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akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

:rip: to this guy, but he probably wouldn't have been as excited about windows 11



edit: backstory of a cool guy who definitely wouldn't have been into the latest operating system from redmond
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3977077

akadajet fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Oct 28, 2021

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akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Kazinsal posted:

update: branding has now been changed to windOS

probably winos because back in the day you'd type "win", because windows was the winner's choice

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:

why the hell did he need two copies

maybe he was getting a second one for his mom as a gift

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1454337270488735746

get wrecked Tim

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Pile Of Garbage posted:

is this still the microsoft thread?

yeah. the old one was infected with linux so I closed it

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

I used a surface laptop once and I was surrounded with pretty people doing highly choreographed dancing

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Zam Wesell posted:

outlook search is SO FUCKIN BAD

god drat i hate computers

yet bing is alright and Microsoft has that cognitive search thing in azure. they could fix it easily

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

cortana sucking its toe .jpg

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

cowboy beepboop posted:

all on-prem exchange servers stopped processing queues on New Years because of a date bug lol

orgs should exchange it for a better mail server

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Shaggar posted:

anyone still using on prem exchange instead of office 365 deserves what they get

could you imagine janitoring that poo poo in 2022?

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Shaggar posted:

whatever the excuse people give for on prem exchange, the real reason is they're way out of compliance on licensing.

a lot of them are government. so checks out

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

yospos socialists think theft and violence is good so they probably all use on prem exchange

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003


480p exports. doesn’t look like an iMovie killer

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

AnimeIsTrash posted:

One of you windows nerds probably knows this. Is there any equivalent of screen or tmux for windows?

Yeah, it's called WSL and you can use any linux garbage you want.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Last Chance posted:

to clarify, i meant "trying to be as good" since you're right, people have been moving over to teams because microsoft has a stranglehold on company/education directory and people management, but teams does generally suck and has that feeling that a lot of microsoft products like outlook have where there's too much poo poo jammed into it and it's slow.

i mean i just opened our Teams channel (that is a ghost town because no one wants to use it) and I got a spinny icon for ~1 min before it gave up:

https://i.imgur.com/03702qu.mp4



its garbage

I had to use it for a microsoft interview and ended up using the web version because the native installed version just froze my computer. I've gotten recruiter emails for the teams team there too and I'm like "lol no"

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003


the old one never worked either

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003


I'm impressed that eve is still around and kicking after all of these years.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Shaggar posted:

the electron thing is worse. they're also looking at replacing the windows mail app with it which would be incredibly bad

the one person (you) who uses the Windows mail app will be very upset

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Beeftweeter posted:

microsoft spinning everything into cross-platform web apps is weird and confusing where is the monopolistic ms to make this easier to poo poo on

it’s because

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

this reminds me of when microsoft made it possible for excel to offload work to a compute cluster so that finance quants could have a supercomputer chug their colossal spreadsheets

Microsoft wants people to become dependent on their expensive and profitable cloud services.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Beeftweeter posted:

i still think it is bizarre that you can literally install Microsoft Edge for Linux from an apt repo on microsoft.com

I’m getting Microsoft emails about ie going completely out of support and it’s amazing

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

is azure even profitable

lol yeah

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

~Coxy posted:

sure, except that they don't let you join meetings in firefox or use a mobile browser at all

they have mobile apps and lol at using Firefox anymore

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

while true it is hard to deny that ibm is the real open source powerhouse, no one does more.

what does ibm even do anymore?

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

The_Franz posted:

they own redhat

I did not know that.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

gnome getting renamed Lotus Visual Desktop next release fyi

they really should do this lmao

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

make the default gnome password control show hieroglyphics

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

mystes posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/jsnover/status/1523010444570419200

Unfortunately they somehow ended up changing their minds.

he voluntarily took a demotion because he didn’t want to work on what he was assigned to work on. instead making objectively the worst scripting language the world has ever seen

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Armitag3 posted:

javascript was made by brendan eich, op

a javascript repl with .net interop would have been better than powershell

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

mystes posted:

PowerShell is kind of "Awful Taste But Great Execution" of a .net unix shell

powershell: the language of choice for those who eat rear end

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003


echi pondering a change in career to windows sysadmin

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Beeftweeter posted:

using WSL + mingw i compiled busybox for windows and lol holy moly this blurs the line between using the two even more

why do you need mingw with wsl?

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Private Speech posted:

use explorer patcher if you want to make it look like windows 10 in whatever ways, preferably the dev version it has more fixes

after using that it's fine

e: except for the missing tablet tiles mode and worse screen/hdr stability, that sucks especially for tablets and 2-in-1s, but I've made my peace with it

e2: also VR is a bit spotty on 11 too

yeah, I'm going to install a bunch of poo poo that will probably make things really unstable and brick the system next update. good idea

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

quote:

The file that you download may trigger a false positive alert in your antivirus program. This is fairly normal, a sign that the product you are using is decently capable, since it features detection methods a bit more advanced than what was state of the art in 1999. The program being flagged is usually done through heuristic analysis, not via a database of know viruses. That means that the antivirus program thinks that due to the nature of the code in this application, it likely may be a virus, a program that the user does not really mean to run. Injecting code into other executable programs is rarely done by legitimate programs. One such kind of legitimate programs is this patcher, that you deliberately choose to run and let it alter Explorer's code and memory in a controlled manner so that you achieve a certain effect. Thus, this patcher falls in the category of false positives: your antivirus thought such a program was not something you meant to run, but that's not the case this time.

"It's fine, trust us!"

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Beeftweeter posted:

tbf microsoft defender also flags the patcher that allows multiple RDP sessions on non-server editions

if you look at the code itself, it's nothing nefarious

not nefarious, but I'm not trusting random c code being injected into the windows shell as secure

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

qirex posted:

this standard that the commodore 64 supported is too difficult for microsoft to implement

Commodore 64 had general MIDI?

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Jenny Agutter posted:

tab hoarders should be thwarted at every opportunity

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

I only ever deal with tiff files when scanning film. how often do you guys run into it?

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Shaggar posted:

windows 11 is the new windows 8

it’s bad but not that bad

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akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Silver Alicorn posted:

what benefits does windows 11 bring to me, as a gamer

supports pee and e cores better if you’re on intel

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