Talking about cards: are cards that work as both credit and debit in the same card common in other countries?
A good package manager in Windows. Linux has been doing this for over a decade and the closest thing to an official competitor is... the Windows store? Which is rivaled by the 2015 Ubuntu software center in usability?
RAM as a buffer for writing to drives (mostly SSDs). Veeery niche use case, but I just learned about DRAMless SSDs and how they lose tons of performance because there's no DRAM to act as a buffer. I bought more RAM to fix it but that's not how the systems work.
Notifications in general. I want about 1% of the notifications and emails I get. Google should step in but they make money on half this crap anyway.
A standardization of the "command line logic" + "GUI hook" app design paradigm. Apps like NZBget and Transmission can stay high performance with hundreds of queued actions, because the app itself is not tied to the user interface. I've seen other programs crash when you ask them to do too much, but that never happens here. Worst that would happen is the GUI crashes and you have to restart it, while the central logic continues undisturbed.
Containers. Massive gains in maintainability and security, minimal performance loss. Yet it's currently the domain of professionals and nerds.
Performance. Every time I use an app like Foobar2000 on a library of 20,000+ songs, I wonder what every other app's excuse is for choking on a map of a city or a New York Times article.
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Tangent: Everything that very smart people invented in 1980-2005, that got thrown out the window when capitalism got a hold of it. I'm talking about RSS, email, offline apps, IRC, XMPP, etc. Far too many technologies have had solutions for decades that either used to work, or would work, but there's more money in making bespoke garbage for your walled garden. Every time Twitter is used in place of RSS i die a little.
Yeah no worries I mentioned I knew this in the last page, but it's still annoying to have to reopen tabs when I didn't want to close it all in the first place. Could be an easily avoidable problem with a toggle-able dialog box..
Google has tons of these. Among them:
-not being able to easily delete unused rows or columns in Google Sheets
Also accidentally closing all tabs on Google Chrome. I believe in both Firefox and the old Internet Explorer there was always an extra dialogue box that asked if you actually wanted to close the whole damn window with all the tabs. I have no idea why I would need to download an extra extension for this to happen, it seems so basic.
In photoshop at least since ver.7.0 there are guides that let you know if the image is centered or aligned with ither elements of your composition.Whenever I'm using image editing software and look for the option to make sure the thing I'm trying to do is perfectly placed in the center of the image, only to realize that this apparently isn't a thing, and you just have to painstakingly do it by eye.
Well in this specific case it's just a calculated anti-consumer decision. Though there are brands that are putting it back on their phones.
It's the standard in Brazil as far as I remember.Talking about cards: are cards that work as both credit and debit in the same card common in other countries?
You can on vivaldi android. Just press and hold a tab and slide to left and right.Why does it seem like all smartphone browsers don't allow reorganising tabs?
The rule of potentially 'destructive actions'. Always get additional confirmation.Not being able to turn off confirmations, especially in video games. "Are you sure you want to...?" Yes I'm sure, that's why I fucking clicked it. I intentionally click things far, far more often than I accidentally do so. I'm willing to take my chances, so let me.
This is the reason I'm keeping my OnePlus 7 Pro for as long as possible.Retractible selfie cameras on phones.
My phone (Xiaomi Mi 9T) has it and it's so much better than those fucking notches. But very few phones have it.
There's a way...Not being able to use my iPad as a monitor, or hook consoles up to it to play.
Performance. Every time I use an app like Foobar2000 on a library of 20,000+ songs, I wonder what every other app's excuse is for choking on a map of a city or a New York Times article.
Safari on iPhone, hold the phone horizontally/landscape and move the tabs around freely.Why does it seem like all smartphone browsers don't allow reorganising tabs?
Also accidentally closing all tabs on Google Chrome. I believe in both Firefox and the old Internet Explorer there was always an extra dialogue box that asked if you actually wanted to close the whole damn window with all the tabs. I have no idea why I would need to download an extra extension for this to happen, it seems so basic.
Chrome recently added it.Why does it seem like all smartphone browsers don't allow reorganising tabs?
A headset for work-from-home. So many colleagues shouting into their shitty laptop mics, TV noise blaring in the background. It could tolerate it early one, but nine months later I'm done with those people.
You can on iOS from the quick menu when you swipe up. Just hold on the Bluetooth icon and you can drop the connections to added devices. Could be way smoother though. I don't they showed this of properly when it was added so a lot of people have missed it.
I just checked and using Cmd + X in Finder doesn't do anything.I just checked and the usual cut and paste keyboard shortcut works.
This x1000. I have a 2016 Rav4 and it even advertised a great stock entertainment system, but it was worse than the aftermarket systems that I looked at 5+ years before. It also has just abysmal glares too when the sun comes in. The USB feature is the worst of it all - it has to re-index your music every time you turn your car off/on. So if you have over, say, 10GB of songs, that's about 2 or 3 minutes before you can even play music since it's spending all that time re-indexing everything.Car Play, or just decent UI in cars in general. I bought a new Toyota RAV4 a couple years ago and despite spending $30k on a car, the entertainment system feels like a mid-2000s Garmin. It's remarkably awful. Nothing about Teslas as cars are particularly interesting to me, but I kinda want one just because of the forward-thinking driver interface.
Tap the AirPlay icon in the upper-right of Control Center, rather than long-pressing the Bluetooth icon twice.Thanks - didn't know about that. It's certainly a step in the right direction from one software vendor. I'm still firmly stood on my soapbox though.
I just checked and using Cmd + X in Finder doesn't do anything.
Talking about cards: are cards that work as both credit and debit in the same card common in other countries?
1) Headphone jack on phones
2) Optical drive slot on ATX cases
That 2nd one was kind of bewildering to me. I haven't built a pc since maybe 2016 and recently my brother in law asked me to build him a new desktop. So, thinking that a case should have an optical drive slot by default, I just bought a nice Lian Li case, with a bare DVDRW drive and a Windows 10 install disc. Unpack the case and there is nowhere to put an optical drive. Never even thought to check for this with a brand new standard ATX case. So instead of returning all of the disc related stuff since I was on a time crunch, I just bought a USB Optical enclosure instead.
That's just sadistic.You have to hand write your resume in Japan. No computer, no printer, no photocopying. Oh, you want to apply for 20+ jobs? Better get to work!
It's not my experience but what I've heard from some Japanese friends and youtube.
Yeah I know, it kind of annoys me :POptical media is quickly dying on PC, which is why case manufacturers are dropping it. Even laptops are starting to drop support for them (my ThinkPad P50 doesn't have a drive bay, for example).
A headset for work-from-home. So many colleagues shouting into their shitty laptop mics, TV noise blaring in the background. It could tolerate it early one, but nine months later I'm done with those people.
Have you seen the Bluetooth spec...did you know that some companies are not even adhering to it? Yeah, that's when it becomes a mess especially when you bring multipoint into the equation and then it becomes even a bigger problem. Devices go into different modes and some didn't even stay in connectable state because of battery concerns so there is that. Connection management should definitely be better, I agree, the Bluetooth spec has a bunch of limitations unfortunately.This. It's annyoing when I want to quickly switch my headset between my tablet, phone and PC. I have to dig around in the settings to tell one device to stop listening to it, or turn off Bluetooth completely.
I meant accidentally closing all tabs. There have been countless times I accidentally click on the top right corner for whatever reason and it closes the whole window with like 10 tabs. I've edited my post for clarity.