There needs to be more focus on unique passwords than 'strong' ones. 

roobarb:

 

The changes made to Notepad now it is an app store app in Windows 11.

 

Do you want tabs with that? Why does every app have to add tabs? Back in the days on Windows 3.1 there was the MDI app (multiple document interface), this was due to a limitation that you could not have multiple copies of large apps in memory. So apps would open documents within a main windows. Eg all the Office apps etc. Why do things have to be related on the screen just because the same app is displaying them? The new notepad allows you have documents in different windows, now you have no idea which windows holds which document if you, say have a number of files open all called Makefile. To compare notes I want to see them side by side, not click between tabs.

 

MDI was not able to handle multiple monitors, so they started to do things where the document was in a separate window to the controls and you had a single set of controls for all the document windows. And that is how we ended up where we are with excel.

 

Behodar:

 

That's due to hysterical raisins. When Win NT was new, all the "native" apps were 32-bit (as opposed to the older 16-bit ones) and system32 became the "native apps" folder. When Windows went 64-bit they kept the same name to avoid breaking things.

 

SysWOW64 stands for "System Windows-on-Windows 64" because Win32 is actually a subsystem on Win64, whereas on Win32 it is the system and Win16 is the only subsystem (a subsystem which is incidentally removed from Win64). Intriguingly, "System32" was not used as the system folder name for Win32s (the Win32 subsystem for Windows 3.1)

Kyanar:

 

Intriguingly, "System32" was not used as the system folder name for Win32s (the Win32 subsystem for Windows 3.1)

 

The likely explanation is that Win32s wasn't part of the NT family and therefore didn't follow its conventions.

"Do you want to try new Teams?"

"Yeah, OK, I'll give it a go."

After suffering with it for a week or two, I switched back to old Teams.

"Do you want to try new Teams?"

Microsoft software which requires components which require administrator permissions to install, so I have to ask a colleague to add it to some kind of managed software repository so business users can install it... 

The component in question is .NET 6 which is EOL in less than 6 months. Doesn't give me hope Microsoft will continue to support their products. 

Behodar:

 

"Do you want to try new Teams?"

 

"Yeah, OK, I'll give it a go."

 

After suffering with it for a week or two, I switched back to old Teams.

 

"Do you want to try new Teams?"

 

On a Mac you can add Apps etc very easily to the startup items, right click on them when they are in the dock and "open on login".

NOT Teams, no that would be too sensible to use the built in method that every other App uses ...no you have to go into the settings for teams and do it from there.

I am now also on 10 "teams" and have now have to use Outlook (which also sucks on the Mac) because of "shared email" which Mail on the Mac does not work with. I detest Outlook.

what about the geekzone background

I keep thinking the background is the scroll bar and the scroll bar is just a window below my current window :P

The number of times Ive clicked and dragged the background....

Are you using some sort of addon for that? Geekzone doesn't appear to have a native dark mode (or it doesn't work in Firefox for some reason).

Edit: Quoting you from another thread:

reven:

 

but, meh, personally I think dark reader does a good enough job.   theres only a very few number of sites i have to disable dark reader on (unless it tries to dark mode a dark site).   i havent seen any issues with geekzone with it.

 

Haven't seen any issues, eh? ;)

lol, yeah darkreader.  turning off, looks fine... well it burns my eyes :P

Behodar:

 

"Do you want to try new Teams?"

 

"Yeah, OK, I'll give it a go."

 

After suffering with it for a week or two, I switched back to old Teams.

 

"Do you want to try new Teams?"

 

A week and a bit later...

"Do you want to upgrade to new Teams now?"

I answer no. It installs it anyway. I click the option to revert to the old one and it tells me that's not possible because it's not installed.

Mehrts:

 

The (now obsolete) "Z EV Charging" app was terrible for not natively supporting password managers, but the worst was that it wouldn't even allow you to paste a copied password into the box!!

The ASB app does this or at-least did. Wouldn't allow password managers and would clear out the fields if you switched to another app.

TinyTim: Yesterday: let Strava subscription lapse and downgrade to free version

Today: "Hey, look at all these cool and useful features you get if you upgrade!"

Don't get me started on Strava. 

I pay for a subscription because I like participating on the segments, but my brain explodes when I look at the leaderboard for the 200m swim between the two rafts at Oriental Bay I see people supposedly achieving that in 15 seconds. 😆

And just because I can, Teams again.

Open the emoji panel and search for "car". The first result is not a car. Neither is the second. Or the third. Or the fourth. Or the...

The emoji of a car, which is captioned as "Car" and should therefore be at the top of a search for that text, is the 46th item in the list.