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Also the even more curious thing of having the correct guess in the list after two letters and then forgetting it when you type the third one.
Indeed.
It's also the first suggestion when I type a single 's'.
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@Zecc If you didn't select it after 2 letters, then it's clearly not what you want, so it gets removed from the results.
See also: auto-complete suggestions on mobile keyboard
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This shit drives me up the wall.
It's one of the actual improvements in W11 - while they were busy messing up the rest of the taskbar and start menu, they did at least get the search working.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
they did at least get the search working
They probably did it by getting the indexing working. Without an index already prepared, search is always ghastly.
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@Applied-Mediocrity I actually suspect not. I know that MS are using SQLite in their systems — like virtually everyone else! — and that's got a standard full text indexer (the
FTS5
virtual table extension) so they could have switched to using that. Which would have been what was needed to make search work and be pretty fast. (Building the index takes a while, of course. Which is why you run that in the background after installation. Keeping the index up to date after that is enormously easier.)
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Status¿ Nextcloud go home, you're drunk...
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Calendar on macOS:
The server responded with an error.
Revert to Server Try again Ignore
Okay, how about a details button? What the fuck was the error?
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@topspin "Your calendar is out of date."
Oh, wait, "JUL" ... does that stand for "Julmond", so actually December?
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Okay, how about a details button? What the fuck was the error?
Reminds me of Mail, which sometimes stops with an error about some message going missing (because Exchange has its own ideas) yet there's really nothing much I can do about it except hit
OK
as I both lack the technical details about the message in question (beyond its title) and the access to the mailbox is all via the application. Because stopping all synching is exactly what people always want for an error they can't do anything about, as opposed to a very minor notification that doesn't prevent anything.To add insult to injury, the always-on-top feature of the dialog is broken. It's modal… but you have to click on the correct window to make it show up at all. Trying to interact with any of the other windows at all just results in things going “Beep: you can't do that.”
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If I'm looking at something in a logged-out Twitter tab, and click on anything (e.g. a post with pictures to expand them, or "Show this thread"), it opens the thing, but puts up this popup in front of it:
That's not so bad, just click the × or anywhere outside of the popup to clear it away and do what I wanted to do in the first place, right? Nope, as soon as you clear the popup it forcibly goes back to the last thing you looked at. So I have to either delete the popup and re-enable scrolling through the dev tools, or open the thing in a new tab.
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If I'm looking at something in a logged-out Twitter tab
The only way for me to look at Twitter. And I like it that way. Except for the stupid UI you describe.
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What the fuck was the error?
E_OutOfUmlauts
E_ItsAMac
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@hungrier There's a better solution: I block all of Twitter crap on my machine.
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What the fuck was the error?
E_OutOfUmlauts
E_ItsAMac
Ë_ÏHävëÄllThëRöckDötsÏNëëd.
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Speaking of designer garbage and square/round/flat over in the Windows 11 thread, who the hell thought this
is an upgrade over this? (Any blurriness is due to resizing and not in original)
(Never mind the bullshit the first time I started it and it showed my name but still didn't consider me logged in (fuck all your cloud shit) and when saving files didn't work it didn't even show a message box. )
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@dkf You wanna röck n röll?
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@topspin
:there_is_your_problem:
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@Luhmann All traffic lights are on at the same time?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
an upgrade
Wait, aren't your screenshots backwards?
The first shows the new Office 365 garbage on Win 10, the second the old version 16.55 running on Mac. And the new graphics are clearly a down-grade.
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Speaking of designer garbage and square/round/flat over in the Windows 11 thread, who the hell thought this
is an upgrade over this? (Any blurriness is due to resizing and not in original)
Top one's tabs look like action buttons. Bottom one's tabs look like dropdown menus. Neither is any good.
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@Applied-Mediocrity
Green is for go!
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@Applied-Mediocrity
Green is for go!Not according to the driver I saw last Friday.
Clarification: He did not see green - that was me. Thankfully, I saw him.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
an upgrade
Wait, aren't your screenshots backwards?
The first shows the new Office 365 garbage on Win 10, the second the old version 16.55 running on Mac. And the new graphics are clearly a down-grade.
You must not be on latest / switched to the "classic ribbon" then.
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@Bulb that's a total cop out though. "Let us take over all your source code or else all devices you sell will stop working next Tuesday". Can you imagine what would happen if Microsoft tried that?
You'd be able to print on HP printers out of the box instead of having to install tons of crappy HP shovelware?
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Yeah. That's the point, it would be totally unrealistic.
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No, Diebold, this not the way to display a JPG file!
BTW that must be the funkiest font on a text console I've ever seen. The vast majority of ATMs are just embedded x86s running Windows XP or something but this doesn't look like it. Too bad it was completely unresponsive.
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So, every once in awhile Brave prompts me to take a survey (as part of their "Brave Ads" system).
Got this in the most recent survey:
The option groups are horizontal, so I could not answer "yes" or "no" to both, only "yes" and "no" for one and/or the other. I'm guessing someone messed up when setting up the survey.
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he vast majority of ATMs are just embedded x86s running Windows XP or something but this doesn't look like it.
OS/2?
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No, Diebold, this not the way to display a JPG file!
That actually seems to be an .swf file (header starts with FWS). Though it seems to embed a jpg file (JFIF) early on.
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The onboard version of Lorem Ipsum
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status: yes, I see, not only is YouTube getting rid of the dislike button, but is making comments disappear as well!
Good 👏fucking👏job! 👏
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
YouTube ... is making comments disappear
And nothing of value was lost.
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@Tsaukpaetra I tried to leave a comment on a video the other day, talking about something that someone had designed and mentioning the name of the designer. Just a normal online name, not a swear word or racial slur or anything like that. Every time I tried, it would instantly disappear. Eventually I did it without crediting the author, and that version of the comment got through.
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and mentioning the name of the designer. ... Every time I tried, it would instantly disappear.
I wonder what they did to piss YT off...
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@dcon I figure it's either his name or maybe "Thingiverse" which doesn't make sense either. :who_nose:
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Somehow YouTube managed to fuck up Chromecast to the point where playing any other media on my phone (including in the web browser) pauses what's playing on my TV.
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Somehow YouTube managed to fuck up Chromecast to the point where playing any other media on my phone (including in the web browser) pauses what's playing on my TV.
That might be Android trying to "duck" the system audio but YouTube doing a dumb and not ignoring it like it should.... 🤔
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And now let's go shopping!
I always wanted to buy a%product-title%
(though I'd actually prefer an academic title) from atop %brand-id% selection
. With free delivery from €59.50 purchase onwards, that seems to be a real%bargain%
.
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@BernieTheBernie I always buy
%brandid%
goods, especially%product-title%
, just because it's got%total-reviews%
positive reviews, and%negative-review-count%
of those 5-star reviews.
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Please remind me
-12 hours
before the event has started:
A useful invention for people in management, who tend to do everything to late.
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The scientific magazine "Science" just refreshed the looks of their web sites.
Wow!
Look: when I want to download the pdf version of an article, I get such a superb animation:
It starts with an empty cup (?), which gets slowly filled. And somewhen before it's full, things just stop. Only in a small fraction of attempts, the pdf is shown at all.
Hey, Science, that's great science!
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@BernieTheBernie worse than that, they’re giving you a cup with a rounded bottom, guaranteeing you can’t even put it down while reading the article.
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Nexusmods. Let's filter away anime titty mods.
Yes, that is negative 203. Alright, I guess something went wrong, let's clear 'em...