WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
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@DogsB said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Might be able to reinstall with a windows 11 iso and get the drivers via update.
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We have all this "telemetry" but we can't do anything with it.
We can still use it to improve the product...
Feed her to laser spiders.
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@DogsB said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
laser spiders.
That gives me a good idea for a homebrew D&D monster my players will hate. Thanks!
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@DogsB said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Feed her to laser spiders.
What’s the point of rejecting an animated gif that’s too big if it’ll only show one frame anyway…
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status: Windows decided to hold all my notifications until just now. No I'm not in "do not disturb mode" or "focus mode". Notifications were working two hours ago.
Just...
Ding! Ding! Ding!
For about three minutes straight.
Neat.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Ding! Ding! Ding!
For about three minutes straight.There are people
On Teams
Who type
A paragraph
Of text
As many
Individual
Messages
Short messages
Because
Apparently
They can't think
In complete sentences
Ding
Ding
Ding
Ding
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@loopback0 Enabled by Group Policy because the Admin wants it to be like that?
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@loopback0 Yes, because
oftenvery, very rarely, honest I'm AFK and want to know if someone is expecting me to be paying attention.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@loopback0 Yes, because
oftenvery, very rarely, honest I'm AFK and want to know if someone is expecting me to be paying attention.For example when I’m
getting a haircutworking, for sure.
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Apparently, in Win 11, MS's Bluetooth audio driver allows either the use of the headset mic for Zoom/Teams/Discord/whatever, but listening to mono audio with only 1960s AM radio quality , or decent stereo audio but the mic is disabled. Using the mic and non- audio at the same time is completely impossible.
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This is the result of design decisions dating back to the origins of Bluetooth.
Basically, you had to choose between two audio profiles:
- a one-way one, intended for general-purpose audio
- a two-way one intended for telephony, but limited to 8 kHz sample rate and mono audio
In 1999/2000, with the constraints of the day (limited radio bandwidth, limited processing power, and telephone signals being low-quality in the first place), this was not entirely unreasonable.
But Bluetooth being the poster child of a "designed by committee" standard, in the quarter of a century since, getting everyone to agree and transition to something that's better went just as well as you can imagine. And so, here we are.
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@Zerosquare preferably something that works, and is not Bluetooth. But I repeat myself.
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@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
works, and is not Bluetooth.
Interestingly, with the same headphones:
- Paired with my phone, I can leave my phone sitting in the house and walk out in the backyard, almost all they way to my shed, probably ~10 meters, before I start losing audio.
- Paired with my laptop, I can't walk to the other side of the room, 3 or 4 meters, before the audio starts dropping out, or even less if I go around the corner into another room so there's a wall in the way.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Apparently, in Win 11, MS's Bluetooth audio driver allows either the use of the headset mic for Zoom/Teams/Discord/whatever, but listening to mono audio with only 1960s AM radio quality , or decent stereo audio but the mic is disabled. Using the mic and non- audio at the same time is completely impossible.
That's been a limitation with Bluetooth since inception. Devices that support using the Mic with decent-quality Headphones are usually hacking.
Edit: I should learn at some point.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
probably ~10 meters
Yes, that's the spec standard.
@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
with my laptop, I can't
That's because they deprioritized the 2.4GHz antenna design.
I personally get better range with a Real antenna connected on my desktop, but the receiving device also has to have a decent antenna too.
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News from Redmond. When an äpp starts too slowly, just start it when Windows starts.
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@BernieTheBernie everything old is new again. Welcome back to the 90s!
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@BernieTheBernie That whole article reads like a giant WTF, but I don't think I use the "Photos" app to begin with. All of the "features" they list having being added to the Photos app sound dumb. No, I don't want it to integrate with the web, and especially not with one drive or any similar garbage, definitively not a splash screen (show me the image I wanted to see!), nor run in the background.
It’s worth noting that Microsoft still offers the “Legacy Photos” app in the Store, but it lacks advanced AI features such as generative erase and background remover.
Um, yeah, that sounds fine. In fact, no AI features sounds a lot better than yes AI features. If I want to erase the background, I'll use GIMP or something.
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@cvi All those features must be why I see that thing updating almost every time I look at Store updates.
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@dcon said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
I look at Store updates.
Aha! There's your problem!
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@dcon said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
I look at Store updates.
Aha! There's your problem!
Yeah - I like to manually run updates so it doesn't reboot when I don't expect. (And when Terminal updates in the store, anything running in an existing Terminal goes "poof!".)
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Apparently, in Win 11, MS's Bluetooth audio driver allows either the use of the headset mic for Zoom/Teams/Discord/whatever, but listening to mono audio with only 1960s AM radio quality , or decent stereo audio but the mic is disabled. Using the mic and non- audio at the same time is completely impossible.
I use a bluetooth headset on my work computer for meetings sometimes, and although I have never tried listening to high quality stereo audio at the same time as the mic, it works ok for both functions
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
works, and is not Bluetooth.
Interestingly, with the same headphones:
- Paired with my phone, I can leave my phone sitting in the house and walk out in the backyard, almost all they way to my shed, probably ~10 meters, before I start losing audio.
- Paired with my laptop, I can't walk to the other side of the room, 3 or 4 meters, before the audio starts dropping out, or even less if I go around the corner into another room so there's a wall in the way.
My bluetooth earbuds (with both my old phone and new one):
- phone sitting in a holder upstairs: I can go down to the basement and keep listening uninterrupted
- phone in right pants pocket: Turning my head to the left cuts audio out completely. I guess my ass and torso are emitting strong EMF interference or something
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My "photo app".
12 years old, works on Windows 11 and is infinitely better than the useless garbage Win11 photos app.
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@Gern_Blaanston This but with Irfanview
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@hungrier said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
although I have never tried listening to high quality stereo audio at the same time as the mic,
You should. You really should. It's a fucking experience!
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@hungrier said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
guess my ass and torso are
emitting strong EMF interferenceabsorbing the weak 2.4 GHz transmissions or something
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@Tsaukpaetra :ass:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
It's a fucking experience!
I'm not sure I'd trust your expertise in that.
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Once upon a time there was a Microsoft PowerToy called "Text Extractor". It was a very quick and convenient utility to get text out of e.g. screenshots without having to retype it like some caveman. However, recently it has been updated with this notice:
And indeed, Snipping Tool does have a button that should allow that very functionality:
Lets see how well that works