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Meanwhile, for the modern Microsoft implementation: Booting up a fresh Windows 10 laptop. It wants me to select my country from the dropdown. I type in the firs

Meanwhile, for the modern Microsoft implementation: Booting up a fresh Windows 10 laptop. It wants me to select my country from the dropdown. I type in the first letter of my country. Nothing happens. Hooray!

hulitu 3y ago
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- rahkiin 3y ago
  Win 11 fresh installation also does not have this feature :(
  - Aleklart 3y ago
    Windows 12 will be able to detect your country by analysing your room furniture with ChatGPT.
    - rafaelgoncalves 3y ago
      Or just by telemetry, :D
  - NotYourLawyer 3y ago
    Have you tried drinking a verification can?
- jancsika 3y ago
  To answer it the Microsoft way: 1. [some blocking call] 2. [some other blocking call] 3. [draw a black rectangle in the area for impending animation easing of the menu] 4. [yet another blocking call] 5. [oops, user clicked the Start, no choice except to cancel the whole thing right after] 6. [we blocking one last time for good measure, and finally...] 7. [make sure we're idle so that we can guarantee that we redraw the start button slowly enough to cause a flicker] 8. Success!
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mewpmewp2 3y ago
Was it some sort of slow scrolling without arrow keys as well? I vaguely remember a horrible process of finding my country, but I'm not sure if it was Windows Setup.
- renewiltord 3y ago
  Haha, what you said reminded me of some software where you'd hit down on the bottom most entry and the next one would, agonizingly slowly, scroll up into view but if you just grabbed the scroll bar and moved it with the mouse you'd get where you wanted faster. If you tried grabbing the scrollbar after you'd hit 'down' on the bottommost entry, your inputs would be unrecognized. I'm positive it was MS software, but I can't recall now. I only see the memory.
izacus 3y ago
That one genuinely makes me angry whenever I hit that dialogue.
iggldiggl 3y ago
Visa's exchange rate calculator was similarly annoying – a long list of countries/currencies, but they reimplemented the dropdown control in such a way that typing to jump to the entry I want didn't work. Though at least that one has been fixed recently…

hulitu 3y ago

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rahkiin 3y ago
Win 11 fresh installation also does not have this feature :(
- Aleklart 3y ago
  Windows 12 will be able to detect your country by analysing your room furniture with ChatGPT.
  - rafaelgoncalves 3y ago
    Or just by telemetry, :D
- NotYourLawyer 3y ago
  Have you tried drinking a verification can?
jancsika 3y ago
To answer it the Microsoft way: 1. [some blocking call] 2. [some other blocking call] 3. [draw a black rectangle in the area for impending animation easing of the menu] 4. [yet another blocking call] 5. [oops, user clicked the Start, no choice except to cancel the whole thing right after] 6. [we blocking one last time for good measure, and finally...] 7. [make sure we're idle so that we can guarantee that we redraw the start button slowly enough to cause a flicker] 8. Success!

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mewpmewp2 3y ago

Was it some sort of slow scrolling without arrow keys as well? I vaguely remember a horrible process of finding my country, but I'm not sure if it was Windows Setup.

renewiltord 3y ago
Haha, what you said reminded me of some software where you'd hit down on the bottom most entry and the next one would, agonizingly slowly, scroll up into view but if you just grabbed the scroll bar and moved it with the mouse you'd get where you wanted faster. If you tried grabbing the scrollbar after you'd hit 'down' on the bottommost entry, your inputs would be unrecognized. I'm positive it was MS software, but I can't recall now. I only see the memory.

izacus 3y ago

That one genuinely makes me angry whenever I hit that dialogue.

iggldiggl 3y ago

Visa's exchange rate calculator was similarly annoying – a long list of countries/currencies, but they reimplemented the dropdown control in such a way that typing to jump to the entry I want didn't work. Though at least that one has been fixed recently…