What parts of Silent Hill did you reflect on? What parts made you think, this is a really good Silent Hill game?

Or as other people have put it: If it had a different name, would it have mattered? I am not discussing if it is a good game or not, but is it a Silent Hill game?

Back on track? It sucked.

Maybe they should figure out why silent hill used to be good.

They made a game, but not a good silent hill game.

There is no need for a terminal if you don’t want to use it.

On the other hand, the terminal is the single best way to get ideas across so people think they somehow need it.

Even windows is like this: want to fix something? cmd or powershell is the way they are going to avoid having to give you 20 pages of screen shots and condense it into a single line.

FPS same as always, since it is just a description.

Multiplayer FPS is what they are talking about? Seems like a convoluted headline.

Alright, I will concede that Opus at 160kbps is really good. I always knew at low bitrates it was better than mp3 but I have not used it in awhile. I store everything in flac.

But if anyone else wants to compare: https://opus-bitrates.anthum.com/ lets you compare various bit rates of Opus. I think I hear a high end distortion in 160 that I don’t hear in the 512, but it could be expectation.

Am I? There certainly are windows users that have no idea they want it (just like right click wasn’t a big deal until it was).

There are a lot of forum posts and questions asking Microsoft for it.

But what about numbers? Honestly I don’t know and probably cant know how many people would be interested. I also don’t know what a threshold of users would be to say, yes this might be important. 10%? over 50%?

What I do know is that just one third party tool for windows has been around since 2003. So 22 years of interest.

I also know that they have had at least 500 downloads a week pretty consistently year over year at source forge, with another estimated 50,000 users that have gotten it from the Microsoft store.

Modern ditto as an extention to the current windows clipboard is on github with 5.7k stars and active.

Seems to me there are a lot of users who like to have clipboards. Maybe microsoft made the right move to put in what I consider basic functionality to their desktop as a large number of users were looking for it.

And that is only Ditto. There are a lot more like CopyQ and 1clipboard.

ogg is better than mp3 at lower bit rates. As they increase in bit rate they become indistinguishable.

That said, this stuff is way too low quality to care about.

Could be. But the article here tells me it would all have been garbage recommended to me anyways.

I want a basic clipboard. That is what it is. You can use it however you like, so that is choice. What is stored on top is last in, just like any clipboard. And you could set it to 1 if you want to only have one item.

I find it so weird that you call functionality “confusing and bloatware” and want to delete it. I have a hard time understanding what you actually do with a computer then. It has been part of my workflow since the late 80’s. I would think a clipboard, that windows finally included is not “confusing and bloatware” due to popular demand.

I mean do you not use a GUI at all? You sound like maybe a terminal only experience is right for you. Speaking of which, windows lack of terminal history ALSO is so damn annoying. Another feature they recently got (see the trend?). Although it STILL does not have persistence.

In any case, since so many people asked for it, and Microsoft finally added a half functioning clipboard, I would think that it is ONE of a hundred plus reasons why the windows desktop is FINALLY catching up to a linux one. Which was the whole point of the discussion. You may not like a feature, which is fine, but a lot of people do. Until recently microsoft didnt have it but now does, I think it is fair to say Linux was ahead of Microsoft on features in the DE.

Yes, I agree. If one is going to do it, local no services required, replaceable. Very much so.

Freetune works for me, on a roku I use playlet, on android there are a few others.

There was a good recommendation on here the other day, but I didn’t write it down.

You also can create playlists in various media players like VLC.

I would highly encourage whoever you really like to head over to nebula. I know paying seems not great but they do get a portion of that money and there are no ads.

You can use a third party tool to keep track of what you want to see, more or less anonymously subscribing.

i havent found you tube interesting in years. I also use 3rd party viewers if I have to watch something there so there is no algorithym to suggest anything.

Works better that way.

Fanboy? Facts are fanboy now?

I notice people who say “bud” in online discussions are either trolls or assholes. Which one are you? You contribute nothing, hate everything, and use “bud” in a discussion.

