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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
- Most audio streams automatically switch from the ambient speaker to the headphones.
This is a Windows feature.
Except, sometimes, Teams.
Teams is Special. Discord will at least ask. Every time. Unless you tell it to never ask ever.
I don't know if it still does, but in the past when iTunes started playing on a PC speaker, if you connected the bluetooth speaker, it would never switch until you actually restarted the app.
Yes, prior to Windows 8-ish the application had to specifically poll the windows audio subsystem to determine if the default had changed.
Now apps can subscribe!
That was on Windows 10. (Now at the dog shows, we listen to SiriusXM.)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
- Most audio streams automatically switch from the ambient speaker to the headphones.
This is a Windows feature.
Except, sometimes, Teams.
Teams is Special. Discord will at least ask. Every time. Unless you tell it to never ask ever.
I don't know if it still does, but in the past when iTunes started playing on a PC speaker, if you connected the bluetooth speaker, it would never switch until you actually restarted the app.
Yes, prior to Windows 8-ish the application had to specifically poll the windows audio subsystem to determine if the default had changed.
Now apps can subscribe!
That was on Windows 10. (Now at the dog shows, we listen to SiriusXM.)
Well then... I defer to:
@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
@dcon said in UI Bites:
iTunes
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iTunes on Windows is even more of a
than iTunes on macOS.
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Now at the dog shows, we listen to SiriusXM.
Obviously, what other choice do you have at a dog show?
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iTunes on Windows is even more of a
than iTunes on macOS.You'd hope so, right?
Right?
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iTunes on Windows is even more of a
than iTunes on macOS.You'd hope so, right?
Right?
I remember Safari on Windows. iTunes is more of a
on Windows.
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Fraunhofer is a German research institute, how could I of expected them to accept german special characters in my password?
Your päßwörd requirements ßück!
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
Fraunhofer is a German research institute, how could I of expected them to accept german special characters in my password?
TBF, not accepting Germän non-ASCII is just stupidity, accepting German but not nøn-Germąn non-ASCII would be malice.
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
Fraunhofer is a German research institute,
organization. There’s a quite a lot of institutes.how could I of expected them to accept german special characters in my password?
Your päßwörd requirements ßück!
To be fair, “ßä” isn’t a valid character.
It’s two.
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
Fraunhofer is a German research institute, how could I of expected them to accept german special characters in my password?
Your päßwörd requirements ßück!
Requiring password to be ascii-only is rather common and there is a reason for it: in case you find yourself needing to enter it on a computer that does not have your usual keyboard layout. Plus there might be an issue of normalization. Czech organizations don't usually accept Czech non-ascii characters in passwords either.
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in case you find yourself needing to enter it on a computer that does not have your usual keyboard layout
This is why I don't use non-ASCII bytes in any of my usernames or passwords, even if a site would accept them.
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
in case you find yourself needing to enter it on a computer that does not have your usual keyboard layout
This is why I don't use non-ASCII bytes in any of my usernames or passwords, even if a site would accept them.
Paging @Gąska
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Why do you think his new name only contains ASCII characters?
He was tired of people calling him Gaska.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
in case you find yourself needing to enter it on a computer that does not have your usual keyboard layout
This is why I don't use non-ASCII bytes in any of my usernames or passwords, even if a site would accept them.
Paging @Gąska
Fun fact: I have a Polish keyboard installed on my phone just so that I can type that (and other Eastern European diacritics).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
in case you find yourself needing to enter it on a computer that does not have your usual keyboard layout
This is why I don't use non-ASCII bytes in any of my usernames or passwords, even if a site would accept them.
Paging @Gąska
Have you tried honking?
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you find yourself needing to enter it on a computer that does not have your usual keyboard layout
On-screen keyboards are a thing, as are character palettes that can show the full range of Unicode.
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needing to enter it on a computer that does not have your usual keyboard layout
No. I will not ever enter it again. It is now stored in Firefox. And in a big Word document. I can just copy-paste it.
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you find yourself needing to enter it on a computer that does not have your usual keyboard layout
On-screen keyboards are a thing, as are character palettes that can show the full range of Unicode.
The habits from older phones die hard.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Paging @Gąska
@Gąska has already been moved out of RAM a long time ago.
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Thanks to my wunderful online training session, I could experience a few little UI fücküps.
Let me start with my industrious participation: at the end of the frist day, I already had finished 56 out of 12 videos:
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There is another smallish fückup with the videos: I place the window in the center of my big screen. Then cometh the next video, and, voilà, it is no more in the center.
