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Yes, this is what I meant. Also to respond generally to other posts. I am aware of the the separation between NT and 9x. That was Microsoft's problem and not the customers' problem…

This article is a bit rambly so I'll just focus on some things from the beginning: >If your kitchen knife kept changing shape, weight, and edge, you’d have to relearn it every time…

Both of them are bad

>You do want the application to steal focus when necessary No I don't. We recently switched to Zoom at work. Meeting notifications steal my focus (Windows 11 device) and it's fucki…

Having owned a good number of Macs and one hackintosh in the past, that would be very bizarre assumption to overlook. App icons bouncing while something loaded was never a rare thi…

I use KDE on Bazzite. It has a couple killer UI features over Windows. It can label bluetooth devices (so I can have blue dualsense controller, pink dualsense controller, white dua…

I will say I have two DualUp monitors and they are my favorite monitors I ever had so I'm sad I can no longer recommend them. 2560x2880 is perfect for programming, researching, wri…

My LG DualUp monitors (with no internet access) recently triggered some LG Adware Bullshit to install on my Windows laptop. So I'd say stop using LG anything (or Windows anything s…

Most of the time, I want neither. No I don't want the ticketmaster app (or DICE). I may need to visit a website to buy a ticket, but after that just email me a QR code or something…

I lack the skills, time, and nerve to try it with my own phone lol (and wouldn't want a keyboard). As much as I miss the Palm Phone, this is an acceptable compromise.

On the topic of the thread, I am left-handed. When I tried to resize the keyboard while it was closed, it constantly glitched out. Could not figure out what was going on until I ro…

I agree that phones are too big. I refuse to switch to two-handed phone use. I used the Palm Phone PVG 100 with a 3.3" screen as long as I could, but software got too slow and batt…

As someone who recently switched from Rackspace to Hetzner for my dedicated VPS (albeit before the recent price jump), I am still quite happy with my decision. Apparently they are …

Sounds like a concern for app devs but something that shouldn't be a concern for users (because they should be able to turn it off)

Yeah the mainstream alternatives to x86 are all super locked down

I use KDE at home after leaving OS X when it became clear Apple became more interested in mobile OSes than desktop OSes, and using various combos of Linux and Windows for a bit. Go…

>On the flip side, many websites ask if I want to allow notifications One of the first things I disable on any new Firefox setup. I want zero notifications from websites (or in gen…

I use Android. Lyft put marketing notifications in the default notification channel on my device. If the Play Store were useful, they'd have banned Lyft until they fixed it. (haven…

>Now, I suppose we could argue that Google could be more ham-fisted about forcing apps to use them, but that's murky. I disagree. What the is the point of forcing everyone to use t…

I guess I already know roughly how much space they're taking up since I just check how much space I'm using in my dropbox directory on one of my computers. From my perspective, Dro…

>On the other hand, I can't think of a single new feature they've introduced since 2011 that matters. Honestly that's what I love about it. I work on something on my desktop. Then …

There's a setting to fix this. But it's criminal that this is the default

I dunno, what does Jordan's Furniture do about the fact that the recliner I'm sitting on is feature complete and has been since 2005 and seems to be sturdy enough to last me for th…

Mainstream behavior doesn't necessarily mean what people want. Many try and fail to stop Windows updates, for instance. I would guess that the majority of the users of the TicketMa…

I'm with you. I also hate automatic updates. Times when I want my software to behave differently from the day before without me requesting it: Zero. It puts the incentives on the w…