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Windows 8 had a lot of problems, but at least it tried. It was an OS with passion, even if it was the wrong passion. Windows Me was just terrible.
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I know the second part was, but seeing the state of censoring even in private chat software it's more than possible it gets to email at some point even not business related. Sony for one started censoring private party chat on their consoles.
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With a little tweaking and tinkering, and a couple of third-party apps to fix the start menu and a few other issues, you could at least turn 8 into a useable os. ME was unfixable.
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ME is the ultimate lolcow of all of Microsoft's OS. Didn't have a single redeeming quality.
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Lol this made me remember I briefly had that Compiz cube thing over a decade ago. From what I remember there wasn't any issues with it but the novelty wore off quickly.Truth be told. Those are some of the better abbominations. If you really want to see hell you should look up themes for icewm or xfce on pling or whatever. Actual eldritch horrors.
Here's one for icewm.
Edit- I didn't realized I double posted. Apologies.
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The thing I liked the best about Windows 8 was the incredibly passive aggressive patch/8.1 update to restore the start menu. It was like a work of modern performance art meant to evoke a feeling of misery and being in a life situation that can't be abandoned willy-nilly. It's like Microsoft stormed in with the update, slammed it down and screamed "ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?". No I'm not happy now, nothing has really changed.
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You have nothing to worry about if you know your system. If a program you don't recognize is suddenly trying to establish a connection to the internet that you've never seen before, you know you have a problem. If a piece of software that normally would never connect to the internet suddenly wants to, you also have a problem. If a program you don't recognize is eating up a tremendous amount of system resources, also a problem. If something that usually has negligible impact on system performance suddenly is consuming large amounts of system resources, that is also a problem. I've been pirating stuff since dial-up days and have never gotten a serious system infection. A couple of time things have slipped by, but nothing that I didn't notice right away and nothing that couldn't be contained and killed.
The trick is just making sure you have complete control of what connects to and what connects from your system. A piece of malware could have written out a plan to blow up the US congress and take out the sitting president with your system being used to distribute this information to the terrorists involved. It doesn't matter if it can't connect to the internet to talk to anyone. Same if a given piece of malware got a hold of all your passwords, your name, address, social security number, your mother's maiden name, and intended to use your computer as a node in a child pornography ring. If it can't connect to talk to anyone, it is a non-threat.
Agreed. ME still stands as the worst Microsoft OS or all time.
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Reminds me of the project Google bought and killed -
It's a cool gimmick for a few seconds and moderately more usable than whatever the hell the cube thing is, but in the end it's so much less efficient than just using a 2d setup. I feel for people who might end up growing up with some VR bullshit that's even less usable.
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any software i have ever made deserves to be in this thread. but also:
one bit of software i hate with a passion is the search tool in windows. it is so freaking slow, it seems to take ages to search even a small folder.
i also dislike eclipse IDE. it was what we has to use in my CS lab courses and what was installed by default on my work laptop.
one bit of software i hate with a passion is the search tool in windows. it is so freaking slow, it seems to take ages to search even a small folder.
i also dislike eclipse IDE. it was what we has to use in my CS lab courses and what was installed by default on my work laptop.
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I seriously hope the Z80 never dies.At least the Zilog Z80 is still produced
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There is something called 98SE2ME - a piece of software that adds all new things from ME to 98SE, without ruining MS-DOS stuff or stability (while the whole 9x line was pretty unstable, 98SE was probably the most stable of them all).
So yeah, now there really is no reason to use ME over 98SE on computers of that era.
Consider FileSearchEX - it's basically just Windows 2000 search, with same functionality.
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One thing I hated about Windows was if you wanted something better than MS provided, you had to crappily bolt on another program.
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That was super fun back in the day when Windows didn't even ship with a TCP/IP stack
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I really loathe Windows search but a couple of years ago Everything was recommended in the Software Endorsement thread and I rolled my eyes and tried it. Holy shit.
Not only is it instant when searching, it defaults to searching all drives at once. There's also tons of modifiers and crap that won't slow it down. It's replaced 90% of my Windows Explorer use. It can also easily batch rename files or rearrange their filenames and it even shows a preview of what the file names will be so you know before committing to it. Unlike powershell.
It can copy-paste files from multiple locations and/or drives to another place with one ctrl-c/ctrl-v.
Uncheck the "remove offline drives" option and you can search the portable HDD that's in a bag in the hallway without connecting it.
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JavaScript and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.Bleh. Desktop developers are a dying breed, I fear. Skilled people who still know how to use C/C++ proficiently to produce fast tools and GUI applications are becoming harder to find these days. Even on /g/ it's become way too common to see idiots mocking C/C++ for application development and promoting fad languages like rust and go or even webshit.
Oh well. I like job security anyway
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You joke, but just now I saw that Excel is suggesting me to use different color choices for the tables so they can be more accesible to other people... for the files I use to keep tabs on my personal finances.
I want to drop excel and use an alternative that can be used in both my pc and my phone, but so far LibreOfffice has been underwhelming.
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What would you say libre is missing? Is it something major for a specific thing in your use case or just quality of life issues?
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I think I can boil it down to QOL issues like visual basic compatibility and cloud sync. At my job we use scripts in Excel that are not compatible with Calc, and at my side jig I grew up with that muscle memory to do scripts for inventory and some data base stuff.
But for tasks that I do at home like keeping our home's finances, Calc has been enough (I have been using it occasionally since last year but I keep pivoting to Excel unconsciously). Do not get me wrong, maybe "underwhelming" was a poor choice of words from my side.
Also, I am also looking for a good phone Office suite in the same vein as Libre (less like Google Docs) that does not ask for subscriptions (one time purchase is fine within reasonable pricing) or ads up the ass.
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The last decent office suite for android was Quickoffice. Google bought it and dismembered it, to use as parts for google docs. What's left now is microsoft's woeful attempt, WPS office (previously kingsoft) which is run by the Chinese, and Officesuite, which seems to be not terrible from what I can see. It has subscriptions, but also offers a one-time payment option. I don't use office apps on android, so that's as far as I can suggest.
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I just got the Android 12 update and it's fucking up all my browsers when I try to post to forums like this.