Fun fact: that lady has multiple nobel science prize winners in her family and lives on a national heritage site. Look her up on Wikipedia and it’s pretty obvious why she doesn’t want class war, lol.

Windows bad, Linux good! Haha, such meme!

Hahahaha, my toddler is down for her nap. We still have more. This is only a momentary reprieve

They said they didn’t understand, so I explained.

The heat was directed at a different user and added via an edit after the initial comment was made, because that other user threw vague ass shade instead of saying what they meant to begin with (that I was wrong about the origin of the term tankie and that it was lazy to not check my spelling, so clearly my point amd that of others saying similar wasn’t worth anything).

One of the core tenets of getting a good lemmy experience is to block early and often. If you think my response of describing what people mean when they call the main devs tankies was somehow too political, then please block me. And memorize where that button is, because I guarantee this is nothing compared to the folks actually trying to make points politically around here, lol.

So to be clear, your answer is “No, I don’t have anything beyond a weak as hell ad hominem based off of entirely imagined character traits and motivations.”

What are you actually trying to say when you claim I have a lack of curiosity in the matter? Don’t be chickenshit. If there’s something you believe is false about what I said, be out with it.

Otherwise you’re welcome to fuck off.

I’m so sorry that the lack of two ddg searches ruins my argument for you.

It’s even more telling that your only counter to my comment was to attack minor problems.

Edit: I’ve edited my comment. Do you have anything of actual value to say now?

It’s not hard to understand.

Dessalines and Nutomic, the two lead lemmy devs, think that Tianenmen Square didn’t happen. They think the genocide currently going on in China of that particular group of muslims (Uighyur or something like that, I can’t spell it right) is actually a social program for their own good. They think that Ukraine is legitimately filled with Nazis in their government and military and that Russia is rescuing the poor populace from their oppressors.

Effectively, China and Russia can do no wrong. Dessalines in particular regularly bans people from lemmy.ml who say otherwise.

The term “tankie” is in reference to the tanks China drove over people during the Tianenmen square massacre.

Edit for the sake of jackasses: Better explanation of the term “tankie” from another commenter here. And it’s spelled Uyghur.

Happy now?

Some of the many ways to bypass making a Microsoft account required hitting the shell in the installer for a moment, but the example screenshot looks more like someone removing shit post-install.

The short guide to not performing CBT with Windows is:

• Grab install media for Pro or LTSC (Pro is better if you aren’t a turbo-nerd willing to troubleshoot more)
• Strip out the versions you aren’t installing from the install media (forget the tool for this, probably dism)
• Install updates to the install media so you aren’t stuck with it updating for a day post-install (forget the tool for this part too, sorry)
• Strip out bloat and unneeded shit (such as onedrive) using DISM
• Install using whatever the current workaround is to not have to make a Microsoft account
• Keep the damn thing offline, adjust settings, configure GPO, use powershell to remove anything more you want out, etc to your desires
• Notably: Disable “reccomendations” in the various spots, those are ads. Set updates to be delayed considerably and to not force restart until a week after first notification (you can no longer disable this entirely). Disable web search from the start menu/search bar.
• Maybe move a few “cleaning/configuring” tools over via USB and run them
• Use MASgrave to spoof a license you horrible degenerate
• Keep detailed notes of every step you do, as sometimes games amd shit will have dumbass dependencies on system parts that they don’t expect you to remove

Not as much as we have to now.

I’m usually a Windows shield-bearer around these parts, because it’s not quite as much of a dumpster fire as people say (please for the love of god don’t debate me on this, I prefer Linux and have better things to do), but this is inarguably something Windows has gotten far far worse at. Out of the box experience (besides having to shove drivers into the install media) used to be a pretty definitive thing that Windows beat Linux on. Install and it “just werkd”. It used to be the cornerstone of pushback, that Linux required you to tinker and Windows didn’t. But Microsoft destroyed their lead in that so they only have (fast dwindling) business appeal and entrenchment to lean on now.

Ugh yeah. I’ve been slowly backing up my wife’s, my parents’, and my own music CDs, and while it thankfully hasn’t gotten to many of them, it’s ate enough to be annoying.

Especially because my wife’s collection is mostly very specific performances of classical music and operas, which can make finding rips difficult when it’s not a particularly popular recording.

And the CD-Rs are almost all toast. I’m lucky the old family PC HDDs still have most of the old family photos, so I’ve been able to back them up. Can’t believe we used to think that backing up the pictures to disc would last longer.

