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Jeez, Microsoft read the room already
  • I don't care about it, but I get the idea - if even one percent likes it enough to buy a subscription, it's a win for Microsoft. After all this is what Microsoft does - selling subscriptions.

  • What apps/programs do y'all recommend?
  • Scoop is my favourite package manager on Windows. I'm also familiar with Winget and Chocolatey, but something has always felt off with them.

    AltSnap is something that lets you drag and/or resize a window by holding the Win key and then clicking anywhere on the window instead of having to reach for the edges or the titlebar.

    ClickMonitorDDC is my go-to for controlling brightness of desktop monitors. Also, on my work laptop I've set it to sync the laptop display brightness with the brightness of the external monitors. In combination with a macropad/keyboard with rotary encoders it is pretty good. Sadly, it's practically abandonware at this point - the original site is down and there are only a few mirrors - but it still works fine for the most part.

    Clink + Clink completions + oh-my-posh + fzf is my favourite combo for the command line. The cool thing about oh-my-posh is that it's multiplatform and that its configuration is portable, so I can also install it on top of bash/zsh and have the same prompt I'm used to.

    FanControl is something that I can't believe exists as a free app. It's so much better than motherboard vendor software for the same purpose - not only works reliably, but also lets you do things that the motherboard software usually does not - e.g. linking a case fan curve to the GPU temp. Last time I used GNU/Linux I had to manually write configs for lm-sensors, which works, but is a tedious process. I just found out about CoolerControl - looks promising, but haven't tried it myself.

  • Microsoft Please Fix
  • I agree with the "learn the CLI", but to newcomers I'll also suggest to look at the IDE/editor's output channel - if there's GUI for Git, there are also most likely logs for what's happening under the hood - even if a little noisy, it can be a good learning resource. And of course if you're learning and unsure of what's happening (with the CLI or through a GUI), do so in a non-destructive manner (by having proper backups).

  • Customisable themes when using the "System" setting

    So... I think this is pretty self-explanatory - it would be nice if we could have the app follow the systemwide theme, but still customise how the light and dark themes look. An immediate example would be to be able to use a light theme during the day and the AMOLED theme during the night.

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    Subscribe to a community from a feed

    Hey. I've been using Connect for a couple of weeks now and I like it quite a lot. One thing I've been missing though is the ability to quickly subscribe to a community from an aggregated feed (like All); right now, to do so, I have to open the community and subscribe from there. Seeing that "Block Community" already exists in the context menu for a post, it's only logical to have "Subscribe" there as well. Maybe it's not needed that much in the long run, but it will definitely help me now as a Reddit refugee trying to rebuild my feed.

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    If I was an injured cat...

    Me: ow.

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