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“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Haha that just sounds like a list of gibberish words! I love tech naming when it doesn't include Copilot or a lowercase i :p

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, don't ask tech people to name things. Microsoft has like 500 different things called "Razor."

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Their newest app to connect to virtual desktops (that I'm aware of) is named Windows App. Searching for info on that fucking thing was a pain in the ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It was called Remote Desktop before, but some security problems, and the fact you can connect to a program running on a server (rather than the whole OS interface) .. Made them rename it, most of the tech is still the same though and most guides still apply to it.

Come to think of it, I seem to remember that the connect to an app, rather than desktop functionality was available in Windows Server 2012, so renaming it now is a delayed response at best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah replacing the previous app (which was also a shitty name btw) was why I had to look up information about it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Now imagine naming a social media platform after a letter of the alphabet 🙃

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Or your company after the whole alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Or don’t, because that guy is busy getting access to the Fed to burn everything down.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't remember, was it Microsoft or just the journalists saying

The windows app let's you run windows apps on windows

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

They should hire someone to name things there. The only worse name I can think of would be to drop the "App" and just call it "Windows".