Oooh, kinky.

Yep, I’m just annoyed by lazy headlines.

TWICE AS MUCH COMPARED TO WHAT???

My left ball?

What really bugs me about it: The first step from “how to ungoogle your phone” is “go, give money to Google” by buying their hardware.

What chores? Everything that has to do with miniaturization. They’d have sub-millimeter fingers. Repairing that Iphone? The screw that I can’t even fucking see would be huge for them. Or as neurosurgeons, or or or

Biggest productivity win would be teams between humans, fairies and pixies. Each can do tasks according to his strength and size.

But wait. Maybe fairies are around, and they’re all locked up in sweat shops in Bangladesh or China producing new stuff to flood our markets…

Inferring from hi hands, there’s not a lot to see anyways.

Much too frequently, if you need to manage systems for a company.

THAT is my point.

I have spent too many nights unrolling and blocking Windows updates just to keep the fucking MS Exchange server happy. Or the damned 8 year old CRM software which writes to places that Windows now blocks access to.

Yeah it was paid time, but I’m much more happy if the systems I care about just run without hiccups.

So ultimately I just jailed all the Windows stuff in VMs which I can snapshot and reliably backup, which I can roll back (mostly, as long as it does not involve Active Directory) etc. Windows is inherently unstable, that’s my point.

The ultimate solution was to get out of that job. Yeah, I stilm do use Windows as a daily driver, but single use only, no centralized management and thats kind of OK.

Haha, are you aware of how many layers of Windows are just backward compatibility hacks? Architecturally Windows has changed a lot since Win98.

The fact that your 30year old business software is still running is just the fact that Windows has built in patches for some common programming patterns used at the time and someone having insight enough can enable/disable them (mostly).

Btw, the same for games. Windows detects specific games and re-enables former direct x bugs.

There are numerous layers of abstraction between your Win32 application and the Kernel, there’s no reason they won’t work on another kernel.

Oh. And of course it’s badly debuggable and frequently goes wrong.

I stopped maintaining Windows systems and focused on developing software - it’s so effing annoying that things always break out of the blue with a new windows patch versions because MS has bad quality control on their overcomplicated house of cards that is named Windows.

Are you wishing back for Ballmer? IMO things were even worse, then. When they built a new version of Windows that was so bad they threw it away after a few years and botched together Vista as a quick save.

Or for Gates? Who just missed and overlooked this newfangled internet thing in the 90s until they slammed the brakes and used loads of money to turn things around?

Or the Microsoft that successfully hollowed out monopoly regulations paving the way for the tech bro style off business we now have?

Your best bet to run it probably is on Linux with Wine. Or if it is MS themselves , they already have their own Win32 to Linux translation layers, for example DB2 for Linux runs that way.

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There’s no way individual donations from ordinary people could match Google’s. They’re also likely to be less reliable.

Thank god. I do really believe all the Google money is actively stifling innovation at Mozilla. The only thing they can’t do is building a better browser than chrome is, for fear of becoming a viable alternative again.

So they use the money for some CEO pay. and weird projects while Firefox further falls from popularity.

I hope for the day Firefox’s market share has dropped to a level tha Google just won’t pay any money anymore for the default search engine deal.

That day - and not one day before - innovation will resume.

I did. I rage-signed up for a monthly contribution to the Servo project the last time I read about something Mozilla did.

Recently I go fucking annoyed by Mozilla that I rage-contributed (monthly payment) to Servo.

Mozilla is such a shit show.

In my fourth semester im Uni I could choose whether to take numerical analysis or probability theory.

Most students took numerical analysis, even if the exam typically had a 80% failure rate. (Yes, one of five successed)

It was a completely different with probability theory (Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung). Oh, having chosen it due to these reasons now I know why: The prof loved teaching and was really good at explaining.

Ultimately this shows, people have no idea about probabilities.

Edit: fixed the nunerical typo. No it was not about catholic nuns.

He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink

He gets knocked down,
does not get up again
You’re never keep him up again

What about an emulator like 86box or so? And which game is it?

*national lard

ftfy

Eating it cold is even faster and still better than microwaving it into a mush.

MICROWAVE?!?!!! Who puts Pizza in a microwave? That’s probably the worst way possible to heat it up. It’d rather eat it cold.

Put it in an oven (or yes, a pan).