Turn on dark mode if it exists
Exactly opposite for me. Dark mode is just eww
Dark mode when it’s dark, light mode when it’s light out for me
Make Microsoft Windows show filename extensions.
And hidden files
By installing Linux, right?
Right?
On both Windows and Android I go in and remove all of the bloatware and disable all of the tracking. I also turn off all of the various communications ‘features’ that are to let devices talk other devices.
Disabling the absurdity of 12-hour clock with am/pm, which bizarrely often is the default for no rational reason whatsoever.
Many countries including the US use 12 hour time for everything, so it’s easier for a lot of people to not have to constantly translate. So it makes sense to be the default in those countries. And yes, I think 24hr should be standard everywhere, but it’s not. I also think it’s insane not to use SI units, but oh well. (I think we should use decimal time as well, but that’s never going to happen because we’d need to redefine so many units.)
As someone who lives in the US and has used 24 hour time for a long while, it’s not a problem. The translation is trivial when you realize that time is meaningless when you are going to die of black lung in the coal mines or possibly in a concentration camp.
I do the opposite: 12h clock despite being european. 24hr clock has never been intuitive to me. When I see 17:34 I need to take a solid 5 seconds every time to convert that in my head into the actual time. 5:34pm is clear because it says the time right there. My only issue with 12hr clock is remembering wether 12pm is at noon or at midnight.
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I turn off autocorrect on anything that offers it. Mostly my android phone, but also on LibreOffice or whatever.
I also turn off all auto-capitalize, auto-punctuation, etc. When coding, I also hate auto-indent. If I want something indented, I’ll hit tab.
In short, when I put in text, I want my computing devices to get exactly what I explicitly input and nothing else.
I also took out the fuse that powers the Starlink connectivity in my Subaru because Subaru’s privacy policy says they’ll record any audio in the cabin they damned well please with no notice or consent (except insofar as existing in the cabin constitutes “consent” because their legal department says so) and send those recordings back to the mothership to use in any way they see fit.
Nice to know I’m not the only one that dislikes autocorrect on phones, and autocomplete / autoindent (and also auto close parentheses and quotes for me) when coding
The motion smoothing on any modern TV
“Natural scrolling” or whatever it’s called with track pads on laptops where the scroll goes the opposite way your fingers are moving. I don’t know why that’s the default, it makes no sense.
Hm? I really prefer it, it’s the same scrolling as on phones.
Yeah, it makes perfect sense on phones. But for whatever reason the disconnect between the trackpad and laptop screen really screws with my brain. It’s like if you tried to drag the scrollbar and it went in the opposite direction you’re dragging it.
For me it’s the opposite, non-natural scrolling feels wrong and unintuitive.
Edit: This is meant to be a reply to the scroll wheel thread, I hit the button on the wrong one and am just gonna leave it here
On a phone you’re actually touching the page and physically moving the page around (not really of course but that’s the action it’s mimicking)
A scroll wheel is a button-based command, specifically I think it’s literal origin was a different physical space for PgDwn and PgUp
I can get why people like natural scrolling, sorta, because I invert my axis in some games, but only if they used laptops a lot at some point, as those bridge the gap
Turning off motion blur and increasing field of view when the game has first person POV. Guaranteed motion sickness for me if I don’t adjust each.
Motion Blur, Chromatic Aberration, Film Grain, and, depending on the game, Depth of Field must be disabled before New Game is ever pressed. All into videos/logos must be skipped. And, when applicable, I usually need to force the game to display PS buttons (or even use the triggers and gyro) because most games only detect the DualSense when it’s physically plugged in.
because most games only detect the DualSense when it’s physically plugged in.
I fuckin feel like it should be illegal for Sony to advertise their wireless controller works wirelessly with PC too (as I know I’ve seen them do) when it actually doesn’t, it only works properly wired. I have your official signed and updated driver’s, Sony, ball is in your court!
- disable auto-rotate
- enable dark mode
- increase keyboard repeat rate
- decrease keyboard repeat delay time
- increase mouse/trackpad sensitivity
- decrease idle to suspend time
The list is huge but those are the main things I do not need to install anything to change. They are important to me because I hate slow navigation.
those 900 partners that respect your privacy
‘privacy’ sandbox
music-ambient sounds balance
dynamic range specially on movies
frame generation
Even when I like the music, it goes down to about 50%. If games were good at dynamically adjusting the music so it doesn’t compete with all the other audio when you actually need to hear things, I wouldn’t. But here we are.
yup. totally agree.
i tend to prefer ambient sounds specially with zombie action horror games mainly for immersion feels. i know i won’t blast my jams exploring through zombie apocalypse.
Work makes me use a Mac, and the main setting I always want to change is the power state to off.
Serious answer though, motion blur in games, ick. I also usually turn off audio normalisation and max out the quality settings for streaming audio apps
Lock down permissions to what is actually necessary to function, then expand permissions as i feel they need them.
Enable y-axis look inversion. Because which way was “normal” and “inverted” hadn’t been standardized when I started gaming and that’s what I learned.
aesthetics and UI. e.g. this is what my GIMP looks like:
apt remove snapd
