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Copy and paste is not working reliably in in windows anymore; coincidentally it's breaking at the same time Msoft is moving to replace all copy/paste with OCR o

by cons0le 10mo ago

Copy and paste is not working reliably in in windows anymore; coincidentally it's breaking at the same time Msoft is moving to replace all copy/paste with OCR only. It's garbage

dandelionv1bes 10mo ago
Genuinely VSCode has been broken for me for with copying due to it desperately trying to vibe code for me. You’ve reminded me to fix that.
- dclowd9901 10mo ago
  Had the same issue switching to cursor. Cmd + k multiple selection skip is now no longer the key map. Drives me fucking nuts.
TZubiri 10mo ago
I haven't noticed this, also how exactly would OCR copy paste work? In order to copy text I would need to select text, which would mean it's already encoded as text.
- buildsjets 10mo ago
  Encoded as text, but converted to MS Comic Sans to introduce some OCR errors.
- ArcHound 10mo ago
  I can imagine, that instead of a text select, they instead take a screenshot. Round trip through recall and OCR, here's your "text" or image for pasting. Sounds dumb. I know.
  - robocat 10mo ago
    OCR is regularly the easiest way to copy web page text on an iPhone by taking a screenshot first, and copying text from the photo. iPhone browser text selection is often broken. Then again, a friend sent a screenshot of a contact and I asked AI to convert that to a vCard I could import (impressively saved time and was less error-prone).
keyle 10mo ago
I haven't used windows for years but the shear amount of commentary on recent changes and the claims are so beyond beliefs... It reads like a company that is only there to squeeze money out of existing customers and hell bent on revenues above growth. Like one of those portfolio acquisitions.
- TiredOfLife 10mo ago
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  - piva00 10mo ago
    I just built a gaming PC after 10+ years without touching Windows, and I gotta say the experience is truly awful. Small stuff such as: the keyboard shortcut that is setup for switching keyboards is wrong, the one displayed to me in the UI is the wrong one, I discovered it because the shortcut for the Discord overlay (Shift + `) was making me switch keyboard layouts, couldn't comprehend why until I noticed that shorcut consistently switched them while the one displayed in the UI did not. There's no way to change the shortcut, whatever I set up in the UI does not work but Shift + ` always works, no idea why. Copy and paste has definitely surprised me sometimes, I was designing a custom livery for a sim racing game, copying images to use as stickers, the clipboard would paste very different images from many "copies" ago out of nowhere, I couldn't create a reproducible way to file a bug report, it works sometimes, it doesn't at all at other times. I setup for updates to happen in the night, between 03.00-07.00, it doesn't matter, the computer rebooted a few times out of nowhere to apply updates, I didn't even get a notification about it, simply got the "Restarting" screen. It's absolutely shoddy, as much as I have many complaints with macOS the past 8+ years it's nowhere as shitty of as an experience, I'm only a couple of months into Windows again, and it's way worse than I remember it from the days of Win2k/Windows XP/Windows 7.
- classified 10mo ago
  As others have noted, reality has become indistinguishable from satire.
TiredOfLife 10mo ago
> Msoft is moving to replace all copy/paste with OCR only. Source?

by cons0le 10mo ago

Copy and paste is not working reliably in in windows anymore; coincidentally it's breaking at the same time Msoft is moving to replace all copy/paste with OCR only. It's garbage

dandelionv1bes 10mo ago

Genuinely VSCode has been broken for me for with copying due to it desperately trying to vibe code for me. You’ve reminded me to fix that.

dclowd9901 10mo ago
Had the same issue switching to cursor. Cmd + k multiple selection skip is now no longer the key map. Drives me fucking nuts.

TZubiri 10mo ago

I haven't noticed this, also how exactly would OCR copy paste work? In order to copy text I would need to select text, which would mean it's already encoded as text.

buildsjets 10mo ago
Encoded as text, but converted to MS Comic Sans to introduce some OCR errors.
ArcHound 10mo ago
I can imagine, that instead of a text select, they instead take a screenshot. Round trip through recall and OCR, here's your "text" or image for pasting. Sounds dumb. I know.
- robocat 10mo ago
  OCR is regularly the easiest way to copy web page text on an iPhone by taking a screenshot first, and copying text from the photo. iPhone browser text selection is often broken. Then again, a friend sent a screenshot of a contact and I asked AI to convert that to a vCard I could import (impressively saved time and was less error-prone).

keyle 10mo ago

I haven't used windows for years but the shear amount of commentary on recent changes and the claims are so beyond beliefs... It reads like a company that is only there to squeeze money out of existing customers and hell bent on revenues above growth. Like one of those portfolio acquisitions.

TiredOfLife 10mo ago
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- piva00 10mo ago
  I just built a gaming PC after 10+ years without touching Windows, and I gotta say the experience is truly awful. Small stuff such as: the keyboard shortcut that is setup for switching keyboards is wrong, the one displayed to me in the UI is the wrong one, I discovered it because the shortcut for the Discord overlay (Shift + `) was making me switch keyboard layouts, couldn't comprehend why until I noticed that shorcut consistently switched them while the one displayed in the UI did not. There's no way to change the shortcut, whatever I set up in the UI does not work but Shift + ` always works, no idea why. Copy and paste has definitely surprised me sometimes, I was designing a custom livery for a sim racing game, copying images to use as stickers, the clipboard would paste very different images from many "copies" ago out of nowhere, I couldn't create a reproducible way to file a bug report, it works sometimes, it doesn't at all at other times. I setup for updates to happen in the night, between 03.00-07.00, it doesn't matter, the computer rebooted a few times out of nowhere to apply updates, I didn't even get a notification about it, simply got the "Restarting" screen. It's absolutely shoddy, as much as I have many complaints with macOS the past 8+ years it's nowhere as shitty of as an experience, I'm only a couple of months into Windows again, and it's way worse than I remember it from the days of Win2k/Windows XP/Windows 7.
classified 10mo ago
As others have noted, reality has become indistinguishable from satire.

TiredOfLife 10mo ago

> Msoft is moving to replace all copy/paste with OCR only. Source?