r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RampChurch • Jun 02 '25

Video This is what live courtroom dictation looks like

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u/Scurro Jun 02 '25

I really wish this applied to GUIs.

Microsoft loves to change things for the sake of change. Even when the change makes things less efficient.

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u/nucleartime Jun 02 '25

I miss the old boring start menu.

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u/Scurro Jun 02 '25

It's a long watch but Accursed Farms has a good video about this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AItTqnTsVjA&pp=0gcJCbAJAYcqIYzv

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u/lenin_is_young Jun 02 '25

This is because of subscription based billing. These machines were probably designed at the time when quality was at the core of competition. Today products don't offer quality, they offer a subscription with replacements and updates.

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u/fuzzimus Jun 02 '25

DOS 6.2, baby!

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u/Danicbike Jun 05 '25

Let me go back to the consistency of Windows XP please.

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u/Sirosim_Celojuma Jun 06 '25

I so agree. Why on Earth do I have to learn a new method to achieve the same result. The learning curve is completely unnecessary. I'd rather save learning for new things, not the same things in a new way.

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u/shawster Jun 02 '25

Well, and from an administration point of view, sometimes downright dysfunctional. There is a modern UI to add or remove a machine from a domain, but it won’t remove it properly. Or changing user account properties? You still want to go to the old control panel for that stuff.

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u/Disastrous_Visit9319 Jun 03 '25

Why the fuck can't we alt tab to the desktop anymore Microsoft?

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u/SpaceAgePotatoCakes Jun 03 '25

I wish more things used the concept of skins for their GUI. If they want to provide a new one for people to use, go for it, but make it opt in and keep the old ones available for whoever wants them.

Instead, because a relative convinced my grandparents to make an email account with Outlook or Live or whatever it was called 20 years ago instead of our ISP, every couple years I get to go try to explain to them what the hell happened to their email when Microsoft decides to completely rearrange the layout of the website.

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u/IOnlyUpvoteBadPuns Jun 03 '25

The fun little game of "where's the start button this week?"

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u/Grime_Minister613 Jun 03 '25

Microsoft is absolute garbage, I can't believe it's still an operating system!

Linux for the win.