Jacques Brel is the real legend

It depends on what you value most and what effort you are willing to make. Windows/Mac are king for GUI´s, and those are the article´s main Linux criticisms. I created a keyboard backlight python GUI for my Linux laptop & open-sourced it (now an official vendor has made a better tool).

If Microsoft had poored the amount of money they did in Windows, in a Linux OS , it would be 10x better than Windows and the drivers wouldn´t even be an issue as 99% of desktops in the world would run a UNIX-derivative.

To me, not having bloatware & Windows updates outweighs having to do a bare-metal setup for sth every once in a while.. it is a big barrier for general adoption though.

They also removed the ability to deactivate Windows Updates forever via regedit

@12bitfloat I had a look at the linked dictionary in his comment, where under "dumb" is mentioned that *technically* this is still a valid synonym in the English language for mute people. Looks like it's published by University of Washington

I feel you

There´s a way involving editing the the Windows registry to permanently disable Windows updates (https://ninjaone.com/blog/...).

Lost too many auto-restart works in progress + issues w drivers support.
Life is better now

I'm your manager or dev lead rather. If you repeatedly commit broken stuff I will complain in the PR review and not let it pass until you do it properly.

Evidently don't commit broken or half-done stuff, if it needs to be faster, commit an in-between feature that at least works even if it's not completely polished yet, or work on a feature branch and start the commit message with WIP:

Javascript should be used on the front-end as progressive enhancement. Its immediate feedback in form validation is valuable to the user experience, and worthless security-wise, which is the opposite on the server. Anyone can sniff the API endpoints via the browser network tab and spoof the requests without going through the HTML/JS validation.

Regarding fuck users with js disabled I disagree in part with OP: if your solution is content-driven the basic display should work without needing JS (eg news site, blog). I never understood the craze about building your own blog fully with client-side React

Are all of @chatpgt 's answers ChatGPT answers?

They definitely struck their crowd of customers. And their customers´ customers.

Antivirus is a f*ing scam. As are "automatic security updates".

Factor in all things that potentially go wrong (missing flight connection, weather conditions, luggage stayed at departure or is stolen, different electrical sockets etc) + the prep needed to make the most out of it, including the mental headspace to dedicate to it and you start wondering whether it´s worth it

For me:
In order of ease of use:
Paint.NET, Krita, Photoshop, GIMP
In order of advanced ability:
Photoshop, GIMP, Krita, Paint.NET
In order of cost-to-quality ratio:
Krita, Paint.NET, GIMP, Photoshop

* Paint.NET with plugins
** cost-to-quality including time spent

Been there 8 years ago
Keep enjoying it
still there haha

Thank you so much uBlock Origin (Firefox mobile supports extensions so you can also use it there)

Also try opening a JIRA issue on a 13-inch screen. I can barely see 2 lines of the ticket description, the rest is navigation, filter, breadcrumb bars

Climate change has turned my country in a sufficiently "heaven on earth place" that I don't feel the need to go south anymore (I prefer mild heat, max 32°C, over baking to death)

Also hate that we speak the same native language fluently, and in-person, but online he always addresses me in English..

@AleCx04 there are some use cases. FP higher order function. This example returns a function whose prototype is set to an anonymous class. Before React Hooks HOC's "higher order components" were all the hype, those used a similar mechanism

CLI = portable, unified and callable on remotes.
Other devs look at me like I'm a git wizard but if they made the same one-time effort to experiment with and memorize the most useful commands and combine them in sequences they could do more advanced git ops faster and with confidence

Y not simply have them set up docker runners? Can't be that hard can it? (spoiler: been through this last year, it is worth the effort)

Just came here to fact check my gut feel that a post with so many I<ActualName> interfaces was going to be about C#

A good soldier doesn't always make a good captain or the other way around. Use their abilities to the best possible extent but within their capacity. Relativize. Going through the same situation right now so just sharing what works best for me.

I hate how technical profiles always seeking better tools need to level down to non-technical profiles always going back to their comfort zone.

Fuck Windows, Teams (ESPECIALLY Teams), Skype, Office 365, Sharepoint and Outlook.

@electrineer yeah she still has ABP, we're going to switch her over tomorrow

I have the feeling that Google shows me more and more commercial results as years go by, so DDG all the way

The same CMS hooks told React hooks: we have very little in common and your choice of name is unfortunate and confusing

Try with metalsmith.js:

1. Work on metalsmith project, add the plugins you need and leave out anything you don´t.
2. Leave alone for 5 years
3. Come back after 5 years: it still works (as proven by nodejs.org until 2023 a.o.)

Disclaimer: I maintain it.

Commitment to stability, no framework lock-in, and yes you can combine it with any tools or framework of your choice

My thoughts whilst reading the Next.js 14 blog post (for your convenience: https://nextjs.org/blog/next-14)

YAGNI YAGNI YAGNI

I just need to build a sustainable cottage and you bring me plans for the Burj Khalifa

I still use Notepad++ for fast loading large data files, quick edits to config files, and for detecting stuff like NUL chars.

My ex-PM once typed a URL starting with P on his personal laptop whilst screen sharing shared screen and guess which search suggestion came up hahaha. It was just a fraction of a second and I was the only one who noticed xD

@aviophille completely agree but I believe the chances of that happening are below 0 =/

Also, ofc, tobacco is not in the consumer price index, so all smokers take a hit (every year). I take issue with the specific devaluation of creative software work vs for ex a news article. This was also dubiously legally argumented but it is clear software devs were discriminated against simply because it was the biggest group of benefactors that cutting them off would bring a 75million euro to the govt budget.

To give you a more concrete idea about IT: function parameterization would not be qualified as creative work, but creating a new component from scratch would (hence max 25%)