Yggstyle

Charge it in the morning and it’s dead when you go to use it. Good news is: your bag is nice and warm now. That’s what you wanted, right? … right?

I control everyone’s speed. I am god.

- Just about every truck owner who pulls the above mentioned shit.

Bonus points for lifted, extra big wheels, and whatever other shit country music suckered them into buying. Meanwhile their truck bed has no scratches, or is covered, and the truck itself only has seen the highway. They don’t own a truck - they own a clowned up SUV and a testosterone deficiency.

Don’t be caught being evil…

Science

…Although at the rate we are going it may well be referred to as such in the stories told about “the before times” as people huddle around the fire.

I can’t say I like the particular use of words there 😅

I’ve got some bad news.

It’s both.

Yes. Without question.

And some CEOs are FAR worse than others.

But rarely better than the worst person you know.

Did they walk back their recent less than well liked choice to get into the same pool as HP? They were my go-to recommendation for the longest time.

I had this as my take away too. I could personally give two shits about his or any others creators userbase / content - I think that if we want Linux adoption rates up it’s always welcome when it is talked about.

Let’s just nip the speculation in the bud here first: in a shock to maybe one person - he was not being “douchey.”

I won’t rehash what has already been said by others, nor what I have already responded to but I’d like to respond directly to this:

it’s a shame that it seems to be attracting the same crowd that made virtual interaction so unappealing in Reddit.

It’s you. You’re that crowd. You came into a thread with a non-constructive, do nothing, pedantic, petty, low effort, call-it-what-you-will shit comment… got called out on it: and are trying to blame literally everyone but yourself for your poor choice rather than gracefully taking your lumps and moving on. Ironically, OP made the far more high minded choice and did something that improved the post in general. Without complaint.

This isn’t reddit. You are correct. You are getting down voted because we don’t want reddit here either. Be the improvement you want to see or don’t let the door hit you on your way out.

Guy was going for a cheap shot and hoping to get a pat on the back for it I guess? The mental gymnastics he’s going through explaining himself is borderline legendary.

So let me get this straight:

It’s perfectly acceptable for you to make an assessment of a word and it’s meaning from a post not your own - but utterly incomprehensible that we might make a similar assessment of literally the same word from your post… in exactly the same way.

In what way are people misinterpreting you and being mean while, somehow, your actions which effectively are identical (inference not withstanding) - are justified and erm… kind?

It’s rare I will bust out a “my dude” this frequently… but: my dude do you own a mirror?

Almost verbatim what I was planning on saying. Just 0 awareness apparently. This one may be a lost cause, though.

I really don’t see how “lol” would mean that in this context but ok. Even with the context to me I was more like “idc” or “this isn’t important”. I mean, if they wanted to say “whoops”, they could’ve said “whoops”. […]

Semantics. Regardless of how you (or anyone else) read the first word: the following statement provided the appropriate result and explanation. The case was opened and closed. A positive outcome was achieved (accreditation of the author.)

Returning to my original assertion: what was the purpose of your statement? Your statement lacked context. If people misunderstood you (I don’t think they did) … one word doesn’t exactly leave things terribly clear does it? This isn’t a they (op) thing.

Regarding your statement about language: When I am in an area where I don’t speak the local language - I rely more heavily on context to fill in the gaps in my knowledge. I believe that to be fairly standard. This wasn’t, by my assessment, a situation where someone could be misinterpreted unless the remainder of their statement was disregarded. Could I be off base? Sure - but I genuinely doubt I am.

If it was a single word, in a vacuum - sure. But the literal following statement was “it was a cross post but I did the right thing and broke it to fix the problem” sorta applied some context to the prior word.

I read it as “ah shit, yeah, haha lemme get that” and it appears others did as well.

Context matters. So yeah - you can go on thinking you were slighted here over your “observation” with no context… or maybe take this as a “maybe process the whole statement before reacting” critique … which is what it was intended to be.

As opposed to, say, highlighting a single word as a reply implying some form of wrongdoing? Or is that less douchey because it’s like a double negative?

They’re still around and the various configuration technologies tap into them.

I noted this in a dismissive way… Yes they exist; but as mentioned - depreciation and outright ignoring settings has become a thing Microsoft has willingly done if they feel “they know better.” (Reboots and update times are an excellent example of this.)

Yep, configuring Microsoft has sucked incredibly hard compared to free OSs. Managing plain text configuration files in /etc & ~/.config is refreshingly nice compared to the bolt-on weirdness hidden behind various interfaces in Windows. It’s cute getting an error to contact your administrator when you’re the administrator.

Locking some things out makes sense. This exists in all OSs… what is maddening is Microsoft almost aggressively working against admins. Want local accounts? No sir. Not allowed. Not unless you remove the network card, face the PC east at precisely 2:30 am, and type a 40 character rolling code into the terminal that appears… twice.

Attention in that area is extremely late & overdue, so I was happy to see something like configuration.dsc.yaml.

While I agree - the point I was stressing was that many admins had perfectly workable scripts and methods that used the existing tooling as it was intended… and it’s mostly been fine. With their recent push into spyware inside ™ … ahem engagement … they seem to be actively punching holes in this to force management to their cloud resources which surely will not ever have problems …

I see AI mostly as an assistant whose work I review […] AI won’t fix broken foundations.

Agreed. It does have the means to save some time - but it’s just not “cooked enough” for me to use it on any meaningful level. Personally speaking.

I try to avoid Windows altogether if I can & confine it to less serious work.

Sadly some things I work with just don’t play with wine just yet otherwise I’d abandon it entirely. I’d personally love to, though.

What really bothers me is late in the patching cycle windows 2000 was borderline amazing and could be tuned to an absolutely minute footprint. If it was fully updated for x64 it would have been just about perfect. Nothing got in your way: very minimal UI with “just enough” modern features. Getting to almost any administrative interface was at its lowest “clicks to access” of any (subsequent) windows version. NT dna.

I may just have rose tinted glasses but from basically that point on it was all just bolted on UI garbage that got between you, your resources, and most importantly what you wanted to be doing. And when it comes down to it - regardless of what os were talking about - something has gone horribly wrong if that is the reality.

My dude: he made the swap when it was pointed out. Did you want a long form apology in 10 pt font?

God help you if you want to assign multiple addresses to the same adapter. It’s like navigating a labyrinth.