Chiefly British

Odd behaviour by MS Edge. If I open a new window/tab when the Internet is off I get a fairly clean, neutral page where searches (once Internet is turned back on) go to DDG as desired. If I open a window/tab when I'm online it sucks a MS search/portal thingy (which I've made as clean as I can) from the net….though searches do go to DDG. I know the portal thingy is a web site because it takes a moment to load and sometimes you can see the U.R.L. on the tab for a split second.

Am I making too much of the forced visitation? Why can't I have a blank/neutral new tab?

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe that landing page is in the browser. There’s certainly no U.R.L. showing up top. But my word is it littered with Microsoft stuff.

variablepulserate.10centuries.org.

Edge on Mac forces new tabs to always display a search page at a Microsoft site. In the app’s prefs there’s a new tab customise button but that just sends you to the aformentioned page (where you can presumably customise a landing page if you’re logged in. Not being able to make new tabs blank (or DuckDuckGo) is a deal breaker for me. I knew Microsoft making nice stuff was too good to be true.

@matigo Volume button is opposite the power button on mine so it’s hard to only press the power button.

matigo.ca.

Been scrubbing the kitchen cupboards and ripping up the stair carpet while listening to music on the new bluetooth speaker. Wrists a bit sore. That can happen when they've been broken. I really appreciate the twenty hour battery life on the speaker. Don't have to charge often, unlike my ageing laptop.

God, it's almost like the iPhone keys are laid out so you do lots of unintentional screenshots. Or is it just me who has that problem?

@sumudu Looks like you've found a great past-time. Nice environment, nice people and presumably a bit of night-time beer to increase the joviality.

// @matigo

sumudu.me.

@matigo Seems like a good approach. Are you learning from desktop writing apps what an online writing space ought to be like?

matigo.ca.

@peemee How many times have you used these?

peemee.10centuries.org.

@phoneboy Sounds like a bureaucratic version of Amazon warehouse work.

www.phoneboy.info.