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by minkles 2y ago
100% agree with this. From my perspective, Linux only works for people if you give a fuck about Linux and make it part of your core being. Some of us give a fuck about solving the problem, not the tool. There is nothing more frustrating whe
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by minkles 2y ago
I just got off the phone from my aunt who was filling forms in with Adobe Reader, editing word documents sent from her solicitor. No it's not all in a browser. That's a shitty assumption and one that should not be forced upon anyo
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by minkles 2y ago
Apart from the bit where it didn't like the fractional scaling that still doesn't work properly, the power management issues, the absolutely terrible inconsistent user experience, the poor photo management and editing applications
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by minkles 2y ago
It works until you need Excel. I have yet to find a business which doesn't use Excel in some capacity. As in proper Excel, not somewhat dubious compatibility Excel (LibreOffice). I'd still argue large swathes of things we take for
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by minkles 2y ago
Congratulations. That did not work for me. Once in the last 25 years of trying apart from a small bit between 2003-2004 when Fedora worked.
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by minkles 2y ago
Ah you'll spend all that time trying to get Linux to do all that and then it'll hit a wall somewhere and 1-2 apps you really need won't work so you'll be ready to switch back to Windows 11 the next time you need to reins
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by minkles 2y ago
Yeah nailed it there. Totally agree. I was going to start a grilled cheese van!
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by minkles 2y ago
Similar experience. I built a very small online helpdesk platform in the early 00s. This was to support my own business mostly. I had several paying customers after 6 months. They were HELL, particularly when it came to paying the bill. I s
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by minkles 2y ago
It's nothing even remotely like JSON. It doesn't encode the same information or semantics at all. Your entire argument is "old stuff is bad and I like JSON". And yes we should use XML. At least it has competent, verifiab
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by minkles 2y ago
Yeah same. Never see it. It kills me whenever I see people plastering their desktop with icons and stuff. I mean do you keep all your important stuff under a pile of papers on your physical desk?
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by minkles 2y ago
It still works and it doesn't matter. Only the problem solved matters.
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by minkles 2y ago
20+ years ago no one was afraid of it. Our front end web folk were doing SQL quite happily. Now they can't even consume an API without problems. I think the demand for staff has lowered standards considerably.
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by minkles 2y ago
People have forgotten we had this back in 1997 with MS Access. I built a whole ERP system with it, single handedly including the hardware, software, networking and the workstation deployments without really breaking a sweat. We have gone of
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by minkles 2y ago
I think this is a poor understanding and laziness. SQL is type and schema first and people hate that because it makes things hard and complicated up front. Table explosions are rare if you know what you are doing. Many people don't any
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by minkles 2y ago
Similar experience. In fields I have less experience with it seems feasible. In fields I am an expert in, I know it's dangerous. That makes me worry about the applicability of the former and people's critical evaluation ability of
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by minkles 2y ago
Two dead parents worth of houses. Mortgage paid off and a side job. It would have been that without the houses but there is an ex wife involved. Avoid those. My net worth is less than yours. I could live on your interest fine and just retir
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by minkles 2y ago
This is the entire risk: being fired and financially in trouble. I spent 5 years eliminating that risk. Now I don't give a single fuck. There is no fear. They get better, more rational work and I have security.
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by minkles 2y ago
Apple is rather interesting. On their new music Fridays the playlists alternate predictably between garbage and reasonable stuff. There are perhaps 1-2 reasonable songs on the reasonable stuff list and maybe 1 gets kept. Considering the poo
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by minkles 2y ago
While this is clearly a philosophical point, I prefer to back things up with data, particularly when they are found to not work quite as well as promoted. Recently I realised my weight had gone up a bit. I didn't want it to continue so
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by minkles 2y ago
I am definitely behind this. Generative AI changed the market. It's impossible to find someone decent now among the generative AI users who churn out stuff which is absolutely objectively shite. I've got a small network of people
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by minkles 2y ago
They have operational models with statistical failures included so they understand what the interception and failure probabilities likely are for each item at component level. You can design that into a system and test for it. Obviously you
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by minkles 2y ago
Thanks for confirming (and thanks for the excellent article btw). I wish I knew for sure. Anything of that nature deserves to be carefully preserved.
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by minkles 2y ago
Just a bit of additional trivia. Jim Williams (somewhat famous EE at Linear) had a minuteman computer on his living room wall known as "the tapestry": https://www.eetimes.com/photo-gallery-remembering-jim-willia...
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by minkles 2y ago
Ha that's great. I was expecting this for some reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXFh54fc8GM
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by minkles 2y ago
Because half the shit I use only works on windows. And no I can’t change it because I have to work with other people who’s shit only works on windows.
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by minkles 2y ago
Yeah TFL killed them off starting 2010 in London due to this. I'm surprised this is even a thing now.
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by minkles 2y ago
As an asshole, but at least an honest one, I would do the same. So I expect that they are being an asshole rather than following the spirit of the law.
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by minkles 2y ago
No they didn't. They sold like crazy which is why everyone has them now.
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by minkles 2y ago
Wishful thinking but 95% of users don’t give a crap. And at least half of them don’t even know even know the App Store is.
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by minkles 2y ago
I hear this a lot. The products are basically on the top of the maturity curve now so incremental improvements is all it is likely to be for a long time. Some of the big "innovations", an example being folding screens, aren't

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