Posts by Smartypantz

Re: I need classic outlook

Not an issue if you run your own mail server. As you should! ;-)

It's supposed to increase the lock-in to the MS Eco-system. Any user concerns was lost in enshittification decades ago. Windows is the prototype for this process

Sabotage

If Microsoft didn't sabotage their own GUI how would they keep people from discovering that web based "Azure Portal" system Administration is grossly inferior to the old ways of doing things?

On CLI: I can configure, replicate distribute and change any number of sites or databases in CLI on any number *NIX hosts a hell of a lot faster than the clicking and probing bullshit in IIS!! Of course this requires a lot of experience, but there is a major difference between "user friendly" (what i just described) and "beginner friendly" (what Windows GUI's used to be).

Re: Oh the (painful) irony.

None of those are Linux, they're distributions. Linux is the kernel, this is where the hardware drivers live. Distro fanboism just distorts from getting things to work!

Re: Utterly Pointless

You are so right.. The Web browser is a piss-poor operating system ;-)

Re: the company saw more of this abusive behavior

It's not "free" maybe to many people learned how to use encryption, thereby spoiling these spying assholes data brokering business (ie. selling your privacy to the highest bidder)

Re: Chrome

And, the fact that they just gave up half-ways to creating their own browser, folded and started modding chrome into "new edge" says a lot about how serious they are about creating quality software!

gentoo

Was actually also fine, ran it for a couple of years in the 00's, the switched to debian, and never looked back :-)

Re: Depart, I say, and let us have done with you.

Systemd is made for automated deployments in the cloud for organizations having the resources to maintain this approach, and, crucial, the resources to control the automated administration.

SysV init is usable by humans on systems run by humans. This enables independent computing, which runs contrary to the interest of the cloud vendors.

That's it. Sad but true

Incidentally, the same motivation is behind the insane release schedule of software like the chrome browser.

Re: Targeted advertising needs to die

Targeted content of any kind need to die! It's allays been the pipe dream of manipulating little shits that think they can predict human needs with what mostly amounts to keyword matches.

Discovery is an extremely important part of life, and the algo-driven dystopian desert that most people experience online runs contrary to that.

Always thought of it as ".NJET" :-)

Re: When will I be able to ...

No we don't !

Your slow as shit "anti malware" (aka snakeoil) ridden windows "servers" are to slow and unreliable to store anything on.

HAR - HAR

- Nelson

Re: git, wget

Yesterday, because i do this for a living and live in the real world.

Let me guess: You identify as a "developer"?

We cant all just sit around scratch our asses/navels and "use git" to load the tons off bullshit you need to "develop" the next , agile version of "hello world".

Some of has to get shit to work IRL.

Re: Crappy modern languages

Hear Hear!!

For decades the parole has been that developer time is expensive, machine time is cheap, so we should use higher level languages.

The green agenda and "cloud computing" mandates that a high efficiency languages like C and C++ directly translates to greener computing!!

Fewer CPU cycles = less carbon emission!!

Re: RE: switching up firmware and electronics (a bit offtopic, sorry)

This is why i would NEVER recommend "hardware RAID" over the fantastic stuff that can be done with the Linux kernel and mdadm.

Re: Get them Pitch Forks out!

Welcome to the new feudality, serf

Re: password managers

Hear hear

You can't trust any of that shit:

1. Make strong passwords!

2. Remember them!

KISS

Re: Switch to Linux

Windows OS is the preferred desktop OS all-right. For the cubicle squatting corporate drones with everything centrally managed, and monitored.

For those of us that actually would like the use of computers to be a pleasurable "experience" (to quote MS) Linux is the obvious choice.

Gaming.. Check

Privacy.. Check

Calm and uninterrupting.. Check

Stable.. Check

Powerful.. Check

Re: Breaking things

I have Production servers that i have been distro upgrading since 4.0 "Sarge", so your point 1. is bullshit, and straight out of the MS-way handbook.

The whole point of having a stable OS like Debian is exactly to be able to distro upgrade without pulling your hair out. Like the author, i have never had (undocumented), braking, update or upgrade, changes in the hundreds of production systems with Debian, that i have been responsible for over the years.

Some of us are actually payed to work with this. We can't just "Build a new server and transfer the data, and take our time about it too"

Re: Is Win10 stable yet?

So, to want stability, and productivity (like with, for example Windows XP) you have to have lived in the Victorian era in the 1800's?.

You sound like an ignoramus (ie. Windows 10 user)

Re: We used to be able to choose when we update

yeah, yeah

It used to be the default that you could control your own device in a simple manner. Did not need to fake being an IT pro and create group policies (explain that to grandpa).

The realm of controlling your own computing device is now solely in the hands of the Open Source operating system vendors.

Regular Windows, Apple and Android users are led to the (data) slaughter.

Re: Not for noobs

Hear-hear

The "Digital Generation" do not know how to operate a computer! All your downvotes are from young people that think that the Internet is either WebApps or "the cloud"

I makes me want to cry. The fact that all you need to have your voice heard on the Internet is an IP address, A hostname and the ability to use a computer seems to be completely lost on the new generation. They all seem convinced that to have an Internet presence you must be in "the Cloud". I fucking hate what the IT business has turned into. I Wan't out!