Windows update is perfect

This site is just beautiful. You linked the site from mobile. It seemed to properly redirect you to the AMP version (even though AMP itself is bullshit anyway, IMHO). Opening the link in FF on desktop still gives me the AMP version.

Cookie consent thing doesn't even work with AdBlock on. Even then, it's only the cookie question, no GDPR options. I get those if I remove /amp/ from the URL, meaning you don't even get the options on mobile, presumably.

Brillant!

TimeBandit

@Onyx still less shitty than Windows update

Tsaukpaetra

@Onyx said in Windows update is perfect:

@Tsaukpaetra said in Windows update is perfect:

Matt Hanson / Aug 8, 2018 / Pro

Experts say Windows 10 updates are a mess and demand Microsoft fix them

People aren’t happy

This site is just beautiful. You linked the site from mobile. It seemed to properly redirect you to the AMP version (even though AMP itself is bullshit anyway, IMHO). Opening the link in FF on desktop still gives me the AMP version.

Cookie consent thing doesn't even work with AdBlock on. Even then, it's only the cookie question, no GDPR options. I get those if I remove /amp/ from the URL, meaning you don't even get the options on mobile, presumably.

Brillant!

Yeah, everything about it is broken for me because of DNS blocking.

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boomzilla

@Onyx said in Windows update is perfect:

even though AMP itself is bullshit anyway, IMHO

AMP is really the only sane way to view threads on tumblr. Which is to say that I agree with you.

topspin

@boomzilla said in Windows update is perfect:

@Onyx said in Windows update is perfect:

even though AMP itself is bullshit anyway, IMHO

AMP is really the only sane way to view threads on tumblr. Which is to say that I agree with you.

Out of curiosity, why do you view threads on tumblr?

Also, I thought the preferred way to view tumblr threads is screenshots...

boomzilla

@topspin said in Windows update is perfect:

Out of curiosity, why do you view threads on tumblr?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/

Zerosquare

"Tumblr" and "sane" are not words that are supposed to be in the same sentence, unless there's a negation somewhere.

Tumblr is for posting materials that are either NSFW or NSFB.

Shoreline

By the sound of things I've been extremely lucky with my Windows 10 updates. I only upgraded because it was free, I felt I could get away with it, the laptop was already old at the time and I had been lumped with Windows 8. The weirdest thing to happen was that almost-full partition it gave me which kept complaining about being full.

That said, I only use it for games because it will shut down when it feels like, forcing me to give a maximum 8-hour window when it shouldn't shut down rather than telling it the same as my fitbit/bluetooth timeframe: 3-6am, the ungodly hours. I can't have that for work. I save my work but sometimes it's nice to believe that my machine will probably still be running in the morning, rather than systematically losing things.

What kind of world are we in where I can consider myself lucky with software updates?

pie_flavor

@Shoreline The kind where no user thinks to consult the official documentation on how to change that behavior.

mott555

@pie_flavor said in Windows update is perfect:

no user thinks to consult the official documentation

This is TDWTF. Surely you don't believe people actually read documentation

mott555

@mott555 said in Windows update is perfect:

read documentation

At a previous job, we had a quirk in our flagship application due to integration with external software. The user had to do something to this other application that couldn't scripted within ours. I created a dialog with explicit instructions that showed when you used the feature, which said "You must do X or Y will not work. Here's what you need to do: etc"

Nobody ever read this dialog. Nobody even noticed it. They clicked through it and then complained when the feature didn't work as expected. Eventually, my supervisor (who was very tech-savvy, by the way, not a )told me I needed to put in some kind of dialog that warned the users and told them what to do. I told him I'd done that long ago and showed him the dialog, and his response was something like "Huh, I never noticed that. Guess I should try reading things before I close them."

Tsaukpaetra

@mott555 said in Windows update is perfect:

with explicit instructions that showed when you used the feature

So, since the Master Server program is using Windows HTTP server library things, if the user does not have permission to listen on port 8080 or 443 it will spit very specific instructions to the log like so:


                // run if catching: netsh http add urlacl url=http://*:8080/ user="office\domain users"
                catch (Exception e)
                {
                    Logger.Instance.Log("Web Server", "Unable to start listening on HTTP port 443 (" + e.Message + ") Cannot inform WAN clients of initial login server.");
                    Logger.Instance.Log("Web Server", "Please run this command as Administrator:  netsh http add urlacl url=https://*:443/ sddl=D:(A;;GX;;;S-1-1-0)");
                }

Note that obviously the SID is not "office\domain users", and that this message will appear on any possible type of error during the web server startup code (including being unable to load the SSL certificate from disk).

The error message is also disingenuous: it's not just the login that's affected, the new UI I'm building (since it's a bunch of static JS and html) will also fail to load, since there is no "retry but just on localhost so something works" code.

Luckily, this usually doesn't need to be set up more than once ever.

Tsaukpaetra

It's still perfect!

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marczellm

@Tsaukpaetra said in Windows update is perfect:

Master Server program

Master Control Program | Disney Wiki | Fandom

I'd like to go against you and see what you're made of.MCP, before Kevin Flynn gets digitized The Master Control Program (usually abbreviated as MCP) is the main antagonist of the 1982 Disney...

Scarlet_Manuka

@marczellm Hah, that's what I thought of too.

pie_flavor

@marczellm Is that not what it's referenced this whole time?