These Microsoft engineers complain a lot about Google websites... Meanwhile a sure way to give Edge a heatstroke on my PC would be to open the emoticon window in a Twitter message. Typically 3-5 icons would be displayed (probably from harddisk cache), and then the CPU went nuts for 30 seconds until I had to recover the webpage, thrashing my message because I wanted to add an emoji. That bug has been there for years now, and Twitter isn't owned by Google. Another example is streaming for a long time on Twitch. At some random time the browser starts performing really sluggish for some reason... Twitch isn't owned by Google. Basically anywhere where there is a lot of dynamic content, Edge seems to have some leaking problem. I have learned to circumvent YouTube "leaking" chat boxes by opening streaming links using the "/embed/" YouTube URL option. So Microsoft engineers... I am not impressed by your browser to be honest.
TBH, Edge never impressed me. I am saying that as an Edge user for the past 1½ years. To even get to the point of where Edge was "good enough(TM)" took two years of fixing from 2015 to 2017. The number of addons compared to Chrome was ridiculous. I went from Chrome, with thousands of addons, to Edge with a two-digit amount of addons, many of them completely pointless "services" that could be found elsewhere, and many of them duplicates of each others. I still use Edge because it has certain traits that I find good, but I am in no way impressed and look forward to Edge switching to the Chromium engine ASAP.
To this day I am still perplexed and puzzled as to why Google made Google+ so bad. Even the simplest thing like reading a post was made extremely hard because it required multiple steps to get back to where you were, and if you made the slightest mistake you would end up in a completely different place where you were before you read the post. I have never encountered a more confusing layout ever. It seemed like it was intentionally made confusing and I have no idea what the point was in that. Tried Google+ for one hour with a lot of cursing and yelling when it was released. Never returned and it looks like I wasn't the only one who hated Google+.
Having to squeeze out every bit of performance on my 800 MHz AMD CPU back in 2004 made me ditch the 3rd party antivirus and try out the built in Windows version. It was obvious on that puny PC to see the performance difference. It also used less RAM and didn't require any real attention because of automatic updates through Windows Update. 14 years later and I still haven't installed any 3rd party antivirus because I don't need to, and I have no plans on ever buying one.
Agreed. I have never had a smartphone and bought a Nokia 222 for $48 two years ago. Still works perfectly fine, no need to upgrade or jailbreak it, cant be hacked because its "stupid". The insane price for a smartphone with its ridiculous short timespan is my main reason as to why I don't have one. My threshold for a phone is $100 simply based on principle. I am not going to spend $1000 dollars on a smartphone that was obsolete before I even acquired it, and that can break just by looking at it the wrong way.
Package formats was my breaking point. Back in 2015 I gave Linux one final chance and decided to install Fedora because it was the system that had the best hardware support at the time according to articles. Installed it... it wanted a driver for my Intel RAID card... A card that worked out of the box since Windows Vista. Yet still 5+ years later Linux still didn't support it... *deep sigh* Fine, I downloaded the official Intel driver for Linux and tried searching for the driver. Couldn't find any driver. Odd because I knew it was on the USB stick because I had just downloaded it. It took me a minute or two to realize it was in the wrong package format... because it's f-cking Linux... because who doesn't need a billion install formats? Why make things simple? I just rolled my eyes and mumbled "f-ck this shit" and installed Windows 10 instead without any problems at all. This is why Linux is such a f-cking joke. Nothing is easy, nothing makes sense, everything has to be a million times harder than they need to. F-ck Linux.
If all you Linux dorks spent some time making Linux user-friendly instead of sitting in forums all day long bashing Microsoft, maybe some people would consider switching to Linux. 20 years later and being completely free, and Linux is still a joke with minimal usage from regular users.
I think tabs was a big reason why RSS never really took off. I found it much easier to simply have browser tabs open for my top 5 websites that aggregated news for me. I honestly never understood the point in first having to open my RSS reader to get my information, and then be presented with small headline descriptions. I just never understood the point in that extra click to open a reader in my browser when I already had my websites open in tabs.