Jesus. I don’t think an adblocker would help if she couldn’t manage the fucking volume buttons.

Lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink and all that.

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AnalogNowhere is leaking.

I know, right?

For a while it looked like everyone was just going to stick with calling the older folks boomers and the younger folks millenials, but I guess some intelligence leaked through into the “futile generational hate” machine.

Is every generation working to make things better than it was? No! Clearly the old folks don’t want the young ones to have anything good, otherwise the world wouldn’t have any problems by now!

Just give yourself some more years, time for life experiences, and to be shocked and apalled when you learn how hard it can be to coordinate a group of people who all want the same outcomes to a concentrated cooperative effective course of action. Hell, how hard it can be to get them to even agree on the same path to the desired outcome.

Had a project recently that was effectively “Hey other teams, you have until $date to make this change or you will lose $feature”

The deadline was extended by a month, and we still quietly didn’t make the breaking change on our end for another month after. Every team impacted (until they made the change needed) got emails weekly about it, even into the “quiet” extended deadline. Emails went to whole teams so it couldn’t be lost by one person going on vacation or something.

Day after breaking change (more than three months after first contact) I sent out the final email to any teams that still hadn’t done the needful. “Hey, looks like your shit was still wrong when we did the thing we warned about. It’s broken now.”

Over a week after breaking change, ten minutes before I’m off for the weekend: “Hey, we’ve been troubleshooting for a while trying to figure out why $feature no longer works. This is business critical for $reasons. How can we get this resolved?”

“Please see the attached email from over three months ago (attached).”

That’s always the fucking worst. “You have all the responsibility, but none of the power”.

It’s all internal “customers” at my workplace. So very often by the time it comes to my team the contract is already signed, and they of course didn’t get proper vendor support in the contract. So my team is left to scrape together whatever we can from public info about some obscure industry specific system. Always great to ask support questions and told “we can’t answer that, it’s proprietary”.

We can say “you need to negotiate vendor engineer support for this” until we’re blue in the face, but at the end of the day when the shit doesn’t work how they were sold it by the sales guy they end up trusting the friendly smiley sales guy when the vendor blames us, rather than the fucking professionals in their own workplace because we tell it to them straight, so interactions with us don’t always leave them feeling warm and fuzzy.

Our tech side’s upper management has switched up in the last few years, and they say that it’s been codified into the purchasing approval process that tech gets a seat at the table before shit gets inked. So I was optimistic.

Then we signed the first new vendor/external support contract for our own tech side shit in a long time, no way for us not to be at the table.

Additional support rebuiling our cloud infra that was previously hacked together as needed, but this time do it “right”. Templates, automated tagging, top down more easily managed governance and security controls instead of a messy mix of shit, the works. The plan is to automate a shit ton as infra as code. No one on my team has previous experience doing this as we’re not very cloud heavy.

All of this hinges on infra as code and resource templates, and the fucking contract expicitly doesn’t include any coding/cloud template building assistance. It wasn’t forgotten, they decided against it.

I’m the best script/code monkey on my team. I know I can figure it out, but I was looking forward to having a break from spending 90% of my time staring at code. From being on projects that succeed or fail entirely on my own efforts. I’ve been stuck on this sort of shit for multiple years while some of my coworkers have been able to be important, but not a bus factor of 1.

Guess it’s nice to have job security 🫠

The Who - Won’t Get Fooled Again

Another legitimately great strategy is the Wally Deflector (hate that Dilbert’s creator turned out to be an asshat). Force them to do some work. Anything really works, just something to slow down the firehose and enforce that it’s a partnership working towards a solution. Usually the best way is to just ask for clarification and actual hard requirements.

So many things just shrivel up and die when the person asking for it realizes IT isn’t going to just outsource their full responsibilities including domain specific knowledge or basic fucking thought for them just because it’s going to become digital or automated.

Sounds like someone needs to figure out email filters. Probably best to send it to a folder and mark as read instead of delete it, that way when it does inevitably concern you (something you use isn’t working) you can check them for notice of what’s going on.

Trading firms have been using ML and Neural Nets for trading and investment insight for ages before the current LLM “AI” boom started. I knew someone working in that space on investment derivatives in the mid 2010s.

You don’t really need to speculate on it. It’s old news. This is just a joke about how there’s a new crop of suckers who are absolutely using LLMs for stock advice.

Guess we’re all gonna ignore all the drama about LTT from last year?

Saying he’s the one who breaks is an understatement.