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by nnevatie 30 days ago
> WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO???

For me, this doesn't require using an AI agent/model, even. Just using Windows and watching it freeze its File Explorer for the nth time does it for me. How did we end up here were the software/OS stack is so shit it can barely be used for the most trivial things, is wildly beyond me.
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_carbyau_ 30 days ago
Screensaver mode. I start typing my password.

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10s later the password box appears and I have to do it again.

Cue exasperated: "You can compute billions of instructions per second and yet I wait for you."

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fransje26 30 days ago
That's not a bug. It's a (safety) feature.
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_carbyau_ 29 days ago
? Curious. In this case, how is sleep 10s a safety feature?

The screensaver should never see keyboard input. And it shouldn't take 10s for the visual changeover - even for Windows.

Happy to read if you've got a pointer for me.

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fransje26 28 days ago
Sorry, misread.

I read it as: made an error while typing my password in screensaver mode, needed to wait 10s for the next try.

Waiting 10 s to be able to input your initial password is, I fully agree, not acceptable.. (And even not on Windows, which I try to avoid as much as possible, among other things, for those reasons. :-))

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