Spyke
lemmy.world

Is this the tiling manager people talk about all the time?

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Is this the tiling manager people talk about all the time?

Ye, Microsoft's Head of Monetization, Nolan Sorrento, calls it "Pure O2."

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I'm not as savvy at tech as many folk in this here platform, but I was knowledgeable in Napster and limewire in my early teens. A dabble of DOS 3.0 when I was in k-5. I thank you for letting me believe that counts for anything at all.

I log in to different computers at work. About half have updated to windows 11. I don't know why only half. I'm not IT.

I miss XP to this day. The cosmetic features aren't useful to me because I grew up with alt+tab and such. I can adapt. I bet there are reasons - but for me at work, it's just a minor inconvenience in creating new "muscle memory"

I still miss xp

Edit- just give me my start menu bqck

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It should be off in a corner or something. Not front and center where it's blocking the main ad.

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sh.itjust.works

Yeah, those ads are way to easy to ignore. Hopefully the working space randomly shifts tiles so your attention shifts periodically to the ads!

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lemmy.world

And you get jingles every few minutes that you can't turn down or mute.

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MumboJumboreply
lemmy.world

Not only does it move, but it gets covered by an ad and it has to track your eyeballs on that tile for 5 seconds before it reveals the desktop. That way, you spend a minute watching ads looking for the real desktop.

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feddit.org

This is less intrusive than current web ads. The entire center of the screen is ad-free, no pop-ups, no banners that grey out the rest of the screen, no paywall...

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In this image you could just put cardboard over all the ads to have an ad-free experience.

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unalivejoyreply
lemm.ee

Ow! My Balls! is brought to you by a Carl's Jr.

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feddit.org

Quite optimistic view. Do you think they will be so nice and give you a completely unobstructed working area? I am pretty sure that contradicts every sane ad strategy. Where is the "Watch one minute of ads before we can start your application" window in the center? Where are the 5 identical buttons of which only one will get you to file explorer, the other ones lead to File Explorer Plus only for 5,99$ per week?

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lemmy.world

I still use my bought in 2012 Photoshop CS 6, almost daily, no plans to upgrade. If i need to keep one of my PCs with windows, i won't mind sticking to a old version for the long run

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GIMPs biggest upgrade in like a decade should be coming out this year, you'll have to check it out and see if it meets your needs when it does.

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ZephrCreply
lemm.ee

Would you rather they had used AI?

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amotioreply
lemmy.world

No, MSPaint on Wine is perfectly capable of this quality, and even meme fitting for this post. Using AI is overkill.

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lemmy.world

This copy/paste operation brought to you by Geico. Watch this 30 second ad to unlock your clipboard.

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lemmy.world

That's any future app. And the kick in the nards is that the developer who allow it earn like $2 a day if lucky. So we all get burned on the ad hellscape having hours of time wasted for $2

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Not open source apps, glad I've pivoted to almost entirely open source software. SaaS is cancer.

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lemm.ee

The mouse has a slight bias that it moves just a little faster towards the edges.

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programming.dev

Can we somehow integrate ads into the display frame? Looks like dead and unused area to me.

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