@Arantor how much better is the Ultra Deluxe? I haven't been motivated to buy it yet.
Posts made by marczellm
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RE: When your actions influence the outcome in a videogame it's always meh. And when there are multiple endings they are all meh too
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RE: When your actions influence the outcome in a videogame it's always meh. And when there are multiple endings they are all meh too
Play The Stanley Parable.
Also the Blade Runner adventure game has done a good job of multiple endings, I think. It is still true that most of the game is entirely the same, but the point of that particular story always was philosophizing about what minute details make someone human or not. And that aspect of the movie is perfectly carried over to the game.
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RE: Facebook Messenger × EU = Stupidity²
If I use Firefox's developer mode to change the useragent to Kindle Fire, I can still use messenger.com.
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RE: Facebook Messenger × EU = Stupidity²
@Arantor said in Facebook Messenger × EU = Stupidity²:
so they build the happy path there in React Native
The desktop app is also React Native.
Other WTF is that I can happily use the very same web interface as messenger.com, if I go to facebook.com/messages. The annoying popup doesn't popup. (Because the change they have to make is give users the option to use separate accounts for "Facebook" and "Messenger" apps, so as long as you are not using an app called Messenger, it's fine.)
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Facebook Messenger × EU = Stupidity²
I generally like the EU sticking it to tech companies privacy wise, but I don't always like tech companies sticking it to the user in response. Granted I'm a special kind of user because I don't normally use a phone and I get irritated about things requiring one. But what kind of stupidity requires me to get my hands on a mobile device that I might not have or use, download an app that I haven't used and will never again, to perform an action just to enable me to continue using the web app and desktop app of the same service?
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RE: Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!
@izzion said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!:
How tf do y’all have problems with it?
I use Teams in full screen. The switch from small white chat bubbles on a pleasant gray background, to gray bubbles on a fully white screen is an eyesore.
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RE: Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!
@topspin If they ever create a desktop app from Microsoft Forms, will it appear as
Microsoft F...k or school)
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RE: Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!
@JBert well actually... Outlook has TWO "New" versions because the new Mac version is an entirely different app
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RE: Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!
@izzion said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!:
Oh, don't worry, they're rolling out NEW versions of the entire Office Suite to turn all of the desktop applications into Edgelectron wrappers on Office Online.
really?
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
I have flexible working hours, which I use for my music projects, which in some cases tend to come up on short notice, such as rehearsals. On the other hand I would like not to be the guy at work who always asks for meetings to be rescheduled.
Originally I synced my work calendar to my desktop PC together with my private calendar so I could see it together when scheduling stuff. Then that was banned by the IT department. Then I hacked up a Python script that runs periodically on my work PC, fires up Outlook via COM, and copies all the calendar events to a private Google calendar. Then the periodical sync stopped working because of some group policy, now I run the script manually every few days.
Now Microsoft is coming up with "New Outlook" which most importantly is not a desktop mail client at all, everything goes through the MS cloud even when using another mail provider:
When this finally rolls out, my COM script will stop working. What would y'all recommend?
(Obviously Outlook has a web API too which is, also obviously, restricted to only those third party apps explicitly allowed by the IT department.)
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RE: So Windows 11 Paint supports layers now...
@Medinoc said in So Windows 11 Paint supports layers now...:
a dumb zip
I was expecting the hover text to be "all zips are dumb" :)
What is a Microsoft packaging zip?
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
@topspin I also looked for those unsuccessfully. Some blog post makes a passing mention of them only being available for Insiders. No idea how you become an Insider in Mac Outlook.
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
@loopback0 said in Outlook being Outlook:
@marczellm That's not a new theme - that's been around (in 'old' Outlook for Mac) for ages.
Yep but at some point they took it out just to put it back again now.
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
There's a new theme that arrived in Mac Office with an update. It just basically turns off the coloring of the title bar
You cannot activate the new theme in New Outlook. Only in the old one.
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
@Tsaukpaetra I mean which version (which look) are you on?
