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#3288430 1-Oct-2024 09:27

Behodar:

My opinion is that Microsoft wants to discontinue Windows, but doesn't want to go through the legal hassles that would inevitably erupt if they actually discontinued Windows. So we're onto Plan B: gradually make it worse and worse until everyone leaves.

The problem is that corporate IT departments won't dump Windows regardless of how bad it gets. In large organisations there would be too many complex dependencies to untangle, and then there is the general attitude of the end user experience being "not my concern".

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#3288449 1-Oct-2024 09:55

@MadEngineer: If you don’t get it quite right the foil seems to have a later of print on it that you can end up tearing instead leaving the pill still sealed. The foil is such that it can’t be popped by pushing the pill due to the covering.

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#3288493 1-Oct-2024 11:00

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And then there's text-based message boards which pick up the formatting of the text you're pasting into a quote section, so every time you want to quote something you first have to paste it into a text editor to remove the formatting before you can paste it a second time into the message you're writing.

Here's a new one: copying text from one email to another, despite the entire text of both the source and destination emails being in 11pt font, Outlook has decided to paste it as 12pt. This just started today...

I've noticed the new Electron version of Outlook does this frequently. The old Outlook never did this. Progress! :)

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#3288557 1-Oct-2024 13:24

cddt: Here's a new one: copying text from one email to another, despite the entire text of both the source and destination emails being in 11pt font, Outlook has decided to paste it as 12pt. This just started today...

If it's Outlook 365 or whatever the online version is called, just wait a week or two and it'll change back. However then the Send button will disappear. And when it comes back, all text will be rendered right-to-left.

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#3288670 1-Oct-2024 15:02

freitasm: This morning, flea treatment for our dogs:

This would probably see to it:

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#3288671 1-Oct-2024 15:06

neb:

This would probably see to it:

Universal crowbar/pry bar/opener/spudger that I keep in the kitchen drawer, available off Aliexpress.

I keep sharp knives in the kitchen drawer. Those would work too. But there's a lip to lift it. It just doesn't work.

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#3288673 1-Oct-2024 15:08

I meant to just punch through the foil/plastic layer. The metal spudger has the advantage that there's no sharp edges so little chance of injury if it slips.

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#3289936 2-Oct-2024 10:39

I don't know whether to blame Word, the printer driver, or the printer itself for this, but I just printed a ~20 page document with default settings, and every second page has printed upside down.

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#3289944 2-Oct-2024 10:57

Behodar:

I don't know whether to blame Word, the printer driver, or the printer itself for this, but I just printed a ~20 page document with default settings, and every second page has printed upside down.

I'd say the printer driver may be at fault here. Does the same happen in other applications e.g. Firefox?

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#3289947 2-Oct-2024 11:00

Behodar:

I don't know whether to blame Word, the printer driver, or the printer itself for this, but I just printed a ~20 page document with default settings, and every second page has printed upside down.

Most likely short edge is selected for duplexing.

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#3289951 2-Oct-2024 11:07

SirHumphreyAppleby:

Most likely short edge is selected for duplexing.

Bingo! I wonder why that's the default.

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#3289965 2-Oct-2024 11:49

It seems that microsoft wanted to be green so forced a default to print on both sides into windows. Which means we use more paper because things come out on both sides so we have to do it again with it not on both sides. Which side it chooses seems to be arbitary depending on the pdf you are printing.

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#3290013 2-Oct-2024 13:04

Something I frequently see confusing people with PDF printing especially is they’ll think they’ve set it to A3 but then between all the various options for document size, document settings, media size and fitting settings and all the options within the printer properties have it set to something else.

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#3290063 2-Oct-2024 13:19

richms:

It seems that microsoft wanted to be green so forced a default to print on both sides into windows. Which means we use more paper because things come out on both sides so we have to do it again with it not on both sides. Which side it chooses seems to be arbitary depending on the pdf you are printing.

That's usually an admin setting in the printer driver. A company I used to work for did this to reduce printer costs and wasted paper but they went one step further and forced all printouts to black & white by default which often led to the same document being printed 3 times. Once in black & and white and duplexed, again single sided but still in black & white because you forgot to change both settings and finally in colour and single sided which is what you wanted from the beginning.

It took a year and a 40% increase in printing costs before they changed it back.

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#3290079 2-Oct-2024 14:02

richms:

It seems that microsoft wanted to be green so forced a default to print on both sides into windows. Which means we use more paper because things come out on both sides so we have to do it again with it not on both sides. Which side it chooses seems to be arbitary depending on the pdf you are printing.

My personal PCs print one-sided by default. Work PCs print two-sided.

I wonder if the default is from the print driver -- my personal printer doesn't do double-sided printing so makes sense for the default to be one-side printing. Work is the fancy copier/printer/scanner so for that makes sense to have double sided by default. I know when I bring my work laptop home it doesn't do double sided printing by default when connected to my personal printer so that does seem to rule out the 'work admin set it up that way' theory.

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