Avi Greenbury

Mmm, I've for a while now wished my corp laptop could be windows+WSL rather than a Mac, but as I hear more about Win11 getting in the way I'm changing my mind...

Yeah, I think the problem is probably that I'm now using the same keyboard for both with different maps. Hadn't occurred to me to move the Mac keys to feel like everyone else's!

My _mac_ on the other hand! I'm forever fighting muscle memory over it's unique keyboard shortcuts, and when I veer slightly into tinkering it's such a different system to Linux and one that really doesn't want to be diagnosed. Reading that piece I can't imagine him finding macos less frustrating!

My laptop is mostly a Firefox and file manager machine at the moment and I'm dimly aware that I should have Wayland problems, but I don't, for instance. I've never had to think about that scaling thing, I just set it in gnome and it's worked for everything I run.

I've wondered about a thing recently, where most Linuxes are great if you do 100% dull stuff on them or if you're a full on tinkerer, but are really bad at the slightly odd use cases (like RTL and LTR language mixing, mounting a phone on a laptop, running keepassx, whatever it is that's chrome-only)

Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.

Website Task Flowchart

xkcd.com/3175/

As someone who grew up without the notion of Santa I've often wondered what the norm is for when the kid realises - I guess normally the kid has doubts for a while and then by the time they're sure they don't want to admit to having ever believed, so there's not normally an actual conversation?

No, you guys had a whole revolution the last time we were allowed to vote on what happened over there, it was quite a mess and we've politely abstained since.

Image from Google News with an article about a motorway crash on the M65 with an image of an M65 Gemini plane

Twice in one week. Once again there was a crash on the M65 motorway and once again Googles autonews that clearly has no human editing throws up and image of the M65 Gemini aeroplane. Welcome to your dogshit AI generated future.

Remember when Google was good at stuff? How did they fall so far as to become the poster child for terrible AI products?

I use it near-daily and this is not my experience. I does a lot of "I don't know", which makes sense given the state of our docs, but I don't recall ever having had a useless answer from it.

Yeah, I'm sure it does. I don't really care about other docs being quietly used, though - the model here and the useful feature is that it gives me a summary and then some further-reading to do if the summary doesn't answer all of my questions

This depends on the product. We use Kapa internally at work, for instance, and it supplies references

Present tense: Seahorse Past tense: Sawhorse

There's definitely something in the way that this knowledge is very important to people who run sales teams but not to people who run support teams.

Well I started this sentence with no desire to be product support for Americans...

I wonder if there's a thing in here about how little reason there is to upgrade beyond staying in support. No useful new capabilities that would historically have driven upgrades.

Or maybe I'm just looking back with rose-tinted specs to a time when I was more easily excited by new OS upgrades?

This is really fun!

Hah, the first and last time I had to edit a sendmail.cf file I ordered the O'Reilly Postfix book!

I think this is a folk memory of an earlier macos, before stuff like the 'cut' option disappeared from finder, a before Apple Music became unremovable etc.
I've recently started using macos and it is _not_ the experience long-term Mac users seem to think it is

Yeah, current employer is all mac, and I've been agitating for a Windows option for a while because device management just isn't there (yet?)
I remember the future of this looking rosy 10 years ago though...

Oh! Profiles in the stable release! This has long been my low-key conspiracy theory around Google's conditions for continued financing of FF :)
I've been restarting my browser every morning for _weeks_, using FF Nightly to have profile-switching

The entire point of social media is being able to surround yourself with people who start posts with sentences like "Hi, shipwreck autist here!"

Can we for a second appreciate how Robinhood took no responsibility for being down, and tried to put the blame on AWS.

However, it was Robinhood that decided to run from a single AWS region, and not be preapred to fail over, like other, more resillient AWS users did...

Extremely funny that INFOWARS has agreed not to publish anything without the explicit consent of the US government

I use Tabby, but mostly because I really want a reliable quake-like drip down terminal. I don't really notice it and just had to check what it was called, which I think is a good sign!

Can’t wait to be in an open office where everyone is talking to their computers in order to control them at the same time. What could possibly go wrong?

I was really surprised, assume MS had been doing some good marketing. A few were finding it hard enough to find Azure people that they'd talk to me.

When I was interviewing a year ago, looking for a role at a company just growing enough to start wanting dedicated plat/infra/watever people, it felt like a 50/50ish split AWS Vs Azure judging by job ads

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