Repeat ad nauseam.
Just maximizing the window does not help much either: it will be then shown top left instead of bottom right, and all those unused real estate becometh white (racist!).
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There are also some "labs" which are provided by Microsoft. You know, that famaous small company, which is trying really hard, but being so small, sometimes does not get everything perfectly fine.
So you open a lab and get shown a Windows 10 machine to interact with. Since I do not have an English keyboard, I change that setting, from a well sorted list:
NLDcometh betweenDANandFRA. whileDEUcometh betweenFRAandITA...
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Funny non-ASCII characters can be very confusing. There is a document on GDPR compliance by Microsoft, and the funny characters don't
out well:
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Status: If there were no changes, why is there an entry in the version history?
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@Tsaukpaetra Saved without changes, so the date on the file is different but the contents exactly the same?
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Azure provides a tool for calculating your total cost of ownership, both when you do all your crap in your office IT department and after moving it to the cloudz.
Well, when it fails, it just fails.Some Azure services are not available in the region you selected. Please select another region to view your TCO.
Aha. And which service is not available? And which region would offer it?
No hints at all.
After removing a mysql databse, it churned out some numbers - aha mysql was not available. But I tried several locations and all of them failed.
Anyways, once it does the calculations, it does it with (adjustable) moon prices: extremely expensive hardware, but cheapy IT admins (22 Euros per hour), and cheap electricity, but it calculates something.
Believe it or not, in my playground case it said that I would have higher costs when migrating to the cloudz.
That is unexpected from my side.
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Not sure if I've posted this before and just rediscovered it, I frankly can't remember.
The settings page for a stock watchlist:
Why do I have to change my password in order to change email frequency?
What the heck is undefined?
And, not a UI bite but a WTF: changing the settings does nothing, it goes back from "daily" to none.
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Have you ever taken a Microsoft exam with Pearsonvue?
and download their "OnVUE-23.20.56.exe" application. Start it. It opens a window as large as the laptop's monitor, but its left side hidden behind the task bar (which is on the left of the monitor on my machine).
Perhaps not, because there are some .
Of course, they want to have a perfect view of your place. See your face all time, send video and audio data into the US for evaluation, there must be no other people near you, etc. Your writing desk must be "clutter free", if you have a dual monitor setting. close your notebook and use the extrernal monitor only, touch screens explicitily forbidden, ...
Anyways, does their crap run on my machine? Go to their website,
It shows the text "Loading...", and also opens 4 OnVue.exe processes. They all do nothing. The fuck nothing - no CPU, no harddisk access, no internet access, The fuck nothing. For a few minutes.
What's that?
Well, take a look at
And here cometh the aha:
Note: Windows Operating Systems must pass Genuine Windows Validation. • Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP are not supported for exam delivery • Linux/Unix and Chrome based Operating Systems are not supported
Why the fuck can their OnVue äpp cräpp not just show a message telling me that they require a low quality Windows system?
So I will have to travel to a test center and take the test there. Fortunately, no extra costs. Just a little more the inconvenience.
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@BernieTheBernie sounds like my experience a decade ago taking the Zend PHP Certified Engineer exam, except with no remote option with shitty app, but the test centre definitely had some shitty app installed.
Damn thing wouldn’t even give me a number of correctness. I passed, sure, but I don’t know if that’s a 70% pass or a 100% pass.
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@Tsaukpaetra Saved without changes, so the date on the file is different but the contents exactly the same?
It's "cloud synced". Excel specifically calls out that you don't need to "save" because it automatically does it.
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
https://*.proctorcam.com
I am not sure if my web cam would be suitable for the kind of examination they want to take. Anyway, I'd prefer to have such one done by medical professionals.
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@BernieTheBernie Have you tried installing it on a virtual machine? That would be my first reflex for this kind of stuff.
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We have an in-house application (app? widget? component? whatever the fuck these things are called?) in Teams to mark the days we work from home. It's basically a calendar widget with a button to select days and send an email to manager/coworkers.
It also always opens with this:
Also also, there's a tiny icon in the bottom-right corner that proudly says "powered by [corporate IT]." Well, if you can't even do a minimum amount of QA to spot (and fix) such an obvious ugly, you shouldn't be proud of what you've done...
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@BernieTheBernie Have you tried installing it on a virtual machine? That would be my first reflex for this kind of stuff.