Uber drivers get their salary via Uber, so they are employed by Uber. The limo company uses the service provided by Uber, the Uber drivers. The limo company hasn't employed any Uber drivers, they are simply using Uber's service. Just my personal opinion.
Yep. The reason I focused on the motherboard paper manual as a good thing to have, is that you will most likely face an offline/dead/new system where you for obvious reasons cant read a PDF (egg and chicken problem). Have a nice day:)
I couldn't have said it better. Some years ago I slowly started transcending into also having PDF copies of manuals because they can be updated and searched quickly. My printed manuals are stored in their respective boxes the item came in, and locating and reading a PDF manual is much easier than scavenging around looking in cardboard boxes. Printed manuals are good to have though for certain items, especially motherboards, but for other pieces of hardware, a PDF is sufficient.
Pay a Linux company to run Windows... How about just using Windows? Seriously, I tried Linux several times in the span of a decade, hoping that Linux would become a strong contender to Windows. That hope faded steadily over the years when trying out new promising distributions and revisiting old distributions. I couldn't see any difference from something made in 2006 or something made in 2012. I'm not only referencing the various CLI and GUI interfaces, I'm also referring to the experience. Nothing had been made to make life easier. Still the same poor PnP support, still a pain in the butt to try and make hardware work, still the same ugly CLI interface everywhere, and doing the simplest thing more often than not required a CLI command, or it was simply faster. Linux also feels like stacking a house of card in a bog. Take one wrong look at Linux and it comes crashing down. Everything also changes so quickly that regular software companies cant keep up with Linux. Last thing is the horrible Linux community filled to the brim with the most anti-social people you can find on Earth.
I found it easier to just have often used websites open in windows or tabs. If I wanted to look at a website I just pressed Ctrl + T, started typing in the first two letters of the URL, and I was there. I never understood what the big time saver was with RSS. I was also a web-developer from 1998 to 2012 so also looked at how it worked. The idea sounds good on paper, but the benefit of it was miniscule in my personal experience.
It's 2018. Why among that trillion distributions isn't there a single one that just works? I've tried ten different distributions and each one always fail with one piece of hardware, and funny enough it's always a different piece of hardware. Why isn't there one that just works like Windows where it's uncommon that a piece of hardware doesn't work out of the box, and if it doesn't then getting and installing a driver is easy. The Linux community is also incredible toxic which just kills the one final grain of interest left to those that put themselves through the torture of Linux hell.
This will probably be labelled flamebait because I'm hurting some Linux users feelings.
I don't know where you people buy your hardware, but it must be located in fairy tale land. I tried giving Linux a chance once a year since 1997 until 2015, and each time there was always a problem with hardware recognition. Last time I tried giving Linux a chance it couldn't recognize a standard Intel RAID card that has worked out of the box since Windows Vista, yet Fedora had no drivers for it, and it didn't give the option to search online for a driver. So I downloaded a driver from Intel and tried installing it. Fedora couldn't find the package because it was in a different package format. I simply rolled my eyes and mumbled "f*ck this sh*t". That is Linux in a nutshell; constant stupid idiotic problems with everything.
Don't know why you've been down-voted, but good to know I'm not the only one who got that CAPTCHA. Was also not trying to be rude or funny when I wrote "dicks" instead of penises or something more work appropriate. It literally asks to identify dicks:)
Okay, but legally obtaining a client still doesn't give people ownership of the franchise. Imagine if I bought a Mickey Mouse DVD. That wouldn't suddenly make it legal for me to use Mickey Mouse however I wanted to, and I'm certain that a bunch of Disney lawyers would be knocking on my door telling me to stop. Another thing I keep reading is that people are "only" reverse engineering. That argument just doesn't have any bearing because the closer they get to the real thing, the better reason Blizzard has to send out a DMCA notice.
I haven't tried playing the legacy server but if things like quest texts are used, then it is copyright infringement because those texts have been copied without permission from Blizzard. Even using the game engine to draw/create the world is copyright infringement because people are using code developed by Blizzard.
