Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall

Post by adrianton3 » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #28

adrianton3 wrote: post #22

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I don't follow - why do you think HR would be interested in shiny hot new web stack keywords over anything else?

To a non-developer, every application they read might as well be a list of buzzwords. They cannot comprehend a word of it. Web stacks offer the opportunity to list more and newer buzzwords. Do I set up an interview with the person who lists "C systems programmer" or with the person who is a "full stack React, Tailwind, Next.js, Node.js, Electron, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS engineer seasoned in Javascript, Typescript, HT…

Post by atoav » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 5:08 PM UTC

rmunn wrote: post #41

atoav wrote: post #14

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Well I once watched an sysadmin with 430 years of experience swear his way through an installation process. Until I, back then a intern, pointed out that maybe reading the install instructions would have been a good idea, since there were some steps in there that would have saved us some time. We scrapped everything and reinstalled following the instructions and 15 minuted later it worked. I admit that I also often d…

Was "430 years" a typo for "30 years" or for "43 years"?

Post by ncr100 » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

didgetmaster wrote: post #33

I worked on a disk utility in the 90s called PartitionMagic that was one of the first ones to let you dynamically resize disk partitions. Maybe Samsung used that when naming their product. I am old, but I miss the days when the install process was copy . to / and the uninstall process was delete /

Post by applfanboysbgon » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

adrianton3 wrote: post #121

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #28

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To a non-developer, every application they read might as well be a list of buzzwords. They cannot comprehend a word of it. Web stacks offer the opportunity to list more and newer buzzwords. Do I set up an interview with the person who lists "C systems programmer" or with the person who is a "full stack React, Tailwind, Next.js, Node.js, Electron, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS engineer seasoned in Javascript, Typescript, HT…

A C systems programmer can definitely make a list of buzzwords as well. Also, let's say team A (10 C app/systems programmers) in a company asks HR to look for a C developer and HR comes back to them with 10 great web developers to be grilled by the engineers of team A - what happens then? Does team A shrug and say "welcome to our C codebase, we shall now rewrite it in tailwind or whatever because you are now here!" -…

Post by GandalfHN » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC

raincole wrote: post #16

malfist wrote: post #9

This type of writing is very grating on the nerves. It's not AI slop, but it feels the same way, where AI slop is trying to trick you into thinking every sentence is the pinnacle insight of human endeavor of all history, this writing stops every single sentence to say "Are you outraged? I'm outraged! You should be outraged! This is outrageous!" Especially when the outrage is that the user didn't follow instructions t…

The writing style has a name called ragebaiting. The gold: > Localization files for every language on Earth Yeah because English is the only one language that matters. Let's fuck up all the non-native speakers to save, I don't know, 50kb of text files? How could one frame this as a bad thing? > Help documentation with 40+ screenshots in 10 languages Seriously how Anglocentric could this author be? Even physical produ…