softchassis

Purpose-built for wrong

thousands are sailing
the same self the only self

self willed the peril of a thousand fates

a line of infinite ends finite finishing
the one remains oblique and pure

arching to the single point of
consciousness

find yourself
starting back


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tati
@tati

if you right-click the speaker icon in the windows 10 taskbar and click "open sound settings", a windows 10-style panel called "Sound" opens. if you click the "Sound" option further down the context menu, it opens a windows xp-style panel. the "Sound" option is linked from Sound as "Sound Control Panel". the "Sound" option also has a link to "Manage sound devices" which is an internal panel that performs the same functions as the "Sound" option, except for managing the sound theme, which is found in that panel under the tab... "Sounds".


softchassis
@softchassis

If I suddenly owned Microsoft one day I would make them release Windows 95 2, which would be Windows 95 with vector graphics for proper scaling on modern displays, no telemetry and tracking, modern security updates, and compatibility with modern hardware. They can keep releasing Bad Windows (10/11) as long as we also get to have Good Windows.

This post is varying levels of Joke but I am also completely serious.


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in reply to @tati's post:

I was doing some network shenanigans yesterday and was laughing at how many times I need to switch between the Windows 10 'settings' style menus and the Windows 7 'control panel' menus, this post was like laser targeted for me lmao

just in case it's helpful, there is a small app called Audio Switcher that has greatly simplified such switching for me. with this whenever i want to switch sound sources / outputs i just press a corresponding keyboard shortcut.

it appears the developer went AWOL but i see that the latest version on GitHub (2018) still works in Win11. (i use it in Win10)