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[Staffy]

Is this something recent?
I've never experienced this issue but i've had my updates paused for 10 months and i'm wondering if I should update now because im afraid what windows will surprise me with.
Will I have to exclude python and qbittorrent like a savage if i update?

I updated mine and this happened to me. It did happen to someone as well last year

I noticed that normal things have been treated like viruses lately. It's annoying when they remove a file from a thing I am trying to download. On this computer alone. It was a hassle to get OpenRCT2 working because the computer kept deleting the files because it's apparently a virus when it really isn't. They even treat genuine games that I bought as viruses. For example removing a file that came with the installation of the game Be-reave Secondary fucking up the whole game. I also remember the software also treating Sayonara o Oshiete as a virus because apparently anything made in 2001 is a virus. I also really hate it when American computers aren't designed to read Japanese letters unless you change the locale settings. That's what made trying to get the game Be-reave Secondary to work as such a pain in the ass as creating a folder for this just reads ??????? and other gibberish. Also, that game Renaissance released in 2001 I noticed the buttons on the top also read gibberish as it gives up trying to read Japanese all together. It also annoys me when I get weird file types which is usually the case when I try to play Innocent Eyes.

This seems to happen with files too, I downloaded some game soundtracks that are named in Japanese and the folder loads slowly compared to other folders, where the list of files are there but their names will appear one by one. It might have been a different issue altogether since this now happens with other folders, but this literally happened right after those files.

 

[Frail Snail]

Goddamn Windows 10 removed Qbittorrent without my permission after an update. I was able to reinstall it with no issue but that was a bastard move.


Funnily I researched around and this piece of shit is to blame and qbittorrent is classed as PuA and removes it w/o confirmation. Fuck you Microsoft, may the Bangladeshi sex spambots overwhelm your support email and forums in the future.

I have a hunch as to why that happens. Windows Defender doesn't seem to like executables with (plaintext?) code embedded inside. The Python interpreter counts as this because it has its standard library inside the .exe, qBittorrent is a packaged Python program on Windows and the .exe actually contains the entire Python interpeter plus the program code.

 

[Grundlejungle]

Generally HP products are shit and should be avoided at all cost.

This 100%
I have a HP printer that will randomly decide to take 30-40 minutes to print shit out. It's fucking aggravating to have to wait half a fucking hour just for a 1 page, black-and-white shipping label to print.
However, the funniest thing is: if I Google "cheap printers" when it starts doing that shit immediately unfucks itself and prints the page.

 

[Mister Uno]

This 100%
I have a HP printer that will randomly decide to take 30-40 minutes to print shit out. It's fucking aggravating to have to wait half a fucking hour just for a 1 page, black-and-white shipping label to print.
However, the funniest thing is: if I Google "cheap printers" when it starts doing that shit immediately unfucks itself and prints the page.

Yeah that's annoying. I use a HP SSD for my server and for whatever reason, it shoots errors constantly. Works perfectly fine otherwise with no issues. Meanwhile my 3 other SSDs from different brands have NO errors. Minor compared to your issue, but I hate seeing constant error lights and messages.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

Whoever designed the management interface for Google Wifi deserves a special place in hell.

Google being Google has decided the proper way to administer these access points is with an app. There is no web interface beyond a single page that says 'hi this is google wifi go get the app thanks' and bounces you to the play store. This is irritating as hell by itself and has been ever since these things got foisted on me last year, but in the last month google has REALLY upped the fucking ante on dumb bullshit.