If I use "Old Outlook" on Windows, but switch "Simplified Ribbon" to "Classic Ribbon" it becomes this:
But if I turn off the "Visual Refresh" it becomes this:
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RE: The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant
@apapadimoulis said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant:
world-class tools like Visual Studio
C'mon.
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
@Tsaukpaetra said in Outlook being Outlook:
We're not even on the version you claim is old yet.
Just out of curiosity, which one?
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
I spent around half an hour this week fiddling around with the 4 different desktop versions of Outlook comparing different screens and feature sets. I now understand why they want to throw out the old Windows desktop app. There are infinite number of complex but mostly meaningless UI customization options and each of them is subtly broken in a different way.
Old Outlook for Mac
New Outlook for Mac
Old and new Outlook for Windows
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
Apparently this popup menu in the Mac version is its own window, as every time you open it by hovering your mouse there, the main window's "traffic light" buttons are grayed out.
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
Okay the new web app based desktop app is beta software, but this is still funny.
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RE: WTF Office?
I have Click and Run Office on my computer and I still don't know wtf it means.
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RE: WTF Bites
@marczellm said in WTF Bites:
@Bulb You can now distribute any Win32 app in the Windows Store.
That's good. I've missed that.
Do you know how the installation works then?
I think there are at least 3 ways it can work:
- The developer can run their own installer through a "Store converter" resulting in a MSIX package
- The developer can get rid of their installer and build the app directly into an APPX package
- The developer can upload a conventional MSI installer into the store. When the user clicks Install, the Store runs the MSI install in the background and then forgets about the fact that they ever met. This has two downsides: first, the Store doesn't know it installed that app, so if you visit its Store page again, you can rerun the installation any number of times. Second, the app does not get automatic updates. This is the case with GIMP and Discord for example.
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RE: Depluralize a film
Star War: Attack of the Clone
Star War: Revenge of a Sith
Star War: Return of a JediThe Hobbit: The Battle of One Army
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RE: It's tools all the way down!
@Arantor said in It's tools all the way down!:
it is worth hammering out the odd rough edge from your whatever to make
the CI processeverybody's life easier - somethingthe devopsfolks tend to eschew in favour of complexityin the pipeline later.FTFY
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RE: VS Code Autoerase
@Tsaukpaetra IntelliJ too does that I believe... We could say that whenever the programming language that the editor was written in includes "Java" in its name ... :D
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RE: VS Code Autoerase
My favorite gripe about autocomplete:
Me: mistype something, like "frobulator" to "frobltor"
Me: put cursor back to frob|ltor
VSCode: Do you want me to complete "frobulator" for you?
Me: Why yes please!
VSCode: frobulatorltor -
RE: We need to elect a politician named Delivers Remarks
@HardwareGeek said in We need to elect a politician named Delivers Remarks:
When I was a young kid, my grandparents had friends whose surname was First.
Guy was named Safety First. (Might have been a nickname; it's the only name I ever heard used for him.) He had two sisters: May First, June First.
I know an Andrew Final.
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We need to elect a politician named Delivers Remarks
Seriously WTF is the reason for all public appearances of politicians reported under the title "XY delivers remarks"? It could be "XY speaks" or "XY gives a speech" or a hundred other things.
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RE: Mozilla alienating everyone and everything
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Mozilla alienating everyone and everything:
It's not money because you can't buy food with it and you can't pay taxes with it.
Crypto is a speculative asset, like stocks, precious metals, or collectible automobiles. You need to convert it to money before you can use it to meet basic needs. Those other things are all gambling too, but it's much easier to prevent scammers from stealing them.
True, except in El Salvador
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RE: Mozilla alienating everyone and everything
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Mozilla alienating everyone and everything:
Because crypto is a scam in the sense that it's not really money, it's gambling.
In what sense is money really money? What’s your definition of money that crypto people say cryptocurrency satisfies, but not really?
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RE: See Facebook pages without being logged in
@JBert said in See Facebook pages without being logged in:
Personally I would stop visiting those pages (because Facebook)
I do leave the login screen without logging in usually.
