Here's the problem: your reply is factually correct, but it doesn't address the GP's overarching complaint - the start menu is simply not performant. And since the code powering the start menu is closed source, it is not possible to perform a benchmark to see if the react native portion of the start menu is to blame or if it is something else.
Visiting this site on mobile is not great. A good portion of the screen is covered by a sticky header and there is no underline or feedback when a link is clicked. Additionally, it is missing the story position and with infinite scroll there is no way to differentiate whether you are looking at the 10th story or the one in the 100th position.
This is wrong. The "recommended" section of the start menu is written with React Native but compiled to native XAML and not running web technologies. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44125217
> in case anyone needs a reminder of Microsoft's org chart: ...
To be a little glib:
As someone who has worked for a few Big Software Companies, I guarantee that Microsoft's org chart has changed significantly at least once in the last fourteen years.
Re-organizations aren't referred to as "shuffling the deck chairs [on the Titanic]" by the rank and file for no reason, yanno?
My impression from the outside is that the biggest change is that there are now a lot more and smaller circles pointing guns at each other
But maybe that impression is wrong and they now cooperate better. After all since some Windows 10 update the Windows Explorer can even create files and folders starting with a dot (which from a kernel, fs and cmd perspective was always valid)
> But maybe that impression is wrong and they now cooperate better.
Based on my experience with Blasted Corporate Hellscapes, I find it very unlikely that they cooperate better. Middle-ish management lives to stab each other in the back, belly, and face.
> ...Windows Explorer can even create files and folders starting with a dot...
That's progress! Does Windows Explorer still shit the bed when you ask it to interact with a file whose name contains the '|' character? That's always been valid in NTFS, and I think is valid in at least a subset of the Windows programming interfaces.
Kind of related, but a lot of designers only understand a react point of view these days. Which is why you will see react, specifically, turn up in the most random fucking places.
Every place I've worked which did not use react had steady pushback from UI/UX to move to react. It took active resistance to not use react, even though it didn't make any sense to use.
I don't think that the activation of this process is tied to the enabled-state of any features and the recommended section/start menu in general does not even use a Webview. It may be active all the time because various parts of the OS use it (I think the settings app for MS account stuff and the Explorer for some Office 365 features?) and it's faster keeping it active instead of starting it constantly.
Dear God, I hate the way the Windows 11 Start Menu takes slightly too long to open - long enough that I often accidentally close it again. You can actually watch CPU usage increase if you toggle it.
> You can actually watch CPU usage increase if you toggle it.
Not any more, I kept windows 11 around for gaming but I binned the partition, how they managed to make a 7950X3D/7900XTX feel "clunky" is astounding given that I live in KDE which has a reputation for been a "heavy" DE and yet it it feels instantaneously fast in every dimension compared to windows 11.
Downloaded v3 but it kept crashing for me on Windows 10. Possibly because I had designer v1 previously installed. If anyone's facing the same issue, deleting %APPDATA%\Affinity directory fixes this.
Unfortunately when visiting the demo (https://vitedemo.browserpod.io/), the terminal just shows "/lt/npm/bin/npm.js install" and does nothing more. There does not seem to be any errors in the developer console and no network requests have failed either. This is on Chrome v140, Windows 10.
I have termux installed to quickly run `ip neigh` to find the IP addresses of devices connected to the hotspot - unfortunately my version of Android doesn't have this feature built in.
This is especially useful when you have multiple Pis connected and need to know the IP address to ssh to.
Stars are public - navigating to any GitHub profile and clicking the 'Stars' tab shows all the repositories starred by the user. Moreover, all users that have starred a repository can be viewed by appending /stargazers to the repo url or clicking the stars link in the sidebar.
More importantly, there is an API endpoint for /stargazers.
If you really wanted to get GitHub data in bulk for illicit purposes and you know how to work with big data you can get it from the GitHub Archive but that’s a topic for another day. (Although it may not have user emails)
I've had the experience of being on the opposite end of the spectrum when I made a joke site[0] that kept the connection open to every connected browser. Needless to say, it got hugged to death in the very first ten minutes.
What got it back up was switching from my homebrew webserver to Nginx and increasing the file descriptor limits. Switching to a battle-tested webserver made all the difference. I'm still not sure how many connections it can keep open now, but I don't have to worry about the static parts of the site going down.
Firefox user here. Right click on image -> Open image in new tab. Then kill the connection and could "Save Image as" just fine. Or print screen it and get it in PBrush.
> Firefox user here. Right click on image -> Open image in new tab. Then kill the connection and could "Save Image as" just fine.
That doesn't work for me.. Firefox just starts a new download for the image and it never finishes. Sometimes it seems to flush about 32KB to the disk, giving you half of the image, but the rest must still be waiting in buffers.
Maybe because in my case Firefox is augmented with uBlock Origin + NoScript + Privacy Badger? I don't know, maybe because I'm on desktop and you're on mobile? No idea, but that's how I can do it.
This reminds me of a little joke link shortener I built[0] that allows you to set the various opengraph tags to the shortened url. This lets you completely fake the link preview generated by most platforms that show you one. Even though I originally built it as a joke, I find myself using it pretty often to make links 'self-explanatory'.
Not the blog author, but practically speaking, faking OpenGraph tags would result in same phishing capability (considering that most people don't check the cards carefully), but it'll still show that the link was not from that site. But again, most people would still click paypal-not-really.com or coinbase-is-not-controlling-this-site.com