The app you use to administer the points was named 'Google Wifi' unsurprisingly. I say 'was' because around a year ago Google decided the wifi administration functionality needs to be merged into Google Home. Instead of just porting everything over they've been bringing it over piecewise so to do something like forward a port you'd still need Google Wifi installed. As of last week they finally finished porting everything and Wifi seems to be completely defunct and no longer allows you to change any settings now that all of its functionality has been moved into home. This wouldn't be an issue beyond the normal irritation of dealing with these things, but the Home implementations of most of the advanced controls just don't work, specifically anything that has to deal with devices by MAC address. Anything involving port forwarding, static IPs, etc now just silently fails as all mac addresses resolve as 'unknown' in Home. It's unbelievably stupid but I really can't expect better from google at this point.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Hopefully I'm just boomering this up, but, meh, this annoyed me. The app I use on my phone to listen to audiobooks seems to have REMOVED the ability to adjust playback speed.

Here's what 2.3.0 looks like:

Spoiler: size/screenies

Here's 2.3.2:

Spoiler: size/screenies

Maybe its because I'm emulating the later version? But I don't want to fuck around and find out, also the F-Droid page has no mention of variable playback speeds, and I swear it did before. The whole reason I installed AudioAnchor in the first place was to listen to MP3 or M4A files at 1.5 or 1.75 speed. Obviously will not be updating this app, ever.

Yeah, its freeware, yeah, I could pay $1.99 and buy something with variable playback speed, but it just seems weird that this feature got dropped. It was there, and now it isn't. (I think.) And as far as I can tell there's no free android audio player with this feature other than this one.

Stumbled across this because I just wanted to listen to audiobooks on my laptop and was having trouble finding Windows software that easily did so. Was surprised to see this. Dug more and found GOM Audio, which does have variable playback speed on Windows, at least for MP3, haven't tried M4A yet. So I guess, whatever.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Hopefully I'm just boomering this up, but, meh, this annoyed me. The app I use on my phone to listen to audiobooks seems to have REMOVED the ability to adjust playback speed.

Here's what 2.3.0 looks like:

Spoiler: size/screenies

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Here's 2.3.2:

Spoiler: size/screenies

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Maybe its because I'm emulating the later version? But I don't want to fuck around and find out, also the F-Droid page has no mention of variable playback speeds, and I swear it did before. The whole reason I installed AudioAnchor in the first place was to listen to MP3 or M4A files at 1.5 or 1.75 speed. Obviously will not be updating this app, ever.

Yeah, its freeware, yeah, I could pay $1.99 and buy something with variable playback speed, but it just seems weird that this feature got dropped. It was there, and now it isn't. (I think.) And as far as I can tell there's no free android audio player with this feature other than this one.

Stumbled across this because I just wanted to listen to audiobooks on my laptop and was having trouble finding Windows software that easily did so. Was surprised to see this. Dug more and found GOM Audio, which does have variable playback speed on Windows, at least for MP3, haven't tried M4A yet. So I guess, whatever.

It might not be a great suggestion but VLC can do that on mobile and it even saves where you left off automatically(annoying for those that listen to a full album rip because there's no option to disable it). Don't know how it handles chapters and stuff.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

It might not be a great suggestion but VLC can do that on mobile

Edit: This is really weird, but the latest version of VLC for Android seems to have removed adjusting playback speed as well. There's even a checkbox for "Preserving" playback speed selected still there, but no option to change it, at least that I can see.

I tried both Google Play and F-Droid.

Got it to work on VLC, following this. In my defense I will say it was not at all intuitive. Playback speed doesn't show up until you play a file in a full window.

Thanks, @Smaug's Smokey Hole !

 

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And as far as I can tell there's no free android audio player with this feature other than this one.

'Voice', also available on F-Droid, does this. It's also a specialized audiobook player.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

If you have any capability to self host services check this out.

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf

It's got a web player as well as dedicated android client. They sync positions seamlessly and the Droid client will let you browse and cache books so you can listen to them offline. It owns very hard if you have a shitty phone with limited storage and/or an android wear smartwatch.

The only thing that sucks about it is the web ui lacks a simple table view and it can get uppity about removable media permissions on android but it's fairly new software and patches often.

