Something I've always found mildly interesting is the general perception of the Windows 8 start menu changes. Folks often talked about the start menu being "removed" in Windows 8 and "re-added" in 8.1. Thing is though, it was never really removed. It mainly just went full screen and then back to a small menu in the corner. The actual functionality didn't change much. While I didn't like it, I wasn't nearly as bothered as others seemed to be. I was just kind of like, "Oh, it's full screen now. Meh."
> One underappreciated thing about Windows 8 is ... you could press the windows key, immediately start typing, and then press enter to somewhat deterministically pick the top app
I agree this is underappreciated but I believe it started in Vista and has worked pretty much the same way ever since, including in Windows 11. I acknowledge that start menu search in general is more bloated now and thus feels less snappy on slower machines. Still, for me, the specific use case you described has worked great for nearly 20 years even on modest PCs. I wonder why my experience doesn't match yours.
> I also really miss the aero look of windows 7... Eye-candy, sure, but I thought it was pretty, clean and modern looking. I am sad they moved away from it.
Me too! Aero was great. I also miss being able to make the taskbar truly black. It looked really nice coupled with a black wallpaper on an OLED display. Now you have to choose from a preset color palette. The reduced customizability of Windows 11 is frustrating.
On fast machines the latency is low enough I don’t complain… but the point about search results shifting is very much a problem. Often times searching a builtin windows feature will fail to show the correct result without some weird switching around of the wording. E.g try searching for “turn windows features on or off”.
That should be up to the recipient. Every other vendor provides this essential information in order confirmations.
Amazon's refusal to do so means you can't search your E-mail history for purchases (at tax time, for example). Or for warranty info or service. You may not know where you bought a particular item. Or which Amazon account you might have used.
If everyone followed Amazon's anti-customer example, you'd have to log into every E-commerce site you ever bought something from and search your order history... year by year... to find something. Unacceptable BS.
> Else Heart.Break() is a reimagination of the adventure game – a fantastic story set in a fully dynamic and interactive world. Instead of rigid puzzles you will learn (with the help from other characters in the game) how the reality of the game can be changed through programming and how any problem can be solved in whatever way you find suitable.
The fact that you have to go to the bank to get them (vs say from the ATM), also shows that you put thought and effort into the gift. So you way of saying "thank you for giving a shit" in itself rings more true, you gave a shit about thanking someone rather than an empty "hey thanks".
Regional credit union. Whether I've been broke (or not), they've never charged for denominational straps. I do often have to "order" twos (returning a week later).
Tipping with $2 bills was a "cool" thing oldsters would do, because the bills are a novelty but not actually that hard to get. They'd also give them for birthday money and such (I have a bunch in an envelope somewhere for that reason).
You're right that at this point you'd need to be giving out a lot of them each time for it to count for much. Dollars are worth so little that we're beyond "let's get rid of pennies" and approaching "WTF is the point of coins smaller than the quarter?"
[EDIT] That first bit comes off as harsher than I meant. I just mean that this was a more common thing years back, lots of folks of a certain generation (or couple of generations) did it, and at this point I can definitely see how giving out $2 bills, which was once novel (though when the eighth older person did it in a year, not so novel...) and also a decent amount of money, is getting into "yeah, thanks for the two whole quarters, grandpa, I'll be sure to buy a candy bar with them when I get several more" territory, thanks to inflation.
[EDIT EDIT] I'm struggling with internalizing new prices, too, incidentally. I've finally learned that when my kids get $10 it is not worth getting them excited about going to get a toy with it. They'll need, bare minimum, double that amount, and even then there won't be a lot of options after tax. There's almost nothing they can get with $10 but candy or shitty collectible (ahem, kiddy gambling) card crap.
At the risk of going too far OT, here's a story of how I did something different that wasn't expensive but was still seen fondly by all concerned.
So ~15 years ago our son had been invited to his best friend's birthday party. Unsurprisingly, the birthday boy had a list of electronic toys on his gift list, as had become tradition.
While my wife and I were out shopping for said gift, she located one of the electronic items. Probably a game cart for whatever was popular at the time.
Meanwhile, I had come across something that had stirred up fond memories of my own: a sleeping bag + flashlight (+ some other related item) combo. Woo :)
We decided to get both the game and the sleeping bag combo, just in case the latter wasn't well-received.
At the birthday party, I think literally every other gift was for his gaming system. Once he opened the sleeping bag gift, he, his mom, and at least a few of the other kids had a "wait - okay that's different and kinda cool" reaction.
Even if he never went camping with them, I hope he got many hours of use out of that sleeping bag and flashlight. I know I did with mine.
I've always seen it more as exaggeration/absurdity for the sake of humor than ignorant misuse of the word. Like in a cartoon when a character's eyes _literally_ pop out of their head. Of course, even if that's true, I'm sure the nuance would sometimes be lost in translation and help blur the definition in common vernacular just the same.
Witcher 3 came out on PC at the same time as consoles. CDPR has a long history with PC gaming and they tend to emphasize the PC experience. They also own GOG which is a PC game store/platform. RDR2 on the other hand was indeed a timed console exclusive.
Because if they pre-installed it, then it was included with the purchase. Once you sell something to someone, you shouldn't get to charge extra money for using it.
