…so you hate-watch creators you don’t enjoy on alternative YouTube front ends explicitly in order to not give them ad revenue Vs just not watching them?

Aren’t you only wasting your own time?

Oh I didn’t actually realise that, I thought they’d just gone full Adobe with office 365

Cheers for the response, I appreciate it!

I’m curious about the plugins as obviously I’m not gonna be familiar with the notepad++ plugin ecosystem now—what’s special about the ones you listed?

Assuming edit EOL is just changing the line termination characters, all editors have that don’t they? Or does this not do what I think?

Intrigued about VSCode being slow for text manipulation too—I remember this being a big reason I dropped notepad++ for sublime and IMO VSCode and sublime more or less have parity on that front, particularly with vim bindings

I just don’t get the love for notepad++

I started using it as my main back in 2006ish, I then switched to sublime text about 2011, then about 5-6 years ago to VSCode. All the time using vim for any in-terminal quick edits.

Notepad++ is easily my least favourite editor of the lot, by several miles, it just seems so rigid and clunky without even going into how it’s windows only. Every editor I’ve used since has been a huge improvement over the one prior IMO

Gotta add to your message under the video, partly because I like this creator and other small creators like him:

I completely understand someone not wanting to get blasted by ads and tracking from YouTube—however if you’re using one of these YouTube front ends, please consider sponsoring the creators you’re watching on patreon or something if you’re able to. If everyone dodged the ads and didn’t also sponsor the creator in some way, they’re eventually just gonna stop being able to make content because the necessary income to justify the work is simply not going to be there.

I hate ads as much as the next guy, but it’s important to remember it’s a big part of how these people can afford to make the videos we enjoy. So particularly with smaller creators, happily dodge the ads, but make sure they’re still getting something for their work.

Time for another court to finally set the precedent the EULAs and Terms & Conditions are bullshit because it’s expected that no one will read them, and therefore no one has actually agreed to anything

And so the bloodline of windows write is extinguished

This is kinda sad that if you want to do even basic word processing with Microsoft software, your only option now is an ongoing subscription to do so.

Japanese courts have a 99% conviction rate or something. Saying you’ve not lost in a Japanese court is like saying 99% of the time you’ve been to the airport, you got on a plane.

That’s the case for most people

You’re correct, there’s no way to do this without it being a driver feature, but it seems like if they’re not adding it to the control panel, they’re using it as a carrot to get people to use the app

This is getting to the point where it goes to court and rightfully, Nintendo should get slapped and a new bleem-like precedent is set.

I remember thinking twitter was bad before he took over

It’s now a complete shadow of what it was even just a couple of years ago. Just a quarter of its value seems generous

We all know the spork existed, and I’ve speculated for years that a spife must also exist

I’m glad to know I was right all along

Fuck me, does he want to get pulled up in front of the Hague too?

So the party that’s ostensibly supposed to be pro business, sides with shitty anti-business conmen?

It’s hard to see how their guiding ideology isn’t just “be shitty and make things worse” now

One thing you consider is concurrency, it’s always good to have headroom if you can.

It’s kinda nice to not have the internet speeds of every device on your network grind to a halt just because you’re downloading something on your computer, for example. Particularly if you live with anyone else using the connection too

Flat design may be less distracting to you but that also means it’s less clear, because there are fewer obvious demarcation.

I despise flat design, it’s downright awful design, and done for looks rather than functionality.

to you

Flat design dominates for a reason—the less visually busy something is, the easier it is for users to wrap their heads around it. This gets proven again and again in user studies, the more busy and dense you make things, the more users miss stuff and get lost.

People’s opinions on the ribbon specifically are obviously all subjective, but I would say the less distracting design would be the one done less for looks, rather it’s a pretty utilitarian design if you pick it apart. This is an interface for productivity tools, and as such the interface should get out of your way until you need it—the ribbon just does that better IMO.

Microsoft also did this to obfuscate features, which is pretty apparent when you consider new users used to “discover” features via the menu system. I supported Office for MS in the early days, and this was a huge thing at the time. It was discussed heavily when training on new versions.

Why on earth would Microsoft want to obfuscate features? There’s no way that motivation would ever make sense.

IIRC one of the main reasons Microsoft introduced the ribbon was that grouping functionality contextually helped users discover features, because people kept requesting features that already existed, but they just couldn’t find. I remember there being a blog on the Microsoft developer site about the making of it that went into this.

Kinda telling on himself given the “with actual malice” part of it

Weirdly as someone who has used both styles heavily, I’d say the ribbon is more practical than the old toolbars. There’s more contextual grouping and more functional given the tabs and search, plus the modern flat design is less distracting, which is what I’d want from a productivity application. Also for me two rows of toolbars & a menu is about the same height as the ribbon anyway, and you can collapse the ribbon if you want to use the space

Okay no exclusivity

This bodes well for ff7r2

Conman begins latest con

Feels almost irresponsible to even report on this tbh