Why did Microsoft changed the start menu in Windows 11?
The start menu in Windows 10 isn't too bad to use and it had the ability to pin apps as live tiles, giving you live updates such as new email and weather updates.
@bobpony not only that, but I really preferred the full-screen Start that was available in Windows 10 as well. It’s really a huge shame they removed that option with Windows 11; the full-screen Start menu really made it easier to visually scan and locate the app I’m looking for by making full use of the screen and having larger icons.
@bobpony I have seen the full-screen app launchers on both macOS and Ubuntu, and they are both so much more usable than the Start menu in virtually any version of Windows. No need to go hunting and scrolling through tiny lists or menus of apps after apps with tiny icons, these launchers present everything in grids of large icons that’s usually easier to visually scan through.
@notjustbikes in my city in Spain (Oviedo), after years of doing the bare minimum, the city council is finally doing some more serious bike and pedestrian infrastructure. This one should connect some of the farthest neighbourhoods with the city center in what's essentially a straight line. Quite excited about this.
@gyozaPower@notjustbikes Pretty similar situation here in Singapore as well. After years of putting in pretty bad and half-hearted cycling infrastructure, our country is now finally starting to put in serious cycling infrastructure. For example, in the suburban new town of Ang Mo Kio, they are constructing a new separated cycling road together with expansions works to an existing metro station (which will be a stop on a new metro line).
@gyozaPower@notjustbikes In the pic above, the three viaducts on the left are the existing metro viaducts (the new metro line stopping there will be underground), and the rightmost viaduct will be for the new cycling road that will connect to a new bicycle parking deck being constructed beside the existing station.
Quick test post. Just want to see if this gets sent to the new Bluesky bridge. If you're seeing this on Bluesky, hello and welcome to my corner of the fediverse. If you're seeing this elsewhere, enjoy a cute pony all the same. :happyderpy:
@LittleshyFiM Didn’t know you are on Bluesky as well now. Gave you a follow on there, and yes I can see your post (and replied) over there as well :) .
Went to Pasir Ris Park at the eastern end of Singapore to see if I can see any of the owls that nest there. Didn’t manage to spot them but did see all the chickens that have seemingly overrun the entire park lol.
Also I took the MRT metro there and the East-West Line train I rode on had a grasshopper clinging onto its exterior for dear life for the entire time I was on board. Here’s a picture of it just after I got off from the exterior, still clinging on the train at the terminal station and probably getting ready for another ride in the opposite direction.
@streetartutopia I still remember when a Singaporean artist did such guerrilla street art here. Unfortunately they were later arrested for vandalism, which led to a huge outcry here; many people felt their art wasn’t exactly damaging and was more meant to amuse than to annoy. After pressure from the people, they were ultimately convicted on lesser charges of mischief and sentenced to probation, being required to report to a day reporting centre; …
@streetartutopia …they were later invited by several companies to do art and art installations for them, including the company that runs the Sentosa resort island where they put up several satirical signs in a similar spirit to the guerrilla art that got them in trouble with the law in the first place.
@fauli1221 Yeah, this was why I was also reluctant to use DuckDuckGo as well. But then again basically every major search engine is shoving AI bullshit into them nowadays, so unless someone else comes along with a good, AI-free and open alternative I will have to settle for DuckDuckGo for now.
Bing is even worse in this regard, and its search results have always been even wonkier as well. Plus it forces safe search to be locked on for my region for some idiotic reason too.
@fauli1221 Like, yeah, I might not like seeing NSFW in my search results all the time, but given how the filters often catch completely SFW or just mildly suggestive pics as NSFW, I often have to leave that setting off just in case I’m missing something the filter wrongly marked as NSFW.
Since I reached 500 followers here I though if I might be able to make a raffle though since I can't draw myself I got in contact with @belkasempai and the winner of this raffle will get a full body commission from them paid by me
