minimouse

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by minimouse 4y ago
For anyone interested in the duplex/bidirectional audio side of Bluetooth, here's a good read: https://medium.marco.zone/apple-implemented-the-biggest-impr...
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by minimouse 5y ago
And actually, Microsoft's own MS Store used the UWP webview which is EdgeHTML for a long time until they recently replaced it with a native frontend.
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by minimouse 5y ago
Roblox's UWP Microsoft Store app, for instance, still uses the old legacy EdgeHTML based webview. ... While I mention Roblox, let me just let it be known that the win32 Roblox app, the one that Roblox pushes, uses an incredibly insecur
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by minimouse 5y ago
The Xbox app is not a good indication of RNW performance, by the way. It's like what Slack or Teams is to Electron. According to Microsoft, they don't have any external clients yet. Nor any internal clients apart from Xbox, and no
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by minimouse 5y ago
What do you mean by "now"? Did something happen this month? WPF and WinForms haven't seen much at all for... a long time. This comment sums it up well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29424984
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by minimouse 5y ago
But there's no distinction between a security patch and a feature update. And it's never just an update to only get new features. It's to get bug fixes and better compatibility with new programs (I'm thinking of librarie
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by minimouse 5y ago
For me Task View was the biggest improvement. It's more or less a few bug fixes. The touch keyboard too. Uhhh that's bug fixes too and most of the changes to it are horrendous, but hey, it opens a bit faster. I've found the S
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by minimouse 5y ago
They very existence of PowerToys is a testament to Windows's mismanagement. They wrapped search around Wox, an app that uses Everything, to appease users who were unhappy with Windows Search. Microsoft declined to use Everything to pow
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by minimouse 5y ago
It gets even worse in Windows 11. I love the example of the Task View to show that they really don't use their own darn things. Since 2018 it has been incredibly buggy. Reproducibly even.
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by minimouse 5y ago
Microsoft has a lot of gaming IP that they'll only release games for on Xbox and Windows. They'll likely try using DRM and anti-cheat to avoid the likes of WINE or maybe they won't even feel the need to. It's just more e