• @malloc@lemmy.world
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    1722 years ago

    The bug bash quests can be found in the Windows Feedback Hub, and partaking in the bug bash often concludes with a badge in the Feedback Hub that acknowledges your participation.

    Imagine doing free QA for a multibillion dollar corporation. I hate Microsoft so much.

    • @Aux@lemmy.world
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      512 years ago

      No one is forcing you. Actually, you need to jump through many hoops to get into the program. And Microsoft tends to pay nice rewards to people who find critical issues.

        • @blue_zephyr@lemmy.world
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          122 years ago

          Calm down, no one’s getting exploited. Many people like trying out new features that aren’t available yet for stable releases.

        • @Stumblinbear@pawb.social
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          62 years ago

          Nobody’s being forced into it, you can just decide not to do it. There’s no risk or reward for doing so other than because you want to. There’s no power imbalance. It’s just users deciding they want to do it. It’s not exploitation, haha

          • @grue@lemmy.world
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            02 years ago

            At best, these people are scabs taking away QA jobs by working for free. If we were talking about a community-driven Free Software project it’d be different, but doing that kind of unpaid labor for a for-profit corporation is toxic and harmful in a systemic way that goes beyond personal choice.

            • @beetus@lemmy.world
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              2 years ago

              Be me. Like a thing. Find issues with thing. Share those issues with the devs. Dopamine. Find better avenue for sharing issues. Do issue finding in my spare time with my own free will. Get shamed on internet for doing my own thing.

              Yeah ok.

      • @linearchaos@lemmy.world
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        22 years ago

        You’ll get a lot of hate here for saying it, but you’re not entirely wrong. When they offered free GPT to people running edge I went ahead and loaded it out with my normal compliment of plugins to try it as a secondary browser.

        I’m not exactly sure what all they did to it, but it’s not just Chrome with the different skin It’s notably faster and lighter on the memory footprint.

        The reason why I’m not willing to convert to them completely as I don’t trust Microsoft with all my data. I’m already keeping as much telemetry from them as I can.

        These days I float between Firefox and Brave. Firefox isn’t likely to sell my data, and Brave will sell my data but their anti-fingerprinting is pretty solid so they’re at least not just letting everyone track me for free.

      • @realharo@lemm.ee
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        32 years ago

        I couldn’t find the setting “don’t give websites the permission to play sound” (mutes all audio unless enabled per-site) in Edge, or Firefox. Chrome has that setting.

        • Sarsaparilla
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          162 years ago

          Firefox:
          Tools/Settings/Privacy & Security/Permissions/Autoplay/Settings/Default for all Websites: Block Audio

          • @realharo@lemm.ee
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            2 years ago

            Not the same thing, audio will still start playing after user interaction with the site. The setting in Chrome blocks all audio from the site, regardless of what you do.

        • El Barto
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          42 years ago

          I hate Edge less than I hate Chrome now, I feel dirty saying it tho.

          • @delta@lemmy.world
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            12 years ago

            the vertical tabs <3

            now i use Arc though which has been amazing. i don’t think i can ever go back to horizontal tabs. i love Firefox so much, its just missing a good implementation of this one feature that i can’t live without! there are some extensions but it’s not even close to the native implementation of it on edge and arc browser especially

            • Matt
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              12 years ago

              If you’re wanting a Firefox-based browser with sidebar / vertical tabs, I’d take a look at Floorp.

              It aims to be a Gecko equivalent to things like Vivaldi, you can get it at https://floorp.app. The recent version 11 release is fantastic.

              • @delta@lemmy.world
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                12 years ago

                interesting! looks pretty cool, i’ll give it a shot later. thanks! something just feels morally wrong to me about actively using a chromium based browser, it’s always in the back of my mind lmao. we are all part of the problem.

                • Matt
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                  22 years ago

                  I know that feeling, which is why I moved to Firefox quite a long time ago.

                  Jumped around some forks for a bit, and now I’m settled on Floorp for desktop and Mull for Android.

          • Madlaine
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            72 years ago

            I love derivate-browsers; using vivaldi (based on chrome).

            As much of the site seems japanese and I don’t want to dig deep this morning: can you please give me 2-3 reasons what makes floorp so good?

            • @danielton@lemmy.world
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              I used to love Opera back in the day, but now there just doesn’t seem like much of a point when Opera and Vivaldi are just Chromium forks.

              (Vivaldi is the successor to the old Opera.)

            • @IverCoder@lemm.ee
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              2 years ago
              1. Pre-installed tools such as a translator and tab bar on the left

              2. More pre-installed themes and integration with Mica For Everyone (haven’t tested this because I ain’t booting to W🤢ndows)

              3. Tighter on privacy than default Firefox

              There are some others I may have missed because I got used to them

      • Acid
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        32 years ago

        My work emails all run through the google suite of applications and I have two of them plus drive etc so having chrome allows me to have multiple profiles for each work account and they are remote managed by the company.

          • Acid
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            12 years ago

            This does not keep my bookmarks and passwords synced across all the work devices I have to use does it?

