ssebs's comments

On: Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail

[ssebs]

I've written a GUI in Fyne, it's decent but go is not a first class GUI language. Fyne is... fine but building code is annoying.

See https://GitHub.com/ssebs/go-mmp

On: Why is Windows 11 so annoying?

[ssebs]

LOL putting a lot of faith in the average user to be able to Google something

[RodgerTheGreat → ssebs]

Also putting a lot of faith in 2024 Google being able to find a result without tripping over a million pages of llm-generated nonsense and ads.

[trimethylpurine → RodgerTheGreat]

The very first results from DuckDuckGo and Google show how to turn this off. For end users, it's literally in the built in settings. Group Policy is just nice for enterprise. I think you are all making a huge deal over nothing.

This is why it takes so long to hire a decent group of people. It takes hundreds of hours to weed out people that would rather complain than find a solution, which is most of you, as you can see in this example.

[viraptor → trimethylpurine]

Yes, it's trivial to change. And no, a random average user will not cross the "this is a Googlable problem with a solution" realisation stage. This is not a problem for anyone reading this, but every normie I know uses stock settings on windows and no ad blocker. I occasionally get to respond to messages like "I got an error saying 'do X', how do fix this?". Thus is the level of a random user - people creating software have to acknowledge that at some point.

[trimethylpurine → viraptor]

>This is not a problem for anyone reading this

Then why is it posted here?

This is a marketing post, in a place where it doesn't belong, complaining about marketing being where it doesn't belong.

Apparently that's lost on at least a few regulars. Or more likely, they are upset that we don't want to see their garbage here too

[viraptor → trimethylpurine]

> Then why is it posted here?

I appreciate it being posted, because I don't run stock windows, yet I deal with supporting many windows users. It's not something they'll raise with me if it's not completely breaking their workflow, so it's nice to know what is the latest badness I should be disabling.

[trimethylpurine → viraptor]

Okay. Fair enough. But wouldn't a post be better simply explaining that a basic setting or group policy exists rather than complaining on an ad packed page for more paragraphs than you care to read?

[Rinzler89 → RodgerTheGreat]

Or malware. "Here user, just type this in the comand line and run as administrator"

On: Mini Macro Pad v1.1.0 release

[ssebs]

Macro Pad driver software, written in Golang. If you have an arduino powered device, you could use this to run various keyboard shortcuts and other macros. No device? No problem! You can still click on the buttons to run the macros.

On: Czech republic sets IPv4 end date

[ssebs]

Sure, if DNS was always reliable 100% of the time.

Also, in our desktop/laptops, we set the DNS servers to an IP address, not to a hostname.

On: Open Source Macro Pad driver software

[ssebs]

Macro Pad driver software, written in Golang. If you have an Arduino powered device, you could use this to run various keyboard shortcuts and other macros.

What kind of macros can you make?

    Shortcuts:
        CTRL + C, CTRL + V, etc.
    Press whatever key you want, as long as it's in the list.
        Skip song, type "enter", etc.
    Repeat keypresses (or mouse button presses)
        Playing cookie clicker? Press your macro to repeatedly press your mouse button down until you click the macro again
    More?