Ha-Ha -exactly

Cool. I feel like semihosting is almost cheating though.

Yeah it was inspired by Powershell. But it also has syntax that isn’t completely awful.

Yeah but often their trick is to push through the idea. It’s easier if people are just like “eh fine, I can just lie”.

Then later they say “it turns out lots of people have been lying! Lying is bad, so we need to stop them.” - then they don’t need to debate the idea of age verification because everyone has “agreed” to it already. They only need to argue that people must be honest, which is way easier.

Most reasonable countries have capitalism and regulations to prevent unbounded exploitation of workers and the environment. Moderation, imagine that. Something a centrist might believe in…

How “production” are we talking? Pretty bad idea if it’s an important work server. “Sorry boss, nobody could connect today because VSCode’s mojam.service hit one of its many many 100% CPU bugs”.

I think in theory there’s no reason it isn’t technically possible, but I doubt it’s set up to allow it because that’s a pretty odd thing to want to do.

Edit: oh you want to access it via Android. That makes vaguely more sense.

Erm because the centre never prevails? I agree capitalism is a centrist policy. I don’t know why you think the things I said were incompatible with capitalism.

Err no, that’s the right. You might be suffering from being American.

Yeah it’s kind of a shame. The centre is obviously mostly right about most things, but nobody really gets fired up about moderate positions. “Legalise euthanasia! But only in certain conditions and with strong safeguards!”, “Ban ICE cars! But we probably are still going to need oil for plastic and aviation fuel.” Yeah probably not going to get many people at my protests.

Political comments! For most sites I have two accounts - one for totally uncontroversial stuff with my real name and one where I am free to laugh about a dickhead who thought a few gun deaths being worth it, getting assassinated with a rifle.

The irony is tar thick.

I don’t think it is. It’s because the higher up people a) are 100% dedicated to Microsoft, b) spend all their time in meetings, and c) can afford to live close to the office.

They can’t imagine - or don’t care - that many employees aren’t Microsoft zombies, don’t do work that really benefits from being in an office, and have horrible commutes.

That’s why you frequently see these instructions from the top which then get ignored at the bottom of the chain, until they start doing ID checks (or time cards?) to force it.

It wouldn’t make sense as a layoff technique because they’ll lose their best employees. Also they do plenty of layoffs without RTO.

Yeah there’s absolutely no way this is the “most robust iPhone” like they claim.

Not sure what you “security” link has to do with anything, but Windows has had a pretty great security record for the past decade at least. Arguably better than Linux and at least on par. They do things like static analysis of drivers which as far as I know Linux doesn’t require.

There are still a lot of vulnerabilities, but don’t try to disprove this with a link to some CVE because there are also a ton of Linux vulnerabilities.

Also Microsoft doesn’t take the dubious view that security bugs are “just bugs” and don’t deserve special consideration.

Your tedious query if I had filed a bug report.

complaining in a random forum would change anything.

What gave you the impression that I thought it would?

Right but presumably they chose the names?

So did you file a bug report

It’s not a requirement to file a bug report before you comment on anything. Don’t be silly.

How does it work, then?

I’m assuming that’s a genuine question… Normally when people develop a feature they do it once and then it’s “done” and any changes to that feature have to go through the whole feature request -> it’s low priority -> wait 10 years cycle before they actually happen.

Essentially, you have to do it right first time or it might never be fixed.

It’s an alpha release.

You really think they’re going to revisit this? That’s not really how software development works.

It’s an alpha release.

I was talking about Flatpak.

It’s as easy as pie too; they show up right there on the boot menu: <screenshot of KDE followed by apparently random numbers>

I really don’t understand why people have this little awareness of usability. Show the freaking date normally! At least add hyphens.

We tried Dolphin and Konsole as Flatpaks for a while, but the user experience was just terrible.

Yeah I’m fairly sympathetic to Flatpak. It’s way closer to how software should be installed by users. But I have yet to actually use it successfully. Is it really ready?