What about the Fire tablets that flip the volume control hardware button whenever you change screen orientation from portrait to landscape and vice versa? I always mess up because of that.
The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
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Re: The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
#482Earlier quoted context omitted.
We've been using Teams since the pandemic started and we switched to WFH. It started off awful, and in that time, it hasn't got better in any material way. Interactions still feel like your mouse pointer is moving through molasses. Notifications are misbehaved trash. Video calls make your CPU beg for mercy (useful if you want to fry eggs on your laptop though). Switching between multiple organisations is still misera…
>It started off awful, and in that time, it hasn't got better in any material way.// That's not my experience at all. It's not great, but it has improved a lot. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-s-new-in-mic...
Perhaps saying it hasn't got any better was uncharitable—thinking back, when we first started using it I don't think you could even have more than four people visible on a call at the same time.
But the basics—the things that I mentioned in my previous comment—have remained all but unaddressed for the lifetime of the product so far, and it's utterly miserable to use because of it. They're just piling new features on. I understand why, it's just frustrating.
Re: The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
#483Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could this by any chance be Blackboard [1]? [1] https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2014/01/christ-i-hate-b...
I don't think Blackboard is an SPA (it's just very slow server rendered), but it's UI really is terrible. I wrote a script to scrape my course materials when I was at uni, it was that bad.
> I wrote a script to scrape my course materials when I was at uni, it was that bad
Pass!
Re: The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
#484Earlier quoted context omitted.
The first couple documented solutions for the volume warning on my new rooted Android phone didn't appear to have any effect. The volume warning is required by EU regulations, so it's hard to blame the OS maker for that. I do, however blame Google for increasingly trying to discourage rooting and providing facilities to app makers to prevent their apps from running on rooted devices. They could, however have implemen…
As far as I know, the audio functionality gained by rooting is no longer possible in newer android versions. I don't understand why the concept of 'rooting'(as it applies to android) exists. I purchased my phone, with money, why in the actual fuck are there hundreds-thousands of folders and files my pocket computer will not let me touch? I'm really tired of the 'safety before freedom' mentality that seems to exist th…
I can understand why root is not enabled by default. Anybody who had to fix Windows PCs owned by average consumers a decade or so ago probably does too. The situation on Nexus and Pixel devices was about right: it requires the use of the command line (or third-party software), but doesn't try to resist. At least, it didn't until the introduced Safetynet so that apps can resist running on rooted devices.
I think the motivation for things like Safetynet is that general-purpose computers aren't good for business. If the user has full control, they might block ads, pirate content, or use content they legitimately paid for in a way a service provider wants to charge extra for.
Re: The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
#485Earlier quoted context omitted.
The first couple documented solutions for the volume warning on my new rooted Android phone didn't appear to have any effect. The volume warning is required by EU regulations, so it's hard to blame the OS maker for that. I do, however blame Google for increasingly trying to discourage rooting and providing facilities to app makers to prevent their apps from running on rooted devices. They could, however have implemen…
> The volume warning is required by EU regulations But the regulations most certainly do not require the warning to pop up when the volume is still to quiet to hear that guy in the video talking, which is the actual complaint. If the warning actually appeared the moment when the volume is about to get really loud, it would be cool. The underlying problem is, of course, that the volume control only slightly correlates…
> the volume control only slightly correlates with the actual volume that comes from the headphones.
Which makes concrete regulations about volume levels nonsensical however well-intentioned.
Re: The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
#486Earlier quoted context omitted.
To add insult, the notifications are a separate window on macOS. So when you use cmd+tab to switch _to_ Teams, you might end up in that notifications window. Even when there are no Teams notifications, that window remains. This is very painful when in full-screen mode, as cmd-tabbing to Teams simply doesn’t work. I’m on the beta where you can switch to native notifications, but they’ve only implemented that (poorly)…
If you’re on a 2nd space in macOS, typing CMD-TAB to switch to the Teams window in 1st space will NOT display Teams and will keep you in 2nd space. Breaking the native CMD-TAB shortcut is breathtaking… (Workaround: switch to any other app in 1st space first, then switch to Teams…)
Well another workaround actually: CMD-TAB until focus is on Teams, DOWN, DOWN, RETURN does the trick as well. But, how embarassing...
Re: The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
#487Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could this by any chance be Blackboard [1]? [1] https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2014/01/christ-i-hate-b...
Blackboard has to be the worst software I ever had the misfortune of having to interact with. How come universities spend millions of dollars every year on such a steaming pile of crap?
Re: The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
#488Does anyone remember the name of the music video in the examples?
Re: The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
#489Earlier quoted context omitted.
Outlook also has had this problem of emails just not showing up. Sometimes it takes a whole day for an email to arrive. Amazingly low quality for such a wide used product. MS in particular has the habit of actually introducing small bugs like this regularly through their usual updates. It's infuriating. One day something works the next it just doesn't. I know people who never update their machine because of this. Can…
> I know people who never update their machine because of this. HA! I was just testing a VR app that has a Windows component when things started failing in VR. I took off my headset and noticed my test machine going through power-on self test. "Oh crap!", I thought, "a bug caused the system to reboot". Nope. Just Microsoft deciding it's time to apply some updates. Doesn't matter that I scheduled for a time that I wou…
This way has always worked for me
%windir%\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestratorhttps://www.joe0.com/2019/10/17/how-to-prevent-windows-10-au...
Re: The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
#490Twitch watch parties. Ok you do have independent control of the two video streams (at least on desktop, I’ve not used it a ton on mobile) but one slider is in the normal twitch position and the other is behind a volume button. Making small tweaks because of the streamer getting loud (I do use ffz’s compressor but it’s not a miracle worker) or cause the audio isn’t of the video is greatly balanced to begin with (looking at you Invincible..) is a pain in the arse… /me tableflip