Turn on dark mode if it exists
Exactly opposite for me. Dark mode is just eww
Dark mode when it’s dark, light mode when it’s light out for me
This is the way
Make Microsoft Windows show filename extensions.
And hidden files
By installing Linux, right?
Right?
If only my job allowed that.
Haha, yes, that’s my plan!
Disabling the absurdity of 12-hour clock with am/pm, which bizarrely often is the default for no rational reason whatsoever.
Same. 24 hour format helps reduce confusion.
I turn off autocorrect on anything that offers it. Mostly my android phone, but also on LibreOffice or whatever.
I also turn off all auto-capitalize, auto-punctuation, etc. When coding, I also hate auto-indent. If I want something indented, I’ll hit tab.
In short, when I put in text, I want my computing devices to get exactly what I explicitly input and nothing else.
I also took out the fuse that powers the Starlink connectivity in my Subaru because Subaru’s privacy policy says they’ll record any audio in the cabin they damned well please with no notice or consent (except insofar as existing in the cabin constitutes “consent” because their legal department says so) and send those recordings back to the mothership to use in any way they see fit.
Nice to know I’m not the only one that dislikes autocorrect on phones, and autocomplete / autoindent (and also auto close parentheses and quotes for me) when coding
The motion smoothing on any modern TV
I will be downvoted but I must stand up for my friend. I LIKE MOTION SMOOTHING!
There, I said it. I’m glad it’s a feature you can disable so everyone can be happy, but I find 30fps choppy and distracting. Maybe I play too many video games, but high frame rates are the norm on PC. Hell, frame generation is a big feature now, but that’s a topic for another day.
Why would you want your films looking like soap operas lol
Like I said, I’m sensitive to low frame rates and really notice it. Like I’m watching video that is stuttery.
I know people have a “feel” to cinema that they enjoy and I have no issue with that, but I like the feel of smooth motion. It’s something you should absolutely be able to turn off though.
This setting is so bad and it’s the default on what feels like every TV now. I don’t know how people don’t notice it.
Roku pushed an update that doesn’t allow you to disable it. I literally don’t understand
“Natural scrolling” or whatever it’s called with track pads on laptops where the scroll goes the opposite way your fingers are moving. I don’t know why that’s the default, it makes no sense.
Hm? I really prefer it, it’s the same scrolling as on phones.
Yeah, it makes perfect sense on phones. But for whatever reason the disconnect between the trackpad and laptop screen really screws with my brain. It’s like if you tried to drag the scrollbar and it went in the opposite direction you’re dragging it.
For me it’s the opposite, non-natural scrolling feels wrong and unintuitive.
Edit: This is meant to be a reply to the scroll wheel thread, I hit the button on the wrong one and am just gonna leave it here
On a phone you’re actually touching the page and physically moving the page around (not really of course but that’s the action it’s mimicking)
A scroll wheel is a button-based command, specifically I think it’s literal origin was a different physical space for PgDwn and PgUp
I can get why people like natural scrolling, sorta, because I invert my axis in some games, but only if they used laptops a lot at some point, as those bridge the gap
I enable dark mode on anything that has it.
Terminal apps: I make the cursor non-blinking.
Lemmy: Hide seen posts.
Every time I get a new laptop I have to disable “natural” scrolling. Down should be down, dang it.
Enable y-axis look inversion. Because which way was “normal” and “inverted” hadn’t been standardized when I started gaming and that’s what I learned.
Screen brightness, dark mode, night light, if it’s a mobile device then Airplane mode.
Curious what you use airplane mode for so much? Brightness, blue light, themes(dark mode) I often use but curious what I’m overlooking with Airplane mode
Because for cellphone, I pretty much use wifi only and try to limit data usage. I believe on some devices airplane mode also turns off bluetooth by default as well, but you can still turn on bluetooth while in airplane mode if you need it.
aesthetics and UI. e.g. this is what my GIMP looks like:
This screenshot makes me want to install winamp
apt remove snapd
Win9x making a comeback
gets even better :-)
on every new android phone i go to developer options and change animation scaling 0.5x, makes the phone feel much quicker
oh dang, just tried it out and it’s brilliant, thank you internet stranger!
Volume goes waaaay down immediately. Then if it has motion blur, that goes all the way away from me.
Turning off motion blur and increasing field of view when a game has first person POV. Guaranteed motion sickness for me if I don’t adjust each.
Stickykeys
What is that?
Accessibility application. activates when you hold shift for 3 seconds in most Windows installations. It exists in macOS and Linux but I’ve never had it be an issue on those platforms.
all gamers’ nightmare
