Of course Ruby is still a serious programming language! So many people on my GitHub fork my code to tell me to RIIR (Rewrite it in Ruby)...

Mango DB? Yeah I got that.

Want to try out the new Visual Studio 2026, but worried its full of AI crap. Still rocking VS 2019.

I saw this, and was going to post that exact video,

I even had to submit this as a solution to get rid of that stupid dingbat out of word, https://techcommunity.microsof... (linking to it because I hope it gets used as evidence towards them in court), I don't want copilot and I sure as hell don't want to pay for it.

I think the bigger problem at the moment is making sure the Microsoft Teams client will keep running without randomly crashing, doesn't help that my Windows 11 workstation only has 16 gigabytes of ram and is usually at 15 gigabytes used when at idle, just gives me an excuse to ask for more memory lol.

I once had my boss call me asking where I was and, I was at my desk, teams just randomly decided one day to stop working, now I get a little bit paranoid anytime that app isn't present in my taskbar.

Whenever I need to work from home, I just remote into my work station which is at the office, and it's a little bit easier to work since my home computer doesn't need to spend all its memory and processing power running the Microsoft teams client.

I'm sure there was probably some unannounced zero day this update was protecting against, making the inconvenience all worth it in the end.

Windows 11 is becoming the OS that people will love to shit on, and of course, I'm no exception, eat shit you adware ridded, TPM requiring, local account disabling, Farming Sim suggesting piece of shit!

My phone already had a stupid Voice Assistant named Bixby that I turned off, and I think that was 2017, before that there was the Voice Assistant for Siri and all the other crap.

Voice assistants can be good, they give a good amount of accessibility to those who struggle to type, or have a disability, I myself occasionally dictate to my computer because I'm a little bit lazy typing. - I've also had a wrist injury in the past, I think what Microsoft is doing here is they just added an LLM\AI assistant to it, no different to what Google is already doing with their Google Home devices, yes the experience is a little bit underwhelming, and it sparks concern for privacy, now your PC is always listening to you, but so is my Google Home, I guess if they could have found a way to do it locally, I'd take more of an interest in it, but then there is only money in selling the service, so of course it will be cloud based, and of course you've gotta throw in advertisements.

I could see it being of actual benefit for those random assortments of tasks that you perform on a PC such as bulk renaming files to a certain format, if you could use natural language processing there would be benefit rather than not having to deal with regex and slightly convoluted scripting languages, it would be nice if you could just say to the computer "hey take out all the numeric characters in these filenames" or something along those lines.

All I can really say is this just gives me more reason to stay on Windows 10, more reason to revert back to Windows 7, and more reason to switch to Linux.

I've also already seen memes of how Windows speech recognition has been available in the past, so this is just a new worse version of it. - like now how Google Assistant tells me jokes instead of giving me the weather report.

Also, fuck you Yusuf I already have a true partner, I've been married to her for over 10 years!

Finally, there's the "AI in the box" fallacy, if you want to fuck with advertisers just record a bunch of random assorted dialogue and have a CD music playing device play it back in a room with your computer listening, keep the AI guessing. (I have seen videos of people doing this).

idk, I reckon you could have some fun with this, where does DirecTV get it's data from? Does the device have like an inbuilt camera or something? Or would it pull it from social media, or whatever the user decides to share? - either way I think uncle Aldof and cousin Bin laden are coming to a AI DirecTV ad near you!

Edit: I don't know what DirecTV is, as it's not available in my country. (Looks like our equivalent of Austar)

If our government wants to be able to monitor messaging services like WhatsApp or telegram, then it's going to have to make a significant investment in our Internet network infrastructure in order to even have the capacity to do so, still wouldn't surprise me given that we live in a nanny state!

It's a bad platform, but so are the majority of social media sites.

I actually don't know what reels are. And I have never used them, I'm only posting this because of my most recent experience sharing a video on that platform to show a vibration resonance on a machine, something I don't think is reels worthy, I think you can post videos as comments, but the paradigm as to how it organises and displays them has always been a little bit weird, I guess you could also post them as animated gifs with no sound, but the idea of that just sounds stupid. - perhaps an unlisted video on YouTube, but I think a 30 second clip would be considered a short, so your kinda screwed anyway.

