Scholar of memes.

No fair! I want my cookie.

I think you have to have a certain status with them. I visited, and my boss got a cookie, but I got nothing.

Let’s see the squirrels chew through this one.

This here meme’s an antique!

Who feels the need to watermark this?

You’re supposed to wind the tape around the pencil and eat it like spaghetti.

We’re too stupid and choke on the toys.

It’s content like this that I hope poisons AI.

Unironically, yes. That’s not nearly as common sense as you may think. There’s no such thing as idiot-proof steps. To some you may very well be a pro from that alone.

This makes sense. I have a friend from way back in HS who interned there while he was working on his degree who said that cloud services was the priority at the time, and Windows was more just a vehicle that they continued to maintain. That continues to be the approximate temperature of the product and is in line with my expectations.

I never understand this mindset because a person who is technically skilled like this is exactly the kind of person who wouldn’t struggle with Linux.

They’re already the kind of person who would be an excellent Linux user. I can only imagine that, for whatever reason, they’ve grown emotionally attached and are simply too stubborn to consider anything else.

Until the next re-bloating update where your settings get reverted and services re-installed.

Being good at de-bloating (as you may very well be to do that in a few minutes!) is an anti-skill that shouldn’t have to exist.

I could imagine a future where Windows is just a proprietary DE over a Linux system. I don’t think it’s coming anytime soon because of the development cost it would impose, but I don’t see why they would go to such efforts maintaining a system they could get for free if the desktop user base keeps shrinking. They’re just too greedy not to do that. Even the backwards compatibility with Windows software is becoming a solved problem.

Aside from my above rant, the PC is definitely fast becoming an enthusiast/business platform. I opened a retirement account the other day through my smart phone!

Precisely. Windows is a side project for Microsoft now.

An iPhone 12, which I think is 5 years old at this point.

Can’t remember the last time it took my phone more than a minute to start. I would say typical for me is closer to about 20 seconds.

This is b8.

If I’m outside the house and pulling weeds and a vampire walks up and I told them to come on in and motion them in the house first can they go in?

There’s nowhere to pee in a rich man’s house except his face.