe Flash Player. If you have Adobe Flash set to automatically install updates, the update will be installed automatically in the next 45 days without any action on your part. Otherwise... go do it manually or something (though you probably don't care and neither do us). The important thing is, Adobe Playpanel™ Is now available for download! Do you want to install Adobe Playpanel?
[Yes] [No]
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I don't have any of that.
...do I have an old version of the updater than refuses to update itself?
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Try checking control panel, look for Flash Player settings "Advanced" tab, there you can set the auto update settings.
If I click "check now", it just opens the browser on this page: https://www.adobe.com/es/software/flash/about/. I was really confused for a moment because the page said I have Flash 14,0,0,125 (latest version), but the control panel says I have 13.0.0.214. Then I remembered Chrome has its own Flash Player, which is apparently more updated than the installed version. Go figure. I'm gonna update manually now, just in case.
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I am getting a MacBook Pro in a few weeks. They are kicking me off my Windows development machine.
I am not sure where that leaves you as far as a sane software management system. I suspect your situation will not materially improve.
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That is the correct answer...
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They run VMs quite well, and manage to do some things better than Windows. For example, Apple have been pushing on getting everyone using scalable graphics for longer, which makes some things a lot easier (such as high-DPI displays). They've also got a better record of hardware/software integration, as they should given that they're one of the few companies that truly make both sides.
But OSX is different. Some things will be quite strange…
Are you getting one of the sweet top-of-the-range models?
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Update: managed to get a screenshot on a different computer:
The button opens IE and takes me to their website where they try to get me to install Chrome (which I already have installed) AND the google toolbar for IE, just to make sure the Google overlords can still track my websites when I use the Wrong Evil Browser™.
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+1 for translating the entire dialog, too.</sarcasm>