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In case you've ever wondered why the Windows control panel was so awful...

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Quick OCR scan with minimal clean up, might help some people Edit: Cleanup work and colour coding thanks to [email protected]

[7:52 18 PM] ๐ŸŸฆ impressive

[7:52:22 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ the windows 10 UI development was the most enormous shitstorm i've seen in a while

[7:52:26 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ how hard is it to move some fucking settings menus

[7:52:30 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ many people have pointed out that the UI is upgraded piecemeal

[7:52:34 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ oh god

[7:52:36 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ you have no idea

[7:52:37 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ it's so hard

[7:52:41 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ whyyyyyyyy

[7:52:43 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ i tried to ADD A DROPDOWN

[7:52.56 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ DO YOU WANT ME TO DESCRIBE IN EXCRUCIATING DETAIL WHAT IT TAKES TO ADD A DROPDOWN TO THE CONTROL PANEL?

[7:53:08 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ I find myself overcome with morbid curiosity

[7:53:09 PM] ๐ŸŸฆ is it like javafx and fxml?

[7:53:14 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ hahahahahahaha

[7:53:15 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ hahahahahahahaha

[7:53:17 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ NO

[7:53:42 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ describe to me what it takes to add a dropdown to the control panel.

[7:53:47 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ grabs a pillow and brown paper bag

[7:54:10 PM] ๐ŸŸฆ control panel or settings?

[7:54:14 PM] ๐ŸŸช probably some ancient mayan rites

[7:54:18 PM] ๐ŸŸช lots of goats

[7:54:33 PM] ๐ŸŸฆ and registry entries

[7:56:54 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ see, first you find the folder that contains the code files for the control panel, and there will be like, 5 of them, each with something like 2000 lines of code, except for one that had 15000 lines of code and I never found out why. Once you find the C++ code file for the specific subsection of the control panel, you must then find the appropriate XAML file that is matched up to this code file, and then search through it to find another dropdown box element you can copy and paste because no one actually knows how any of this works. Then you have to go into a resource file and find a very specific resource ID for your control panel string, and create a new resource ID to me it to. Then, you must find all the relevont C++ code tying the dropdown you copied, and copy and paste all that code, but this time, modify the hooks sa It gets tied to your new dropdown. Then you have to run through 2 seperate specialized compilers to compile the resource filles, and if ANYTHING GOES WRONG, literally ANYTHING, the ONLY ERROR YOU GET BACK is this:

-1 

So after you run around screaming for a DAY because there is no explanation for what the fuck is going on, you give it to your coworker, who discovers that every single number in the resource file must increase by exactly 1, and if there are any holes in those numbers, everything fails completely. Then you can actually finish compiling the special compiler stuff and start bulding the actual codebase through a specialized plugin built for visual studio for the sole purpose of dealing with this fucking codebase, and then you might actually get something to compile.

[7:57.42 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ WHAT

[7:57:43 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ THE

[7:57:46 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ FUCKING

[7:57:47 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ FUCK

[7:57 59 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ THAT

[7:58:04 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ is how you add a dropdown

[7:58:05 PM] ๐ŸŸซ >microcucks
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[7:58:07 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ to the control panel

[7:58:08 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ in windows

[7:58:20 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ and people ask me why I quit that job

[7:58:36 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ how old is this "specialized plugin"

[7:58:39 PM] ๐ŸŸฆ how do they live?

[7:58:46 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ from what i can tell about 7-8 years, i think

[7:58:59 PM] ๐ŸŸฆ do you have to be dead inside to write code for Windows?

[7:59:02 PM] ๐ŸŸซ Can we just compile this kind of shit into a doc to then send to zefrank so he can do a vid on True Facts About Microsoft

[7:59:04 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ I think it was based even older IDE they were using so it gets complicated

[7:59:14 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ>๐ŸŸฆ Yes.

[7:59:22 PM] ๐ŸŸฆ rip

[7:59:36 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ again it is hard for me to even explain how any of htis works, because most people there don't even know how it works

[7:59:39 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ microsoft needs to make like mojang and just haul ass to an entirely new codebase

[7:59:43 PM] ๐ŸŸฆ they're bootstrapping shit on more shit

[7:59:44 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ if mojang can say "fuck the modders"

[7:59:51 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ then microsoft can say "fuck the software devs" just as well.

[7:59:55 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ See, you don't understand, they keep trying and failing miserably

[8:00:02 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ For example, lets take the build system

[8:00:04 PM] ๐ŸŸจ Isn't the legacy control panel codebase deprecated tho?

[8:00:09 PM] ๐ŸŸจ Because of Settings.appx

[8:00:21 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ "deprecated" is just a fucking label basically

[8:00:27 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ shit still uh

[8:00:30 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ Yes, that was the new control panel

[8:00:30 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ well it doesn't "work"

[8:00:34 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ and it's not "usable"

[8:00:34 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ that was the "new" codebase

[8:00:35 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ but it's

[8:00:36 PM] ๐ŸŸจ Oh my

[8:00:37 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ that's why it was in XAML

[8:00:37 PM] ๐ŸŸฆ means "you shouldnt use it but if you do it's all k"

[8:00:38 PM] ๐ŸŸฅ accessible...?

[8:00:45 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ you think i'm describing legacy code here

[8:00:46 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ i'm not

[8:00:53 PM] ๐ŸŸฉ ... this is me trying to add a dropdown to the windows 10 NEW CONTROL PANEL___

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the women's teams were previously known as the Lady Gamecocks, this distinction was discontinued in part to eliminate any gender bias in the athletic department and in part to counter misconceptions about the gamecock mascot endorsing bloodsport.

Uhh..I have many questions

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Hey mods, please check in if you're still active

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As it turns out, no android app supports any moderation related functions yet. I've added the website to my home screen and will keep an eye on the reports from time to time. To the people who use this community, I ask that you please report content that is against the rules and I will endeavour to remove it.

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Pretty much

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In both your programmer case and the case of the catholic hospital staff member you have a very clear option, you can not work at that facility. Don't want to write code for military weapons, cool then work somewhere that doesn't do that. Don't want to provide abortions at your work, cool then work in a medical facility that doesn't provide them. Many facilities don't perform abortions just because they aren't intended to, such as clinics etc so you should work there.

Your programmer case also doesn't make sense because extending the metophor you want companies to be allowed to not develop software that is used by the military...they can already do that.

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From what I have read, reports go to both the community moderators and the admins. Also it goes to the admins of the instance the user that makes the report is from. For example, if a user from lemmy.world reports a comment, lemmy.world admins can "remove" it, but it is only removed for users from lemmy.world.

If removed by a moderator or admin from the community/instance the report is about, it is removed for everyone.

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Wow I really did not expect so many people to offer tips and advice, thank you everybody.

Good to know that female clothing fit shouldn't be too much of a problem, il keep an eye on bust etc in future. In thinking something longer and maybe a little flowy might be a good start for branching out, something like a long cardigan?

Il do some more research on thrifting, I didn't mention but I'm in the UK so it's all mainly online so not many bargains to be had from what I have found. If anybody has tips for thrifting in the UK I'm certainly all ears, jealous of those of you that have large in person thrift stores!