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kurogane wrote:Rumour has it that Windows 10 is designed so that it operates like a PC desktop operating system. Those guys are partying like it's 1999.
kurogane wrote:I am still feeling a touch verklempt about it all and I have had this for a year now
Still, kinda weird they would make an ass of everybody by assuming those of us with laptops wanted our machines to work like smartphones, which I don't have one of and so don't know how to work anyways.
kurogane wrote:That swipe and sweep crap drives me batty. BTW, anybody got a timeline on how many more years I can hold back the tide and keep my old skool flip cell phone? Just curious
BigInJapan wrote: I recently installed Classic Shell on my Win 8.1 laptop.........
BigInJapan wrote: I'm actually thinking about going back to a clamshell myself, after having smartphones for the last six years. The iPhone 3GS was a good size (not much bigger than a large clamshell), then they just kept getting bigger and bigger.
kurogane wrote:BigInJapan wrote: I recently installed Classic Shell on my Win 8.1 laptop.........
That sounds F'in brilliant. I'll look into that. Thanks!BigInJapan wrote: I'm actually thinking about going back to a clamshell myself, after having smartphones for the last six years. The iPhone 3GS was a good size (not much bigger than a large clamshell), then they just kept getting bigger and bigger.
I was at Costco buying Mass Quantities earlier and looked at an iPhone 6 or 7 (i.e. The Latest!!). It's huge. Not even close to being comfortably pocket sized. My basic flip phone (Cdn) fits easily in my pocket, I can get basic internet as needed, and all I usually do is call or send and receive simple texts anyways ("OK CU L8R"), and it costs $25-ish a month. I have simply never needed one for work and don't seem to want one for anything else, and no acolyte has ever been able to persuade me I should. The Smartphone Fatigue SJ mentioned isn't really part of my motivation to not get one, but it is a serious motivation to start a new meme: the Smartphone Slap, perfect for those eye-locked idjits SJ was talking about. It's actually quite creepy to watch perfectly normal and intelligent people mesmerised by the Shiny Shiny.
BigInJapan wrote:kurogane wrote:I am still feeling a touch verklempt about it all and I have had this for a year now
Still, kinda weird they would make an ass of everybody by assuming those of us with laptops wanted our machines to work like smartphones, which I don't have one of and so don't know how to work anyways.
I recently installed Classic Shell on my Win 8.1 laptop, effectively changing it back to an XP-like UI. It turns off that Metro tile UI, so you're left with the traditional Windows Start button and menu.kurogane wrote:That swipe and sweep crap drives me batty. BTW, anybody got a timeline on how many more years I can hold back the tide and keep my old skool flip cell phone? Just curious
I'm actually thinking about going back to a clamshell myself, after having smartphones for the last six years. The iPhone 3GS was a good size (not much bigger than a large clamshell), then they just kept getting bigger and bigger.
I don't know what the offerings are like back in the great white north, but if you're living in Japan now, there are still a few flip phones on the market, with signs of them making a comeback.
JT article from May: Japan’s ‘Galapagos phones’ making a comeback
IT Media (J) article from February: 「ガラケー」が復活する? 出荷数7年ぶり増の「理由」
Weekly ASCII (J) article from May: ドコモとauから計3機種登場のガラケー型Android端末
Samurai_Jerk wrote:I've got some friends who it's almost impossible to carry on a conversation with these days because they're glued to their phones.
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Not having a smartphone would definitely hinder communication with a lot of people I know. Hardy anybody calls or texts anymore. Everyone uses apps to chat. I had zero interest in that till I realized that was the main way to communicate with young attractive women.
wagyl wrote: Younger people are regarding making a telephone call itself too mendokusai compared to any potential value they get from their date. But they are happy to have a long volley of chat messages. .
Samurai_Jerk wrote:I've been hearing more and more about people going back to flip phones. I think smartphone fatigue is starting to set in. I've definitely been making more of an effort to keep mine out of sight when I'm hanging out with my friends. Like leaving it in my bag when I'm at dinner or whatever so I'm not tempted to check it. And I'm not particularly bad. I've got some friends who it's almost impossible to carry on a conversation with these days because they're glued to their phones.
Takechanpoo wrote:i too a garakei lover. never ever have had a sumaho. its enough to use calling, mailing and watch weather forecast.
Coligny wrote:You actually have people to call ? humans I mean...
wagyl wrote:From what I have seen of the user base, it is the young and those looking for casual hookups. Tell me I am wrong, matsuki!
kurogane wrote:OOooohhhhhhhhhhhh, YUK!
Anyhoo, thanks for the info and education guys. I can see the charm of those apps used judiciously, but I have already seen the Dark Side of their induced vacuous inanity, so it sounds like I might have to up my age range to avoid this Chat issue. I do like that 30 something skin, though...............
Samurai_Jerk wrote:kurogane wrote:OOooohhhhhhhhhhhh, YUK!
Anyhoo, thanks for the info and education guys. I can see the charm of those apps used judiciously, but I have already seen the Dark Side of their induced vacuous inanity, so it sounds like I might have to up my age range to avoid this Chat issue. I do like that 30 something skin, though...............
You might have to stick with 50+. Most of my friends in their 40s are using LINE too.
wagyl wrote:Basically it is a Skype but you need to have a smartphone to open an account. It is an amazing phoenix to arise from the ashes of the earthquake/tsunami, but that smartphone limitation is the killer for me.
BigInJapan wrote:wagyl wrote:Basically it is a Skype but you need to have a smartphone to open an account. It is an amazing phoenix to arise from the ashes of the earthquake/tsunami, but that smartphone limitation is the killer for me.
Actually, if you want to go into serious otaku mode, you can install and use Line on a PC without a phone number.
I knew there was a Windows app, but apparently you can get around the phone number registration.
It involves using a Google or Facebook account, and installing an Android OS simulator on your PC.
For more info, check out this blog - Setting up LINE Chat app without a smartphone
*Disclaimer - I don't use Line at all, but my kids do on their phones, so I won't be able to provide any more info.
One new user of Windows 10 found an especially unwelcome surprise after upgrading to Microsoft’s new operating system — a slideshow on his desktop that was showing pornographic images that he’d saved to his computer, on repeat.
“Loaded up WIN 10 last night and left it on to do its thing,” wrote user FalloutBoS on Reddit. “Woke up to wife asking why I set it to rotate all my porn images right on the desk top view. I have no idea how to shut that feature off and that computer is staying shut down until I do.”
The user appears to have saved the images to one of the default folders on his computer, which then pulled them through for use in what developers presumably meant to be a nice, nostalgic slideshow.
Windows 10 — which was released this week — brings with it the same live tiles that were seen in Windows 8, and on Windows Phone. One of those is called Photos, and has a corresponding app, both of which pull through images from the My Pictures folder and show them on a loop.
It seems to be that feature that caught out the Reddit user. As many pointed out on the Reddit thread, it’s a problem that’s unlikely to hit many upgraders — “I guess it assumes you will not save porn into the pictures folder”, as one said — but could just as easily throw up any other images that you wouldn’t like people to see.
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