Decorating Your MS Edge and Your Mental Wellness

I wanted to start this thread about creativity and thoughtfulness on MS Edge!
I also want to keep this as short as possible.

You can enable a color for your browser as well as light mode, dark mode, or default.

There's more! That's what I wanted to tell you.

Click the three dots in the top right, click settings, then click appearance.

You can do a bunch of things from there! What I have done in the past is choose 'red', or any color for my open windows while I browse. I choose something I'm sure will have a positive meaning!

You can also employ 'light mode' to keep things illuminated.

But there's more!

What I've now discovered is there are also 'Themes' that you can use to change the way your browser appears.

I know about using themes from my phone; I have a Samsung (Korean), and it has a robust system for employing creativity (think K-Pop meets Techno meets graphic user interface...) in the way you interpret your device.

In the context of your browser, it does little else but change the colors. But they have themes about heritage, or history, or something about Minecraft, or space, or nature. It's fun! And it can feel good to change the way things appear when you use your browser.

 

Browsers that do ANYTHING, other than allow me to find a company or consultant, make me want to rip my hair out.

I always joked that the the reason Microsoft used the windows name for their operating languages, was because one day in London, all the office windows (the real ones with the glass in them) would open and all the computers would come flying out.
I have been tempted on many occasions.

 

I agree... I am using IE6 and for what I do its fine.......

I dont have any speical colours or fanciness.... Thats all just crazy and un-needed.....

In fact on my Browser (MyIE2 (IE extender basically (Nicer look than IE6))) I dont have ANY SKN LOADED,its using its default appearance and its beautiful

 

If Microsoft invented a hammer, it would keep changing colour and play a tune while you knocked the nails in.

 

Ya I think your right....

They have gotton so intrusive its not funny...... I hear there are ads all over Win11 ...... (Which you can probably block using the host file)

Thats horrible really!!

 

I didn't see this initially and my content here will be also off topic!

There is an AI tool in almost everything now. What I've learned? Use that instead of 'Googling'. Mine is part of MS Edge, but Google has one for Chrome; I'm sure it's similar or you can opt to replace normal search with AI type search.

I'll demonstrate the difference.

Here is Google's answer about Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken":



They have some response, but it doesn't do much for me, perhaps because I have spent a lot of time on the internet! I've tried to Google things and then revised something Boolean or trying to refine a search to provide a more meaningful response.

Here is CoPilot's response to the same query:

It doesn't let me cut or copy, but this is what it says and in a nice sidebar; I don't have to stop what I'm doing, I just click this:


It resides in the top right corner of the browser for Edge. I'm under the impression that Chrome's search will instead allow you to perform all of its searching with either Gemini or traditional Google. I like CoPilot's visibility though. It formats my thinking of this as a tool that I frequently reach for if Google search queries don't produce a meaningful enough or efficient enough result.

EDIT: This particular AI is fun! It questions me, and I am of the sort who will respond to it with no hesitation; so I might say, "My favorite line is the last line of the final stanza."
CoPilot:

 

My favourite is the final verse of The Journey of the Magi. (TS Eliot).

This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.

Regarding AI. There is nothing intelligent about it. Just filtering out answers by the quantity of similar replies.

Assume that I made this search.
Advantages of Medtronics TAVI procedure over Edwards, when replacing Aortic valve.
I would expect the top answer to be from a renowned cardiothoracic surgeon licenced in the west, Probably UK or Germany.
NOT all the rubbish posted by idiots without a single medical qualifications among them.

I would expect details of expanding the titanium holding cage at the neck of the aorta to stretch the capillaries supplying the heart muscles, along with the increased prognosis from 5 to around 25 years. Changes of the anticoagulants from Warfarin cocktails to 75mg of Aspirin, along with potential problems using transfemoral access.

Would AI start in Germany (the home of TAVI R&D), Only select licenced sites, such as NHS UK, or purely go to top answers.
At least I would avoid the normal, "Tavi valves on Ebay". Hopefully anyway.

PS, a TAVI kit costs around £20,000.....TAVI stands for Trancatheter Aortic Valve Implant. It can also be used for Pulmonary replacement and Mitral clipping.

 

I can't get enough of it! I search with it several times a day, and sometimes talk to it!

 

Do you find it better for art and literature than cardiothoracic surgery.
I must admit, that the thought of a doctor using the internet at all when his patient went into cardiac arrest really made me laugh. Perhaps he could just search, "Patient looks a bit dead".

 

Today I asked it for health insurance advice. If you've never tried this it is remarkable, though I like CoPilot a lot better than ordinary GPT and Gemini.
I wanted to know which are the better plans with good prescription coverage and a low monthly premium.

It articulates well communicating in what I would guess are the best universal terms and significantly eliminates the need to input more than one query; it knows what you mean and answers with unbeatable efficiency.

To get answers about insurance it took two queries though. The first answer was general and suggested comparing plans. When I asked it more specifically, it became much more specific and suggested for example a Part D or an Advantage with Part D or a PDP (prescription drug plan) which looks to be the best for a specialty rx like what I wanted, though the $60 premium is an annoyance.

 

Fortunately I live in the UK
People often complain about our NHS, but we have a major problem with serial time wasters, drunks and substance abusers, along with mental illness that does not come under mainstream hospital care. Unfortunately we do have to deal with the drunks when they start sticking knives in each other, or think that they can fly out of the window.
Last year I had diagnosis and a month of radiotherapy under one of the worlds leading consultants at the Royal Marsden. The level of care and staff attitude was second to none and it did not need medical insurance or cost me a penny.