Yeah, Apple users will always defend the apple way of doing things, even if it's inferior in every way to everything out there.

I remember back in single-button mouse era, they defended this claiming that "the os is designed so you don't need a second button, so it's a non issue".

Or that stupid mouse with the charge port on the bottom, and yes, apple users defending apple "because duh, why would you want to use your mouse while charging? and also it's your fault for running out of battery in the middle of the day"

Apple users have always been a special breed.

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open two chrome windows, and some other program. now command-tab between all 3 windows.

ok so, you're running a single monitor now. Please, open chrome, open the inspector, and detach it so it's now two separate windows.

Now open whatever. An IDE maybe, or a word processor, whatever you want.

And tell me the combination to cycle between those 3 windows.

lol no. This is a case of "No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft".

it's not about "sysadmins want this". most sysadmins out there aren't UNIX wizards wanting to customize everything with shell scripts. They want something that works. Even if they have the technical ability, they don't want the LIABILITY of it not working. Anyone who has worked 1 single day in IT knows how short-staffed it can be when you have to spend half your day rebooting printers, swapping keyboards and mice, and re-plugging workstations.

Active Directory just fucking works. I tried running Kerberos here at home. It DID NOT WORK, there were so many vendor incompatibilities between Linux and FreeBSD (there are multiple implementations too, of course). Windows? just join to the domain. Want to deploy a program? policy it. Want to update the antivirus? Policy it. Want to block an app? Policy it.

On Linux you're looking at 1 week of tinkering and debugging that shell script to do what windows can do in one click.

Now, for servers, I wouldn't touch Windows Server even if my job depended on it. Linux all the way.

oh is that so?

on windows i can alt-tab between any window i want. On the mac i'm forced to use for work, I had to install a third party app to let me switch between my IDE, my browser window, and my browser inspector window. the only way for mac to do this is to use "expose" to show all windows and click on the right one, or go to the dock and right click on the app, and then click on the window i want.

macos only command-tabs between "the last window you used in the group of windows in the app"

also, on PC i can stretch a window between two screens.

what is the obsession with leaving software engineers jobless?

Why is every AI out there trying to, first of all, leave us software engineers without a job?

I think it's a false narrative: "all companies need software, and they can get it from expensive engineers, or from us". The reality is that: not all companies need software (at least not custom software), and those that do, already have as many as they need. Not every company out there is trying to be the next dotcom thing. Not every company wants an "AI Agent" to do whatever they do. And most companies are small, not FAANGs with thousands of "top talent". Even if you can replace the "engineer", in small companies the engineer fills many roles (IT, support, etc). Is an AI agent going to come to a desktop and unplug the printer and plug it back in?

And, why are we talking so much about replacing engineers? We engineers know the truth: AI can leave lawyers without a job RIGHT NOW. It can be trained in the whole corpus of the law, in every ruling, know every precedent, and you can give it the context of all parts in a trial and it can provide you with a defense. A team of lawyers can be reduced to a single lawyer and an AI. Why is no one saying this? Why are they only focusing in the "engineers will be replaced"?

I see many other lines of work replaced long before engineers.

even if you revoke my access if I know the GUID from when I had access boom I am right back in, and sooner or later you'll create some other endpoint that leaks valid IDs undermining your assumption about the need to blindly guess them.

that's not how any of this works.

this only applies to Chromecast second generation hardware. I guess what you're talking about is Android TV but in this case it's managed by the TV manufacturer and not by Google

I turned it on today after weeks and the first thing it did was update itself. it's working.

Not my experience. Our 1430W printed and printed and printed for almost 10 years with bulk ink from bottles (i had a continuous ink system). We'd be printing 2-3 A3+ pages, photo quality every day.

Heads finally died catastrophically.

We recently replaced it with a newer model with the EcoTank system (basically a factory continuous ink system). It's much faster too. The ink is reasonably priced but of course, bulk ink is much cheaper. We'll see what sort of ink we'll be installing after the factory bottles run out.

We bought an HP LaserJet 1100 in 2001. The only reason we aren't still using it is because it came apart. All plastics failed. the thing just crumbled apart. But man it was a fantastic printer.

Sure, parallel port only. But the thing even had PostScript (IIRC). Or maybe it wasn't PostScript but something similar - i remember it had FONTS and you could cat a text file with commands and have it print in different fonts (ok, yes, my LX-810 already did that in the 80s, but 2001 was the era when we were dumbing down peripherals and all depended on the CPU, modern printers just print a raster image, not a sequence of commands). It even had a slot for a RAM stick in the back!

That was our first laser printer and it was a game changer.

sure because applying tariffs on raw materials you don't produce sure is going to work great.

that's the key difference: you code. most people in tech above 50 seem to be now in "management positions" and code small scripts as a hobby to show you how clever they can be about a very specific task.

the worst kind is the ones that "used to code" and want to tell you how to do your job, even though they are not using the same technology stack. i had one of those. guy was a Foxpro programmer and he did all sorts of stupid things. then i learned "that is actually how you do things with foxpro". 10 years later he's still salty that "the company killed off the foxpro version of the program and had us rewrite it in .NET. i don't understand why. foxpro was perfectly capable". .. the app is a web app that connects to a bunch of external backends. and yet, he still couldn't see why foxpro wasn't adequate (or the fact that it has been unsupported by microsoft for 20 years now)

this is the kind of people who want to tell you LLMs are completely useless.

no because:

it violates copyright
it doesn't produce secure code
i wouldn't trust something from a machine
it can only write toy languages like JS and python, not REAL languages like C. real men use C, kid
script kiddies can't code
GET OFF MY LAWN now where did i leave my pills LINDA!!! DID YOU SEE WHERE I LEFT MY COPIUM? /s