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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 chunk of code the other day to solve a problem.

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.

It’s not a backup and it’s a shitty safety net for trivial cases. Fortunately I had beem backing up OneDrive up using Beyond Compare to an external disk and doing a binary comparison so I could find the cocked up files and recover them.

It’s funny the only time I’ve had to do a restore is because Microsoft’s cloud fucked up.

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, WPF, WinRT and looked into WinUI I decided to pass on it.

ANY other UI technology is probably a better long term bet than anything Microsoft come out with.

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 been doing is being compromised by the veneer of diarrhea over the top.

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 sign in everywhere, the telemetry, the crapware bundled with it, fix the S3 sleep problems, actually do some QA for a change, make the onboarding experience smooth as butter, deal with the buggity hellscape that is Windows Hello, fix all the stupid HiDPI weirdness, clean up at least 50% of the legacy shite hiding behind it and start respecting customers again and they will have a product.

Oh and fucking stick to one UI for a bit.

Edit: honestly I would love to use Windows on a daily basis. I lived through the glory days of Windows 2000 and it was consistent and dependable back then. Every step forward since has been two steps backwards.

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 macOS.

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 upgrades.

And that doesn't include some of the problems with the desktop software I've had.

On the server, zero hassle.

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 reliability on the market. Not even the most expensive machines can get anywhere near even an M1 MacBook Air on this front. The M1 MBP destroys everything else.

I develop software on it no problems at all. We are way past targeting one platform. Linux can be the destination for sure but like hell I'm going to do the dev work on it. Years of attempting to run Linux on a laptop or desktop have left a very unpleasant flavour in my mouth. It might work today but it probably won't tomorrow and I'm getting too old to waste my time futzing. It has to work right now, properly, today with no risks.

Note: I have a mandated Dell Precision 7670 for some work, one of the most ridiculously stupid computers ever made and far more expensive in this config than a high end MBP M1 Max and it's absolutely a pile of shit from a hardware and software perspective. If you ran Linux on it, it'd be worse than if it ran windows on it, which is already terrible.

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 the M1, sorry but I don't want to know on the hardware front unless Intel get anywhere near it.

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 fuck it up. Eventually I'd get whichever engineer they had on the phone and talk them through how to do it. One firewall change used to take me at least 3-4 days to get through.

Now using AWS WAF which admittedly costs more but not in wall clock time!