I don’t know about “stupidest” but I just discovered that the “Lossless” toggle in the settings for Music on the iPhone doesn’t actually turn lossless audio downloads on or off, it merely gives you access to the menu where you can it off. Meaning you have to turn on lossless downloads in order to turn them off. 
Lossless downloads are off by default. Unless you turn on lossless, the downloads are standard 265 kbs AAC.
That’s what I thought, but I was trying to get a song to play in the alarm but it wouldn’t work because the download was lossless even though the audio quality toggle for Lossless was set to off. It wasn’t until I turned the toggle on and got the further menu options, which I had to then set to “High quality” instead of lossless, then re-download the song so it would play in the alarm. Running 17.1.2.
Apologies if this has already been covered, but I hate nearly all TV streaming apps for Windows. When watching a series on Disney+ when one episode finishes the next one will start, which is good, but it also drops out of full screen so I have to get up and reset it. With BBC iPlayer it won’t start the next episode so I have to get up, close a window, open a new one, and reset full screen. Same with Channel 4. The only ones that behave sensibly are Amazon Prime and Discovery+.
On my Android phone I’d been using the default keyboard (Google’s I think) until this week. Being fat-fingered and weak-eyed (without my glasses) I would turn the phone sideways to make the kbd larger in landscape mode whenever I wanted to type something.
Then, presumably after an update it stopped doing that. Instead a floating window would open in the corner, small than leaving it in portrait mode. After trying to find a setting that would stop that, and failing, I installed a new keyboard app and am currently setting it up how I like it.
I also just encountered the dreaded “Input your date of birth, except date of birth is done via a calendar you can only go backwards one month at a time” so I eventually gave up and put my date of birth as 2000 since that’s the year I’d remember if I ever had to confirm date of birth at a later point.
For GBoard: On the floating keyboard, press and drag the bottom bar to dock it to the bottom of your screen
I am in the pilot group at work for New Teams. Somebody, in their infinite wisdom, decided to remove the “Notify When Available” option. You know, that thing that you use to find out when someone’s back from their coffee break, lunch, in the office, etc., especially when they are in different offices, time zones, etc.
Somebody should be slapped with a fish. 
Concerning “Next episode” navigation in streaming platforms: I’ve been streaming X Files mythology episodes on Disney+, mostly watching on the Roku. The mythology episodes are often non-contiguous (for instance, in season 5 it’s episodes 1+2, 6+7; 13+14; 20).
On the Disney+ home page there’s a “Continue watching” section and the icon for The X Files is there. If I press that I end up in the next episode in sequence or, worse, at the very start of the last episode I watched. No problem, just hit the Back button to get to the episode selector, right? Wrong! that goes back to the Disney+ home page. In this viewer, if I want to go to the next episode, I have to fast-forward through this episode and continue in sequence.
It’s possible to select season and episode: I have to navigate to a different section of the Disney+ home page (or to my wish list) and select the (perfectly identical) icon for The X Files. In other words, not under “Continue watching”. That icon will let me navigate to select season and episode, starting with S1 E1 every time of course. Once I’m viewing the episode in this viewer, the Back button takes me back to the episode selector.
Streaming apps often have just godawful UIs. So bad that we sometimes have to resort to searching to find a show we were watching, The graphics used to denote the ‘selected’ item are sometimes confusing, and the ‘continue watching’ menu is often buried somewhere when it’s no doubt the most commonly used menu.
I’m pretty sure this is the result of corporate goals clashing with user goals. We want to get right back to the show wr were watching, but they want us browsing around.
I feel a bit like Brutus stabbing Caesar, posting this, because I had a 25-year career doing FileMaker development and FileMaker has been very good to me overall.
But given the choice, I prefer to develop using version 10. They’re up to 20 now. ** sigh **
Things they messed up since verson 10:
• You used to be able to shift-option-drag layout elements, such as fields or text labels, and an exact copy, exactly aligned with the original, would deposit itself where your mouse arrow stopped and you let go of the keys. If you try to do that in the modern version, it deposits an exact copy, not aligned with a goddam thing unless you dragged perfectly straight, and not deposited where you let go of the mouse and/or modifier keys, but instead in some utterly random position.
• In the relationship diagram, once it had become a massive piece of architecture that spanned several screens at full resolution, you used to be able to option-drag a table occurrence to duplicate it, then drag it yards and yards off to the left and down to a totally different place in the relationship diagram, so it would have the exact size and color you’d applied to the original. But somewhere along the line, FileMaker made it so that the window you’re working in would see you approaching the edge of a screen and would autoscroll it out from under you. Which might seem like a clever improvement until you try using it. But now you can’t drag things to where you want them because the screen lurches around and the target area you’re trying to drag it to won’t freaking stay put.