Perhaps we need to regress to niche hobby forums, and host everything on Photobucket, lol.

For me Facebook is basically on life support, I remember when the news feed would show posts from friend and family and now you've gotta dig for that under feeds, or be engulfed in a torrent of AI slop...

Spotify could use this because their random shuffling algorithm absolutely sucks and is appalling, and not random at all.

F-you Spotify!

I'm already running a version of Office that was pre-copilot, (I ripped that copy from a computer running 365 before it was updated) I am waiting until my licence lapses and I'm reverted back to the classic tier in June, before attempting to update it again, otherwise I would just run Office 365 on my MacBook post Windows 10 EOL, problem solved.

Yes, they did add the ability to turn off copilot on the desktop apps, but I'm waiting until it's fully removed from my account.

Killing access to 365 on Windows 10 is like having a partner threatening to leave, and telling them directly, without emotion to just hurry up and go already.

There you go! it's good to see people are still interested in Windows 7 even after almost 16 years since it made its debut.

It would be nice if we could return to Windows 7 because it was a better operating system than Windows 10 and windows 11, windows 11 sucks.

I've bought from limited run games in the past as I am an avid big box game collector, the consensus within that community is that they are too reliant on FOMO, another issue I have with them is their boxes are just getting too big for the shelf, and now days, it's less about the physical game, and more about the tat that comes with it.

I am also not a big fan of some of their business practises, as they will try and dark pattern you into buying box or shipping insurance.

I've regressed back to the philosophy that games are meant to be played, what good is a plastic figurine if it doesn't even contain the game files?

I did buy a big box edition of Doom a few years ago (because the originals are very expensive), and it has a button on the side that plays the music when you turn it on and the box lights up which is kinda neat and a bit of a conversation starter, but other than that, it has mostly sat on my shelf.

I do like the kinda, Etsy style, artisan craft, farmers market that some indie developers go down, for example the 8-bit guys Planet X3 that came on real physical floppy discs for an IBM PC, that made the release feel contemporary, to the era of gaming that it was trying to portray.

I don't mind the idea of feelies but not to an excessive extent.

Streaming services were fun, but I've gone back to physical media.

I use\used a third-party service called just watch to distinguish where the content that I want to watch is located, because it moves around a bit and is actually quite annoying.

I have found it easier to go to an Op-stop\Thrift store and just pick up the DVD\Blu-ray version of said show for cheap, sometimes it's at a quarter of the cost of a monthly subscription to any streaming service.

And the show is just always there either on your shelf or uploaded to your media server, the annoying part is less companies are producing physical media now days.

Although I had an interesting experience recently when my partner wanted to sign up for Apple TV to watch severance, and I saw that the Blu-ray was available at the store (JB Hi-Fi) for almost the same price, and I went and got that instead, and the quality of Blu-rays is actually superior to that of what can be offered on streaming services.

Another experience was I bought the Breaking Bad box set because I wanted to watch that, and not sign up for another streaming service, but at the same time my partner signed up for the streaming service that offered that show, so out of laziness I watched Breaking Bad on one of the streaming services I can't actually tell you, might have been stan or it might have been binge (HBO Max in au), and I got through all of the seasons up until the final episode when my Internet shit the bed (because I live in Australia), so I stuck the Blu-ray in, and the quality was amazing and I regret not watching it from the Blu-ray from the start!

We've just been doing television content consumption wrong the whole time.

I loved word pad because of its simplicity, I actually just checked, and it is still installed on my Windows 11 workstation. - and you can save .docx files wow!

If I had intended to get any work done I would have just used LibreOffice, but I actually do keep an XP era machine running office 2003 in the cupboard as my doomsday device.

Windows would have definitely benefited from a small tables like application for very small home budgets and things, but I think most of excels power users have migrated across to using Python (among other tools), in my job, it is usually used as a line item list, but I avoid using it because it runs like absolute dog shit on the cloud, plenty of passionate power users though...