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Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools (www.neowin.net)

submitted 7 months ago by quantumcog@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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TLDR: StartAllBack, ExplorerPatcher and some other projects are being blocked on 24H2.

One more reason to switch to Linux

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 264 points 7 months ago (25 children)

The Microsoft devs have time to do shit like this, but haven't yet gotten the Settings screen as functional as Control Panel was two decades ago...

[–] Shirasho@lemmings.world 212 points 7 months ago (23 children)

Do NOT blame the devs for this. They are not the ones to decide the direction of the product or the priority of the tickets they work. Blame upper management for making these poor decisions and the product managers for being spineless and not pushing back.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Unfortunately, blaming the devs seems to be a recurring problem. I remember seeing this in a YouTube comment thread (paraphrased):

why can't i insert a bible reference without it becoming blue? i write proverbs 14:23 and youtube turns it into a damn timestamp. f-cking lazy developers, they removed dislikes, now keep preventing adblock and cannot detect a simple quote??

I replied with something like:

Hey, stop blaming the devs. It was not their decision to make the unpopular changes, and making a system for detecting if a comment is referring to a book with chapter:verse syntax (not just the bible, and all their versions & translations) is not something they would pay for. For the record, you can refer to Proverbs 14:23 or any other verse without making it a link. I can show you how but first repent and apologize for undervaluing people's hard work.

(Yes, there's just a ZWSP after the colon. It can be mapped to a key combo if one uses it often.) He did not answer but maybe didn't see my reply buried way underneath – it was YouTube comments, after all. Legend says that bible references in his video description keep messing up his worship chapters.

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