elshandra

@elshandra@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Study: A $500 monthly basic income led to significant employment growth, enhanced savings, improved debt management, and better quality of life⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think ubi has merit as a short term stop-gap measure, when a replacement system is ready to be introduced. My expectation is it will drive inflation up just by there being more poor-people money to sweat into the corporate/landlord towels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 is the last version of Windows⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In that way I’m like a professional cook that spent all day cooking for others, so when they get home they just don’t have the energy to put all that effort into themselves.

  Funny that, I’m a Linux admin. I actually run my own servers for everything. I’m a firm believer in whoever owns the hardware owns the data. It’s just like work but with tools that I like. I like knowing where it is, and it’s not going to end the world if it’s offline for a time.

  I did windows admin for about 5 years though up to 2008r2, and I have to say I do like AD and ntfs ACLs (except when they break). Those times do contribute to my aversion.

  I too know a thing or two about developing, back in the day I did C, pascal, C++. I remember how much easier delphi was than mfc. I got out of developing when they started dumbing down the tools further (why didn’t you die, java… C#, etc.) Electron can’t die in a dumpster fire fast enough.

  Don’t start me on teams. I’d say the same for o365 though. Hard to believe these products make me want work to go back to lotus notes, domino, sametime…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 is the last version of Windows⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s really the biggest problem I think Linux has, unfortunately it’s also one of Linux’s bed features - it’s not a uniform experience. Yours won’t be the same as mine, etc.

  Some things that should be simple aren’t, and sometimes getting things going can be frustrating, and you will without question at some point have to troubleshoot and fix something.

  I’m fortunate that I have a lot of background and experience in the industry, and I can understand people don’t want to go to that trouble, just like people don’t want to learn to cook.

  Most things in Linux I find these days do plug and play up some degree, but there is absolutely missing effort and/or openness from the hardware vendors. Like not being able to configure macro keys/extra mouse buttons without a windows vm.

  Having said that, I found the way windows was going, adding crap into the os that I don’t want, and constantly changing where settings are etc. Changing my defaults, and so on. There’s just too much I don’t like about the way it’s managed. Also, winsecure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 is the last version of Windows⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I suppose they were right. Windows 10 was the last version of Windows for me. I’m okay with not using what little only works on windows. Unless you need something more niche/specialised, windows isn’t worth the pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a power fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you don’t cast Teleport to go from your room at the inn to the nearby village to clear out some goblins.

  Me who casts teleport to go from the inn, or my house, to the centre of town in games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, I don’t mind that they re-release tesv on whatever potato they can fit it on, it’s that they keep doing this for over 10 years, but where tesvi? Maybe they got grrm writing it.