Posts by nijam

>...none of you can prove that you exist in the first place...

I hallucinate, therefore I am.

Not sure whether I was ever in the first place, though.

Do you really think that Joe User will bother to lock his front door, let alone have somewhere to keep his keys?

Some of them seem to manage it, apparently.

"Microsoft has released Windows 11 26H1 but is warning the vast majority of users that it is not for them."

Microsoft has released Windows but is warning the vast majority of users that it is not for them.

Re: When it gets to the point where you can use 'export DISPLAY=remotebox.lan:0.0' let me know

Well, I'm a generous soul and I choose to believe that Wayland was based on good intentions. Or one good intention, anyway.

They have assiduously followed that path, and are well on the way (inevitably, as predicted by a well-known saying) to hell. Or a kind of hell, anyway.

I don't post as an AC, so they should be banned?

Re: I keep reading that...

> I wonder how long until they ban them.

UK ahead of the game there as well, remember the Red Flag act? Given the state of our roads, no-one will be able to use cars within a few years.

> ... remove all tax breaks and charitable status from the same private schools ...

...so that all pupils currently there will immediately require a place at a government-funded school. Doh!

Re: directions & priorities

I'm becoming steadily more inclined to think KDE and GNOME can disappear up one another's backsides.

> Microsoft needs to insource windows development again, the outsourcers are terrible.

And you think that will improve things?

Re: Filing bug reports to further enshittification

> Hopefully he makes fewer typos in his code than in his prose.

Actually, I hope his code is just as bad.

Re: If you

> ... Office 365 in Windows "just works" as long as the underlying hardware and software installation is in good working order.

You said "in Windows", implying that "the underlying hardware and software installation" is pretty much guaranteed to not be "in good working order."

> ...social media is a total waste of anyone’s time...

That's exactly what it was designed for.

Re: Well he's a goner....

> ...they bet the farm on wrong horse...

The real crunch comes when you (or for that matter his investors) realise he was betting with someone else's money.

Re: Rant

Allow me to venture the view that the world would keep on turning, and probably be better off, without corrupt governments exercising ever-increasing surveillance and control over the people they are supposed to serve.

Just because you (vehemently) detest (some) social media does not make this a good law, nor does it make the goverment that passed it (or other goverments that will inevitably try something similar) any better.

> users should avoid consuming untrusted input ...

e.g. software from a company that first exploits its customers, then insults them for being exploited.

Re: If this was slashdot...

> All wet dreams of MBA-types wanting to use cheap labour to replace expensive skilled workers.

... when, ironically, vibe coding would be only just about capable of replacing MBA-types.

Re: Are not council business requirements largely the same across the UK?

> Some councils have housing, some don't.

Surely you mean "Some councils have one or more items on their haousing roster, some have zero." Any numerate person can cope with the use of zero to mean none. So, do councils have established rules against employing numrate staff?

Re: He's right, as far as it goes

> The fact a thought leader at Microsoft doesn't understand ...

... anything at all shouldn't be surprising.

Is he actually an AI? Or just an A?

Re: Call me cynical...

> ... the man "hired" to "drain the swamp" is ...

... the swamp personified.

Re: Hmm

> They're too close to the product, don't understand the often silly mistakes customers make, and get very upset when the professional writers want to change their highly technical content into better and more readable English.

Unfortunately, unlike the developers, they're too far from the product. End of, in my bitter experience. You just go round a useless loop of the documentation team removing crucial information and replacing it with well-written, clear, easy to understand, errors.

Re: Always looking the wrong way at the wrong thing.

> I've spent this century avoiding Outlook so ...

... maybe you're not the right person to complain about the alternatives being no use to (fill in your choice of user category here).

> LibreOffice occasionally screws up some of the formatting.

So does MS Office, of course.

Also, most formatting "problems" come about because the user's PC doesn't have the correct fonts installed.

Re: Bring out the comfy chair!

No need to insult van Vogt.

Re: IF A IS TRUE, THEN A IS TRUE

> ... AI isn't going to fix crap software ...

It will fix the flaws in the various strains of malware long before it delivers any benifit in cybersecuirty, of course.

Re: Old hat!

> ... full unctionality of the site ...

Because the tour was run by the PR team?