CancerMancer

joined 2 years ago
[–] CancerMancer 2 points 1 week ago

The car still has utility to the person who owns it. It's "real" value is irrelevant to most people so long as it does what it was supposed to do when purchased.

[–] CancerMancer 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Once you purchase the vehicle, the damage is already done. There is nothing to gain from busting up cars people already purchased.

[–] CancerMancer 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

As someone who was raised in a conservative family but who climbed through a great many hoops to finally arrive at socialist thought: if you nutters were the left while I made that journey, I doubt I ever would have finished it.

The world has enough psychos in it, please stop hurting people who you can't even be sure are complicit.

[–] CancerMancer 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don't know why but some leftists will just find the dumbest fucking hills to die on, while completely ignoring real causes that actually move agendas forward.

Where is this energy in our unions and community groups? Where are these people in town halls and school board meetings? Where are the canvassers, the volunteers, the organizers?

Stop burning cars and start doing some of the damned work you cowards. Invest in your community and show people you're helpful and trustworthy instead of psychotic and destructive.

[–] CancerMancer 10 points 2 weeks ago

How dare you let the proles know we're bombing people for no good reason?

[–] CancerMancer 1 points 2 weeks ago

It’s all in one place. You look at your “feed” of things and your stuff with a new post every week is right there with the stuff with new posts every ten minutes.

RSS exists, sadly average people just couldn't figure out how to use it.

[–] CancerMancer 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

With our HP laptops they would work perfectly so long as you only ever used them with one brand of dock. If you mixed dock brands without doing a full restart (like say having one brand at home, suspending, and then using another brand's dock at the office) Wi-Fi, suspend, and several other features would no longer work or work intermittently. We had HP and Targus working on it, even their engineers were puzzled.

Problem was non-existent on Linux...

[–] CancerMancer 1 points 2 weeks ago

The difference is that if an upgrade breaks a Linux install (which is much rarer in my experience) I can often simply change the setting, revert the update, use a different distro/version, or even undo the change myself. Hell if it's was kernel deep, nothing stops you from recompiling yourself, if the problem warrants it.

We can more easily run special Linux versions in a virtual machine without having to do a bunch of registry/gp magic and hope it sticks because Microsoft likes to force updates through your settings anyway.

There are more options for dealing with problems and they suck less.

[–] CancerMancer 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can't be serious? People buy other file managers because the Windows one sucks so bad. I would know, I purchase our software.

[–] CancerMancer 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We are doing a review of all of our software to prep for Windows 11 right now. It's not going nearly as well as you think because not all software is consumer-grade.

Not too long ago a bunch of our scientific devices got knocked out by Microsoft fixing an old serial bug. Turns out all the software to run these was built to workaround the bug and quite a few of these items are long since unsupported (or the vendor is gone). Some of these are tens of thousands of dollars, we can't just replace these on a whim.

[–] CancerMancer 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Windows: "PROGRAM_NAME experienced an error: DEEZ_NUTZ"

Yep that's what we're calling a useful error prompt these days. So much better than Linux lol

[–] CancerMancer 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'd argue that as Windows continues to abandon its (relatively) sane configuration UI for the newer useless Settings screens, it has reached the point where it really is sometimes easier to just look up what you need to do in Powershell.

This problem is only getting worse over time, so I don't think it's fair to hand the win to Windows.

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