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@pie_flavor There's an officially supported download button?
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@pie_flavor There's an officially supported download button?
yes. enabled per video and disabled by default.
ISTR that you cannot enable downloads and monitization at the same time... but that may not be accurate.
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@hungrier Yes. Although it does require YouTube Premium IIRC.
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@pie_flavor Oh, no wonder.
Follow up question: Does anyone use it?
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@pie_flavor Oh, no wonder.
Follow up question: Does anyone use it?
o/ i download some of the more podcasty videos i follow so i can listen to them while i drive. i throw them through an audio extractor then speed them up to 1.25x speed and play them as MP3s through the car stereo.
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
@hungrier Yes. Although it does require YouTube Premium IIRC.
If @Vixen is talking about the YouTube Premium one, it's definitely not disabled by default; I've not encountered a video without it yet.
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@heterodox said in UI Bites:
@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
@hungrier Yes. Although it does require YouTube Premium IIRC.
If @Vixen is talking about the YouTube Premium one, it's definitely not disabled by default; I've not encountered a video without it yet.
It is possible i'm talking out my tailhole. I've been known to do that from time to time
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@loopback0 Microsoft, bringing the shittiness of Windows Update to a Mac near you.
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@loopback0: "The new Microsoft Null, now even nuller"?
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@loopback0 My phone got that feature too. Although mine is intelligent and I only see it get enabled if I have set an alarm and it is able to slow-charge to 100% before that goes off. And I can override it by just poking the notification for it.
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My phone got that feature too
They all get it in iOS13.
Although mine is intelligent and I only see it get enabled if I have set an alarm and it is able to slow-charge to 100% before that goes off.
It enables on my work phone too and that doesn't have any alarms enabled.
And I can override it by just poking the notification for it.
I'm rarely awake early enough for the notification to still be present.
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Listening to Pandora via a browser, with a few of my stations playing on shuffle and a song comes on that definitely doesn't sound right. Check my stations...nope, nothing there that should be playing this, but the song has a thumbs up. Well, fuck it, my wife probably did that and wasn't paying attention to which station was on. Downvote!
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And it happens again?! So I go digging in the Pandora help, because there doesn't seem to be a way to see which station is playing. They used to highlight the station name in the shuffle list, which sucked but at least you could figure it out. I find this:
Shuffle on the Web
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To view the station the song is from:
Scroll down a little in the Now Playing screen. A banner will appear at the top of the window that reveals the the original station the song is playing from. (It should say "[Station_Name] Radio," and then the name of the track).
scrolls
What retard thought this up?
(Obviously, this song is playing from the appropriate station.)
Hah! Then it started calling out stations that weren't even selected! So I
rebootedturned off shuffle and then turned it back on and saw a nearly completely different list of selected stations. OK, the songs I was hearing made sense now, at least, even if nothing else does.
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Status: So close! i18n is hard...
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I was held hostage by bad UI the other day. A program had automatically updated itself and put up a dialogue of the "Program has been updated. Computer needs to be restarted to finish the install." with the options of OK and Cancel. I press cancel. "System needs to be rebooted for the changes to take place." Sure, fine. Not a critical program. It can wait until I shut off the computer for the night.
But no. Upon pressing OK it just put up the first dialogue box again. Pressing Cancel this time just made it reappear. Keeping on pressing Cancel just brought it back infinitely. So I had to reboot the computer if I wanted the stupid thing to go away. Grr.
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I was held hostage by bad UI the other day. A program had automatically updated itself and put up a dialogue of the "Program has been updated. Computer needs to be restarted to finish the install." with the options of OK and Cancel. I press cancel. "System needs to be rebooted for the changes to take place." Sure, fine. Not a critical program. It can wait until I shut off the computer for the night.
But no. Upon pressing OK it just put up the first dialogue box again. Pressing Cancel this time just made it reappear. Keeping on pressing Cancel just brought it back infinitely. So I had to reboot the computer if I wanted the stupid thing to go away. Grr.
better than what happened to us today at work..... we updated an application on our production SQL server, that worked just fine in Dev and Test when we tried last week, didn't even need to reboot.... but in Production.... got halfway through the update and was all like "REBOOTING NOW!" and.... well it did.
Hello unexpected Production outage....... and there goes the rest of my day dealing with all the post mortem meetings and documentation.
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@Vixen Update on a Production server during the working day?
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Vixen Update on a Production server during the working day?
it was for monitoring software, not production software that shouldn't have needed reboot to accomplish (just service restart)
why not do it in the middle of the day instead of taking overtime?
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why not do it in the middle of the day instead of taking overtime?
Somebody just posted a good reason:
better than what happened to us today at work..... we updated an application on our production SQL server, that worked just fine in Dev and Test when we tried last week, didn't even need to reboot.... but in Production.... got halfway through the update and was all like "REBOOTING NOW!" and.... well it did.
Hello unexpected Production outage....... and there goes the rest of my day dealing with all the post mortem meetings and documentation.
Oh.
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why not do it in the middle of the day instead of taking overtime?
To mitigate the risk of something unexpected happening. Like a surprise restart.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
why not do it in the middle of the day instead of taking overtime?
