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What do you use then?
The biggest non-Linux non-iOS phone operating system is HarmonyOS, so I would assume he means that.
Well, that’s why I asked. You know what they say about assumptions :)
Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
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Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
#282Imagine if Fedora locked you out of vi because your Red Hat account had an issue. The unsettling part of stories like this isn’t “Microsoft bad,” it’s the growing assumption that local tools should be downstream of remote identity systems. A text editor is about as offline and fundamental as software gets, yet it’s now possible for account state, sync bugs, or policy enforcement to make it inaccessible on your own ma…
> if it’s installed locally and you have permission, it runs On macOS, only after you've run xattr -c to remove the Gatekeeper block on non-Apple approved apps.
Didn't macOS apps get locked/took a ridiculous amount of time to open because Gatekeeper servers went down a few years ago?
https://www.engadget.com/macos-slow-apps-launching-221445977...
Not as bad as the bug described in OP, but still pretty bad.
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
> if it’s installed locally and you have permission, it runs On macOS, only after you've run xattr -c to remove the Gatekeeper block on non-Apple approved apps.
Didn't macOS apps get locked/took a ridiculous amount of time to open because Gatekeeper servers went down a few years ago? https://www.engadget.com/macos-slow-apps-launching-221445977... Not as bad as the bug described in OP, but still pretty bad.
Yes, there is still the occasional delay in launching apps due to Intertube check.
Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
#284> I'm still a Windows guy, and I always will be.
This belongs in a BDSM website, not HN.
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#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was a windows guy for a long time. I went to macOS. Despite the complaints I've seen on the internet I've been very happy in macOS land. Someone mentioned that while macOS has "never been worse" the difference between windows and macOS "has never been greater". Granted things like gaming might influence someone to not make that move.
macOS seems cool in theory, but in practice it's not a "you own your computer" operating system so it's just a no go off the bat for me, i get it for people that just kinda stay in the center of the bell curve when it comes to computer use, but there's a 100% chance i'd end up in some situation where i'm fighting against apple's locked-down ness in approx 20minutes of owning a mac. i'm fundamentally never going to ac…
You don’t gave to login to an Apple account to use a MacOS
Re: Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
#286There are two technologies propped up by having to earn a living: windows and the iPhone. No matter the android phone, trying to get your MFA experience working with the umpteen stupid MFA apps is painful because all the dev work went into the iPhone versions. I hate it but yep I ended up buying an iPhone although I never buy them new. Windows is the other one and again it’s security related. More and more places sim…
Every MFA I know is TOTP now and it's interoperable with everything, even the Linux command line with oathtool
I used to work for a client who used Okta Verify. That wouldn't work under Linux, at least not without the org allowing it.
It looked like totp but I didn't have the info needed to setup a totp app.
It's still the system they are using.
My company had to buy me a phone just because of this.
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#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
imo, the 'grandparent' type user should really be on an ipad or chromebook etc. (unless they have some specific software needs). Too easy to get unwanted stuff running on windows and it needs admin.
Us "grandparents" built and continue to maintain the tech stack we're all using. I think great-grandparents are the new grandparents.
Thanks for reminding us computers have been around for a long time, and even some of those 'great-grandparents' were the experts in their day
I'm speaking more about more about my family and my desire not do sysadmin work.
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#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
For what it matters, Windows Server 2025 still has the edit field in a wrapper.
They all still do, just like the old Explorer context menu. It's what you get when you remove the new abomination.
You mean... I can just uninstall the Appx package and notepad.exe will revert to the old edit box? That would be great
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple has an even bigger loyalty problem. For them and Microsoft it's arguably good, but it's bad for users, even the loyal ones. It might even be bad for Apple and Microsoft long term.
I'm not saying Apple can't go the way of Microsoft, but if you've used macOS and Windows through the previous 5 years there isn't much of a comparison. Windows has gone from something I tolerated to something I absolutely dislike using. It's so bad that if it wasn't for WSL then I would consider finding a place to work where they didn't force me to use Windows. MacOS on the other hand hasn't really changed. The momen…
The new Dell XPS looks promising. I'm going to buy one when they offer the X9 CPU option.
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#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you ever actually tried to support a grandparent type? It's always easy when you've never done it.
As I said in another post, yes. I also don't fix ppls computers "for fun".
You seem to think grandparents too cognitively declined to use windows safely can be taught to use Chromebooks and IPADs instead.
What you are missing is it isn't always easy to teach a new operating system to someone with cognitive decline.
(And if we are picturing a grandparent without cognitive decline your suggestions makes even less sense.)