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Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

can a UI designer (preferably one who works at microsoft) tell me why there's a link in windows settings labelled "changing taskbar colour", which opens a bing search in edge for "change windows 11 taskbar colour site:microsoft.com", with colours spelt the UK way, which shows zero results but has a suggestion box containing a button labelled "open colors setting", with colours spelt the US way, which opens a new tab which asks if you'd like edge to open settings, which opens the windows settings app to the colour personalisation page, only to have the "set taskbar colour" switch be greyed out

can a UI designer (preferably one who works at microsoft) tell me why there's a link in windows settings labelled "changing taskbar colour", which opens a bing search in edge for "change windows 11 taskbar colour site:microsoft.com", with colours spelt the UK way, which shows zero results but has a suggestion box containing a button labelled "open colors setting", with colours spelt the US way, which opens a new tab which asks if you'd like edge to open settings, which opens the windows settings...

windows settings screenshot with a hyperlinnk labelled "changing taskbar colour"
bing search for "change windows 11 taskbar colour site:microsoft.com" (UK spelling). there are no search results, but there's a suggestion box thing with some text about what the windows 11 personalisation settings are capable of, and a button labelled "open colors setting" (US spelling)
microsoft edge popup window reading "this site is trying to open settings. https://www.bing.com wants to open this application.", with the options "open" and "cancel". "cancel" is highlighted in blue, and "open" is grey.
windows settings screenshot. "show accent colour on start and taskbar" is disabled.
18 November at 20:46 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
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David JONES

@lynnesbian you must have the "Professional" edition ;)

21 November at 16:33 | Open on typo.social
Mohit Sindhwani

@lynnesbian
I think you're clicking a link for "help about changing colours" which is why it starts the browser & when you finally come back, the colour of the link text has changed since the page has been visited.

It searches with the English (UK) text probably because that is the correct spelling on your Windows PC but then there isn't a help page found for it - so, it offers to show you the English (US) page instead.

Yes, not great! 🙂

22 November at 7:19 | Open on ruby.social
hazelnot :yell:

@lynnesbian UI designer here, it's a mix of corporate greed (the Bing/Edge nonsense) and just bad UX design (you apparently have to switch the theme to "Dark" or "Custom" - if you select Custom you then have to switch "Windows mode" to dark first 💀 - for that toggle to get enabled from what I've seen, never used Windows 11 though)

14 December at 11:29 | Open on sunbeam.city
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

playing PC games from the 2000s is like

This game, like most Scringle Engine 3 games, does not support widescreen, and instead crops the 4:3 image to a 16:9 ratio. This can be fixed with Jambo's Game Tool, although this will disable the "Advanced Features" video option, which will remove reflections from puddles and mirrors.

To fix the immediate crash when starting the cutscene on level 3, download GregFix.dll from the GregUtils website (no link provided - Greg will send DMCA takedowns to any websites besides Google that provide his website's URL) and drop it in your system32 folder. Run the game with administrator privileges twice, letting it crash both times, then start it normally. This is confirmed to work on December 2022 through April 2023 builds of Windows 10.

playing PC games from the 2000s is like

This game, like most Scringle Engine 3 games, does not support widescreen, and instead crops the 4:3 image to a 16:9 ratio. This can be fixed with Jambo's Game Tool, although this will disable the "Advanced Features" video option, which will remove reflections from puddles and mirrors.

19 June at 7:07 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
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🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈 :verified:

@lynnesbian ✨ReactOS Virtual Machine✨

25 July at 1:26 | Open on tech.lgbt
Maddie :patsMaddie:
@lynnesbian "also the only color in this game is brown lol"
25 July at 1:50 | Open on labyrinth.zone
Lee

@lynnesbian I loved Ban Me Thout in 67-68. Lush, clean, beautiful countryside and good people.

25 July at 1:59 | Open on mastodon.social
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

for sale: OEM windows license key, never worn

4 February at 2:18 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
Pan K🔑

@lynnesbian misread this as WOEM and now I can't shake this from my mind

4 February at 2:39 | Open on tech.lgbt
linguist
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

i had the idea for this and was compelled to make it straight away

panel 1: it's tux, the linux mascot! panel 2: doofenshmirtz says "a linux distro?" panel 3: it's tux wearing a fedora! panel 4: doofenshmirtz says "fedora the linux distro?!"
4 January at 21:36 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
pixx
Eckler Ô Chokola

@lynnesbian the fact that the fedora looks a lot like the red hat logo adds another layer to the joke, and i quite like it :neofox_uwu:

23 December at 15:07 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

in switzerland you aren't allowed to have a train with exactly 256 axles because of an integer overflow in the axle counting machine

i wish i could fix my software bugs by making it illegal to cause them

to avoid falsely signalling a section of track as clear by resetting the axle counter to zero, and thus to avoid collisions, the total number of axles in a train must not equal 256
10 Apr 2020 at 5:38 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
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boxcarbertha

@lynnesbian Don‘t fix Your bugs! Avoid them! 🤪

22 December at 12:03 | Open on troet.cafe
Julian

@lynnesbian Oh, I heard that before at work. I'm pretty sure the axcel counter with that particular problem was designed by my coworker xD

That thing was programmed in assembly and only had analog relays as an interface. It's not even produced anymore, but has a lifespan of like 30 years, and railway operators don't just replace working equipment.

Though it is strange that this is a law. Usually such "safety requirements" are handled by the railway operator.

22 December at 23:38 | Open on wien.rocks
Joost

@lynnesbian my whole idea about Switzerland has changed now, prejudice it was, but still... #swissprecision

23 December at 8:59 | Open on mastodon.social
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

linux has a great way to run windows apps (wine) and progress is being made on macOS apps (darling)

now if only there was a good universal way to run linux apps on linux

31 Dec 2019 at 4:06 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
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Michael T. Richter
patter

@lynnesbian good news, there's at least 5 of them :) (that is also the bad news)

5 February at 9:33 | Open on meow.social
Григорий Клюшников

I remember reading somewhere that Win32 is the most stable API/ABI on Linux

5 February at 10:33
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

15 Jan 2019 at 1:51 | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
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