"Only the most paranoid will succeed in hiding and by doing so they will deny themselves a lot of services and useful benefits of the Internet."
So absolutely very true. I am already blocking Facebook URL's through my hostfile and could do the same with Google, but I sure would miss YouTube. Gmail and searches could be substituted, but there are no YouTube equivalents.
This news angered me so much that I tried seeking out removing Flash, and I was astonished at how hard it was, technically and what I'd have to give up. First surprise was Windows 10. I honestly thought Flash was just a component that could be uninstalled. How wrong I was. Turned out I would have to change ownership of system-reserved files. Cumbersome and not a pretty solution, so I postponed that project. Next I checked Google Chrome 64. Again I assumed it would just be a simple option of disabling Flash. Again wrong. Older versions of Chrome had a flag to disable Flash, Chrome 64 does not, and I honestly don't know if it's even possible to disable Flash in the latest Chrome version. All I could do was clean up white-listed websites, and while doing so I noticed one websites that I wouldn't like to part with. So, my big project of removing Flash from Chrome and Windows 10 stopped there. It's incredible that this piece of garbage Flash is still around with more holes than Swizz cheese. If holes could have holes they still wouldn't compare to crappy Flash that just don't want to die.
I use Quick JavaScript Switcher to kill off those kind of messages. If disabling JavaScript breaks the website I simply stop visiting that website. Disabling JavaScript is also useful for websites that spawn new windows.
I know a bunch of programming languages like ASP, PHP, C#, plus some other on a need to know basis. I've made quite a few scripts using PowerShell to do some mundane tasks like cleaning up firewall rules or synchronizing files between OneDrive and Gdrive. I'm currently learning R.
That idiot comment you made is also typical Linux community style that does nothing but drive people away. Toxic community, stupid operating system that cant do anything besides making everything hard, that's Linux in a nutshell.
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10 minutes and a few seconds is a giant red flag and I simply instruct YouTube to ignore the entire channel so I never get suggestions from it again.
These Microsoft engineers complain a lot about Google websites... Meanwhile a sure way to give Edge a heatstroke on my PC would be to open the emoticon window in a Twitter message. Typically 3-5 icons would be displayed (probably from harddisk cache), and then the CPU went nuts for 30 seconds until I had to recover the webpage, thrashing my message because I wanted to add an emoji. That bug has been there for years now, and Twitter isn't owned by Google. Another example is streaming for a long time on Twitch. At some random time the browser starts performing really sluggish for some reason... Twitch isn't owned by Google. Basically anywhere where there is a lot of dynamic content, Edge seems to have some leaking problem. I have learned to circumvent YouTube "leaking" chat boxes by opening streaming links using the "/embed/" YouTube URL option. So Microsoft engineers... I am not impressed by your browser to be honest.
TBH, Edge never impressed me. I am saying that as an Edge user for the past 1½ years. To even get to the point of where Edge was "good enough(TM)" took two years of fixing from 2015 to 2017. The number of addons compared to Chrome was ridiculous. I went from Chrome, with thousands of addons, to Edge with a two-digit amount of addons, many of them completely pointless "services" that could be found elsewhere, and many of them duplicates of each others. I still use Edge because it has certain traits that I find good, but I am in no way impressed and look forward to Edge switching to the Chromium engine ASAP.
To this day I am still perplexed and puzzled as to why Google made Google+ so bad. Even the simplest thing like reading a post was made extremely hard because it required multiple steps to get back to where you were, and if you made the slightest mistake you would end up in a completely different place where you were before you read the post. I have never encountered a more confusing layout ever. It seemed like it was intentionally made confusing and I have no idea what the point was in that. Tried Google+ for one hour with a lot of cursing and yelling when it was released. Never returned and it looks like I wasn't the only one who hated Google+.
Having to squeeze out every bit of performance on my 800 MHz AMD CPU back in 2004 made me ditch the 3rd party antivirus and try out the built in Windows version. It was obvious on that puny PC to see the performance difference. It also used less RAM and didn't require any real attention because of automatic updates through Windows Update. 14 years later and I still haven't installed any 3rd party antivirus because I don't need to, and I have no plans on ever buying one.
