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Google opinion rewards, the app that occasionally asks you some questions
no repro
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You know Windows 10's "we'll be making your device better soon" notification for updates with a "Restart Now" button? It can appear on the lock screen, and if you click "Restart Now", nothing happens. Then when you sign in you get this on your screen:
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Also I can't remember if this was posted before...
https://what.thedailywtf.com/assets/uploads/files/1536104844370-set-up-onedrive.mp4
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Windows helpfully highlighted the correct choice by giving it a grey background. Why do you keep clicking on the bad choice? Are you doing this on purpose to make Windows mad? Be a nice user and click where you're told, and everything will be fine.
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Also I can't remember if this was posted before...
https://what.thedailywtf.com/assets/uploads/files/1536104844370-set-up-onedrive.mp4
My favorite thing that Windows Defender does is that every time I reboot it pops up with a "THERE IS SOME URGENT THING WINDOWS DEFENDER NEEDS YOU TO DO" bubble and then by the time it responds to me clicking on it it has forgotten what it wanted to tell me.
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@ben_lubar Yeah. Those are the worst kind of useless notifications.
The second worst would be the random Google weather updates that I occasionally get during office hours:
*notification-sound*
: Maybe something interesting has happened? Something to break the monotony of the day? *gimme distractions*
: The weather outside of your office is now sunny and 24 degrees C. It's pretty nice.
: Oh, btw, there are 7.5 hours left before you can reasonably leave work.
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@ben_lubar Yeah. Those are the worst kind of useless notifications.
The second worst would be the random Google weather updates that I occasionally get during office hours:
*notification-sound*
: Maybe something interesting has happened? Something to break the monotony of the day? *gimme distractions*
: The weather outside of your office is now sunny and 24 degrees C. It's pretty nice.
: Oh, btw, there are 7.5 hours left before you can reasonably leave work.I also love it when Windows Defender tells me that it must scan a file due to my organization's group policy, which is fun because:
- It never tells me what file it's scanning.
- The file was probably just produced by Visual Studio's compiler a few seconds ago.
- I am not in a domain, so "my organization" is the same as "my computer".
- Clicking on the notification opens a Bing search for "Windows Defender" or something similarly useless.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
It spent 72 hours checking if the user wasn't doing anything at that time.
The user was, which is why they kept hitting the button to not install the update yet.
So the user isn't allowed to be doing anything that takes longer than 72 hours, in the case that an update becomes available? Is that in the Windows EULA or something?
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@topspin There's a very clearly marked Thunderdome that nobody seems to be able to figure out what the hell to do with, even.
I wonder whose fault that is.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in WTF Bites:
If you read today's Old New Thing and followed the link to the WinWord 1.1a source code, you might have spotted this in the comments (from four years ago):
i have some Confusion about windows1.0, Today we are using Visual studio, Net-beans to make the software but in early time there is no visual studio at all then, how can this windows 1.0 is made ? please somebody tell me about this
If it wasn't such an old comment, I'd be tempted to ask the commenter how they thought Visual Studio itself came to be made. Two people did reply a couple of years later, explaining the magical technology combination of text editors and compilers.
Boy, just think how his brain would have melted if he tried to figure out how the compilers came to be made...
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@Scarlet_Manuka said in WTF Bites:
If you read today's Old New Thing and followed the link to the WinWord 1.1a source code, you might have spotted this in the comments (from four years ago):
i have some Confusion about windows1.0, Today we are using Visual studio, Net-beans to make the software but in early time there is no visual studio at all then, how can this windows 1.0 is made ? please somebody tell me about this
If it wasn't such an old comment, I'd be tempted to ask the commenter how they thought Visual Studio itself came to be made. Two people did reply a couple of years later, explaining the magical technology combination of text editors and compilers.
Boy, just think how his brain would have melted if he tried to figure out how the compilers came to be made...
A lot of the time, the compilers are made using a version of the same compiler that is less than a week old.
Visual Studio isn't developed on the previous version of Visual Studio - it's developed on the same version of Visual Studio.
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Chrome updated itself to version 69 (). The new theme is … uhh, Firefox Asstrails 2.0?
You can guess the rightmost tab is there to help me get the old theme back. Funny how that needs an internal flag instead of a simple downloadable theme… ("UI Layout for the browser's top chrome" → "Normal".)
