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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apart the "I have a hammer so everything looks like a nail" mentality, he sounds a little too condescending. The right follow up would be "then why are you doing W11"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

he sounds a little too condescending

more condescending than the idiots in this thread using a random troll as an excuse to soapbox about the evils of windows?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

hey that sounds a little condescending

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

you don't say

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Year 2086: JavaScript devs form a new country with a country code JS so that they can register .js domains.

Year 3019: There.js is.js no.js escape.js

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Id host so much malicious code at that tld. Can you imagine the amount of people who would just copy directly from the first page they see?

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I just asked a friend of mine that's former Microsoft from back in the day.

He said he was checking out telemetry and stuff from start menu errors. Said he saw 100+ function deep stack traces and that it was an IE WebView.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Sounds like the stuff on nightmares

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

This hurts. This hurts so bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

At minimum the Bing previews built in definitely calls a web view...

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The only way I can use WIndows 10 and 11 is with open shell installed. The built-in menu is completely dysfunctional. No shortcuts to my computer, or printers, or the control panel. The search bar doesn't work and can't find files that I know exist and can browse to in windows explorer. Whoever made this doesn't have a clue how to make a functional user interface. It's completely broken and useless.

Windows UI peaked with Windows 7. I don't care if the backend works better in 10 or 11. I would still be using 7 if I wasn't forced to upgrade to use Steam and play the latest games.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

XP was their last truly robust OS, it could run on almost anything and had such minimal requirements.

Windows 7 was the dream that they wanted to deliver with Vista. Win 7 was definitely their last top tier OS, especially when it came to games.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 58 minutes ago

I actually liked Aero, but my machine could not handle it when vista came out, also I had done a similar theme on GNOME anyway

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Once they remake XP as a Linux distro I'll be happy. Untill then I'm forced to use win 10 ltsc iot to keep my computer running as it is safely. Maybe SteamOS will become a good desktop distro in the future instead, thatd be nice too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

What you don't just have shell:::{A8A91A66-3A7D-4424-8D24-04E180695C7A memorized??

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago

No wonder it takes 20% CPU when you open the start menu.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

while looking into this online, i found this masterpiece windows11-react

(life demo)

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Why

WHY NOT? Why not just waste a week of your life creating a react project just to coverup your insecurities of how incompetent you are. Just Why not!

At least they're self aware.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

my web page blue screened. It is awesome that I can back arrow out of a blue screen. Server may not do so well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

The user's avatar is Max from Life is Strange 🥰

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, it is. I have no idea if the guy is telling the truth though, about being the guy responsible. Unfortunate that he shares a name with the Ubisoft executive.

EDIT: Alright, looking at the rest of his responses, he has got to just be a random guy, joking around, hahaha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago

there's no way he's not trolling and it's hilarious that everyone is falling for it

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

It's a little disturbing to me that most people didn't seem to ask this question. Like I get believing everything about W11 is shitty, but how do you ignore the tone of the replies in the post? And yes I know there are people who struggle with tone, etc, etc. But it's not like that's 95% of the users here. Occam's razor leads me to believe people are mostly just gullible especially when confirmation bias is a factor.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I’m a React developer

Does this sound insane to anyone else ? I’m not a something developer, I choose technologies appropriate for the application.

React Native would never be a choice on my list, but even so, it has a use case : making cross-platform applications with web technologies.

You know what doesn’t need either cross-platform or web technologies ? The start menu on Windows 🤦🏻‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

i'm a python "developer" because that's the only thing i can somewhat reliably manage to get stuff working in in less than a day

so if someone say's they're an XYZ developer i'd just assume that's basically the only thing they can wrap their head around

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Well it does if you want to serve live ads

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yes. I'm proficient in React, Vue, Angular, C#, Python, Node, Go, blah blah blah blah. I hate React Native (that's beside the point).

I would never say I'm an developer, that sounds dumb and restrictive. It is also really job-limiting which is not so great this day and age and is really about to get worse.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm being honest here, I've done things like this at prior jobs. It was mostly a reflection of unfortunate business decisions than personal preference or skill set, per se.

If my raises and promotions are contingent on me achieving a goal like "use a reactive JavaScript framework in public facing component" or "develop an application in NodeJS", then you better believe I'm going to do both of those things regardless of whether the right project comes my way or not. I will find a way. Q3 comes around and I haven't been given an appropriate project to achieve my goals? Yes, I'm absolutely going to integrate an LLM component into the project search function of our business reporting system so I can check off the arbitrary "AI" goal I needed to complete in order to qualify for the top tier raise percentage.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This reads dystopian to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 50 minutes ago

It is, but it's also real shit. Basically shows how the structure of the systems that people have to use every day, that their bosses buy for them because most workplaces aren't democracies, is determined by the incentives that devs have in their workplace. The latest Business Fad like agile scrum vs waterfall, or whatever is cool now, and also how bonus structures work + how the company culture works, all directly or indirectly affect the way software works. That's why studying sociology and anthropology is important, because then we can design incentive structures that get people making good software that serves humanity. I don't know if such a thing is possible under capitalism with a profit motive. I think in a postcapitalist world we could have honor and other social rewards go to the person whose software helps people the most. We are a long way off from that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When your daily quests don't line up with the story but you make it work anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That...made me feel kind of sad actually.

[–] tinkling4938 2 points 1 week ago

You joke but my UI is written in TypeScript: https://github.com/Aylur/astal

Granted it wraps mostly compiled code.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Jake Weary died for our sins.