jackewiehose

This isn't about "change", they just removed some essential functionality that I use daily since 1995.

Besides from being used to it, it is also required for my work to have wide, labeled, ungrouped application buttons instead of icons that are oftentimes barely distinguishable.

You get a tool tip when hovering the mouse over the progress bar. But now I see the chapters are also listed in the video description, which I should have linked to in the first place:

00:30:35 Taskbar grouping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDicLHBvQQM&t=1835s

There is an interview with Raymond Chen where he is trying to defend the reason why they crippled the taskbar with Windows 11 [1].

Watching that I was just thinking NO NO NO - it worked fine for the last 25 years and there can be absolutely no reason why they had to destroy the taskbar now.

He deserves every headache he gets with these support requests.

Or to quote this comment of the linked article:

> There wouldn’t be as much of a need if the windows shell team was smarter [...] In fact I actively encourage, support, and celebrate efforts like this. Make their life hell and delay them. If they spend more time on investigating issues like this, they’ll have less time to f*k something else up.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDicLHBvQQM

Because fingerprinting. Shit like this is the reason you are supposed to use the Tor browser only with a tiny window.

> I guess there is some unfortunate reason why they can't do the same here

Because they want to support Git for Windows which is built upon Cygwin/msys. And this is fine because Cygwin is much faster than WSL and a good Windows integration is so much easier. Would be a total PITA if Git would only be available through WSL.

Cygwin is still the best thing ever happened to Windows (or to Linuxers who are forced to work with Windows).

Thank you. That inspired me to try out the lemmy android app. But that was quite underwhelming. We'll see where that goes.

Sorry, but I'm too stupid to find it by myself. Would you give me a hint?

Does lemmy has somethings like /r/all? Across all instances?

I'm not interested in subscribing to specific communities. The way I used reddit most of the time was browsing on /r/all using RIF and then I blocked all subreddits I didn't want to see again (a feature of RIF, you don't even need an account).

It looks like STUN/TURN can be integrated with QUIC so you don't need additional ports, but I wouldn't say "the complexity is gone" ;-)

https://w3c.github.io/p2p-webtransport/

> This specification extends the WebRTC [WEBRTC], ORTC [ORTC] and WebTransport [WEBTRANSPORT] APIs to enable peer-to-peer operation using QUIC [RFC9000]. This specification supports the exchange of arbitrary data with remote peers using NAT-traversal technologies such as ICE, STUN, and TURN. As specified in [RFC7983bis], QUIC can be multiplexed on the same port as RTP, RTCP, DTLS, STUN and TURN, allowing the API defined in this specification to be utilized along with the functionality defined in [WEBRTC] and [ORTC] including communication using audio/video media and SCTP data channels.

> A big difference to WebRTC is: All the STUN / TURN complexity is gone

but STUN / TURN is there for a reason. I always thought of the P2P scenario as the main use case for WebRTC.

I cant think of a use case for me but I want it.

But a deal-breaker would be the comment from this German news article[1]:

> Wie alle bisherigen Produkte von Finalmouse wird es sich wahrscheinlich um eine limitierte Auflage handeln, die nach einiger Zeit ausverkauft ist.

> Like all products so far from Finalmouse it's probably a limited edition that will be sold out after some time.

This is bad news for something that requires an active community to unfold it's potential. I'm also skeptical about those "Skins" - they better should be "Apps".

[1]: https://www.golem.de/news/finalmouse-centerpiece-mechanische...

> windows can be set to prohibit executing [...] on a dev machine building windows executables

lol @ "dev machine" ?!

> Well for one a website can make you secretly upload copyrighted content with plain old javascript

Only to a webserver and thanks to CORS not to any webserver. There is no benefit for a website doing that - unlike with sharing a torrent to other internet users.

The problem with torrents is that they are actively watched by "Abmahnanwälte" (lawyers who make a living by suing copyright offenders).

> And it's going to be hard to hold you liable for data uploads that someone else initiated and you didn't know about

yeah good luck with that. All they see is your IP and then you can try to explain how this happened and how you are totally innocent.

Was I wrong about the torrent stuff or did the downvotes come from web-developers who want WebRTC to be always available by default?