Bonus: look what I got right after pasting that screenshot:
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
A lot of the time, the compilers are made using a version of the same compiler that is less than a week old.
Yes, but who wrote the first version of the compiler, and in what? That's what I was getting at.
That's a rhetorical question, by the way; I know what the answer is.
Visual Studio isn't developed on the previous version of Visual Studio - it's developed on the same version of Visual Studio.
Now you're putting me on; that's impossible -- it's not the "same version", even if the version number doesn't change between the revisions.
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Bonus: look what I got right after pasting that screenshot:
I fucking love my signature.
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@anotherusername I've got it blocked via CSS.
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@ben_lubar Yeah. Those are the worst kind of useless notifications.
The second worst would be the random Google weather updates that I occasionally get during office hours:
*notification-sound*
: Maybe something interesting has happened? Something to break the monotony of the day? *gimme distractions*
: The weather outside of your office is now sunny and 24 degrees C. It's pretty nice.
: Oh, btw, there are 7.5 hours left before you can reasonably leave work.My favourite one is when I'm driving to work, hit a traffic jam and as soon as I come to a stop I get the notification that there's traffic on my route to work
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My favourite one is when I'm driving to work, hit a traffic jam and as soon as I come to a stop I get the notification that there's traffic on my route to work
That's because you stopping finally tripped the jam detection trigger.
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@Bulb
Does it also detect jelly?
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@Luhmann No, but I suspect it might occasionally detect marmalade.
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@Bulb
Great feature, I really want to steer clear of those
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@blakeyrat There were no warnings about updates. Just a dialogue box saying something along the lines of "Windows will restart in 15 minutes to apply updates" and a button for "Close" and a button for "Restart now".
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Now you're putting me on; that's impossible -- it's not the "same version", even if the version number doesn't change between the revisions.
The source code might be identical… but that's totally not the same thing as being the same version, especially with a compiler.
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@gordonjcp said in WTF Bites:
@blakeyrat There were no warnings about updates. Just a dialogue box saying something along the lines of "Windows will restart in 15 minutes to apply updates" and a button for "Close" and a button for "Restart now".
No no no no, you missed the notification that appeared while the computer was locked. But since you weren't there, the notification and buggered off.
Which totally counts as telling you, by the way, because the notification definitely appeared.
Filed under: If a notification popped behind a paywall, did it make a sound?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@gordonjcp said in WTF Bites:
@blakeyrat There were no warnings about updates. Just a dialogue box saying something along the lines of "Windows will restart in 15 minutes to apply updates" and a button for "Close" and a button for "Restart now".
No no no no, you missed the notification that appeared while the computer was
lockedsleeping. But since you weren't there, the notification and buggered off.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@gordonjcp said in WTF Bites:
@blakeyrat There were no warnings about updates. Just a dialogue box saying something along the lines of "Windows will restart in 15 minutes to apply updates" and a button for "Close" and a button for "Restart now".
No no no no, you missed the notification that appeared while the computer was
lockedsleeping. But since you weren't there, the notification and buggered off.Same difference, from the counters perspective.
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@gordonjcp said in WTF Bites:
@blakeyrat There were no warnings about updates. Just a dialogue box saying something along the lines of "Windows will restart in 15 minutes to apply updates" and a button for "Close" and a button for "Restart now".
I miss the good old days, when all you had to do was drag the 'reboot required' box under the task bar and then ignore it forever.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Bonus: look what I got right after pasting that screenshot:
I fucking love my signature.
What?
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
@gordonjcp said in WTF Bites:
@blakeyrat There were no warnings about updates. Just a dialogue box saying something along the lines of "Windows will restart in 15 minutes to apply updates" and a button for "Close" and a button for "Restart now".
I miss the good old days, when all you had to do was drag the 'reboot required' box under the task bar and then ignore it forever.
Or get your tools out (unless ) and set the window to hidden.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Bonus: look what I got right after pasting that screenshot:
I fucking love my signature.
What?
It contains a transparent image which triggers the popup @DCoder posted.
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No it won't. It'll tie me to a microsoft account.
Also known as "free".
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Bonus: look what I got right after pasting that screenshot:
I fucking love my signature.
What?
It contains a transparent image which triggers the popup @DCoder posted.
How can that image trigger that popup? And how is that popup divining whether you're posting a screenshot of a mafia category?
