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YourMom53022hLike cool story, but don't ever test out configurations or features in front of customers. I see people do this a lot. They setup something that hasn't been tested in whatever configuration or are not familiar with the platform for the test. Then when trying to present shit just goes wrong. Yes things "should" work. But Murphy is an asshole.
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Hazarth913920hI'm not a fan of windows and microsoft, but you really can't blame the build quality on them can you? Unless it was a surface laptop
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YourMom53011hSo thought about this a bit. Was the game running in a browser? I was wondering if the game somehow was eating key presses. If it was native to the platform I could see this. Browser game not so much. Unless the browser can eat key presses somehow.
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stackodev1343710h@YourMom The game was running in Chrome in full screen mode. When you go into full screen mode there’s a pop up that says “press esc to leave full screen” But when you do, nothing happens. You have to hover near the top of the screen and then an X in a circle appears. Clicking that gets you out of full screen. Insane.
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I had a booth at a small event to represent my business. I had prepared a web-based game for people to play to win a prize. I had it running on a PC mirrored on a TV so I could do my work on my Mac separately between visitors.
During a speaker’s presentation, someone bored with it came up to my booth and I introduced her to the game. She started playing it but the sound was up too loud and drew attention to her. I quickly used volume key on the top row, but nothing happened. So I thought the fn key needed to be pressed and held to change the volume. Nope. Then I thought I’ll just use the volume control in the dock. But the browser was full screen, and when I tried to quickly change that, some other unknown thing happened and some other stupid MS configuration screen filled the screen. She gave up trying to play at that point and I felt super stupid.
When did it become so hard to use Windows machines and software? I’ve been on a Mac for about 8 years now and using this Windows laptop just feels ridiculous to me. Like some broken toy that came from a bargain bin at a dollar store. The whole thing feels cheap and like it’ll break in half if I twist it accidentally. Other Windows laptops I look at in the stores occasionally just don’t measure up in build quality. Like the companies know you’ll get max 2 years useful life and throw it away.
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