Thank you, I will try that. Although I hope that for critical security updates they will be faster... Right now it is lagging behind (105.1.0 vs. current 106.1.0)

Yes, but as far as I understand, the fight against fingerprinting is lost anyway.

Having WebRTC enabled can be dangerous for other reasons. You could be seeding a torrent unknowingly just by visiting a website. This can turn into a freaking disaster if you live in country like Germany.

It's a shame that browsers don't ask you for WebRTC like they do with webcams.

How to disable WebRTC on Firefox Mobile? I have uBlock which prevents from leaking the local IP but I don't want WebRTC at all.

Why did they take about:config from us?

I agree. And besides that I also think it's an incredibly bad idea to train users, who are technically not very firm, to enter their credentials on some random page that asks for it.

I'm a pro and even I can't tell how this is supposed to be safe. How would you explain the security aspects to someone who can't distinguish between google-search and the browsers address-bar?!

Welcome to HN, where you read a story like this at least once a month.

For this reason I ditched my google account years ago and switched to a paid mail provider that offers support and isn't operated entirely by robots.

> "this time let's replace both the motherboard and also the power adapter" [...]

> I want to think this is just plain bad luck, but the Lenovo support forums are full of similar problems, and two other colleagues independently confirmed the same issue

Oh no, I have to confirm this too. Had the same issue with my X1 Carbon Gen-9. They replaced the motherboard (and hopefully the power adapter). At least so far it's still working after a few months since repair.

> and I'm left with this bloody brick

Did you know you can charge (or at least power) the laptop via the other usb port, next to the power port? I was afraid to try that out by myself but their support asked me if I can do so and it worked.

I don't understand the point of having 2FA with your password manager. When I open my password manager on a malware infected PC it doesn't matter how the password vault is opened. Once it's opened it is available in RAM and the malware is able to read it completely anyway.

My passwords are stored in Keepass on an encrypted backup disc, locally and also in another household. There is no way I would make the accessibility to something important like that dependent on additional hardware.

in C++ I would write

    for (int i: numbers)
      if (i % 2 == 1)
        return true;
    return false;

find_if() etc. is fine if you already have the right predicate function at hand but it becomes quite ridiculous with lambda expressions.

It's a different outcome but it is again a problem caused by their signing requirement bullshit. It wouldn't be that bad if they would just let us developers use our unsigned extensions.

so true... in 15 years using emacs I never came across another emacs-user in real life.

But even if I would find one and we wanted to use emacs together - How is that supposed to work? My config and how I use it is quite personal.

Also I don't understand what it could provide. Screen-sharing can be done with Teamviewer etc.

> Luckily a few promising alternative browsers are popping up.

anything not based on chromium?

I agree with most of what you said but ...

> My 2012 Nexus 7 runs Android 7(!).

why not Android 11? The Nexus is from Google as well as Android. So at some point they must have pushed some "useless" new features into Android that makes it incompatible with the older hardware. I say "useless" because besides gaming or probably video telephony there's nothing we do today with our phones that couldn't be done with those older devices so I don't see a reason why they shouldn't be able to run the newest Android.

> but it’s not a conspiracy

conspiracy is probably not the right term but I also don't think it's just a matter of circumstances. In the end they want us to buy new hardware every few years so I claim that the situation is brought to us intentionally.

It's a real shame that nowadays 7 year old devices are considered to be out of scope for support even though they would still be perfectly fine otherwise.

Fuck google etc. and this whole throw-away society.

Being "pissed" is about the phone number requirement which is just a political decision and not about budget.

> If you're so motivated, can even build something for them in open source

No, as far as I know they don't allow alternative clients (at least on their servers). Of course that is their right but IMHO still a dick move (again nothing to do with budget) and we are stuck with the official client. Open source is nice but with this limitation it has lost the biggest advantage.

I'm really pissed at Signal because they went the same route as WhatsApp and tied the account to a phone number and it's not possible to use it on more than one (android) device or just on a PC (without phone).

WhatsApp gave us the chance to convert a lot of people to a facebook-free messenger because of their change of terms and we did convert a lot of people.

But meanwhile I have to agree with most people I know: the Signal app is just shitty compared to WhatsApp (often crashes on android, you can't set a custom notify sound, messages arriving late, ...) and now it also lags behind this new feature.

> The only real case

which is probably the case in 90% of all my switch'es. Worst use of a time machine ever.