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That's a brilliant idea. /dev/null as a service. Charge per byte.

Well we still need to handle AWS losing a region and hardware replacement. Does happen quite regularly.

Data lake after 2 years = data cesspit.

Docker only solves problems if you have a technology stack that's full of problems.

Pretty accurate. Everything I've seen that doesn't scale only doesn't because it was written by idiots who read lots of blog posts about scalability.

I'm still convinced we could run our entire software platform off 5 EC2 instances and an S3 bucket. But the last 10 years of technical mismanagement turned this into a microservices shit show. Splunk gets more traffic than our clients do.

Wanna bet? Vendors just used to mail you new EPROMs or send you the hex file.

Templating YAML is up there with putting lead in gas and invading Ukraine. It instantly turns me into an expletive spouting rage infested monkey.

And yes let’s not even get into the state of off the shelf charts.

I’m on windows 11 and haven’t actually noticed any yet. I’m not sure if that’s because I’m immune to all forms of advertising or I turned something off though.

What?!?! Most of the userland is C and we're still finding gaping holes in it after decades.

As for the API, the entire permissions system is just a shit show (inflexible, setgid hack, no MAC, terrible ACL implementation), ioctl (hack job), signals (totally inconsistent handling), links (hard complexity), open(2) flag craziness, then the semi userland crap particularly PAM recently and anything which involves delegated permissions from yp/nis/ldap. Urgh it's hell.

I'd rather write win32 if I'm honest these days. At least they have the honesty to break the API when it's dead by adding Ex on the end of a new one.

Top three bits of pain from me:

1. Constant weak reparsing of formats in shell pipelines.

2. Completely dangerous and unsafe API and principal programming language.

3. Trying to remember several different domain specific languages.

I've seen that quote a thousand times and I disagree with it profusely. After 30 years of it now on my part, I know we can and should do better. And that does mean reinventing it, not being resigned to the status quo.

UK here. I'd rather play candlepin because of this but it's all tenpin here :(

That's a microscopic problem in a macroscopic ocean of shit.

Lets be clear here. They were only tested on some developer's fast machine on Chrome. All the users are going to be using it on some bag of shit $300 laptop running crapware infested Edge so they will be suffering like your Firefox users are.

The problem is the left hand side of the chain. Stop pulling in thousand layer garbage abstractions and making the user pay the penalty for it.

Wow that's a whole lot of ire, rivalling some other large tech firms. Definitely worth investigating. I consider Cloudflare to be an annoyance generally but I hadn't put it in context to what they ultimately have control over.

Quite frankly you're extremely unusual. As much as I sound cynical here, the only reason we use open source stuff in our production SaaS is because we don't have to raise a purchase order to get it or go through the whole onboarding process which is a pain in the ass. The money isn't even the issue; it's there and available but it's a bureaucratic shit show trying to give it to people. And the same is true everywhere I've worked for the last 20 years. Yes I know this is wrong.

Business idea: If there was a single corporate intermediatory who would handle all this sitting somewhere we could create a supply agreement with and funnel the cash through to the right people we could probably deal with it. We currently do this via AWS marketplace regularly so we don't have to deal with the paperwork.

No one in my company ever replies to any emails therefore it is now a notification system only that no one bothers to read anyway.

What I need is a Slack bot that does what you want now. Slack is the electronic equivalent of shoulder tapping.

Ok I am apparently just cursed!

I haven’t had a single PC with windows 11 pro on that the built in product key doesn’t work with windows 10 pro. YMMV.

The UI is fairly consistent now. Certainly better than windows 10.

But yes tracking, monetising and marketing the shit out of people, no thanks! Hardly worthy of the Pro moniker when you see that.

My daughter’s one does the same for ref. Which CPU does yours have in it. Ours are both 3700U.

The issue is related to Radeon and power management. That’s as far as I got with debugging before my crushed soul put windows back on it so I could get some shit done.

There isn’t always a solution on Linux. I’ve hit a few things over the years where I’ve hit a wall and got stuck. On two occasions I fixed it myself and submitted patches and got entirely ignored. The bot closing your ancient PR that the maintainer of a large open source project didn’t even bother looking at is the status quo in my existence.

Now I acknowledge that I’m helpless on any platform.

I’m saying that everyone shouts switch to Linux but this isn’t an option for a lot of people and isn’t even likely the best solution for most. Most of the commercial apps have no viable alternatives on Linux or the open source market gap fillers are vastly inferior.

See my last edit. 22.04 LTS on a ThinkPad T495s Ryzen. Hangs after 2-3 minutes. Absolutely no issues on Windows. Last updated about 2-3 weeks ago.

This is the hilarious thing: https://ubuntu.com/certified/201906-27170

And yes it hung on 18.04 LTS as well.

I don't have the time or energy to deal with that shit in my life.

I disagree. I've tried Linux on the desktop over and over and over again from about 1997 and there's just problems with it all over the place. I have used it on the server for the same period. The desktop environment for a start has been incredibly volatile, the kernel maturity is just not there and honestly most of the commercial apps out there which are Windows or macOS only aren't available on Linux. Also sometimes updates break things terribly. To this day many people dread closing their laptop lids or running apt-update on non debian distros.

Ergo I stuck with Windows and used Linux in VMs when required. Then I dived out back into macOS about 3 years ago. This was just expensive, volatile and obtuse. If you stay within the rails it just works though and I'll give them their due; the hardware, particularly ARM is top notch. But again some stuff I need to do just doesn't work well on it and it's very pay to play. I feel a little exhausted if I'm honest after riding the rollercoaster on that.

So now, here I am with an ass end desktop PC again running windows 11 pro and it really does just work fine. I got one annoying notification which was gpedit'ed out and it's been wonderful so far with no further eye pokings. I don't get ads thrown at me. It keeps out of the way. There was one hardware issue which was fixed by replacing an HDMI cable with a DisplayPort cable. It's absolutely boring which is how I like things. If something does go wrong, a thousand people will have had the same issue, so I can fix it with Google in 10 minutes.

Edit: I feel dirty giving Microsoft some credit here.

Edit 2: notable commercial apps I use: Photoshop (sorry gimp doesn't cut it), Lightroom (and no darktable doesn't cut it) and Excel (libreoffice nope). I also have a Lenovo T495s Ryzen here running Ubuntu that hangs after 2-3 minutes on the desktop consistently.

I used to be annoyed about this until I experienced the tail end of Windows XP and Windows 7 in the financial services market. I've seen things that would make any sysadmin out there cry. I mean I'm still annoyed yet as a power user but I see why they do it.

I had this with a VSTO MSI package I was developing a few years back. Had to submit samples to Microsoft who whitelisted it fairly quickly. This was an EV signed package.

Only components packaged were Microsoft provided!

Yep. I’ve got an iPhone 13 Pro. Sometimes it absolutely mutates images to the point they are unusable.

Bought a Nikon z50 because this was annoying me. Shooting JPEGs and it does a vastly better job and it will still go in my pocket with the 28mm f/2.8 or the 16-50 kit lens. The iPhone is embarrassingly bad in comparison.

Also the automation is documentation for next time you have to do it. Even if it doesn't work!

My one. I walked into the office once when we had the cable monkeys in and the DLT drives and server pile was covered in plaster dust where they had been drilling above it. Both drives died within a month. Had to replace them and all the tapes. Cheap ass director bought a rack after that.

Edit: found potato cam pictures (this was nearly 20 years ago) https://imgur.com/a/gjyCOQj