I do not have Win10/11 or Mac VM...
And also: they say that you have to stop all virtual machines...
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We have an in-house application (app? widget? component? whatever the fuck these things are called?) in Teams to mark the days we work from home. It's basically a calendar widget with a button to select days and send an email to manager/coworkers.
It also always opens with this:
Also also, there's a tiny icon in the bottom-right corner that proudly says "powered by [corporate IT]." Well, if you can't even do a minimum amount of QA to spot (and fix) such an obvious ugly, you shouldn't be proud of what you've done...
That is called
BEST PRACTICE
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Status: If there were no changes, why is there an entry in the version history?
Version History
Tuesday November 7, 2023
Didn't make any changes today.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in UI Bites:
Version History
Tuesday November 7, 2023
Didn't make any changes today.
FTF @Arantor.
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
That is called
BEST PRACTICEWhy are you dividing by zero?
If we're not doing it, somebody else will!
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I am currently playing with Cert2brain azure examination questions. After having worked through their collection of 510 questions from start to end, I went to "test mode": show me 45 random questions as would happen during a real exam. Didn't take me 45 minutes at all, and the result was a little odd:
Your Result:
Result: Passed
Achieved Score: 956
Required Score: 700
Time: 9 Min.
Total questions: 45
Correct answers: 43
Wrong answers: 1
Unanswered: 0Why don't correct and wrong answers add up to the total questions?
Oh yes, there was a little quirk. And it can be seen in the list:
Number QuestionID Objective Marked Result Review
34 330 Describe Azure management and governance (30–35%) Image Submit
35 246 Describe cloud concepts (20-25%) Image Submit
37 102 Describe Azure architecture and services (35–40%) Image Submit
38 19 Describe Azure management and governance (30–35%) Image SubmitWhere is #36?
It was an exact duplicate of 35. It confused me a little, I went back and forth, but it was always the same.
At least, they decided to ignore it in their evaluation.Next time, I'll be
Bad Bernie and answer the second time wrongly.
Just for
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@BernieTheBernie Btw, you better change the number of questions per exam with each session: otherwise, the overlap to the previous session is enormous.
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Google Maps appears to be pretty much broken on Chrome:
Looks fine on Firefox.
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Are you sure it's not that Google redesigned Maps to be more minimalist, and made the new version Chrome-only?
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@boomzilla said in UI Bites:
Google Maps appears to be pretty much broken on Chrome:
Looks fine on Firefox.Now question (not really; nobody cares) is whether Google Maps broke by abusing WebGL in a way that Chrome does not support, or Chrome broke something in WebGL that maps rely on (or it does not have to be WebGL, but from the symptoms it is the obvious prime suspect).
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@boomzilla said in UI Bites:
Google Maps appears to be pretty much broken on Chrome
I'm guessing some sort of glitch got cached.
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@boomzilla said in UI Bites:
Google Maps appears to be pretty much broken on Chrome:
Looks fine on Firefox.Now question (not really; nobody cares) is whether Google Maps broke by abusing WebGL in a way that Chrome does not support, or Chrome broke something in WebGL that maps rely on (or it does not have to be WebGL, but from the symptoms it is the obvious prime suspect).
Oh, yeah...now that you mention it I noticed I got a chrome update at work...but it hadn't propagated to my home machine, where I took the screenshot. Nothing in here about WebGL:
Stable Channel Update for Desktop
The Stable channel has been updated to 119.0.6045.123 for Mac and Linux and 119.0.6045.123 /.124 for Windows , which will roll out over th...
...but I haven't gone through the detailed change log. And now that I've updated...maps are working again.
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@boomzilla said in UI Bites:
And now that I've updated...maps are working again.
Google. Ensuring you always upgrade by breaking backwards compatibility.
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We have an in-house application (app? widget? component? whatever
Also also, there's a tiny icon in the bottom-right corner that proudly says "powered by [corporate IT]." Well, if you can't even do a minimum amount of QA to spot (and fix) such an obvious ugly, you shouldn't be proud of what you've done...It's like "Made in Germany"—the Germans very much like to print it on their stuff while everybody else wanted it to be there as a warning.
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
was an exact duplicate
Wait wait wait wait wait! Are you implying that it uses a straight rng pull instead of a permutated RNG pull
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
was an exact duplicate
Wait wait wait wait wait! Are you implying that it uses a straight rng pull instead of a permutated RNG pull
An ass pull probably, may or may not be straight.
