I mean, that has been Microsoft’s MO for their entire existence. With the exception of maybe some versions of Visual Studio, everything they have done was see what they can copy off their competitors.

I mean, my point is that it isn’t how it has always been historically, but whatever you want to do is fine.

I watched a YouTube food historian Max Miller talk about shepherds pie and he mentioned that there is t really much of a correlation between what meat you use and whether it is “Shepard” or “Cottage” pie.

I remember this happening to Linksys with the WRT-54g routers. They shipped with firmware based on open software (I don’t remember the exact license) and they were brought to court and forced to release the source code.

In the end it really helped the sales of that model because hobbyists wanted it for the freedom of running their own code on it.

Do you have an example of a project that has both free and commercial licenses? How does that work in practice?

The problem from a user interface perspective is that the search bar and the url are the same field. I don’t have edge, but what happens if they type “Google” into the url bar vs “Google.com” vs “https://google.com”/.

I have this problem at home when I try to go to a device on my lan, like how “http://jellyfin.lan”/ works but “Jellyfin.lan” takes me to a search page.

I think that it depends on the subject being argued about. It is ok to have “both sides have a point” when you are arguing about what OS your next computer will run, there are genuine advantages to each option.

But it is important to know when to draw the line. I do NOT agree that “both sides have a point” when it comes to human rights or any other actually important subject matter.

The thing everyone needs to know is that not all internet arguments are created equal and you have to know when to listen to both sides and when one side is just plane wrong.

I bet other ransomware creators hate this. If victims can’t even get their data back by paying, more victims will stop paying across the board.

I had a website not let me enter a proton.me email address, when I changed it to my custom.fyi address, it worked fine. They wanted a three letter TLD.

If I asked this question during an interview and the candidate gave me this list of assumptions, I would recommend the candidate. This is exactly what I would be looking for by asking a vague question, not if they memorized the answer to a bunch of riddles, but how they thought and what their line of thought was for troubleshooting the answer.

I ended up with an archgon MD-8107 and it has been great. It is external and plugs in via usb, and works great on both my Mac Laptop and my Linux box with MakeMKV.

I think I found it via the forums on MakeMKV to make sure I got one that I could put the correct firmware on.

The only UHD disks that I have had problems ripping are brand new releases. Then I give it a few days and MakeMKV has no problem.

As other people mentioned, things like the decimal structure works well, but you can also just use an int to store how many pennies something costs and convert it to dollars for display.

It really depends on what device you are connecting. My range/oven has the option that I never set up because I don’t want to preheat it when I am not home.

But I did get a smart wall outlet that I plugged my coffee maker into so I can turn it on from my bed in the morning.

I remember once someone made DOOM but every time you killed an enemy it would kill -9 a random process.

This is a problem with more than just Microsoft. Any software (game, application, library, whatever) that has had many years of updates some of which are breaking, will have this problem with docs.

Oh you are using version 5.5.24 of xyzlib? All these docs are a mixture of stuff when 4.2.57 was out and stuff someone tried to update when 7.5.14 released.

Reminds me of the Hollywood trope of a character saying “In English please” after any reference to something on a computer.

I hate it so much when they do it. The writers should just say it the way an IT admin would and move on. Pretending that the character is speaking another language is just anti intellectual bullshit.

I HATE that windows will sort folders at the top instead of alphabetically with everything else. I guess it comes from using a Mac for so long.

I agree about .DS_Store in any mixed os environment though.

I remember having a friend ask why my mouse connected to a s-video port.

It still has problems. Mainly you need to get power out there and the heated exhaust water can mess with the ecosystem.