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Re: Software Updates

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Post by drawkbox »

arvinsim wrote: post #58
drawkbox wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True but in terms of development platforms for Microsoft, it is constant churn. When they have a monopoly or near monopoly like Microsoft does with the desktop and Windows, less need for churn to keep people on it but lack of competitors. Azure has gone through lots of churn because of heavy competition. Maybe competition, which is good, causes all this breaking software changes but change is good as well. Software c…

I find it curious that you left Apple out.

Apple does similar.

However Apple is greatly responsible for HTML5 and browsers today, as well as the handheld gaming revolution on mobile.

Webkit, Canvas, SVG, OpenGL ES + WebGL (through Khronos sponsorship) and more were open sourced or pushed by Apple.

Chrome/Safari basically every browser that is good came from Webkit and Apple opening that up. Granted that originally game from KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE but it exploded with Apple support.

I left them out because they still have some grace left.

Google and Microsoft squash standards and Microsoft is famous for "embrace, extend, extinguish" which Google now employs.

Microsoft has been better recently but only because they lost developers during the Ballmer era and they have a desktop monopoly and their new OS is cloud where they are competitive with Azure so they are pushing standards more and cross platform to win back developers.

Google is entering their Ballmer era currently.

Apple doesn't have the power for that yet with developers, though they are not engineer/open focused typically and especially now in the COO era and have their own Ballmer vibe currently, but they are still riding on some fuel from Webkit, Canvas, SVG, HTML5, OpenGL ES + WebGL support which really helped handheld gaming and web gaming.

Re: Software Updates

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Post by excalibur »

rjsw wrote: post #24
s9w wrote: post #17

Software getting worse, just out of my head: - VS2019 removed at least two important features from VS2017 (export of profiler results and the concurrency profiler) - Firefox "new" extension API still means you can't remove the top tab bar from tree style tabs (best FF extension) without hacks - Current Dropbox versions are incredibly invasive. They popup when opening a word document. When pluggin in my Camera. And no…

Your point on phones is the odd one out for me, my fairly new $20 Nokia/HMD phone has really good audio even when making international calls.

I have the most trouble with phones while driving. I have a cheap little Bluetooth adapter for audio, but when it's connected and I receive a call it insists on handling that too, which proves difficult. Occasionally my wife and I will end up on a phone call where both ends are coming through the car speakers, having a conversation that way is pretty much impossible.

Re: Software Updates

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Post by m-p-3 »

Semaphor wrote: post #43
s9w wrote: post #17

Software getting worse, just out of my head: - VS2019 removed at least two important features from VS2017 (export of profiler results and the concurrency profiler) - Firefox "new" extension API still means you can't remove the top tab bar from tree style tabs (best FF extension) without hacks - Current Dropbox versions are incredibly invasive. They popup when opening a word document. When pluggin in my Camera. And no…

> Current Dropbox versions are incredibly invasive. OT, but does anyone know if there is an API-shim for dropbox integrations? I use YNAB classic and that’s the only reason I have dropbox and it is utterly horrible. edit: I just deleted dropbox. I’ll sync YNAB manually instead. Dropbox behaves like malware.

I don't know if it would help, but I use Mountain Duck ($) to map cloud storage as a network drive.

Re: Software Updates

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Post by theandrewbailey »

nickjj wrote: post #42

2 Windows programs that I've been using for ~15 years have done a great job at avoiding the abyss. They would be IrfanView[0] (image viewer) and foobar2000[1] (mp3 player). Both programs are very minimal and have stayed true to their vision. Using them today feels similar to how it was 5 or even 10 years ago, but at the same time subtle improvements have been made too. Both are still under active development, so it's…

I never stopped using Winamp. I've been whippin that llama for over 20 years.

Re: Software Updates

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Post by mfer »

s9w wrote: post #17

Software getting worse, just out of my head: - VS2019 removed at least two important features from VS2017 (export of profiler results and the concurrency profiler) - Firefox "new" extension API still means you can't remove the top tab bar from tree style tabs (best FF extension) without hacks - Current Dropbox versions are incredibly invasive. They popup when opening a word document. When pluggin in my Camera. And no…

You deserve an award for best "Get Off My Lawn" post of the day. Thank you.

Re: Software Updates

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Post by Kliment »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #59
buboard wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

true. and only a few months ago, reddit was trying to force us to the new system by conveniently "forgetting" our saved setting

OK, this is embarrassing (†) but I didn't even realise there was an option other than manually editing the url to "old." :-| Your comment has probably done more for my productivity today than anything else that will happen — thanks! (†) I'd like to put it down to only having tried it during that period of time you're referring to, so I will :)

There is a firefox extension that automatically redirects all reddit urls to old-dot

Re: Software Updates

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Post by Leace »

nickjj wrote: post #42

2 Windows programs that I've been using for ~15 years have done a great job at avoiding the abyss. They would be IrfanView[0] (image viewer) and foobar2000[1] (mp3 player). Both programs are very minimal and have stayed true to their vision. Using them today feels similar to how it was 5 or even 10 years ago, but at the same time subtle improvements have been made too. Both are still under active development, so it's…

I used them too and they're fantastic. I even bought a couple of licenses for IrfanView although I didn't need them.

Too bad there's no Linux version.

Re: Software Updates

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Post by epidemian »

buboard wrote: post #36

Things i tried to keep using way longer than most: -windows 7 (upgraded only for widi support - and i miss them) - skype (i d never upgrade if i could) - photoshop standalone (still use it) - office 2007 ( still use it) - dropbox (no option there) - old reddit - iphone 6 - jquery (plan to avoid npm until it dies of natural causes) - windows movie maker / photos In fact it s getting harder to think of things that are…

> - old reddit

I use this extension and it's super useful: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

The new site is way way slower to load, which i can notice immediately if i open it on a browser that doesn't have the extension installed :/

Re: Software Updates

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Post by Crinus »

buboard wrote: post #36

Things i tried to keep using way longer than most: -windows 7 (upgraded only for widi support - and i miss them) - skype (i d never upgrade if i could) - photoshop standalone (still use it) - office 2007 ( still use it) - dropbox (no option there) - old reddit - iphone 6 - jquery (plan to avoid npm until it dies of natural causes) - windows movie maker / photos In fact it s getting harder to think of things that are…

- Paint Shop Pro 7 (the last good version and one of the easiest and snappiest image editors IMO)
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