Random Thoughts From Out of Nowhere

[Princess Viola]

i hate DST it's ******* stupid.

'oh the sun sets later now' WE HAVE A THING FOR THAT IT'S CALLED THE ******* DAY GETTING LONGER IT COMES FREE WITH LIVING IN A PART OF HTE WORLD WITH FOUR SEASONS

 

[Dekafox]

you know, with GPS and modern phones, everyone could coordinate based on UTC and otherwise have personal timezones based on your exact position keyed off where the sun should be at that time of day and year

 

[CoffeeHorse]

My phone reports that I'm somewhere in South Korea, so that wouldn't work for me.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Florida Man has breached containment.

 

[Caldwin]

I'm just glad he said "South."

 

[Dekafox]

I just realized:

There is an old saying that "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result" except that's explicitly how LLMs work. I feel like there's a point somewhere in there...

 

[Superomegaprime]

Watched a video earlier, about the origin of Knights, it was pretty intersting and it was originally meaning young boy pretty much, but it evolved over time along with language and culture, a good chunk of what we think knights are today comes from fiction than reailty!

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Every way I find a new way that modern Windows is broken.

If you're ever renaming things and notice that they're not auto-sorting, I figured out what to do. Open a new tab, and this time make sure you start from C:\, then navigate back to the folder you were working in. Now get back to work renaming things, and watch them auto-sort like they should.

The problem is the stupid Quick Access thing. It's not a set of shortcuts like you might think it is. It's basically a whole fake file system on top of your real file system, and it's missing features while giving absolutely no indication that those features are missing. Things just seem like they're not working for no obvious reason. Microsoft has no explanation for any of this, so I'm not sure they did it on purpose or even know they did it.

 

[Guardian Prime]

Huh, I've never had that problem through Quick Access. At least, not that I can recall. And I've renamed tons of files through it. As long as I remember to make sure the folder is set to sort by name, all is good.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

It used to work for me too, I think. One theory is that this is just a glitch that comes and goes. Who knows. All I know is that as of right now on my end this is totally reproducible. In Quick Access, nothing I do makes auto-sort work. Outside Quick Access, auto-sort works every time. This one condition flips it from 0% working to 100% working.

 

[Superomegaprime]

I've heard window 11 has a LOT of issues as a chunk of it, is made by AI and its not working out as well as they hoped, so for now, I'm staying on the older system until they resolve these issues, if they can, but this could pretty much be a case similar to windows 8, which as I recall was a disaster in a lot of ways forcing Microsoft to produce windows 10 and skip number 9!

 

[MEDdMI]

F Windows and their push/use of AI. Thankfully my home laptop is still on 10, but next time I need a new device, I'm gonna get Linux.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

11 is a mixed set of problems. They decided to finally start phasing out old code that nobody understands anymore. Features that run on new code on top of old code on top of old code on top of old code got stripped out so they could be rebuilt fresh. Some of the code is so old that it still has IBM's fingerprints on it.

The problem is some idiot decided to ship 11 before it was remotely ready. So out of the box it was just missing stuff.

The other problem is the a lot of the new code doesn't actually work any better than the old piles of kludge.

 

[Princess Viola]

the funniest part of windows 11 is how it made people start acting like windows 10 was good because windows users have the memory of a fruit fly

you just know when windows 12 comes out probably 95% of the people who hate windows 11 will suddenly start going 'windows 12 sucks jive, why should i upgrade from windows 11??? that's the last version of windows that was good!!! at least windows 11 didn't have a genAI built-in to the OS that controlled everything you wanted to do!!! you could at least disable copilot by editing the registry!!!'

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Not me. I never did downgrade from 7 to 10. I only have 11 because I needed a new desktop and 11 was already on it.

I never throw out old computers anymore, so I still might switch back to 7 someday. Or XP. It depends on which one gets its current compatibility issues fixed first.

 

[Princess Viola]

are you gonna become one of those people who get mad when software stops supporting your computer from 2005 and thinks it still should support it because 'IT ONLY DROPPED SUPPORT IN 2012!!!!!!' lol

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Nah. I'll stick the hard drive in a new case. But I have nowhere to put it before then, so I'm leaving it in its original case for now.

 

[Ceir]

Ugh. I too had to downgrade from 10 to 11 recently, and I'm still finding jive to turn off.

Remember back in the day when the OS was there to run the computer, and it shoving ads in your face or doing jive on its own was a sign that something was horribly wrong?

 

[Dekafox]

You might want to give https://privacy.sexy/ a try. I've seen it recommended by infosec folk who know better too and want to turn all that crap off.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I'd switch to ArcaOS if it didn't cost as much as a new computer, and if I could be sure it would work on the hardware I have. Or if I could just buy it preinstalled on something. Design-wise it's the dream, but obtaining it is a nightmare.