Yeah it all fits. Also, new account right?

virtual desktops

So Wikipedia work for you?

Prior to Windows 10, Microsoft Windows did not implement virtual desktops natively in a user-accessible way.

Yep.

Powertoys could give you a simulation in XP but it really wasnt user friendly or worked, or even came with the OS.

So quit your bullshit.

And who is the fanboy here?

So this

ClipBook Viewer has been removed from Windows Vista and later, although the ability to view clipboard contents has been implemented into the Clipboard History feature, which was introduced in Windows 10 and later.

In Windows XP, it is not listed in the Start menu and can only be accessed through its executable file, ClipBrd.exe

Worth pointing out that there are no viable citations on that page, all I remember is that it kept functioning like a win 3.1 and not integrated as the sentence above suggests.

Also gone all together in 7: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2660614/access-clipboard-windows-7

And even when the clipbook was there, I would not call it functional by any means.

Yes tabs in Windows 11 filemanager. Still no split screen, but at least you can keep file management in a single window.

Do you just immediately turn off every feature a desktop environment gives you? I have no problem if you simply use Sway or something that lets the DE get out of your way. But if you are going into a discussion about the features of two DE’s and say I never liked having choice, I just turn it all off, whats the point? Seems like a stupid argument to be had.

Stuff linux had that windows didnt for YEARS: Virtual desktops (I am sure you hate those, I have used them since Amiga days), linux technically has two clipboards and ways of selecting paste, windows still cant do single clicking effectively, colors and other file visualization, alt-drag anything, muti taskbars, keyboard tilling managers… and on and on

YOU may not like it, but the fact is windows was featureless compared to Linux.

Maybe you should just turn off the computer. It seems to annoy you.

Displeasure? I have to manage windows and azure environments and believe me that is displeasure. At least I get to do it all from a reliable Linux environment.

If you don’t like clipboards than ok, you can turn it off. For those of us the like them, it’s an option windows never had until recently.

Yes shit. No decent file manager. No clip board. No internet protocols built in. No state awarenes and on and on. Win 11 is starting to get there but they are so busy going worse at the same time it’s pointless.

Windows still doesn’t have an nvme driver for goodness sake.

I have described them over and over, but you hate them or something and are annoyed so I guess having options is not for you.

This is all started with a discussion about the Linux desktop being less than windows historically. Clearly that is not the case when one is feature rich and the other has been playing catch up for years.

Thanks for the tip about war hawk debloat. I am about to help a friend go back to win 10 via LTSE and I can use that information!

Windows did not have a functional clipboard. Go look at all the complaints over the years.

Windows historically had only a single-item clipboard and no built-in UI/history.

A separate one shipped with MS Office that let you store something like 12 to 20 items. Why? Because windows sucked and DID NOT HAVE ONE.

Windows itself did not get a built in Win+V searchable/historical clipboard until windows 10.

what? have you heard about 7?

Yes, better than XP, still not good. I am not going to do your homework, but Windows 10 was the first release that really focused on isolation, secrets management, and virtualization of applications for system wide and user protection.

I won’t even comment on the rest, but it’s bullshit

Just as well, you don’t know what you are talking about anyways.

Microsoft was amazingly successful at creating a GUI and interface that you could set anyone in front of and they’d be able to figure out basic usage in half an hour with relatively little direction

Huh? Windows is a confusing mess. I don’t think this is true at all. Windows was successful at being in businesses, and the what I learned at work became what I use at home.

Edit: I know this from experience, I set up a lot of linux users over the years. No computer experience: Linux was just as easy, if not easier thanks to package management, than windows.

I watched new computer people struggle with windows far more often.

Then there was the I barely know windows user switching to Linux who complained about the whole thing because of their ingrained habits.

I need exceptional anti-cheat support

Say what it really is: a root-kit to hand your entire system over to a corporation. That is a line I wouldn’t be willing to cross.

So yeah, the best scenario for you is a dedicated, nothing personal on it, non service connected windows machine for gaming. At least until they quit rooting your computer simply to play a game.