Agreed. I have never had a smartphone and bought a Nokia 222 for $48 two years ago. Still works perfectly fine, no need to upgrade or jailbreak it, cant be hacked because its "stupid". The insane price for a smartphone with its ridiculous short timespan is my main reason as to why I don't have one. My threshold for a phone is $100 simply based on principle. I am not going to spend $1000 dollars on a smartphone that was obsolete before I even acquired it, and that can break just by looking at it the wrong way.
Package formats was my breaking point. Back in 2015 I gave Linux one final chance and decided to install Fedora because it was the system that had the best hardware support at the time according to articles. Installed it... it wanted a driver for my Intel RAID card... A card that worked out of the box since Windows Vista. Yet still 5+ years later Linux still didn't support it... *deep sigh* Fine, I downloaded the official Intel driver for Linux and tried searching for the driver. Couldn't find any driver. Odd because I knew it was on the USB stick because I had just downloaded it. It took me a minute or two to realize it was in the wrong package format... because it's f-cking Linux... because who doesn't need a billion install formats? Why make things simple? I just rolled my eyes and mumbled "f-ck this shit" and installed Windows 10 instead without any problems at all. This is why Linux is such a f-cking joke. Nothing is easy, nothing makes sense, everything has to be a million times harder than they need to. F-ck Linux.
If all you Linux dorks spent some time making Linux user-friendly instead of sitting in forums all day long bashing Microsoft, maybe some people would consider switching to Linux. 20 years later and being completely free, and Linux is still a joke with minimal usage from regular users.
I think tabs was a big reason why RSS never really took off. I found it much easier to simply have browser tabs open for my top 5 websites that aggregated news for me. I honestly never understood the point in first having to open my RSS reader to get my information, and then be presented with small headline descriptions. I just never understood the point in that extra click to open a reader in my browser when I already had my websites open in tabs.
Uber drivers get their salary via Uber, so they are employed by Uber. The limo company uses the service provided by Uber, the Uber drivers. The limo company hasn't employed any Uber drivers, they are simply using Uber's service. Just my personal opinion.
Yep. The reason I focused on the motherboard paper manual as a good thing to have, is that you will most likely face an offline/dead/new system where you for obvious reasons cant read a PDF (egg and chicken problem). Have a nice day :)
I couldn't have said it better. Some years ago I slowly started transcending into also having PDF copies of manuals because they can be updated and searched quickly. My printed manuals are stored in their respective boxes the item came in, and locating and reading a PDF manual is much easier than scavenging around looking in cardboard boxes. Printed manuals are good to have though for certain items, especially motherboards, but for other pieces of hardware, a PDF is sufficient.
Pay a Linux company to run Windows... How about just using Windows? Seriously, I tried Linux several times in the span of a decade, hoping that Linux would become a strong contender to Windows. That hope faded steadily over the years when trying out new promising distributions and revisiting old distributions. I couldn't see any difference from something made in 2006 or something made in 2012. I'm not only referencing the various CLI and GUI interfaces, I'm also referring to the experience. Nothing had been made to make life easier. Still the same poor PnP support, still a pain in the butt to try and make hardware work, still the same ugly CLI interface everywhere, and doing the simplest thing more often than not required a CLI command, or it was simply faster. Linux also feels like stacking a house of card in a bog. Take one wrong look at Linux and it comes crashing down. Everything also changes so quickly that regular software companies cant keep up with Linux. Last thing is the horrible Linux community filled to the brim with the most anti-social people you can find on Earth.
I found it easier to just have often used websites open in windows or tabs. If I wanted to look at a website I just pressed Ctrl + T, started typing in the first two letters of the URL, and I was there. I never understood what the big time saver was with RSS. I was also a web-developer from 1998 to 2012 so also looked at how it worked. The idea sounds good on paper, but the benefit of it was miniscule in my personal experience.