 

[jimsterlingspronoun]

If I'm being honest any software I write in my day job is crappy.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

Thunderbird. Web browser LARPing as a mail client, total memory hog, terrible searching (totally inconsistent between current folder and global search) and then randomly decides to hog CPU (apparently SQLite related) but I'm not aware of anything better that isn't insanely autistic.

Now they've just absorbed my favorite Android e-mail client: https://k9mail.app/2022/06/13/K-9-Mail-and-Thunderbird

 

[teriyakiburns]

Thunderbird. Web browser LARPing as a mail client, total memory hog, terrible searching (totally inconsistent between current folder and global search) and then randomly decides to hog CPU (apparently SQLite related) but I'm not aware of anything better that isn't insanely autistic.

Now they've just absorbed my favorite Android e-mail client: https://k9mail.app/2022/06/13/K-9-Mail-and-Thunderbird

Ah jeez, up to now, all the reporting had made it sound like they would be maintaining k9 as a separate app and having a thunderbird-branded fork. I didn't realise they'd actually be merging them completely.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Thunderbird.
(...)
but I'm not aware of anything better that isn't insanely autistic.

What is with that anyway? What happened to desktop email clients? Unless you want to use Thunderbird, Outlook, or one of those paid proprietary email clients mostly designed for call center pajeets who need to sort through a billion incoming mails, everything else out there is missing some key feature.

 

[kūhaku]

Google also made it so that you can't sync up your mail with an "insecure" third party app so all android email clients are basically broken for me now. This is just going to hasten my deletion of all my google accounts, fuck them for doing this

 

[teriyakiburns]

What is with that anyway? What happened to desktop email clients? Unless you want to use Thunderbird, Outlook, or one of those paid proprietary email clients mostly designed for call center pajeets who need to sort through a billion incoming mails, everything else out there is missing some key feature.

Most people use browser clients, whatever's default on their phone, or some microsoft shit.

 

[Mister Uno]

Thunderbird. Web browser LARPing as a mail client, total memory hog, terrible searching (totally inconsistent between current folder and global search) and then randomly decides to hog CPU (apparently SQLite related) but I'm not aware of anything better that isn't insanely autistic.

Now they've just absorbed my favorite Android e-mail client: https://k9mail.app/2022/06/13/K-9-Mail-and-Thunderbird

Fuck. I use K-9 and now I have to deal with Thunderbird fuckery? Bleh.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

Google also made it so that you can't sync up your mail with an "insecure" third party app so all android email clients are basically broken for me now. This is just going to hasten my deletion of all my google accounts, fuck them for doing this

That's just for using the account password, you can workaround this using app passwords but you need 2FA enabled.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833

Of course the best option is to get off of Gmail but that takes a while. I've still got mine hanging out there, though I use it with imapsync so I don't have to login to the mailbox directly and all incoming mail automatically gets dumped into my actual mailbox within 5 minutes.

If you go full autist and setup imapsync, let me know and I'll write up a guide on what flags to use for Gmail.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Vote with your wallet and actually pay for an email account, preferably with a company that promises and also delivers privacy and no advertising, will reasonably defend you from government spooks playing data krakens and preferably stores everything encrypted. (by advertising it but you also can figure this out by them warning you that they can't get your emails back if you lose your password) The few bucks a year you'd save with staying with google is literally not worth dealing with all their bullshit and having your stuff searched through.

 

[kūhaku]

That's just for using the account password, you can workaround this using app passwords but you need 2FA enabled.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833

Of course the best option is to get off of Gmail but that takes a while. I've still got mine hanging out there, though I use it with imapsync so I don't have to login to the mailbox directly and all incoming mail automatically gets dumped into my actual mailbox within 5 minutes.

If you go full autist and setup imapsync, let me know and I'll write up a guide on what flags to use for Gmail.

That of course assumes I can enable 2FA for all 5-6 of my gmail accounts, which I can't because I don't have 6 phones. Even if I did, I don't want to enable 2FA and give them more info than they already have. I don't know why it is that they make TOTP a secondary option.