I had a professor who worked for Microsoft with something related to coding some parts of driver installation or similar thing.
He literally has Vietnam flashbacks if working at Microsoft comes out as a topic when talking
Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
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#152For all the ESG virtue signaling that Microsoft does, you’d think they’d be concerned about the climate impact of this and why their applications are so inefficient.
It's funny that they give you a whole Greenpeace lecture in the Settings app now about carbon footprint and how Microsoft is committed to lowering it and that you're a terrible person for having your brightness at 100%, but then spins around on this and shoves Office in boot...
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#153They should increase the speed of Excel on Mac. Not sure why its always so slow when entering data, etc…
There is a noticeable lag when you enter something in a cell and then hit enter.
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#154This is the kind of genius move you get when all your devs play leetcode all day and then have leetcode battles as an interview service.
Hundreds of millions of hours spent microfussing over leetcode and gatekeeping work because your solution isn’t copied from the top 5 solutions character for character. Only for the same devs to just abandon all optimization in the real job where it actually matters and implement an o(n^2) fraudulent time metric bypass.
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#155What a mess..
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
At installation Chrome, Edge browser and Acrobat Reader all silently add multiple background tasks to Windows startup which will then run at every boot and log on. Those tasks check for updates, pre-load and ensure their usage analytics get dutifully reported. Because I only use those apps on rare occasion, I go remove all those tasks. And each of those apps checks to see if its tasks are still there on every run or…
Adobe is the worst offender. I just checked and I have no less than 8 Adobe processes running on my macOS machine, without any Adobe apps running, and with all of the settings to run in the background or sync stuff turned off. I even have a script to nuke all of the services they install that I run every once in a while, but they just come back after a while. It's literally malware. If Photoshop and Lightroom weren't…
At least with a fuji camera, and for my tastes ofc, I prefer capture one over lightroom
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#157Derp.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#158Between Office's increasingly bloated size, slow booting and super annoying CoPilot icon right where I'm working (which still can't be turned off in OneNote) - I'm on the edge of dumping Office. I pretty much only use OneNote and a little OneDrive (3% of the included storage plan) to sync files between machines and I run Word and Powerpoint less than a dozen times a year combined. Even as a paying customer, all the O…
I guess you already know, but you do not necessarily need a server for Syncthing if the devices are on at the same time. If they are not, a simple low-power rpi-like device would be more than enough to implement a star topology, with the pi being receive-only.
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#159I genuinely don't know if it was a bug or intentional behavior like TFA, but on the last win10 machine I used Edge would leave several of its background browser engine processes running indefinitely after the application was closed. Seems like they're just happy to let their users make unwitting sacrifices for their convenience of their devs.
Both behaviors are intentional and (for now) configurable.[1][2]
[1] https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/167068-how-enable-disabl...
[2] https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/160140-disable-continue-...
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#160Libreoffice/Openoffice have been doing this since quite early on (reason is that the ancestor StarOffice was designed as monolith, always loading the full suite of programs, and splitting it is probably very hard), so it seems to be an unofficial standard. On the other hand, it's disappointing, since I remember early M$ Office version being blazing fast (but again, I suspect that there was some preloading going on).
This does not appear to be the case for LibreOffice in my tests.