@tosensei I'd love to do that for real - and I already have a unix on my disk; but I'm the dualboot (or, rather triple-boot) kinda guy and therefore subject to all bugs and changes at once.

Some software you won't find on Windows, some not on Unix, some things are not working on Mac.

And if you really want no limits, you need all OS at once :cry:

@Lensflare that's my main reason for keeping it this long. If unix had proper hardware support, I'd waste no additional time with windows :/

@Liebranca admitted, as no native speaker I had to use google translate to understand your rather advanced english.

I like what you said though

meanwhile somewhere in germany, a dev passionate about saving his last two information that are not online yet, by cancelling all google accounts and not using their software anymore, as they pirate and violate your data almost like no other company.

their war against adblockers is what gave me the rest.

you'll need strong nerves in your endeavor to use google stuff.

this should have no place on this platform anyways

I started back in 2009, and honestly, this kind of behavior has unfortunately become quite common. It’s something that happened to me, and I, in turn, did it to others. I’m sorry for having been part of these negative cycles, but when fairness is lacking, people tend to rely on their own moral compass. Sadly, many CEOs are more influenced by bad advice than good, and blaming someone else can still make you look better in front of most bosses—it works about 90% of the time.

By the way, have you heard of the Peter Principle?

honestly, the vscode bugs are getting more annoying by the hour...

it slows down my cursor movement, even if vscode is not even taking up half my system resources.

what happened now is a miracle to me: i closed vscode and its not visible anymore, but i still have lots of open micrsoft processes.

is it so hard for microsoft to implement a software kill switch?

why do i need to write batch files for roundabout everything that I'd consider core functionality or proper behaviour?

Reading through many comments on this, I'd go with "Windows is bloated".

Also, it does whatever it wants, so why wonder about performance. You dont own it, it wont let you control it, but it will control you, after a while.

I guess its whole purpose is to prepare human brains for AI mindcontrol.

@Demolishun I guess so. But even the Microsoft Extensions, like Remote SSH, don't really work perfectly. They end up messing more with your systems than helping, especially in terms of file permissions

@lorentz good hint, that could indeed be the reason. I just don't think a file handle needs to open any longer than the file being used.

But what can I expect of a collection named "toys" :/

@iSwimInTheC Yes, you're propbably right. I just don't get why it indexes my files, as it is a bunch of "toys" and I only use 4 of its features where none of them would need indexing or benefit of it in any way

@Demolishun thanks for the advise - yes i did.

yet windows starts putting new icons from the top left.

the ability not to define where exactly new icons will be placed is more than disturbing and i wonder why no more people have problems with this.

i mean, we probably got used to it. but its time to undo that and see with open eyes again how shitty windows and microsoft actually are and how much of a problem they are for the world.

@joewilliams007 aand being held hostage because you're a gamer *silent cries*

@TrayKnots I need to be able to spin up and use containers locally as I am creating docker images and compose-files quite often.

But once more it seems Windows was the worst choice of OS I could've made.

If only unix had always had all the games, I never would have opted for Windows.

Your last suggestions sounds interesting though, I might try that.

@magicMirror my companies' IT gave up on this and I am probably 20 hrs deep into troubleshooting this and fed up trying to understand why software we are using does not work as it should.

@AlgoRythm thats cool

did you have problems or missed features in KeePass? because it seems to be exactly that

@Lensflare I dislike companies stealing ideas and nice things that were there before and trying to make it proprietary. And I disregard people advertising for proprietary stuff in their sparetime without any benefits for them at all.

None of the stuff is really something new and apple just had to steal a bunch of ideas just like they usually do.

@Lensflare dude calm down. no need to get hostile. I admit I have no clue of swift. I thought it was a competitor to electron, but it seems it is solely focussed on the apple ecosystem which makes it even more of a joke in times where everyone invests into PWAs and stuff like that.

I remember that apple destroyed flash player in favor of HTML, CSS, and JS, all the while not even half the features could be replicated. And to make it clear: they also didnt invent shaders, layouts, designs and ui.

Swift is nothing new, and not innovative too - and all the technologies that swift uses under the hood were there before swift and work better outside of swift (outside of apple environment, that is).

They only had to copy and paste stuff that was already there and released something half-assed, just for clout. And thats swift.

Heck, even electron makes more sense...

@melezorus34 I was hoping for windows to at least do that every few years :/

@Lensflare why? isnt HTML/CSS/JS exactly what the browser understands?

I get you are a swift nerd, but HTML CSS and JS are exactly what makes swift work in the first place. So why learn something you have less control over, owned by a company who make proprietary stuff that is obsolescent mostly after 2 years.

I just noticed that the culprit may have been vscode, which has now completely uninstalled itself! Googling about it revealed, that this is an unfixed problem that first happened 3 years ago.

You'd think they know what they are doing, but erm-erm. Negative.

@lorentz you mean you develop languages like typescript or similar?

for me, vscode is one of the best editors in terms of ease of access, intuitivity, and support for all kinds of plugins, languages, and other kinds of extensions.

I generally was very happy with it right from the start and it can do so much stuff now, it has become my primary ide basically.

Before that, I used sublime3, sublime2, notepad++, dreamweaver and the good old barebones text editor for programming.

Stuff you can still use if you want.

I also am somehow used to re-inventing the wheel now after years in development. Heck, I started to believe this is what our times are all about. Everyone fixing the same task/bug, wasting countless hours, because we all get presented identical problems, at the same time.

Thanks to updates and bleeding edge technologies we use.

How do we want to prevent this for good? Everyone makes mistakes sometimes I guess.

@lilycollins9x your comment makes sense, but why do you put a link in the middle as if this was spam?

I also do dislike that so many idiot-jobs have these fancy names nowadays, effectively making the work sound more demanding and professional than it really is.

For example "controlling", which basically is like doing a teachers job, only without having to know and teach anything at all. Effectively only talking to "parents" about the pupil and the school from a very distanced, almost estranged, point of view.

The funny thing is they earn way more than someone doing actual work for them which is something I will never understand.

@kalyl sure, but only after they phoned home at least a dozen of times, effectively grabbing all valuable data they can, while they can.

even asking to opt out of something generates new information, and they crave any form of it.

@AlgoRythm strangely, though, I never had that problem. And I am pretty sure I installed windows more often than the average computer-joe.

I am talking about at least 20 times.

@Hazarth the more I read, the more I become convinced that there never was a "good" windows, at all.

@Fast-Nop thats why I, back then, decided to not pay that amount of money. Instead I dropped my three year (or two year?) warranty by installing a original apple 512GB drive I got on ebay for 200 bucks (in 2016 or so). The price-gap from 128GB (which is really not much) to 512 (which is okay) was almost 800 bucks and I was not stupid.

@dev0x01 I do now, my good sir. I do now indeed.

All I need in life now is proper nvidia graphics driver support in unix...