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I believe strongly in customizing one’s tools

The irony of saying this about a Mac.

The original article mentions the sabotaging only as historical evidence for a trend of pushing its tech onto people. It is not saying Microsoft is currently doing it specifically to sabotage anyone. Bullshit title. The original article also mentions several things as fact that are not, and omits other facts, but that’s a different discussion.

On to Wayland I guess.

There’s a couple of pigeons that made a nest in my backyard two years ago. It’s located right next to a wall that’s frequented by cats. It’s also right next to the back door, so every time we go out the birds leave the nest in a panic, leaving the chicks behind. That is, if there would be any chicks - the nest has such big holes that the eggs just fall out onto the ground.

Downloading Linux? Mandatory psych evaluation. For your protection.

Pretty quickly after the lockdowns ended the 100% wfh became 60% in my company, and that’s where we still are. From what I hear, many other companies also have mixed policies. I have not seen a huge push for complete rto.

I recently discovered this thing called books that also works great outside. And it’s a lot more fun than laptop work!

Did you just mix up Michael Myers, Candyman, and the Blair Witch?

I prefer motherfuckingwebsite.com because it doesn’t think it knows better than I do what width I want my window to be.

As someone who does cross-platform development: everything on Mac takes twice as long, and breaks with every OS update. And that’s without even the switch from PPC to Intel 32 bit to Intel 64 bit to ARM. I’m exaggerating a bit, and I’m sure in many environments Mac is easy enough. But for us - there’s a reason we have more Mac developers than Windows and Linux combined, and it’s not because people want a Mac.

“IT malware installation test”

rofl that is gorgeous.

My experience with IT is watching them slowly do all the things I already tried, with long pauses to check their script. And a lot of confusion when they see none of Chrome, Firefox, or Edge has ever been booted since they pushed them.

Cookie-walled article.

That looks unironically great. Relatively easy to read and as far as I could tell, internally consistent. Two things current English spelling lacks.

What are you doing step pizza delivery man?

You breathe through an octopus? Don’t they need that oxygen themselves?

Does it have VGA?

That sounds awful. You get someone who doesn’t really know the company or product, they take a bunch of decisions that fundamentally affect how you work, and then they’re gone. … actually, that sounds exactly like any other company.