Mildly Infuriating

Times have been updated.

"My dishwasher is on the internet!" - "Why is on the internet?" - "To download software updates!" - "Why does it need software updates?" - "To fix security vulnerabilities!" - "Why would it have security vulnerabilities?" -"Because it's on the internet!"

The companies BUILD IN backdoors so that they can steal your data.

But because the backdoor is built in, they have to constantly monitor and update the security around it so that "bad guys" (they don't think they are the bad guys) don't get in.

They only do security updates to prevent liability iirc.

The whole thing stinks.

Note: I'm not a software developer just an outraged bystander with tech hobbies and techy friends, it's possible this isn't true.

Great plot for hackers 2.

Trying to get Windows 11 to show seconds.

Click the clock on the taskbar, which has worked as far as I remember, maybe even before Windows 95. Notifications and calendar pop up but no seconds.

Search “seconds” in settings. Apparently you can only have them shown on the taskbar permanently (with implied distraction and CPU usage).

Look in time settings. No seconds, either.

Open the Clock app. The update takes a minute. No seconds there, either.

Search the internet. Apparently this is a function Microsoft disabled in Windows 11 but can be restored with Explorer Patcher, along with the option to set taskbar transparency via Classic Shell (so that you can watch the status in another window while others are maximized).

Don't have time for that, install Linux instead

(I’m not even kodding. The only place where a vanilla Windows 11 installation will show seconds in GUI is a very obscure page deep in the unintuitive jungle of settings. Interesting that a $3 watch does something a Windows computer with a million times more transistors doesn't.)

Welcome to Clock 2.0, the new time and reminder experience from Microsoft! Powered by Bing AI and Microsoft OneDrive.

• Sync your time zones, alarms, and reminders to all your devices via Microsoft OneDrive
• Get suggested wake-up times powered by Bing AI and your calendar!
• Use of Clock is governed by the Microsoft Cloud Connected Experiences Privacy Policy (click here to view).
• Click I Agree to start your use of Microsoft Clock!

and for all this, your alarm reminders become yet another datapoint for personalized ads, your phone alarm to wake you up then plays at full blast through the living room computer and wakes everybody else up, and you agreed to a 750kb privacy policy that displays in a 2"x3" window with 500 pages to scroll through.

Man....fuck you....take your upvote and gtfo

Estimated update time is being updated please wait [Estimated update time is being updated please wait[Estimated update time is being updated please wait…] minutes] minutes

It will now report home every timer you've ever set, what names you gave them, and what browser tabs were open at the time.

Sir, do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior Linux?

You haven't really lived until you've played UT2K4 on Hannah Montana linux.

You've seen clock. How about CLOCK 2.0, with customizable options like crypto AI blockchain?

little things like this that would have only gotten updates for one version of windows to another, for ui changes or sumsuch, now get updates frequently, and since they’re ‘store’ updates now, you have even less control over them. it’s rather annoying.

This is actually not a Windows but a general modern development issue. Things need to change. Change! CHAAAAANGE! Value! Effort! Work! Endlessly! GROWTH!

Look at how many apps update every 1-3 days. It's crazy.

I misread that, too. With punctuation, it would be:

...for my food. Windows, why?!

(They're addressing the Windows operating system.)

downloadUpdate();
sleep(10000); // 10 seconds should be enough time for the buffer cache to finish writing to disk even on the slowest system.

The early pioneers of Lemmy are mostly software developers. Software memes will remain overrepresented until more diverse waves of people join.

I just opened the latest messages in there :

• broken university form
• some broken captcha
• a split kitchen sink
• windows 10 bugging people about accounts
• this post
• a pyramid scheme about books idk
• something about devices with bad batteries
• road stuff
• restaurant bill
• paypal
• linux stuff
• adobe
• youtube
• youtube
• a karen in central park
• microsoft teams
• instagram
• cars
• shrinkflation at IKEA
• mobile roaming prices

That's… two posts about Microsoft. Clearly the only type of content you'll find here.