That is actually the most eloquently informing feedback I've ever read.
It's 2018. Why among that trillion distributions isn't there a single one that just works? I've tried ten different distributions and each one always fail with one piece of hardware, and funny enough it's always a different piece of hardware. Why isn't there one that just works like Windows where it's uncommon that a piece of hardware doesn't work out of the box, and if it doesn't then getting and installing a driver is easy. The Linux community is also incredible toxic which just kills the one final grain of interest left to those that put themselves through the torture of Linux hell.
This will probably be labelled flamebait because I'm hurting some Linux users feelings. I don't know where you people buy your hardware, but it must be located in fairy tale land. I tried giving Linux a chance once a year since 1997 until 2015, and each time there was always a problem with hardware recognition. Last time I tried giving Linux a chance it couldn't recognize a standard Intel RAID card that has worked out of the box since Windows Vista, yet Fedora had no drivers for it, and it didn't give the option to search online for a driver. So I downloaded a driver from Intel and tried installing it. Fedora couldn't find the package because it was in a different package format. I simply rolled my eyes and mumbled "f*ck this sh*t". That is Linux in a nutshell; constant stupid idiotic problems with everything.
Don't know why you've been down-voted, but good to know I'm not the only one who got that CAPTCHA. Was also not trying to be rude or funny when I wrote "dicks" instead of penises or something more work appropriate. It literally asks to identify dicks :)
Am I the only one who got a CAPTCHA where the bots should identify dicks? Brings a whole new meaning to gender binary.
Okay, but legally obtaining a client still doesn't give people ownership of the franchise. Imagine if I bought a Mickey Mouse DVD. That wouldn't suddenly make it legal for me to use Mickey Mouse however I wanted to, and I'm certain that a bunch of Disney lawyers would be knocking on my door telling me to stop. Another thing I keep reading is that people are "only" reverse engineering. That argument just doesn't have any bearing because the closer they get to the real thing, the better reason Blizzard has to send out a DMCA notice.
I haven't tried playing the legacy server but if things like quest texts are used, then it is copyright infringement because those texts have been copied without permission from Blizzard. Even using the game engine to draw/create the world is copyright infringement because people are using code developed by Blizzard.
"Only the most paranoid will succeed in hiding and by doing so they will deny themselves a lot of services and useful benefits of the Internet." So absolutely very true. I am already blocking Facebook URL's through my hostfile and could do the same with Google, but I sure would miss YouTube. Gmail and searches could be substituted, but there are no YouTube equivalents.
This news angered me so much that I tried seeking out removing Flash, and I was astonished at how hard it was, technically and what I'd have to give up. First surprise was Windows 10. I honestly thought Flash was just a component that could be uninstalled. How wrong I was. Turned out I would have to change ownership of system-reserved files. Cumbersome and not a pretty solution, so I postponed that project. Next I checked Google Chrome 64. Again I assumed it would just be a simple option of disabling Flash. Again wrong. Older versions of Chrome had a flag to disable Flash, Chrome 64 does not, and I honestly don't know if it's even possible to disable Flash in the latest Chrome version. All I could do was clean up white-listed websites, and while doing so I noticed one websites that I wouldn't like to part with. So, my big project of removing Flash from Chrome and Windows 10 stopped there. It's incredible that this piece of garbage Flash is still around with more holes than Swizz cheese. If holes could have holes they still wouldn't compare to crappy Flash that just don't want to die.
I use Quick JavaScript Switcher to kill off those kind of messages. If disabling JavaScript breaks the website I simply stop visiting that website. Disabling JavaScript is also useful for websites that spawn new windows.
I know a bunch of programming languages like ASP, PHP, C#, plus some other on a need to know basis. I've made quite a few scripts using PowerShell to do some mundane tasks like cleaning up firewall rules or synchronizing files between OneDrive and Gdrive. I'm currently learning R. That idiot comment you made is also typical Linux community style that does nothing but drive people away. Toxic community, stupid operating system that cant do anything besides making everything hard, that's Linux in a nutshell.