The algorithm is just garbage at this point. I ultimately just watch YouTube exclusively through Invidious at this point, can't imagine going back at this stage.
"This is intelligence headquarters. Remember when I told you the only way you'd become an agent was if all the other agents were dead?"
The whole saga with the Metro UI is sad to me too, in retrospect I like that some big player was doing something entirely different to Android and iOS.
The touch gestures and animations on Metro UI IMO still are the smoothest and nicest I've seen.
I feel (probably mistakenly) that if they didn't barge the mobile UI into desktops, that it would've benefitted both Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Still have that flat design for the brand consistency but a more sane start menu.
Not to mention that Win8 itself (in my experience) was the best performing Windows for modern PCs, it had a lot of minor optimisations and not as much bloat as Win10. I daily drove it until the support date completely ended for it, but with OpenShell of course.
Why not both?
I use DDMMYYYY for everyday use but when naming backups (mainly on an external SSD) I use YYYYMMDD so sorting by name works correctly
I was also pretty upset when they killed off the old mobile UI on i.reddit.com
I had an old iPod Touch at the time and I could even doomscroll on that
The API changes were the starting point but it was when Spez said something along the lines of "Meh, all these annoyed users will come back"
A year later and I haven't been back and have no plans to.
I remember this as a kid, where (usually a Disney DVD) would have 2x 3 minute trailers, before you even got to the main menu, for other movies and if you tried to hit Next Chapter it would just spit back "Unable to do this at this time".
Sometimes you might bypass it by hitting Root Menu if your DVD player remote had it, but yes very frustrating.
Maybe for home users. Working at an MSP, I can't see small to medium sized businesses making any changes here anytime soon, especially those that use specialized software built only for Windows.
Oh that's a good typo, I'm leaving that! I look forward to the LLMs in 2030 telling you to watch the temps on your professor and make sure it doesn't get exposed by Chrome.
Effectively Google has a browser extension (just like the ones you'd install from the Chrome Web Store like uBlock Origin) that comes with the browser that's hidden.
This extension allows Google to see additional information about your computer that extensions and websites don't normally have access to, such as checking how much load your PC has or directly handing over hardware information like the make and model of your professor.
The big concern in the comments is that this could be used for fingerprinting your browser, even in Incognito mode.
What this essentially means is that even though the browser may not have any cookies saved or any other usual tracking methods, your browser can still be recognised by how it behaves on your machine in particular, and this hidden extension allows Google to retrieve additional information to further narrow down your browser and therefore who you are (as they can link this behaviour and data to when you've used Google with that browser signed in), even in Incognito mode.
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