            I regularly log into 2 work email accounts and have a third that I check monthly. I do this across 5 work devices which are shared, my personal MacBook Air which is used primarily for work and my phone.

            If Firefox has sync features that work with cloud storage as opposed to device storage it would be practical otherwise it’s no go

            • @sheogorath@lemmy.world
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              12 years ago

              If you use browser to store passwords that’s a huge security risk. You’re better off using a password manager to manage and sync your password.

              Having synced bookmarks is fair though. I use 2 devices for work but I didn’t keep synced bookmarks. I usually have the most used tabs pinned so it keeps standby and I keep the important links for each project pinned inside the project Slack channel.

  • methodicalaspect
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    612 years ago

    I just want it to stop self-destructing every two hours when I’m running it as a VM under Linux.

    • Jess
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      122 years ago

      Wait, what? What happens when you hit the two hour mark? I’d it like one of the router simulators that forces a reboot?

      • methodicalaspect
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        82 years ago

        BSOD for whatever reason. Doesn’t matter, I can resume what I was doing pretty quickly, but it is mildly inconvenient.

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      Assuming it’s precisely at the 2 hour mark, do you have snapshots enabled for that VM? If so, try turning them off.

      • methodicalaspect
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        42 years ago

        Nope, no snapshots. The bugchecks in the logs vary with the last two being 0x0a and 0x3b - drivers and memory - but this is on both Stable and Latest virtio drivers and memtest86+ comes up clean on the hardware. I’ve never taken a snapshot of this VM since it’s on my workstation and not for production use.

        What I have noticed, though, is an increase in memory utilization in the VM at idle, likely due to recent group policy changes and application updates (it is domain-joined). I’ll see if increasing the amount of memory allocated will take care of 0x3b.

    • Programmer Belch
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      42 years ago

      I just use windows 10 for VM, it hasn’t crashed for me but I don’t use VMs for more than one or two hours

  • @Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.world
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    532 years ago

    The biggest thing I want is to just move the task bar to the top of the screen. I can’t use my finger on my Surface tablet unless I remove the keyboard. Such idiocy…

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      Use StartAllBack. Not only does it restore the old Taskbar features, it also lets you do even more things, like have the Start button on the left but keep the icons centered, and customize the transparency level (among other things). You can even use your favorite era of Start menu (7, 8.1, 10). Personally I’m using Win7’s Start Menu with Windows 11-related buttons added in (like Settings).

      (Edit: It does cost $5 after a 90 day trial, but that’s less than the cost of lunch, and with all the features you’re getting I’d gladly pay 10x the amount.)

    • @Zaddy@lemmy.world
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      72 years ago

      Dude right??? I’ve been losing my fucking mind. My home computer, work computer 2, and work computer VM are all top bar mounted. Work computer 1 for upgraded to 11 and it’s pissing me off. Every week I check for a way to change it back.

      • @macrocephalic@lemmy.world
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        112 years ago

        I think side is the best. When almost all monitors are wider than they are tall it makes more sense to put it on the short edge to use up less space.

    • Eris
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      22 years ago

      You can do this with TaskbarX

    • @cyberpunk007@lemmy.world
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      My favourite is when I’m trying to click a notification tray thing and shit like teams messages keep popping up on top. Who the hell designed it so notifications come up on top of tray pop ups? So fucking stupid.

        • @typo@sh.itjust.works
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          32 years ago

          That’s just stupid. I never have my taskbar anywhere else because it makes me ill. But fuck that, you can’t tell me where to put it…

          • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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            Not only is it forced to the bottom. It’s in the middle and you can’t ungroup tabs.

            • Frodo
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              92 years ago

              The start menu can be in the left corner in Windows 11 just like older Windows versions.

              • @klyde@lemmy.world
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                That’s not what they’re talking about. They’re talking about the taskbar icons. Power users like myself ungroup those because it’s annoying and not at all helpful. It stops being icons and goes back to the regular rectangles. I’m assuming you’ve used icons for so long you forgot what it looks like. Win11 let’s you do it in dev releases but I just use Start11 because it basically lets you do whatever you want with the taskbar.

  • @Ejh3k@midwest.social
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    1212 years ago

    So what are the hidden features? The article doesn’t say and I scrolled through all the comments and nothing popped out at me other than a bunch of comments of people bashing windows and sucking their own dicks over Linux?

    • @cyberpunk007@lemmy.world
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      42 years ago

      Back by popular demand! Right click on task bar for task manager!

      But none of the other stuff. Thanks, Microsoft.

      Regression of features = future.

  • @RFBurns@lemmy.world
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    782 years ago

    Usual info-free article with clickbait headline. Tinfoil-heads will call it a “troll / honey-pot”, designed to attract and identify ‘troublemakers’.

    And from that comment section, it’s working.

  • @doleo@lemmy.one
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    192 years ago

    Does the calendar taskbar flyout count as a hidden feature? Perhaps it would be more useful to leak a tool that can disable windows features. Ads, internet-spam, gutter-news, etc.

    But mainly I just want the calendar agenda back in the taskbar.