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[–] OS2Warp@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (6 children) I mean, I get forcing users to update. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] tabular@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (5 children) If you could have nothing but pure intentions.. that's still a bad way to go about getting users to update. Users choose to not update to avoid getting fucked by Microslop. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Carl@anarchist.nexus 6 points 3 months ago (4 children) Users choose not to update to avoid rebooting. The average user barely even knows what an OS is. They just know that if they reboot, they’ll lose their 347 Emotional Support Chrome tabs. Lemmy tends to be fairly tech literate, which means conversations about tech often involve the Average Familiarity problem: permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] nycvin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago Emotional Support Chrome tabs is my new favorite thing of the day permalink fedilink source parent [–] eleijeep@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago XKCD 2501 is second nature to us internauts so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows XKCD 1053 (Ten Thousand) and XKCD 386 (Duty Calls). permalink fedilink source parent [–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) Chrome (and Firefox and probably every other major browser) has reopened tabs on restart for years now. Other programs, not so much. Windows did add the feature to reopen programs fairly recently, but most of the time that means just starting the program, not actually restoring your session. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 1 point 3 months ago Vivaldi also does this well, and Opera before it back to at least 2001. XFCE opens the programs too but the programs themselves don't remember state, even if gracefully closed by a normal reboot. Except Krusader which seems to remember my tabs from like 3 years ago and I have no idea how to get it to update. Oh and 4k remains the bane of my existence with getting my shell to remember 2x scaling is stupid hard, and I have to launch special scripts to inject the 2x scaling in the launch options or environment variables. I should ask AI why my Alma 9 is being dumb. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tabular@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (5 children) If you could have nothing but pure intentions.. that's still a bad way to go about getting users to update. Users choose to not update to avoid getting fucked by Microslop. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Carl@anarchist.nexus 6 points 3 months ago (4 children) Users choose not to update to avoid rebooting. The average user barely even knows what an OS is. They just know that if they reboot, they’ll lose their 347 Emotional Support Chrome tabs. Lemmy tends to be fairly tech literate, which means conversations about tech often involve the Average Familiarity problem: permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] nycvin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago Emotional Support Chrome tabs is my new favorite thing of the day permalink fedilink source parent [–] eleijeep@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago XKCD 2501 is second nature to us internauts so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows XKCD 1053 (Ten Thousand) and XKCD 386 (Duty Calls). permalink fedilink source parent [–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) Chrome (and Firefox and probably every other major browser) has reopened tabs on restart for years now. Other programs, not so much. Windows did add the feature to reopen programs fairly recently, but most of the time that means just starting the program, not actually restoring your session. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 1 point 3 months ago Vivaldi also does this well, and Opera before it back to at least 2001. XFCE opens the programs too but the programs themselves don't remember state, even if gracefully closed by a normal reboot. Except Krusader which seems to remember my tabs from like 3 years ago and I have no idea how to get it to update. Oh and 4k remains the bane of my existence with getting my shell to remember 2x scaling is stupid hard, and I have to launch special scripts to inject the 2x scaling in the launch options or environment variables. I should ask AI why my Alma 9 is being dumb. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Carl@anarchist.nexus 6 points 3 months ago (4 children) Users choose not to update to avoid rebooting. The average user barely even knows what an OS is. They just know that if they reboot, they’ll lose their 347 Emotional Support Chrome tabs. Lemmy tends to be fairly tech literate, which means conversations about tech often involve the Average Familiarity problem: permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] nycvin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago Emotional Support Chrome tabs is my new favorite thing of the day permalink fedilink source parent [–] eleijeep@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago XKCD 2501 is second nature to us internauts so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows XKCD 1053 (Ten Thousand) and XKCD 386 (Duty Calls). permalink fedilink source parent [–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) Chrome (and Firefox and probably every other major browser) has reopened tabs on restart for years now. Other programs, not so much. Windows did add the feature to reopen programs fairly recently, but most of the time that means just starting the program, not actually restoring your session. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 1 point 3 months ago Vivaldi also does this well, and Opera before it back to at least 2001. XFCE opens the programs too but the programs themselves don't remember state, even if gracefully closed by a normal reboot. Except Krusader which seems to remember my tabs from like 3 years ago and I have no idea how to get it to update. Oh and 4k remains the bane of my existence with getting my shell to remember 2x scaling is stupid hard, and I have to launch special scripts to inject the 2x scaling in the launch options or environment variables. I should ask AI why my Alma 9 is being dumb. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nycvin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago Emotional Support Chrome tabs is my new favorite thing of the day permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago XKCD 2501 is second nature to us internauts so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows XKCD 1053 (Ten Thousand) and XKCD 386 (Duty Calls). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) Chrome (and Firefox and probably every other major browser) has reopened tabs on restart for years now. Other programs, not so much. Windows did add the feature to reopen programs fairly recently, but most of the time that means just starting the program, not actually restoring your session. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 1 point 3 months ago Vivaldi also does this well, and Opera before it back to at least 2001. XFCE opens the programs too but the programs themselves don't remember state, even if gracefully closed by a normal reboot. Except Krusader which seems to remember my tabs from like 3 years ago and I have no idea how to get it to update. Oh and 4k remains the bane of my existence with getting my shell to remember 2x scaling is stupid hard, and I have to launch special scripts to inject the 2x scaling in the launch options or environment variables. I should ask AI why my Alma 9 is being dumb. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 1 point 3 months ago Vivaldi also does this well, and Opera before it back to at least 2001. XFCE opens the programs too but the programs themselves don't remember state, even if gracefully closed by a normal reboot. Except Krusader which seems to remember my tabs from like 3 years ago and I have no idea how to get it to update. Oh and 4k remains the bane of my existence with getting my shell to remember 2x scaling is stupid hard, and I have to launch special scripts to inject the 2x scaling in the launch options or environment variables. I should ask AI why my Alma 9 is being dumb. permalink fedilink source parent