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Old 10-14-2022, 02:24 PM   #1171
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WHY do I have to unlock my phone to see if it needs charging???
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Old 10-15-2022, 07:32 AM   #1172
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Why does Apple and Microsoft have to continually change things.

Windows 11: the something-plugged-in" noise has changed. Now I have to increase the volume to hear it, which makes the volume to loud for everything else.

IOS: the Siri initiated sound has changed. Now it is too soft, and I can't here it in the car.
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Old 10-15-2022, 01:02 PM   #1173
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WHY do I have to unlock my phone to see if it needs charging???
I suspect it's a security issue. To me, if you have a lock code on your phone you should be able to do nothing with the phone except unlock it until it is unlocked. Unfortunately, it sometimes creates problems such as the one (related in a post earlier in this thread) I had when answering my calls (it took so long to unlock the phone and then answer the call that I often missed the call).

However, a compromise might be to allow you to designate certain items to appear on the screen (such as the time and the battery level) even when the phone is locked. I know that with Android you can designate what kind of access the various apps have. On my flip phone the time, date, battery level (as a percentage) and notifications (in the form of a number in a circle) on the outer screen.


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Why does Apple and Microsoft have to continually change things.

Windows 11: the something-plugged-in" noise has changed. Now I have to increase the volume to hear it, which makes the volume to loud for everything else.

IOS: the Siri initiated sound has changed. Now it is too soft, and I can't here it in the car.
It seems like it is often change for the sake of change. An example of this is Windows 8, where they changed long-standard ways of doing things.

As an example, up until then to close an app/program you clicked on the X in the upper right-hand corner. This was the way it was going back to Windows 1. Then, with Windows 8 the X was gone and I had to figure out that you had to drag the window to the top of the screen to close it. It might be okay when working with a touch screen but not when you are using a mouse and keyboard.

Concerning the notification sound, I had the same problem. I used to carry my phone in my left-hand pants pocket and even at full volume I often had trouble hearing notifications. My solution was to put the phone in my shirt pocket where I could easily hear it if I turn the volume to the max.
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Old 10-16-2022, 01:44 AM   #1174
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A software changelog where the only entry was "Various bugfixes." Very helpful.
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Old 10-16-2022, 04:00 AM   #1175
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A software changelog where the only entry was "Various bugfixes." Very helpful.
And updates that are "we fix various bugs and made performance improvements", update after update, and yet the bugs I experience never get fixed.
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Old 10-17-2022, 08:49 AM   #1176
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And updates that are "we fix various bugs and made performance improvements", update after update, and yet the bugs I experience never get fixed.
I've come to the conclusion that in SAAS that I rent/pay-for, etc. that my bugs are simply Immortals. Not sure what you'd call an Immortal Programming Glitch, though.

Satan?????

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Old 10-18-2022, 03:27 AM   #1177
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I've come to the conclusion that in SAAS that I rent/pay-for, etc. that my bugs are simply Immortals. Not sure what you'd call an Immortal Programming Glitch, though.

Satan?????

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It's called a "feature".

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Old 10-18-2022, 04:45 AM   #1178
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It's called a "feature".

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and all that.
Snort, LOL.

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Old 10-18-2022, 06:23 AM   #1179
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It's called a "feature".

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and all that.
Or a "improvement".
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Old 10-18-2022, 03:32 PM   #1180
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It's called a "feature".

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and all that.
"Is it a bug or a feature?"

"Yes."
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Old 10-18-2022, 11:22 PM   #1181
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I have had it happen to me - more than once - that I fixed what I believed to be a bug in my software, only to discover that some users had come to depend on it working that way. So all jokes aside, it is possible for a bug to become a feature.
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Old 10-18-2022, 11:33 PM   #1182
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I have had it happen to me - more than once - that I fixed what I believed to be a bug in my software, only to discover that some users had come to depend on it working that way. So all jokes aside, it is possible for a bug to become a feature.
During the beta testing stage of Half-Life 2, the enemy helicopters AI was set to target the most dangerous thing it can detect. This meant that when you were using the rocket launcher to shoot rockets at it, it would ignore the player and instead shoot down the rocket, forcing the player to kind of pilot the rocket around to avoid this. They liked this enough to keep it in.
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Old 10-23-2022, 01:01 PM   #1183
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So the 2003 game Port Royale (available on GOG) actually uses the Pause-Break key to pause the game. I had no idea that key was even still in use, except maybe to pause a BIOS screen.
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Old 10-25-2022, 01:52 PM   #1184
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I think they don't do bugfixing on apps.
Bugfixes are for programs; apps get an app-ointment
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