• All the freaking specification dialogs, where you indicate “I want to attach this script” or “I want to select this layout” or “I want the button to perform this action” or whatever… in every single case, they’ve made what used to be 2 clicks’ worth of choices into 3 or 4 or 5. Example: Go to Layout = in the old version once you invoked Go to Layout, you were immediately presented with a list of the existing layouts, scroll to the one you want, pick it and hit return. At the bottom you had the option of “by layout number” (which would then have you enter a number or a formula instead of a hard-wired layout) or “by layout name” (likewise except for specifying the layout’s name). The modern “improvement” is that now you get “by calculated number”, “by calculated name”, and “layout”, and only after clicking “layout” do you get the menu of available layouts.
• Scripting. heavy sigh I suspect that if you had no prior familiarity with FileMaker you might like what they did to it better than how it used to be. I mean, you can start typing and it autofills what it thinks you’re probably up to. The old way, you had to find the next script command in the menu of available script commands and add it to the script you were assembling. Yeah, but. I had it down, I could touch-type the classic ScriptMaker, rarely taking my hands off the keyboard. I could bang out script steps faster than I could say them out loud. The available script steps were on the left and the script-in-progress was on the right. Tab to switch, type first couple letters to zoom to the relevant command, spacebar to stick that step into your script, spacebar again to specify the parameters like what field or what variable name or which layout or which script to call as a subscript or what your “if” statement should be in an If / End If clause or whatever. They messed all that up. No interest in backward compatibility with their developer base who’d learned how to use the tools. The type-ahead is slow and the crap that isn’t what you were intending gets in the way of what you’re trying to construct. None of the old keystroke equivalents work the same way. It’s become very mouse-centric. And whenever I close some dialog there’s this weird spangly constellation of highlighting this and that and this other things, dancing around elements in my script as if looking for something that might need attention before it returns focus to me and lets me move on.
I can still steer it because I know the commands that make things happen, but it feels like I traded in a zippy little sports car for a clumsy bloated SUV with bad steering.
I just got a Samsung Galaxy Watch 7, which is an upgrade from my 5. It is essentially the same, but much faster. The biggest difference is the 7 runs a new version of the OS over what the 5 used. (Though the upgrade for the 5 is imminent.)
One of the main things I use a smart watch for is as a remote control for media on my phone. I can skip ahead or back by tapping the screen on my watch. This is extremely convenient when doing things where my hands are busy.
This remote control is through the “media controller” screen on the watch. When playing media on the phone, the watch stays on the media controller screen. That screen shows the standard 
controls on the bottom, and shows a digital clock at the top.
The time does not advance on the clock. The watch fails at doing it’s core function. As it’s new to me, I did not realize there was this bug (the 5 works correctly), so was almost late until I noticed the microwave clock was 10 minutes fast. I really hope this is a bug, and not how it’s supposed to work.
Your watch is just like the LG OLED TV that we bought last year. If you paused viewing or let it sit on a static screen, it goes to a screensaver to prevent burn-in.
It shows a nice analog clock, but it didn’t advance the time on the clock; you got to see what time the screensaver kicked in, not the current time. Totally useless. Fortunately, they’ve fixed it so now it shows the current time.
I don’t think I want a watch to be any faster. Good old SI seconds are fine with me.
There was. The Shift key. Holding it down while clicking prevented you from moving while attacking.
Also, it came out in '97, not '94.
It’s great for long flights and waiting in line.
Since this thread has been bumped anyway… Now Max seems to be doing the opposite. If I watch episode 1 of something, and then let it start playing episode 2, but then immediately exit without watching it, it marks episode 2 as watched. When I come back it puts episode 3 in my “continue watching” list, and I have to go back to episode 2.
holy shit how did i not know that …
It’s funny… a few decades later, and now that mechanic is a staple part of any ARPG experience, with user control of movement essential for ranged spellcasters but detrimental to upclose melee-focused classes. The shift-click thing stuck around too.
There’s even “builds” (character and skill configurations) that rely on it, like the angry chicken build in Diablo 3 that just makes you run around as an angry chicken, squawking and exploding as enemies die all around you.
well, today I try to log into a supplyer’s website I frequent about monthly …
normally I go to “log in”, get redirected to a page, my browser pops up a login/PW box, I click OK and feel good, b/c shit gets done.
this time - oh the horror - the webpage looks flashy and modern … I already fear the worst …
I go to login, and get thrown to a page to log-in (no prob here) … and instead of my good old trusty PW the webpage sends me a 6 digit code to my mail… hmm … not happy, but not freaking out either …
so i click ok, a “code was sent monologue” pops up with a watchface-icon in countdown mode. Shirley, you can’t be serious, I think as the watchface empties at the speed of light.
Turns out the code expires after 2 minutes (no, those are not the national nuke-codes for Joe’s football!!!) … and you smart people at SDMB already know that the mail reaches me not earlier than about 3-4 min (while me constantly stabbing F5)…
I’ve done this 3 times now … and of course the code from the first intent will not work with the 2nd intent 6-digit box.
Am I pissed? … probably, (or why would I wish lifelong anal leakage to the responsible a$$hole)
carry on, I’ll rent office space somewhere else