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been using the iced shrimp .net for about a year now for creatures.club, and as my main account for a few days. it seems to be holding up quite well. i only have a few minor complaints but they may also just be skill issues on my part.
1) doesnt precache avatars for users whos posts show up in my feed, i need to go to the profile manually for it to start showing 2) notifications show up in weird groupings, often duplicated, and out of order. 3) in the desktop fedi client i use (sengi) it keeps malforming reply posts to not show the usernames and think the entire post is a hyperlink. (to @span@instance.tld, could be a fucked up html tag?)
is there configuration changes i can make to fix the first two? third might be a client rendering issue, idfk.
@cloudhop my uncle worked on drivers at ms during the win7 era and he fucking hated it back then too. ive never heard good things from ex ms employees about the state of windows.
@DjBRINE1 it is, but spending time building windows applications is not something i really enjoy doing. at least the linux version is released in a sane way.
doing linux levels of repair effort to windows isnt my favorite passtime because of how annoying it is, but it is entertaining to see what breaks and why.
@moogstad it wasnt exacty nothing it was just different, and likely had very different physics. theres just no way to know for sure because we cant measure that far back in time or understand let alone comprehend it. that and the whole it blowing up to make this universe and physics as we know it.
lighthearted threatPS: if you tell me to use linux instead of windows for this machine, which for various reasons i wont get into i cannot do, they will never find your body.
Yesterday i had to do something really fucking stupid.
I wanted to try out a new desktop fedi client, but the windows version is only released in the microsoft store. so i go to download it from the MS Store only for it and all the other store exclusive apps i use. to fail to download/update. it kept giving an error, so i google that error and all the results for it are related to the windows firewall not working.
So i check the windows firewall and its related services and theyre all working fine. my next guess its probably something fucky with the microsoft store. so i clear out the cache and it doesnt fix it. i check the microsoft store services and theyre still working, restarting them doesnt help. so i think maybe the store itself is broken so i open power shell and uninstall it. as im going to reinstall the microsoft store it keeps failing saying it cannot find the files, even as i explicitly point to them or try to redownload from microsofts servers. i cant even re-download it from winget because it uses the store as a repo for that. oh and microsoft removed the MSI installer to manualy install the store, you can only get it from the store or windows update. AND WINDOWS UPDATE IS NOW BROKEN TOO!!!
So at this point im thinking i need to do the usual SFC/DISM fixes in powershell, except when it goes to repair things it still cannot find the repositorys. maybe i can try the offline fix method? so i download a W11 25H2 iso, mount it, point DISM to it, and it STILL cannot find it.
Now at this point im kinda livid. this windows 11 install has survived 6 years of updates, across 3 different machines, and even the jump up from windows 10. I have kept this frankenwindows install running for so long i get a sick perverse pleasure from keeping it alive. I really do not want to have to nuke this drive. so i go for broke and do an in-place reset of 25H2. AND IT STILL DIDNT FIX IT.
But the in place reset did do something! after that i was able to use powershell to reinstall and reset the store. and when i finally open the store im greeted with "WinAppRuntime.Main.1.8 Updated Today"
So you're telling me that the runtime environment necessary for the microsoft store and related apps to update and function, updates through the store? and if it breaks it cant update itself to unbreak? is there not a way to manually install this? well apparently not that i can fucking find. you need to do an inplace windows reset because apparently nothing short of that will fix how badly it fubars the repositorys and app database.
i need to figure out tweaking my iceshrimp.net config a bit so it better prepopulates avatars and banners, and stores more notifications. i hate having notifications bounce off the bottom of the list and having to go view profiles manually for it to grab the avatars/banners
