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This. I already started using ChatGPT to solve problems because I can’t be arsed to read through ten vendors worth of documentation. It wrote me a fairly complete and accurate chun…

Sitting on Zoom with a permanent facepalm wondering how the outsourcers delivered a monkey when we carefully specified a lion.

I’ve had more critical OneDrive failures in the last two years than hard disk failures in the last 30 years. I’ve experienced actual data loss on OneDrive three times since 2020. I…

Mid 2020 I was asked to port an app away from Silverlight before it hit EOL in Oct 2021. I wrote the original app in WinForms in 2003. Having experienced Win32, MFC, ATL, WinForms,…

It's really fast so you can fuck the crapware off in record time. That point is in jest but it really annoys the hell out of me that the excellent work the core windows guys have b…

Despite writing tomes of scathing bitching about Windows 11, I have to say that the direction it's going in is the correct one. All they have to do is kill off the mandatory cloud …

No they don’t exist my side of the pond.

All the creatives I know use macs and iPads. Incidentally I’ve got an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil and use that for digital art and photography.

I’ve got an iPad for that. And all the detritus doesn’t fall out of the keyboard down my trousers.

Touch screen on a laptop increases my productivity 0%. It just makes my arms hurt and decreases my accuracy.

What particularly did you get screwed by with Big Sur? The only problem I had was with a Qt app that would not run on it and that turned out to be a problem with Qt rather than mac…

I've had 20 years of anxiety about closing the lid, hibernating, sleeping. Numerous working configurations became non working configurations after kernel updates and distribution u…

There is no such thing as a macbook replacement at the moment IMHO. There is literally nothing with the same quality, battery life, thermals, audio, display, keyboard and reliabili…

Yeah this. I pay for the WHOLE THING to work, not just bits of it, depending on the whim of the QA job someone did at a distro vendor. Been burned too many times. And now we have t…

Yeah this. Their managed services were absolute dog shit. It required me emailing a filled in word document template to someone to get a firewall change done and then they would fu…

It’s a desktop and I’ve got a MacBook Pro already. I quite frankly despise Linux on the desktop after trying to use it yearly for the last 25 years. Server fine. Desktop no thanks.…

I recently bought a Lenovo windows PC to run some software I needed that was windows only. It shipped with windows 11 Pro. Figured it wasn't going to be any worse than the win 10 P…

I've done a wide variety of things. I try to keep two disparate things on the go. Visual Basic between 1992-2000. C# between 2002 and 2015. SunOS/Solaris admin 1995-2002. SQL Serve…

I'm not really cashing in on it. It has become my sidearm. I think that's the best way to describe it. When I want to solve a problem it's just there, trustworthy, reliable and eff…

All our engineers cost more than the DC engineers we had before.

My only superpower is knowing what fad is going to make a stack of cash and riding it. The only thing I've actually honestly believed in and honed recently was Go programming.

We have many more people running our cloud that we had infra. It's far more complex.

Argos here in the UK can. Same day delivery which is reliable (unlike amazon!) or you can actually go and pick stuff up usually immediately at actual retail stores. And it's mostly…