Any man who has had the misfortune of finding out she didn’t actually want him to open up to her when she said “you never let me in!” understands this double-standard.

lol but seriously this is the first time I’m not buying a Nintendo console on launch in a long time. Their prices here in Canada were already absurd but this gen is just unreal.

With our HP laptops they would work perfectly so long as you only ever used them with one brand of dock. If you mixed dock brands without doing a full restart (like say having one brand at home, suspending, and then using another brand’s dock at the office) Wi-Fi, suspend, and several other features would no longer work or work intermittently. We had HP and Targus working on it, even their engineers were puzzled.

Problem was non-existent on Linux…

The difference is that if an upgrade breaks a Linux install (which is much rarer in my experience) I can often simply change the setting, revert the update, use a different distro/version, or even undo the change myself. Hell if it’s was kernel deep, nothing stops you from recompiling yourself, if the problem warrants it.

We can more easily run special Linux versions in a virtual machine without having to do a bunch of registry/gp magic and hope it sticks because Microsoft likes to force updates through your settings anyway.

There are more options for dealing with problems and they suck less.

You can’t be serious? People buy other file managers because the Windows one sucks so bad. I would know, I purchase our software.

We are doing a review of all of our software to prep for Windows 11 right now. It’s not going nearly as well as you think because not all software is consumer-grade.

Not too long ago a bunch of our scientific devices got knocked out by Microsoft fixing an old serial bug. Turns out all the software to run these was built to workaround the bug and quite a few of these items are long since unsupported (or the vendor is gone). Some of these are tens of thousands of dollars, we can’t just replace these on a whim.

Windows: “PROGRAM_NAME experienced an error: DEEZ_NUTZ”

Yep that’s what we’re calling a useful error prompt these days. So much better than Linux lol

I’d argue that as Windows continues to abandon its (relatively) sane configuration UI for the newer useless Settings screens, it has reached the point where it really is sometimes easier to just look up what you need to do in Powershell.

This problem is only getting worse over time, so I don’t think it’s fair to hand the win to Windows.

Implying suspend works on Windows either. I’ve got like a 50/50 chance my monitor connected with DisplayPort actually gets signal after waking on Windows. This shit has been a problem for a long time.

Shouldn’t have to use fucking group policy just to stop your machine updating at inopportune times. Fucking Windows.

There are a whole battery of risks I’d be willing to take to start a business if I just knew there would be a net stopping me from becoming homeless.

If we cut the bullshit from office jobs we could have everyone doing maybe a day or two’s worth of work and getting the same amount of actually productive stuff done. Get all these newly underemployed office workers to do some actually productive work 2 days a week and then all the construction/manufacturing/frontline workers can work less too.

Imagine no longer being chained to the desk and actually getting to teach kids or help old people or cut trees/replant forests for a bit every week. Actually doing something worthwhile, and maybe even touching some grass.

I love programming but I hate how it’s basically my whole life now.

Sadly North American public transit has been an afterthought for decades. Our urban planning has been stupid beyond belief too. It’s only quite recently that this has begun to change.

100km a day at 40C and you didn’t sweat at all? That’s some interesting fiction.

Just remember a few points on the scale and kinda eyeball it from there. 98.6(37C) is human core temp, 68(20C) is a pleasant day, 32(0C) is just hitting the freezing point of water. Interestingly the scales converge at -40.

My wife would casually watch me play games until she saw me playing Rust with the bros. She shyly asked if I could build her a computer.

Brother I had been building, fixing, and overclocking PCs for like 20 years by that point, a few a month even. I slapped one together from spare parts and got her in the game.

She immediately used the fact that she is a girl to work her way into the good graces of other factions and made us friends I couldn’t have imagined. She would change her name and kill sleepers to make our enemies think they had been raided by other enemies. She would make friends with the resident assholes and then map out their base layout for us.

My group has people in it like a top 10k solo no-build Fortnite player, a guy who regularly airdisked people 300m away in Tribes, and two top World of Tanks NA players: we are a force to be reckoned with on any day. She was armed with nothing but kindness and help for good people, and wrath for those who wronged good people.

She fit right in.