Yeah, I just use pause for music, and I have a macropad with f13-18 so I just set one to trigger suspend.

Nice! If I wasn’t using the custom hotkey I’d jump to this for sake of keeping things lightweight. Thanks for sharing.

I maybe wasn’t clear, I didn’t make this, I just found it and figured folks here could benefit from knowing about it!

But no clue if it’ll help with that, worth a shot tho.

Oh I agree completely. I also think a lot of people just don't realize that many of the things they think of as part of Windows can be tweaked or removed, so they just sit there assuming they have to live with it when there's a fix that most people could implement if they google a how-to guide (or they could ask their nerdy friend).

I love helping friends set up Windows installs, because they're always so shocked at how little clutter there is and how well everything works. At the same time it makes me mad that all of that is necessary at all, and I'm swearing at Microsoft the whole time I'm helping them.

It's a single registry key or a single group policy edit, and I'm not talking to the average user, I'm talking to Lemmy users.

I'm saying as far as annoyances in windows go, this is incredibly simple to change if you are at all familiar with tweaking advanced windows shit.

I mean for sure but I play games with my nephews so for me dual booting Windows is worth it, and it's certainly something to consider when deciding how you're gonna set up your system, as much as that sucks.

I hope it'll change on games that do, or they'll set up a workaround for Linux, but for now if you care about a game that uses it, ysk beforehand so that you can decide whether to dump that game or dual boot.

You can remove the Internet search and make it do normal search pretty easily. I know I know you shouldn't have to, just saying putting an hour into cleaning Windows is worth.

Hope you don't play anything that uses Windows kernel-level anticheat 🫠

If you're okay with Windows 10, why not LTSC? No feature updates but you do get security updates for an extended lifecycle.

Press start key, type. Faster than clicking on a search box.

Yes, a wiki is an EXCELLENT idea. IDK if there are any plans to add wiki functionality on Lemme, but man it’d be nice.

I also decided to dual boot Linux when I did a fresh Windows install this past weekend.

Because I hate myself I'm running Arch, but I was able to get Apex running well enough without too much fucking around. Problem is, I haven't been able to get OBS capture to run nearly as well as I can on Windows. I record at 1440/90 with high bitrate, and I haven't been able to get that working on Linux yet.

I really wanna jump full-on into Linux now and try living without windows, but sometimes I just need things to work without having to try 4 differently compiled versions of a program, and I don't know if I can get all my games running (Halo Infinite is giving me issues, if anyone has proton tips).

My 09 VW CC has knobs for bass, treble, and mid, in addition to volume. Seat heaters, AC, everything is tactile and I can operate anything without looking.

I know it's manufacturers wanting to save money, but it's so annoying that we're going backwards. Touchscreen is a form of input. Just because it's higher tech doesn't mean it should replace tactile inputs in all applications ffs.

The whales are the devs IRL

This characterization disgusts me but it’s a perfect analogy.

Yeah I tried Sea of Thieves a while back and unless you already got some friends who are pretty into it, or you’re a streamer trying to do crazy antics messing with people, the game just doesn’t have a lot of appeal.

I may hop on for PVE just to see how it is, but idk if that’ll fix enough of the game for me.

Yeah just did a fresh install and once I installed Waterfox I just had to click a single button when prompted.

However this was Tiny11 so I am unsure if that applies equally to normal Win11.

Exactly. I’d like to see a few significant improvements for the next gen - namely in screen and performance to match, but my dream would be to see Valve license Framework’s module system (or build something similar of their own) and integrate one of those somewhere on the deck.

It’d be great for the obvious, like adding high-speed storage, but just imagine the possibilities for a handheld gaming console of attachments people could build with a module system that locks in place like that.

Obviously the module thing is a pipe dream and unlikely to happen, but I just feel like there’s a ton of additional potential for that form factor that’s unexplored, and I’d like to see longer generations not only for support, but also so that larger iterative work like designing a module system or whatever can be prioritized over rushing out regular performance upgrades.

I think that we as humans put ourselves above all other animals a lot. But as animals with a higher level of awareness, I feel that we have a responsibility to treat all other animals with respect.

If someone thinks it’s justified to experiment on animals, I see it as their moral obligation to do everything in their power to minimize the suffering that animal will experience.

Also, if this technology could potentially help with handicaps (big X to doubt moment tbh) I absolutely do not want Elon fucking Musk to be the one who owns the technology, so I hope they hit his company with the book.

Yup, this is a stop gap to give them time to figure out how much they can still get away with.