To mitigate the risk of something unexpected happening. Like a surprise restart.
eeh. we're not saving lives here. what's the worst that happened? some of our customers go their invoices a couple of hours "late" for a thing that they're not going to physically get for circa 6 months, and that payment ain't due on for like 3 months.
They don't pay me enough to do overtime for those kind of stakes..
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Status: So close! i18n is hard...
l10n, not i18n.
Conversion was spot on. The internationalization however, was not. rejected.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Vixen Update on a Production server during the working day?
At my current gig, they do all production releases for all systems during working hours. Usually sometime around lunch. Because they don't want to pay for overtime. And there are no rollback plans for failed releases. Fun times.
I've managed to avoid getting production access though, so if things go tits up, I can't help anyway.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Vixen Update on a Production server during the working day?
At my current gig, they do all production releases for all systems during working hours. Usually sometime around lunch. Because they don't want to pay for overtime. And there are no rollback plans for failed releases. Fun times.
I've managed to avoid getting production access though, so if things go tits up, I can't help anyway.At my current gig, I have full control over everything except finances. Which means a 2PM deployment whenever I feel like it.
My hands... Well, they hold basically everything...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Which means a 2PM deployment whenever I feel like it.
You feel like it at 2pm...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Which means a 2PM deployment whenever I feel like it.
You feel like it at 2pm...
Sometimes. Other times, I don't feel like it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Which means a 2PM deployment whenever I feel like it.
You feel like it at 2pm...
Sometimes. Other times, I don't feel like it.
Well yeah, other times by definition aren't 2 pm
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Opera has a sidebar that's got a bunch of bullshit enabled by default (which can be disabled, good on them), as well as quick buttons to access your settings and stuff:
The Tree Tab extension for Opera does its thing in a pane that's exposed by a sidebar button.
(no big fancy trees yet)The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted that the sidebar with Tree Tabs looks a bit different from the Opera sidebar. That's because it's a more different sidebar, called the "Extension bar"
Why can't the TreeTabs extension bar button (the only thing I've ever seen the extension bar used for) be part of the normal sidebar? Why does it even need to be a thing at all?
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Why can't the TreeTabs extension bar button (the only thing I've ever seen the extension bar used for) be part of the normal sidebar?
My AI training suggests it's to prevent arbitrary extensions from impersonating the blessed buttons provided by Opera.
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@Tsaukpaetra That actually does make sense. And I guess having the extension bar at all could be for a similar reason, because otherwise some extension could have its own sidebar pane that pretends to be the Opera sidebar.
I wish it was feasible for software to treat users as adults.
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@Tsaukpaetra That actually does make sense. And I guess having the extension bar at all could be for a similar reason, because otherwise some extension could have its own sidebar pane that pretends to be the Opera sidebar.
I wish it was feasible for software to treat users as adults.
Yeah, IMO they could have easily collapsed the extra bar into the main one, just with a different background or whatever so there's at least a visual cue that something is different.
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@Tsaukpaetra Your post appeared literally while I was making this
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@Tsaukpaetra Your post appeared literally while I was making this
Only in my version the extensions would be above the system ones, possibly aligned to top so there could be a gap for the system ones and make it more obvious.
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@Tsaukpaetra I think it makes more sense to have the Opera sidebar buttons at the top because there are a limited number of Opera buttons, but theoretically as many extensions as you could want. Maybe the extension bar could even populate from the bottom up. But anyway the current execution is the Worst of the Worst
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Here's the macOS printer menu as seen from Preview:
Note that it doesn't actually save the accounting ID (user name), so I have to enter that manually each time. Yes, even by setting presets.
Here's the printer menu as seen from Word (and most other apps). Which saves the id, and does the nice dropdowns.
And of course, macs "just work". Except printers, which never work. Not sure if I should blame printers or mac
InB4 whynotboth.gif
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Is that the default color theme, or did you change it? Because white text on a light gray background is also an UI bite.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
Is that the default color theme, or did you change it? Because white text on a light gray background is also an UI bite.
Default. I ain't changed nothing.
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So Apple hasn't heard about accessibility and minimum contrast. Wonderful.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
Is that the default color theme, or did you change it? Because white text on a light gray background is also an UI bite.
IIRC Dark Mode isn't the default, although the Preview print dialog makes things worse by being translucent so how light it is dependant on what's behind it.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
translucent
Great. They found a way to make me hate dark mode even more. Good jorb.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
light gray background
Huh?
*looks at the picture*
...I'm almost certain one of us has display brightness set way off...
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Bravo, NodeBB.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
light gray background
Huh?
*looks at the picture*
...I'm almost certain one of us has display brightness set way off...
I mean this:
"Light gray" is debatable, but the contrast seems too low to me.
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@Zerosquare to me it's definitely dark grey, and it's perfectly readable.
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@Zerosquare to me it's definitely dark grey, and it's perfectly readable.
It's got a V > 50, so rather on the light than the dark side, although "medium grey" probably fits best.
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@Zerosquare to me it's definitely dark grey, and it's perfectly readable.
It's got a V > 50, so rather on the light than the dark side, although "medium grey" probably fits best.
Medium-light gray!