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Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by monsieurgaufre »

bombela wrote: post #344
dmitrygr wrote: post #317

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> sweet battery life Linux has never been this, and likely never will be. On any hardware supported fully by both, Windows will always have better battery life. Back when I was a thinkpad user, i'd literally live in a vmware workstation linux VM on windows, and THIS had better battery life than linux natively on the same thinkpad.

I came to assume the battery only exists to act as an uninterruptible power supply as I travel to the next power outlet ;) It feels like over the past 10y Linux only went from 2h to 3h of battery life. While MacBook went from 3h to 13h.

This is what i experienced as well. 3h on light battery use. After having read every how-tos and used tlp, auto-cpufreq, powertop, ...

I hate to say it, but, for me, it is the price to pay to not have to deal with Windows anymore. I'm on Ubuntu right now, but have tried with other distros in the past. YMMV.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by mistrial9 »

wholinator2 wrote: post #338
chankstein38 wrote: post #177

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Yeah I've complained on here about that as well. I'm not sure what they think they're doing but that made me want to stay as far away from Edge as possible. They really think they're going to win me over by creepily watching my downloads and popping stuff up the whole time I'm in the process of installing it?

No, they know you hate it. They know we all hate it. But there's enough retired dads and old grandma's out there to more than make up for us. People like us have been saying things like this for decades, if they still don't understand how we feel then it's willful ignorance. They know we hate it and they don't care because it makes them money and that's the only thing that matters in the world anymore. I'm all for bu…

no, no, no.. it is not "retired dads" strawmen.. control of the installation process is a feature for management and security. It is not "nice" to say it in public apparently.. you the computer operator are not in control of the machine you are using. Your employer and their security people are in control of the machine that YOU are using.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by SebastianKra »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #372
SebastianKra wrote: post #365

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To connect regular bt headphones, you must go to Control Center > Hold on Bluetooth > Hold Bluetooth again > Select the headphones > wait > tap once to exit > tap twice to exit > swipe up from the bottom. AirPods are always accesible via the AirPlay-menu, which is prominently featured in many media apps. Again: still fine, but just bad enough to partly influence my next buying decision.

But that's how bt heaphones work everywhere, right? I have to go and manually pair them. But once they're paired, they connect automatically to my iphone, and I can select them easily from a list when e.g making a phone call, though they're usually selected automatically when connected.

No, this is for connecting headphones that are already paired but disconnected. For my Sonys I had to do this every time I activated them, because I use them with multiple devices, and its not guaranteed that they connect to the right one.

Some headphones support connecting two devices simultaneously, which is great... unless you have 3 devices :)

Anyways, if I was Apple, I would have added paired headphones to the speaker menu.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by philistine »

skeaker wrote: post #334
bilegeek wrote: post #308

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Because that's not objecting; you're still feeding into the power Windows has over computing. Bill Gates said so himself in 2007: "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not,"[1] I'm not pretending that the intervening 16 years hasn't changed things; I am happily gaming exclusively on Linux after all, something most people didn't truly expect back then. But that state…

I think at some point the onus lies with the games that have Windows as a requirement. Them having that mandate at all is what's feeding the power Windows has over computing. Of course that also relies on people playing those games so you could still in some way blame them, but gaming has hit such a critical mass that certain games will always be sustainable regardless of how predatory they are. At that point if you…

With Valve finally managing to make fetch happen, any large company starting a project today must consider the value of releasing on Linux for Steam Deck.

The problem is the games coming in the next years started development five years ago.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by pigbearpig »

pessimizer wrote: post #197

Shows that antitrust law isn't real. The government wasted millions on chasing Microsoft over IE, and Microsoft isn't even scared to use the OS to force users to use Edge. They've been as far down the path as US regulation goes, and came out of it fearless.

My first thought was “Isn’t this so clearly the same behavior that got them an anti-trust violation 25 years ago”

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by troupo »

acomjean wrote: post #89

Its getting worse everywhere: some things I've noticed: Mobil Safari seems to be using the search bar to hijack my google search (Particularly for locations which open in apple maps) Although I'm mostly linux these days I went to install an alternative browser on a windows machine (using edge to download). I mentioned this in another post, but edge seems to watch for "chrome" or "firefox" downloads and politely remin…

> Mobil Safari seems to be using the search bar to hijack my google search (Particularly for locations which open in apple maps

Anecdata, I know, but I've never experienced this across any iOS versions.

Though given how shitty Apple's own software has become, I wouldn't be surprised if it's an integration gone awry.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by ohgodplsno »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #372
SebastianKra wrote: post #365

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To connect regular bt headphones, you must go to Control Center > Hold on Bluetooth > Hold Bluetooth again > Select the headphones > wait > tap once to exit > tap twice to exit > swipe up from the bottom. AirPods are always accesible via the AirPlay-menu, which is prominently featured in many media apps. Again: still fine, but just bad enough to partly influence my next buying decision.

But that's how bt heaphones work everywhere, right? I have to go and manually pair them. But once they're paired, they connect automatically to my iphone, and I can select them easily from a list when e.g making a phone call, though they're usually selected automatically when connected.

Nope. Google's Pixel Buds have first party integration with a custom UI to connect them as soon as they're out of the box. So are Samsung's Galaxy Buds, and both of these use regular Bluetooth.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by philistine »

acdha wrote: post #245
hospitalJail wrote: post #140

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>Some users like iPhones since they are reliable and consistent, exactly like a phone should be. That is just the bare minimum. Its 2023, every phone is like this. Anyway, any teenager can tell you what its like to have the wrong kind of bubbles. They are extremely susceptible to in-group bias. Heck I wore Abercrombie and American Eagle, it wasn't because the clothes fit. I even had a single buddy, age 30, recently g…

> I even had a single buddy, age 30, recently get peer pressured into getting an iphone because his sister said "I don't date green bubbles". He took it to heart. Shallow people are shallow, and it’s hardly like Apple made them that way. People do the same thing about cars, shoes, clothing, alcohol, zip codes, etc. The only upside is that it lets you very quickly identify and avoid them. In the messaging case, it’s i…

Exactly. The power over iMessage is in Apple’s hands. Yet Google, with their RCS push, have not made something open-source were they have less power than Apple.

RCS is controlled by Google just like iMessage.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by gigel82 »

barbariangrunge wrote: post #321
frob wrote: post #4

Windows is just full of hostile, anti-user patterns these days. I've considered building a windows box just to have a gaming rig multiple times over the last few years, but every time an article like this or their crusade against Chrome reminds me that Bill Gates is still the same anti-trust monster he was in the 90s.

Bill Gates doesn't run the company any more. It's the new ceo, who everybody on hn is such a gushing fan of, who has been transforming windows lately

More like abandoning it to the wolves.
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