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
@gordonjcp said in WTF Bites:
@blakeyrat There were no warnings about updates. Just a dialogue box saying something along the lines of "Windows will restart in 15 minutes to apply updates" and a button for "Close" and a button for "Restart now".
I miss the good old days, when all you had to do was drag the 'reboot required' box under the task bar and then ignore it forever.
You are why the current system is the way that it is.
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@topspin @ben_lubar has secret sauce in the background of the Lounge and certain Mafia areas. If you post a screenshot of them, NodeBB detects it and warns you.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar has secret sauce in the background
It'd be nice if it was like my grandmother's special meatball gravy.
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@Tsaukpaetra That's quite possible. The total update process for the radio chassis was about an hour long, with a typically Microsoft-y progress bar that moved in chunks of about 20% every ten minutes. No real indication of whether or not things were going properly. If you were lucky, then if it couldn't detect the radio chassis properly it would pop up a dialogue box with some cutesy "I'm so sorry, I couldn't talk to the radio, please try again" type message but usually (maybe one go in four) it would attempt to do the whole thing and eventually finish with just "Failed. Retry." as the only error message.
It had loads of animations and sounds and things to "help" you configure the unit, though. Every so often it would emit a genuinely helpful error message - in Hebrew.
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@LB_ Those "buttons" can die in a firey pit of hell. One of them was perfectly positioned that if you moved the mouse in the click 'dismiss', the offset was just right so you clicked a setup-or-something button instead. FUCK THAT UI.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@topspin @ben_lubar has secret sauce in the background of the Lounge and certain Mafia areas. If you post a screenshot of them, NodeBbB detects it and warns you.
Like yellow printer dots?
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
The file was probably just produced by Visual Studio's compiler a few seconds ago.
I always add a directory exclusion for my solutions. (Hmm. I think I forgot to set that up on the new work machine... First thing I'll when I get to work today then!)
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
@gordonjcp said in WTF Bites:
@blakeyrat There were no warnings about updates. Just a dialogue box saying something along the lines of "Windows will restart in 15 minutes to apply updates" and a button for "Close" and a button for "Restart now".
I miss the good old days, when all you had to do was drag the 'reboot required' box under the task bar and then ignore it forever.
You are why the current system is the way that it is.
You mean because he uses his computer the way he wants to? Maybe even knows what he's doing?
Your attitude is why the current system sucks as bad as it does.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
It spent 72 hours checking if the user wasn't doing anything at that time.
The user was, which is why they kept hitting the button to not install the update yet.
So the user isn't allowed to be doing anything that takes longer than 72 hours, in the case that an update becomes available? Is that in the Windows EULA or something?
Windows has me well trained now... Before doing shit like that, first thing I do is manually run updates.
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Monoprice got a very nice deal on a Dell Monitor
Just not sure about the look of that screen
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My favourite one is when I'm driving to work, hit a traffic jam and as soon as I come to a stop I get the notification that there's traffic on my route to work
I love checking my route home and seeing a sea of red. "Your route is faster than normal." Well, yes it is. I hate my commute...
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@topspin @ben_lubar has secret sauce in the background of the Lounge and certain Mafia areas. If you post a screenshot of them, NodeBbB detects it and warns you.
Like yellow printer dots?
Ohhh, I see:
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You mean because he uses his computer the way he wants to? Maybe even knows what he's doing?
Your attitude is why the current system sucks as bad as it does.The problem is for every one of us who do know what they're doing, there are a bajillion idiots who can't figure out shit. We lost. (so we commiserate here...)
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Monoprice got a very nice deal on a Dell Monitor
Just not sure about the look of that screen
Yeah, it looks more like it's only 1 pixel with a big-ass bezel...
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You mean because he uses his computer the way he wants to? Maybe even knows what he's doing?
Your attitude is why the current system sucks as bad as it does.The problem is for every one of us who do know what they're doing, there are a bajillion idiots who can't figure out shit. We lost. (so we commiserate here...)
Maybe we, as an industry, should figure out how to develop software that doesn't require updates every 12 nanoseconds.
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You mean because he uses his computer the way he wants to? Maybe even knows what he's doing?
Your attitude is why the current system sucks as bad as it does.The problem is for every one of us who do know what they're doing, there are a bajillion idiots who can't figure out shit. We lost. (so we commiserate here...)
Maybe we, as an industry, should figure out how to develop software that doesn't require updates every 12 nanoseconds.
Butbut - we're AGILE!!!