Yeah. It’s called windows 10.
I think you’re misremembering. It’s called Windows 7.
I think you’re misremembering. It’s called Linux. (I use Arch btw)
They really think ppl give ah fuck?
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.
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.
So a bug bounty that pays significantly less
Cant put a price on a badge though!
If I get that badge, can I hide it? (On 𝕏 I can)
I think that might be the problem
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Can’t blame them if people after willing to do it
Watch me. Exploiting people is wrong, even if they’re idiots.
Calm down, no one’s getting exploited. Many people like trying out new features that aren’t available yet for stable releases.
It’s not exploitation if people want to do it
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
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.
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.
“Exploiting” lol
Can I kill efficiency mode and get Chrome working again?
using chrome in 2017 was embarrassing. using chrome in 2023 is just sad.
Why use chrome when edge is just better
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.
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.
Firefox:
Tools/Settings/Privacy & Security/Permissions/Autoplay/Settings/Default for all Websites: Block AudioNot 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.
Mute Firefox in the Windows equalizer?
But I still want to allow sound on a small number of select sites like YouTube or Twitch. It just needs to be off for the other 99% of the web.
Well that’s a sentence I never expected to hear
I hate Edge less than I hate Chrome now, I feel dirty saying it tho.
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I hate both and use firefox
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
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.
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.
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.
kinky
Or, use Firefox 😈
Or Floorp for an even better experience
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?
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.)
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Pre-installed tools such as a translator and tab bar on the left
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More pre-installed themes and integration with Mica For Everyone (haven’t tested this because I ain’t booting to W🤢ndows)
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Tighter on privacy than default Firefox
There are some others I may have missed because I got used to them
Thanks.
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What’s the benefits of Floorp over base Firefox?
Maybe he prefers to hand over his data to Google rather than Microsoft.
How can I hand it over to both!
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.
Use Firefox with Container Tabs. It uses separate session for each container
Container tabs is FF greatest feature
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
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.
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Windows as an immutable OS will completely trap you within it’s own walled garden. It’s been done and you really don’t want their take on it.
I think in this particular instance “torture dungeon” is more apt
Using Windows is cringe
Having a job is cringe
having a shitty job is cringe
So Mac or Linux fanboy? Which one is it?
most likely linux
you dont need to be a fanboy but you do want to be a corporate fanboy, thats pathetic and literally counterproductive.
The windows cavalerie has arrived I see
What’s wrong with being a fan? I use Windows for work because I have to. It’s still shite and I hate it.
Nothing wrong with liking linux, but there is no need to be an asshole to people because they use another os.
I just want it to stop self-destructing every two hours when I’m running it as a VM under Linux.
Wait, what? What happens when you hit the two hour mark? I’d it like one of the router simulators that forces a reboot?
BSOD for whatever reason. Doesn’t matter, I can resume what I was doing pretty quickly, but it is mildly inconvenient.
Ah, you must have it set to Windows Millennium Edition mode
Maybe that’s one of the features you can enable.
Assuming it’s precisely at the 2 hour mark, do you have snapshots enabled for that VM? If so, try turning them off.
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.
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
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is not a comment that contributes to the discussion at hand in any way.
I really don’t want to feel like I’m back on Reddit.
What ? I am laughing at the sarcasm. Its epic. Not sure why i am being down voted.
That’s not really an “I shouldn’t need to have done a slash S” thing. It’s just a bunch of emoji.
It’s just a bunch of emoji
Then why are you so triggered by them?
I thought Reddit hated emojis anyway.
If anything, a bunch of laughing face emojis makes me feel like I’m on an old school forum, or a newer one on a topic that skews graybeard, like woodworking or working on old Chevys.
Well, we wouldn’t want to upset grumpy old drphungky while they use the interwebs
Back in my day, we had to look up how to forum post in a bootleg factory service manual!
If anything, emoticons give me the taste of old-school forums. Emojii didn’t exist Becky hen. ;c
yes Becky is such a hen
Autocorrect didn’t exist Becky hen, either! We just had teh classic typos we don’t see anymore!!!1
honestly the joke he’s replying to didn’t either
Damn, that’s the good shit.
How do you know someone uses Linux?
They’ll tell you.
I use arch btw.
I use Debian BTW
I use Ubuntu, I guess.
Nixos…from arch.
Another Debian (except work laptop where it is windows)
I use endeavorOS btw (arch fork)
Nobody asked btw
i asked
Perfection.
Peasant. I use slackware.
Or will, when I figure out this compiler error.
I built my own distro by typing in the machine code in hex from a magazine.
