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Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by stackghost »

taikahessu wrote: post #49
stackghost wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Person builds trust on X/LinkedIn ... You don't actually advise them to post on LinkedIn, do you? You know all the engagement on LinkedIn is fake, right?

I just started posting on LinkedIn. It is a more niche audience, Finns, only 5 million of us. I know my posts aren't fake and the people there are one I know. What do you mean by fake? Do you mean fake as in "I am here to sell you my product, which is myself" kind of fake? Is that a feature of LinkedIn or the harsh reality of the "adult world" business? Like sitting in a bunch of meetings trying to figure which of th…

I've never seen a single LinkedIn post that wasn't overinflated horseshit like "I was late for a job interview and stopped to feed a starving dog. I missed the job interview. The next day I got a call from the CEO of the company offering me a management position. Turns out he was the dog. Never compromise who you are. #grindset"

These days it's all just that, or else people flinging AI slop past each other.

I have never seen a single piece of content on LinkedIn that I felt was genuine, or that wasn't obvious engagement bait.

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by contextfree »

fidotron wrote: post #101
fifticon wrote: post #15

This reminds me of trying to use File Explorer in Windows 11. I wish I could turn all their electron-app "improvements" off, to make it useful again, like it once was.. Case in point: Explorer now has tabs. I don't need tabs, I need a single tab, and a window title bar so I can drag the damn thing around. And.. my single tab, now tries to show the folder name, truncated to a few useless characters, so I now have tabs…

Aside from the other problems the emergent trend of shoehorning window level tabs into apps kind of indicates a failure of OS level window management. If people really want tabs in everything then have the windows enable tabbing between multiple contained apps.

This was a feature in Windows 10 preview builds for a while (2018-2019ish iirc) but it never shipped to retail.

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by contextfree »

zamadatix wrote: post #30
fifticon wrote: post #15

This reminds me of trying to use File Explorer in Windows 11. I wish I could turn all their electron-app "improvements" off, to make it useful again, like it once was.. Case in point: Explorer now has tabs. I don't need tabs, I need a single tab, and a window title bar so I can drag the damn thing around. And.. my single tab, now tries to show the folder name, truncated to a few useless characters, so I now have tabs…

You can pull the File Explorer tabs from my cold, dead hands! Also, I'm pretty sure the tabs were WinUI/XAML based, not WebView2 based. There are some "Electron" (i.e. web tech stack) components in File Explorer these days but I don't think most of the things you're complaining about are part of that.

What in file explorer is still web tech based?

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by justinclift »

sunaookami wrote: post #114
giancarlostoro wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> so I now have tabs called "C:\folder\sub1\..." This is the most idiotic thing I've heard today, who UAT'd this? Does Windows even bother having a UAT team? If they have a QA / UAT phase in their process for Windows they need to fire everyone and build a new UAT team for Windows, this is getting so ridiculous it hurts. Meanwhile I'm enjoying both Mac and Linux daily.

They fired their QA team 10 years ago and thought the Windows Insider Program could replace them.

They'd have to list to the feedback from the insiders though, and that doesn't seem like a MS thing to do.

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by brailsafe »

> Curiosity isn’t simply what’s left after a complete education. It’s still there if the system doesn’t ruin it.

Yes, but also some people are shockingly incurious and approach academia and life through a depressingly hollow transactional lens from the beginning. Though if it was there to begin with, there's a good chance it'll be stripped away through the structuring of courses to be measurable first and intriguing second

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by listenfaster »

ryandrake wrote: post #48
mft_ wrote: post #40

In a similar vein, I've argued in many a corporate meeting that there's no such thing as "empowerment". People start out wanting to achieve things, change things to be better, do a good job. The active issue is disempowerment , created by other people (usually but not always senior) within the organisation. So the question isn't "how to empower people", but rather "how to prevent disempowerment of people". This isn't…

I'm not sure when it happened, but there was a definite inflection point some time in my software career, where we all stopped asking "What does the user want to do with their computer?" and moved over to "What do we want the user to do with our software? And, it's been downhill since then. We stopped treating the user as the driver of the car, and pushed him into the passenger seat. Now users are just along for the…

Yep absolutely agree. I’m saving this comment in my journal.

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by m463 »

mft_ wrote: post #40

In a similar vein, I've argued in many a corporate meeting that there's no such thing as "empowerment". People start out wanting to achieve things, change things to be better, do a good job. The active issue is disempowerment , created by other people (usually but not always senior) within the organisation. So the question isn't "how to empower people", but rather "how to prevent disempowerment of people". This isn't…

I think it is part 3 of: lead, follow or get out of the way

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by systoll »

jessetemp wrote: post #75
fsckboy wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Many tasks involve a collection of directories, and tabs can be ideal for reducing demand for screen space. double pane with tabs would be handy so you could inspect or move files between two tabs. also, i'd really love two pane: filesystem and content viewer

That would actually be a great feature. Opening two file browsers to move stuff around is a really common workflow. Although with current trends we might instead get a chat bot prompt “tell me how you feel about where you want your files to be”

> Although with current trends we might instead get a chat bot prompt “tell me how you feel about where you want your files to be”

That almost feels too optimistic. Google Drive already has 'Suggest File Moves' aka 'Tell me where I should want my files to be'.

It tells me I should have a real hatred of any files being in the root directory, and completely disregard sharing and permissions boundaries.

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by winrid »

fifticon wrote: post #15

This reminds me of trying to use File Explorer in Windows 11. I wish I could turn all their electron-app "improvements" off, to make it useful again, like it once was.. Case in point: Explorer now has tabs. I don't need tabs, I need a single tab, and a window title bar so I can drag the damn thing around. And.. my single tab, now tries to show the folder name, truncated to a few useless characters, so I now have tabs…

Some related things I noticed just today:

- the close button in outlook is HIDDEN until you move the window

- in Gdrive they list the selected filename at the bottom. They have the entire page width to show the file name. It truncates at like 70px.

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by happymellon »

fsckboy wrote: post #52
elevation wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Explorer now has tabs. I don't need tabs Hey now! The `nautilus' file browser on linux got me hooked on tabs and for years it's been a glaring deficiency of File Explorer. Many tasks involve a collection of directories, and tabs can be ideal for reducing demand for screen space. I concede the the current Windows implementation is poor but I hope they improve it, rather than dumping tabs entirely.

> Many tasks involve a collection of directories, and tabs can be ideal for reducing demand for screen space. double pane with tabs would be handy so you could inspect or move files between two tabs. also, i'd really love two pane: filesystem and content viewer

So the move from File Manager to explorer was the wrong one?
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