• subignition@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Is everybody really out there doing arithmetic in their start menu search bar? Calc.exe is a click or hotkey away.

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      1 year ago

      Calc.exe is a click or hotkey away.

      The Start Menu is already there, no hotkey setup required. Plus, I can close it with a single key too. It’s simply more convenient.

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        1 year ago

        If you say so. I think having to wait for the latency of the web search to come back would drive me up the wall if I tried your method.

        Win+number row are hotkeys for your taskbar favorites. No explicit setup is required other than having your taskbar favorites ordered how you want them. Pressing the hotkey will open the program if it’s closed, focus the program if it’s in the background, or minimize the program if it’s focused.

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          1 year ago

          I mean technically I do that, but mine doesn’t do a web search (linux) so it’s not equivalent anyway. It is very convenient tho

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            1 year ago

            I mean no disrespect, but I have my doubts.

            I’ll measure it next time I’m at my desk- on a wired gigabit connection it felt like about 80-100ms

            Of course, results probably vary a bit based on how far away the closest Bing server is (or whatever is handling the request)

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    1 year ago

    i like it that KRunner on KDE does that out of the box too, except that it doesn’t connect to the internet as a first suggestion, so it’s an upgrade :3

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s the Start Menu in Windows 11 (though I think the same kind of thing will happen on Windows 10 too)

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        Thanks. I use Windows so little I didn’t at all recognise it. And my KDE start menu has had this functionality for a really long time but actually works properly lol so doubly confused if I was looking at a KDE menu themed in a weird way.

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      It is showing a suggested search on the left AND the calculator with the right operation and result on the right. I’d call it confusing at best, but looks like it’s doing what it’s supposed to imo

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        1 year ago

        Except it ‘recommended’ you add a zero and did it for you, changing the equation you asked it to do.

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          But you see, all you have to do is remove the 0 it added unprompted and you have the right answer it didnt give you.

          Microsoft teaching free math skills out here by being terrible at AI.

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    This comes from your search results. I just tried it, and for me it answers what you’d expect. I suspect you use a search system that’s either bing, based on bing, or sends queries to bing, and as a result of that it assumed you wanted to search for this specific thing.

    Mind you, that makes it no less ridiculous since on the web, Bing can recognize that you put in a math query and answers it without wanting to autocomplete it. It’s still bad, just in a slightly more specific way. 😂

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      I did just try this again on my work laptop and it searched correctly. But the 2nd “search the web” suggestion still added a 0. Maybe I had searched that by accident by hitting enter after typing it (as it still opens Edge/Bing annoyingly).

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        Why the fuck do you think using search is an adequate replacement for a calculator? This is dumb.

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          Because it’s more convenient than any other option available. Every time I’ve used it before it’s worked.