That desktop app really is super hot garbage.

I’ll hold out for the Pro Max Ultra

Linus is really, really shitty at responding to criticism. I don’t think it’s malice, it just didn’t occur to them.

He should just be upfront and say “you know what? We should have done better here”. That’s it.

It must be weird being so old. I’d presume once you hit 80 you’d sort of stop planning for the long term. To still be around almost 30 years later…

Defence force staff are currently working to rule which is causing all sorts of problems. Eg taking their allotted breaks which leave critical parts of the org offline for 30 minutes or so (so they’re having to pull in officers to cover the gaps). It’s hugely disruptive and I assume very effective as a negotiation tool.

BUT. If the organisation can’t function with the staff taking their legally mandated breaks, the understaffing is just being exposed by the workers who have been plugging the gap, unpaid, until now.

That work to rule can see your pay docked is utterly insane.

The entire Polity series is great, but my favourite parts are always when we follow a Prador perspective.

Look at Mr Moneybags over here with a positive bank balance…

For music? You could use Bluetooth, or attach an SSD full of music. Or simply hotspot to your phone and use the built in music apps.

Personally I think $10 per month for unlimited data (audio and video streaming) is a steal.

It’s also not required unless you want realtime traffic or data for audio streaming.

You’re can still do most things without the small monthly fee

Install windows, run debloat powershell script. Done.

Microsoft give no shortage of things to complain about without needing to exaggerate.

It’s only $48 for that pizza, they’ve got to cut costs somewhere…

It’s common in the server world. KB article on it is here.

Cowards

You can mount drives against folders in windows. So while D: is one drive, D:\Logs or D:\Cake can each be a different disk.

He’s 78. There’s zero chance he makes 98.

I doubt he’ll make it to the end of his term. He’s not a fit man.

With return to office mandates, this suuucks for some people

If you’re charging your plumbers out at $110 per hour (minimum hours, plus travel, plus parts) and only paying them $30…

That’s some margin.

Our immune systems can tell the difference between human blood types. Let alone fungus vs human.

He was found guilty of sexual assault.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/29/donald-trump-rape-e-jean-carroll/72295009007/

We have a similar mix, though I was referring to the underlying virtualisation providing their cloud hosting.