Something about manually guiding cosmic radiation onto your computer to flip individual bits…
I use Garuda, FYI
So fucking true. Linux people are such a loud minority. Just keep it to yourself. I strongly prefer to just turn my computer on, play games or work and not deal with hardware and software compatibility issues and learn a new OS. Plus penguins smell bad. Alright ttyl.
I strongly prefer to just turn my computer on, play games or work
Yeah, same.
Thats why I use linux.
Like 90% of the internet is running on Linux. If being anywhere in the tech world is something you’re interested in then it would behoove you to learn it. But if all you’re interested in is the gaming then by all means rub the Cheeto dust on your shirt and yell for your mom upstairs to get you another bag.
I strongly prefer to just turn my computer on, play games or work and not deal with hardware and software compatibility issues and learn a new OS
LOL, that’s why I use Linux.
I’m a windows windows user and windows is so fucking broken sometimes. Thinking about switching. Package managers are trash, os is buggy, explorer is buggy, search is buggy. Only thing thats keeping me on windows is gamepass
- just turn the computer on and wait for the updates to finish
I use windows btw
…and just turn the computer off and wait for the updates to finish.
No need to wait either way under linux.
- just turn the computer on and wait for the updates to finish
Fun fact: I’ve been using Mint on my home computer for over a decade. I’ve distro hopped a little bit but Mint is just rock solid reliable. It’s almost perfect.
scoffs in debian jk, having options is always a good thing
Would it be better if I said that I’m currently running LMDE? :)
Now we’re talking
Why can’t more commands have a /reset switch?!
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…
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.)
Awesome, thanks for the tip!
$5 one time or subscription?
One time for one PC for personal use
It’s a one time purchase. 100% worth it!
StartAllBack is good but I personally use and prefer Start11
Start11 is much better. I have a license for both and I periodically check in on StartAllBack every couple of months and nothing has made me want to go back to it.
favorite era of start menu
no XP
mfw
I think you can do XP too. Haven’t checked in awhile. Install the program and try for yourself.
This right here is why I run Linux. Holy hell. It just does whatever I want, for free.
Except support HDR. Which is the main reason why I use Win 11. No other OS does HDR properly.
I think that’s been working on Wayland with some gotchas for different applications. I forget, I use normal resolutions.
Wait, y’all still have Start buttons?!
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.
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.
You can do this with TaskbarX
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.
This angers me so, so much and every messenger app does it.
I don’t have W11. I have had my taskbar at the top of my screen since the 90s. W11 doesn’t allow this ?
Nope, it’s locked to the bottom.
How horrible. Who’s bright idea was that and were flying chairs involved?
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…
Not only is it forced to the bottom.
It’s in the middleand you can’t ungroup tabs.The start menu can be in the left corner in Windows 11 just like older Windows versions.
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.
I made no error.
Ah I thanks for the correction.
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?
Afaik it’s a tool to interact with an API to override A/B testing in an official way.
Apparantly some tool already exists that does it. Just not the official way.sucking their own dicks over Linux
This one trick explains why people who use Linux love it so much!
I mean, if using Linux made that possible for the masses, it’d be the most popular operating system in history.
Unfortunately for regular people, it isn’t that simple ☹️.
Shit I must be missing a kernel module
sudo modprobe i-can-do-it-myself
It’s the main reason I use it… I thought that was the point :)
So, hum… sex workers hate this one trick ?
Is there a hidden tool for that?
Only sudo and you’re good to
gosuckIt’s called
fsck. It does both at the same time.You rang? 😁
This is what i came for, i wanted to know what these features are. Thanks for saving me a click
The hidden features are flags that Microsoft enables or disables for random users as part of A/B testing. The article contains a link to the various flags that can be enabled depending on your edition and version of Windows.
Average lemmy thread
You’re god-damned right.
Are those “hidden features” just more ads?
Could also be tracking and monitoring, I think those counts as Microsoft features.
Actually it uncovers the fact that space cadet pinball was actually a covert mind control and indoctrination tool developed by the NSA.
I KNEW IT
That would explain some shit ngl
CIA Target Mode as well probably.
Actually it uncovers the fact that space cadet pinball was actually a covert mind control and indoctrination tool developed by the NSA.
Well then we’re all screwed because who didn’t play the shit out of that?
Noone I’d trust.
Does it make Windows 11 not total dogshit?
Oh wait, no, it’s still Windows 11.
Back by popular demand! Right click on task bar for task manager!
But none of the other stuff. Thanks, Microsoft.
Regression of features = future.
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.
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.
The tool that disables bloat is the LTSC edition. You can get windows 10 enterprise LTSC right now. Windows 11 LTSC is scheduled to leak in the second half of 2024.
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
This will fix a lot of windows 10/11 bloat.
this will fixx all of them
I never thought of this. I, too, would like this feature!
