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#3392897 10-Jul-2025 17:43

Technically this isn't software design, but a "printable" PDF map for an event has white text on a purple background.

Edit: I should point out that the map itself is a minority of the page. Most of it is text.

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#3394516 16-Jul-2025 09:33

Back in the land of Microsoft.

Visual Studio: "Your WebView2 component is out of date. Please download the latest from here."

The downloaded installer: "This component is already installed."

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#3397388 27-Jul-2025 12:15

Trying out something different this time: Linux (specifically Raspberry Pi OS).

"Updates are available"
"Updates are installing"
"System is now up to date"

Nothing wrong there... except that during the update process it apparently unloaded the USB driver or similar, and I had to cut the power to get the mouse and keyboard back.

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#3397490 28-Jul-2025 08:01

Behodar:

Back in the land of Microsoft.

Visual Studio: "Your WebView2 component is out of date. Please download the latest from here."

The downloaded installer: "This component is already installed."

Also in the land of Microsoft... Azure Storage Explorer.

"The version of Storage Explorer you are using is currently out of support. It is recommended that you update to the latest version."

Help -> Check for Updates -> "There is no update available."

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#3397495 28-Jul-2025 08:15

Mine (version 1.35) says it'll leave support in 53 days. Like yours, it says there is no update available.

It looks like the latest is 1.39.1 so it seems that the updater is broken.

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#3400107 5-Aug-2025 09:48

Visual Studio can be so mind-meltingly stupid sometimes.

I want some Bold text. Autocorrect decides that I want Bold text</AlreadySubmitted>.

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#3400162 5-Aug-2025 16:12

Behodar:

Visual Studio can be so mind-meltingly stupid sometimes.

I want some Bold text. Autocorrect decides that I want Bold text</AlreadySubmitted>.

Punched cards never had bold text :)

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#3400419 6-Aug-2025 18:12

1) My Subaru has face recognition. Sometimes it fails. You can manually repeat it by going through the menu until you arrive at a choice labelled “Repeat Facial Scan?”

Press that to get “Do you wish to repeat the facial scan? Yes/No”

Why the second question?!

2) Was opening an account with a large international courier. It had drop down auto lists for your address as you type.
Found ours and entered it.

Box goes red. Message appears “PO Box address not permitted”

Had I entered a PO Box address? No. I’d entered a physical address. I can’t change the fact that your computer doesn’t understand that!

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#3401595 11-Aug-2025 08:20

Windows 11 Settings > Apps > Startup. "Apps can be configured to start when you log in."

As far as I can tell, this window does not allow you to configure an app to start when you log in. You can stop an app from starting when you log in, and you can re-enable an app once you've stopped it, but you can't tell one to start.

Bonus points for saying "log in" here, but "sign in" on the actual screen where you do it.

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#3401639 11-Aug-2025 10:54

Google Sheets asking to convert everything to a table. Do they not understand how spreadsheets work? Everything is a table.

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#3401808 11-Aug-2025 16:34

Not having used Google sheets, I suspect they mean data table. Excel does something similar.

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#3401827 11-Aug-2025 17:56

TwoSeven:

Not having used Google sheets, I suspect they mean data table. Excel does something similar.

Yes, most likely data table. But I would much prefer if it didn't assume that everything is one.

Excel doesn't seem to default to doing so on every sheet, all the time. Though I am still using Office 2010 at home, also haven't noticed it on O365 at work.

It's a recent "feature" that has just been added.

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#3402119 12-Aug-2025 17:17

Data tables in Excel have been there for quite a few years now (2016 and later). You’ll find it under the data tab along with of the power query stuff.

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#3402220 12-Aug-2025 19:46

TwoSeven:

Data tables in Excel have been there for quite a few years now (2016 and later). You’ll find it under the data tab along with of the power query stuff.

Yes, but there's a significant difference between a function that is available (and has been pretty much forever) and the software shoving it in your face on every sheet of every workbook just because there's some data on the sheet. Open a workbook "convert this to a table". No thanks. If I wanted to make it into a data table, I would have.

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#3402319 13-Aug-2025 08:03

TwoSeven:

Data tables in Excel have been there for quite a few years now (2016 and later). You’ll find it under the data tab along with of the power query stuff.

As a long time Excel user I really struggle to see what they are useful for...

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