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by coffeeling 3y ago
Advertising is really lucrative. MS wants to get a bigger share of the pie, and that's done by driving people to use Bing. Also, if Bing Chat gets people used to using AI chatbots for search, that dramatically increases the cost of del
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by coffeeling 3y ago
They have a OneNote feed sidebar now, too. Actually great for quick notes during browsing. Except that it's part of Edge, which is a privacy disaster full of dark patterns.
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by coffeeling 3y ago
I feel like there are two Microsofts. There are parts that make some honestly good software. And then there are parts touched by Bing and MSN, and they're some of the most hideous, dark patterny piles of user hostile garbage. Win11 sea
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by coffeeling 3y ago
Usually high resource use - more RAM use, using the processor more while idling, etc. and usually poorer integration into the OS in terms of look and feel and in terms of actual integrations. eg. native Outlook - ~200-250MB RAM use, same em
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by coffeeling 3y ago
> Any bread in the normal isle that you can buy and have on your counter for over a week, where it still looks and feels and tastes the same is an abomination. Sourdough does exist and keeps well.
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by coffeeling 3y ago
It's not even it being opinionated, it's being _so hideously_ opinionated. Windows is a pretty good spot, IME - KDE is a little much, macOS maybe a smidge too little, but GNOME just feels like a straitjacket.
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by coffeeling 3y ago
"tragicomic" works just fine in English.
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by coffeeling 3y ago
> I don't think the main selling point of Teams is as a chat app, but instead as a monitoring app. Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about.
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by coffeeling 3y ago
Counterpoint: Steve Jobs
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by coffeeling 3y ago
Switch to Microsoft? OneNote's entire file format is built to enable live collaboration. Their apps may be a bit clunky but they work.
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by coffeeling 3y ago
Yes, but comparatively lightweight for being one. The devs don't use large frameworks like React and write pretty barebones JS. It shows.
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by coffeeling 3y ago
Depending on what you value in Evernote, Notion may not be the best replacement.
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by coffeeling 3y ago
Dendron is no longer developed, and in any case is intended for a very different use case than Evernote. Amplenote might be a better drop-in replacement.
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by coffeeling 3y ago
I seriously wish you couldn't change fonts in it. OneNote itself defaults to 11pt Calibri, but the web clipper outputs 12pt Verdana because fuck you. And if you change the font to Verdana, page title font changes from 20pt Calibri Ligh
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by coffeeling 3y ago
I only wish Microsoft showed it some actual love. The app's been languishing for years, and most any new feature is in the vein of "you can embed TikToks now" or something only applicable to a classroom setting. That, and whi
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by coffeeling 3y ago
They've intentionally avoided taking on any.
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by coffeeling 3y ago
Yes. As a counterpoint, people are also absurdly tech illiterate.
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by coffeeling 3y ago
As far as I can tell, what they're doing is this: Edge recently released a sidebar, one app in the sidebar is Outlook. The idea is that if you click on a link in Outlook, the link opens in the full Edge browser, opens the Outlook sideb
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by coffeeling 3y ago
It won't go to an embedded pane. What they're doing is this: Edge recently released a sidebar, one app in the sidebar is Outlook. The idea is that if you click on a link in Outlook, the link opens in the full Edge browser, opens t
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by coffeeling 3y ago
You can hide it. Settings->Sidebar->Discover
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by coffeeling 3y ago
From what I've heard, the sync works well when everyone's using the same kind of client (eg. desktop, or web app). If they get mixed things become slowwe to update and have a decent chance to quickly go to hell.
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by coffeeling 3y ago
> Outlook's web app doesn't even let you click into an email to mark it as read. It absolutely does let you do that. I use OWA as my daily driver and that is the behaviour at least on my end. Settings->Mail->Message Handl
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by coffeeling 3y ago
Bing adoption. Microsoft wants to get a bigger piece of the ad pie, and they hired a former Yandex exec to run it if I'm not mistaken.
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by coffeeling 3y ago
Android actually lets you live without even having a default browser. It's great since you can use multiple browsers in place of multiple browser profiles. Apps will just ask what browser to open the link in. It's great.
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by coffeeling 3y ago
Edge was, initially, Chrome but degoogled and it had (and still has) a lot of great UI innovations, like a vertical tab strip that's just right. Their wide use of hovering menus that can be pinned to become sidebars is honestly good st
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by coffeeling 3y ago
TOTP phishing? Like, MITMing TOTP requests or something?
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by coffeeling 3y ago
I recently installed Linux on one of my devices. Turns out the touchpad library libinput was built by a spiritual gnome dev who decided to not give users options because that would've meant more tests. We're talking hardcoding wha
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by coffeeling 3y ago
Quick note, Brave has Edge style vertical tabs now if you want the good stuff with a more privacy-respecting browser. https://imgur.com/a/dAAysvy
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by coffeeling 3y ago
Brave has vertical tabs built in nowadays (though they're behind a flag, but they're more or less mature now), designed in a very similar way to Edge's. https://imgur.com/a/dAAysvy
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by coffeeling 3y ago
Most of the bad things I see coming from MS lately are like 90% Bing driven, and 10% writing everything for the web and not native. eg. with Edge it's blatantly clear it's not made asking "how can it be the best tool for the

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