(Basically the page needs to have "Age restrictions" turned off, and the page might have recently switched it on.)
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do you use Private Browsing to rule out any persistent things?I am getting this behaviour on every page including my own musical projects' pages which I didn't recently alter in any way.
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See Facebook pages without being logged in
Recently, I haven't been able to look at Facebook pages without being logged in. Just a few months ago this was working. However I can't find any tech news articles or whatever about this being a recent change. Does anyone know about this?
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RE: Mystery of the Facebook apps for Windows
@Carnage said in Mystery of the Facebook apps for Windows:
@Arantor said in Mystery of the Facebook apps for Windows:
If they run it on Electron, wtf was the point of inventing React Native?
Self flagellation?
I wonder what kind of cross platform tech they are using now, because both desktop apps feel actually native. It might even be React Native now.
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RE: Mystery of the Facebook apps for Windows
@Carnage said in Mystery of the Facebook apps for Windows:
@Arantor said in Mystery of the Facebook apps for Windows:
If they run it on Electron, wtf was the point of inventing React Native?
Self flagellation?
Didn't they only make it for mobile first, and then Microsoft went and added Windows support?
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RE: Mystery of the Facebook apps for Windows
@sh_code said in Mystery of the Facebook apps for Windows:
also, i thought that fb/messenger shit runs on electron, thanks for the correction
Originally it didn't, then it did, now it again doesn't.
The Mac app also feels native, or at least nativer. It also became much faster too.
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RE: Mystery of the Facebook apps for Windows
Two years ago the Messenger app for Windows, which was a custom build of the iOS app running in an emulation layer, was replaced with an Electron app. This was also launched on Mac with custom platform like styling on both OSes.
Today the Messenger app was replaced by a mostly identical looking but way more performant one. Poking around the binary folder shows it's probably finally gone the real UWP route. Context menus are also native UWP ones now.
Performance was spectacularly bad in the Electron one when you scrolled up in conversation history for example. It gradually slowed to an unusable crawl. It's very smooth and seamless in the new one. I didn't understood back then why it has to be that bad, as the browser version did it no problem. How can you write two web apps for the same thing and mess up one so badly is beyond me.
I'll check whether they update the Mac one too. Maybe to a Catalyst based version?
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RE: macOS 12 Localized Keyboard Shortcuts piss me off
@topspin said in macOS 12 Localized Keyboard Shortcuts piss me off:
@LaoC said in macOS 12 Localized Keyboard Shortcuts piss me off:
However, due to potential language and COM interop issues it is recommended that you use only English function names in your code.
What the actual fuck is this supposed to mean?
I believe, from the word 'code', it might refer to code that invokes Excel functions, such as from VBA or through COM APIs from any other language.
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macOS 12 Localized Keyboard Shortcuts piss me off
Keyboard set to Hungarian -> Goodbye muscle memory
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RE: The absolute state of faxing in 2020
@robo2 said in The absolute state of faxing in 2020:
If you ended up at the post office without the signature they would tell you the equivalent of "the computer says no". All you had to do was turn around, find a pen, sign the form, get back in the queue, and everything was OK.
I went to a govt office to request a new health id card. Waited in line for about an hour then they said no, I can only request a new one within a certain time period of the old one’s expiration date, or if I lost or damaged the old one. I said “sure, I’ll come back later” and went home. Then it occurred to me that I should have lost or damaged it there and then.
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RE: YouTube has decided to break things because . . . raisins
@El_Heffe said in YouTube has decided to break things because . . . raisins:
Carefully reviewed, my ass.
How did they do that if it wasn’t visible in the video?
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RE: A phantom button appeared on my desktop
@Gurth said in A phantom button appeared on my desktop:
@marczellm Looks like a menu with one entry. Does it remain when you switch between programs, or is it only there when Firefox is frontmost?
I've since figured out with Accessibility Inspector that it belongs to the VPN app we use.
It only appears if you enable Sidecar.
Which is a marked improvement since before you couldn't even use Sidecar or Airdrop with VPN on.