Whenever I’m forced to use windows, show file extensions and show hidden files.
Same lol. Especially the show file extensions. It is crazy to me that this is not on by default. Not only is it a useful feature to know at a glance what you’re looking at, it is also a security feature.
And everyone is going to hate this here, but turning on OneDrive. We share laptops on mobile carts hooked to essentially car batters at work. Scanners and other tools are zip ties to carts and moving everything is impractical all the time. Grabbing one that you know you’ve used recently and using the cloud storage to link your desktop/documents/picture then dropping your Downloads folder into your documents and remapping it makes it so w.e computer you have on any day will have all your shit with minimal time loss.
At many companies when doing IT I would write a script that would copy files and export favorites from Edge, Chrome, Firefox to OneDrive as well and had an import script so when I got the users to the new location /computer it could dump all their shit back where it was without having to copy a hundred employees shit to shared folders and keep up with making sure they were deleted to free up space for other users.
Windows has it’s pitfalls, but a TB of storage space for such comes in handy.
You get a folder on the local file server at my company for that.
Every single time I launch a new game the first thing I ALWAYS have to fix is the fuckin audio being way too goddamn loud. Why WHY does every single game have to launch with all the volume set to 100%???
I can’t remember what game it was I started played recently, but it had all the volume set to 50% on first launch and my friend and I actually like cheered from joy. That should be the norm not an exception so rare we celebrate it.
If you are a game dev please for the love of God set the default volume to at least 50%. Let the player choose to blow out their eardrums if they want later. Don’t force it on all of us. Especially if you have loud music that starts the millisecond the main menu pops up or if you have any unskippable cutscenes before you let them see the volume settings.
Volume goes waaaay down immediately. Then if it has motion blur, that goes all the way away from me.
Turn on dark mode if it exists
Exactly opposite for me. Dark mode is just eww
For me it depends on the program. For GitHub I prefer high contrast light mode. Also, I like that GitHub’s high contrast modes aren’t ugly.
Idk I just find dark mode depressing as fuck. I already stare at terminals enough.
I get that. I tend to use dark mode, especially “OLED dark” on my phone because sometimes I’m on it in bed and don’t want to disturb my wife as much (though they are a heavy sleeper).
Dark mode when it’s dark, light mode when it’s light out for me
This is the way
Make Microsoft Windows show filename extensions.
And hidden files
By installing Linux, right?
Right?
If only my job allowed that.
Haha, yes, that’s my plan!
Same in macOS. Stop hiding “.app”!
I turn off sounds. I hate computers that whoosh when I do something with windows, beep for no apparent reason, click when something else happens.
i honestly take that option for granted lol, it’s so weird when someone else’s computer bloops when a notification pops up. same with phones honestly, if i’m not expecting an important call it’s staying on silent
One of the many “corrections” that I make with mine.
on every new android phone i go to developer options and change animation scaling 0.5x, makes the phone feel much quicker
oh dang, just tried it out and it’s brilliant, thank you internet stranger!
Every time I get a new laptop I have to disable “natural” scrolling. Down should be down, dang it.
Screen brightness, dark mode, night light, if it’s a mobile device then Airplane mode.
Curious what you use airplane mode for so much? Brightness, blue light, themes(dark mode) I often use but curious what I’m overlooking with Airplane mode
Because for cellphone, I pretty much use wifi only and try to limit data usage. I believe on some devices airplane mode also turns off bluetooth by default as well, but you can still turn on bluetooth while in airplane mode if you need it.
I enable dark mode on anything that has it.
Terminal apps: I make the cursor non-blinking.
Lemmy: Hide seen posts.
Turn off touchscreen beep on the car infotainment screen.
About a hundred settings on a computer.
Disabling the absurdity of 12-hour clock with am/pm, which bizarrely often is the default for no rational reason whatsoever.
Same. 24 hour format helps reduce confusion.
Many countries including the US use 12 hour time for everything, so it’s easier for a lot of people to not have to constantly translate. So it makes sense to be the default in those countries. And yes, I think 24hr should be standard everywhere, but it’s not. I also think it’s insane not to use SI units, but oh well. (I think we should use decimal time as well, but that’s never going to happen because we’d need to redefine so many units.)
As someone who lives in the US and has used 24 hour time for a long while, it’s not a problem. The translation is trivial when you realize that time is meaningless when you are going to die of black lung in the coal mines or possibly in a concentration camp.
I do the opposite: 12h clock despite being european. 24hr clock has never been intuitive to me. When I see 17:34 I need to take a solid 5 seconds every time to convert that in my head into the actual time. 5:34pm is clear because it says the time right there. My only issue with 12hr clock is remembering wether 12pm is at noon or at midnight.
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The motion smoothing on any modern TV
I will be downvoted but I must stand up for my friend. I LIKE MOTION SMOOTHING!
There, I said it. I’m glad it’s a feature you can disable so everyone can be happy, but I find 30fps choppy and distracting. Maybe I play too many video games, but high frame rates are the norm on PC. Hell, frame generation is a big feature now, but that’s a topic for another day.
Why would you want your films looking like soap operas lol
Like I said, I’m sensitive to low frame rates and really notice it. Like I’m watching video that is stuttery.
I know people have a “feel” to cinema that they enjoy and I have no issue with that, but I like the feel of smooth motion. It’s something you should absolutely be able to turn off though.
This setting is so bad and it’s the default on what feels like every TV now. I don’t know how people don’t notice it.
Roku pushed an update that doesn’t allow you to disable it. I literally don’t understand
Motion Blur, Chromatic Aberration, Film Grain, and, depending on the game, Depth of Field must be disabled before New Game is ever pressed. All into videos/logos must be skipped. And, when applicable, I usually need to force the game to display PS buttons (or even use the triggers and gyro) because most games only detect the DualSense when it’s physically plugged in.
because most games only detect the DualSense when it’s physically plugged in.
I fuckin feel like it should be illegal for Sony to advertise their wireless controller works wirelessly with PC too (as I know I’ve seen them do) when it actually doesn’t, it only works properly wired. I have your official signed and updated driver’s, Sony, ball is in your court!
Well they do work, at the most basic level. Mostly being emulated as an Xbox controller with Steam just so you can use it to play, but without any extras like the triggers or mic.
And I also thought Sony was to blame until I played a few things that it works 100% wirelessly with. I don’t think Sony is the guilty party in this; it’s the dev of the games that under utilize what the driver/BT stack can actually do. Though I do also have to wonder if Valve can make an emulation layer for it so when Steam detects you’re using a DualSense, it tells the game you’re running that and not that it’s an Xbox one.
