I'm happy that the USB-A is being phased out. Mainly because there are still too many fancy over-beautified USB-A plugs that are (a) large and (b) block neighboring USB ports.

So far, this wasn't a problem with USB-C, since it's too small to be f*cked up by the marketing.

P.S. But I guess it's only matter of time before they find a way to screw over USB-C too. "Progress."

P.P.S. Let's not forget that some companies still insist on using "USB 2.0 Mini" connector. In the past we had to stack Serial<->PS2<->USB adapters for the mice and the keyboards. In future we might need to stack adapters to connect those few remaining USB-Whatever oddballs.

My personal experience with charts for long sets of data: Excel starts going slow after I cross the magic 16K lines threshold - LO Calc basically becomes unusable when I cross the magic 10K lines threshold. Delete few hundred lines - and performance is back. Put them back - and the slowness (Excel)/the unusableness (LO Calc) is back.

... OMG. Great idea for a MCU movie: avengers & co as congressmen and senators try to pass a bill.

Iron Man can filibuster as long as it takes!* while Tony sleeps in the suit and Jarvis speaks for him.

Movie goers are the alpha testers.

I haven't even had a mac in decade+ now, but from my vague recollections MacOS images are generally come with their own file systems. (I've tried to recall an image format for MacOS that is a plain dumb block device - and couldn't. There is no /dev/loop on macs.)

And from this follows: there is a ton of ways one could fuck up performance with a shoddily implemented custom file system for a particular disk image format.

All of medtech has hard "expiry date". At the very least, accounts for mechanical/etc wear. Device may not be deployed after the expiry date.

If it were only to prop up the sales, the manuf could have simply shortened the "expiration" of their devices. They could have even installed some cheaper non-critical elements to justify the shorter life cycle.

I'd guess they done that already, but now want to extract even more from system.

Never had been a fan of the tabs feature (present elsewhere for decades now). It's bit like the browser tabs: it adds one more level of nesting, making switch between two windows a non-singular action, thus harder. It's fine as long as I'm sitting in this one application - but as soon as I need to involve 1-2 other applications into the workflow, then it simply messes up everything for me/requires too much of concentration. (It might have been a different matter if I could tab-ifying everything arbitrarily a-la older KDEs.)

P.S. ... But to compensate, they've decided to f*ck up the right mouse click menu in File Explorer.

P.P.S. This is a very easily discernible pattern in the Win11 UX: almost everything now is 1-2 more clicks away, compared to other OSs. It's just plainly bad UI/UX.

Search for settings and options IMO is fine. "Settings" are by definition not user-friendly, since every time you need to tweak them is a case of something not working like you need it to.

The main problem is that you can never find settings that are not there anymore. Or settings for "new features" that are not really configurable (and you notice that as if entirely delivered via web).

Settings aside, on a more basic level, Win11 became the first Windows where MSPaint and Notepad, after many upgrades, stopped being useful general-purpose applications.

Start menu, that was OK-ish in Win10, was made useless. To me personally: entirely dysfunctional compared to search. (And Search now is even more eager to send you to the web search results.)

The Win11's Taskbar remains by far the most counter-productive "upgrade" ever. Yes, you can still disable "grouping" and show titles, but. You can't move Taskbar to left/right/top. You can't disable overflow. You can't have two rows. If you need 10+ windows open, then you are out of luck. MS Office/etc alone take 5+ windows. Need to switch constantly between 3-5 reference manuals and 2-3 IDEs? Tough luck. (Even wider displays are of limited help.)

P.S. At least one could still change Alt-Tab to work in the old-style task switcher, without "previews"/with icons-only. Hurray! Something in Win11 is working! It's not complete failure!

Win11 sucks.

It's simple as that. So far I found many UX regressions - but not a single improvement.

Best argument for upgrade was always that it was an upgrade. Now this gone too.

Or more generally: Quality is a process, not outcome.

It's a well known axiom in all quality-oriented industries.

And even in software, there is the old saying: As soon as you introduce a benchmark for the metric, the metric becomes meaningless.

The old story is that Microsoft replaced test dept with Telemetry(tm).

Some softies recently noted that the buffers of quality that were there started now depleting, so the Win10/Win11 are riddled with system-wide bugs.

And then there is also change of mentality: Windows OS was a product before - but since Win10(?) it's officially a service, and not something customers own. Needless to remind, QA of a deliverable product and QA for providing a service are two distinct (often unrelated) categories.

They already don't. Got new Win11* corporate laptop.

The standard log-in configuration is only possible with passkey. Later can be changed - but first N reboots during setup/etc - only passkey. (IT had no idea if that could be changed or not.) So I had to promptly find another PostIt to write down one more password...

*With the brand new shittiest taskbar of all Windows OSs ever. After I've seen it and experienced it... No way I'm downgrading Win10 at home to Win11.

Are there any editors (beside VIM) that could consistently format code with Tabs?

A lot of people tried to copy me and use tabs, only to largely fail because their code editors/IDEs couldn't do it. Thus one ends up with a horrid mess of code that "melts" the moment tab size/indent is set wrong.

Being myself a veteran of formatting with Tabs, my suggestion to all: don't; simply enable automatic conversion of tabs to spaces in your editors, and forget that the tabs exist. (And as a VIM user, I can deal with it too, no problems.)

P.S. I didn't even know that the situation was so bad that they even formed "Team Tabs" and "Team Spaces"... Completely misguided dispute. Real dispute is "Team Tab Size 8" vs "Team Tab Size 4", with the freaky abomination "Team Tab Size 3" hiding in the corner.

Barely hours after launching the support for videos - with phased roll-out and harsh 60s limit - the BSky servers are already overloaded, and users report "capacity" errors for the video uploads. LOL.

The Chinese proverb you are looking for is:

The winner is a king, the loser - a bandit/outlaw.

The conflict with Chinese was baked in from the on-set: their culture has too many similarities to the Western one.