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by dend 4y ago
Hey - developer of PowerToys Awake here. Would be happy to investigate. Feel free to open an issue in the GitHub repo ( https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues ) and I will look into it.
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by dend 5y ago
Also, things like collections have been on sites like docs.microsoft.com[0] for some time. I find it somewhat odd personally to gate documentation-related features behind a membership fee, but I do not have full context on MDN product decis
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by dend 5y ago
This is an interesting take on documentation - mainly because I fail to see the value proposition in paying for the functionality provided. Speaking from my own experience: - Notifications. I am not sure that I've ever needed to know
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by dend 5y ago
It's all about contrast to everything else. If my house roof is leaking and instead of fixing that I put a limited amount of resources I have into repainting my office and installing a fancy new European faucet, and then go and tell ev
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by dend 5y ago
It's not ideal, but to be fair, a lot of them (not all) that don't require funky DRM APIs (a-la Grand Theft Auto IV with Games for Windows Live) do work decently. Some might need to have a right-click, run in compatibility mode
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by dend 5y ago
Ah, but you see - there is a difference in how theming works in Windows 11, in that it's different from the high-contrast mode. So, you can get a control that swaps the theme to high-contrast (you need to use the native Windows API for
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by dend 5y ago
Thank you for the note. Because the worldwide topic touches directly on me and my family, I've decided that this was the right approach for my own blog.
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by dend 5y ago
As I mentioned in the blog post - both Notepad and Task Manager aren't that inconsistent with the rest of the OS. Notepad is just a giant text box. Task Manager is a compact, tabbed view (tabs didn't go anywhere in the latest vers
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by dend 5y ago
That's true, but then you start running into weird compatibility issues, where a specific game won't work because an Xbox Live component is not installed or DirectX SDK is not at the right version (and you can't install the r
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by dend 5y ago
Wholeheartedly support this. I want my OS to be as boring as possible so that I can do all the interesting things I want.
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by dend 5y ago
There's that, and there's also the limited access Enterprise SKU. Last I checked, the Pro versions will now also require[1] a Microsoft account. [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/18/22940517/
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by dend 5y ago
I don't disagree with this. It's the unfortunate reality that I hope changes, but that change needs to come from _a lot_ of dissatisfied customers.
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by dend 5y ago
I would pay extra to buy a "Signature Edition" (kind of like they had with PCs) of Windows that has none of the ads and whatever other "value-add" pieces are integrated in it. One would say - I want LTSC accessible for c
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Windows needs a change in priorities(den.dev)
1194 points by dend 5y ago|859 comments
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by dend 5y ago
PM lead for Ecosystem @ Netlify. It's currently free while in beta. We haven't yet announced any pricing for the feature.
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by dend 5y ago
PM lead for the Ecosystem team @ Netlify. Thanks for the feedback! This is precisely the balance we are trying to strike - simple enough to solve core problems that are routine, and yet offering an exit hatch to go and code some additional
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by dend 5y ago
PM team lead for Ecosystem @ Netlify here. Thanks for the feedback - this is exactly what we're trying to address with Netlify Graph. There is a lot of variability as APIs change, and there's a lot of value in abstracting out that
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by dend 5y ago
Similar wavelength, wrote this in August: https://den.dev/blog/user-hostile-software/
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Exploring the Twitter Verification API(den.dev)
3 points by dend 5y ago|0 comments
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by dend 5y ago
This statement is not accurate. There are games that ship as licenses rather than binary blobs on discs.
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by dend 5y ago
I recently wrote about this very topic: https://den.dev/blog/software-rentals/
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Software You Rent(den.dev)
2 points by dend 5y ago|0 comments
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CFPB Opens Inquiry into “Buy Now, Pay Later” Credit(consumerfinance.gov)
3 points by dend 5y ago|1 comments
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Reverse-engineering Xbox REST APIs to backup game captures(den.dev)
2 points by dend 5y ago|0 comments
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by dend 5y ago
Oh absolutely - there is zero reason this can't be on the web, considering that all you need to do is just use the same protobuf-based API through a web app. I am considering actually implementing something just for myself that does it
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Behind the Spotify Wrapped API scenes(den.dev)
113 points by dend 5y ago|24 comments
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API Authentication with Netlify(netlify.com)
1 points by dend 5y ago|0 comments
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by dend 5y ago
Challenge with that is you lose access to a bunch of “nice-to-haves” that enable you to use Visual Studio or play games due to missing dependencies. LTSB/C is great for isolated environments that are somewhat frozen in time, but for co
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by dend 5y ago
Fair point. However I don’t know any casual users with easy access to AD.
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by dend 5y ago
Author here. Yes and no - the title here reflects the problem. Basic functionality is locked behind an arbitrary requirement for MDM. I’m not asking to define custom restrictions - I just want a blank new page. Functionality that has existe

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