I already started using ChatGPT to solve problems because I can’t be arsed to read through ten vendors worth of documentation. It wrote me a fairly complete and accurate chunk of code the other day to solve a problem.
I’ve had more critical OneDrive failures in the last two years than hard disk failures in the last 30 years. I’ve experienced actual data loss on OneDrive three times since 2020.
It’s not a backup and it’s a shitty safety net for trivial cases. Fortunately I had beem backing up OneDrive up using Beyond Compare to an external disk and doing a binary comparison so I could find the cocked up files and recover them.
It’s funny the only time I’ve had to do a restore is because Microsoft’s cloud fucked up.
Mid 2020 I was asked to port an app away from Silverlight before it hit EOL in Oct 2021. I wrote the original app in WinForms in 2003. Having experienced Win32, MFC, ATL, WinForms, WPF, WinRT and looked into WinUI I decided to pass on it.
ANY other UI technology is probably a better long term bet than anything Microsoft come out with.
It's really fast so you can fuck the crapware off in record time.
That point is in jest but it really annoys the hell out of me that the excellent work the core windows guys have been doing is being compromised by the veneer of diarrhea over the top.
Despite writing tomes of scathing bitching about Windows 11, I have to say that the direction it's going in is the correct one.
All they have to do is kill off the mandatory cloud sign in everywhere, the telemetry, the crapware bundled with it, fix the S3 sleep problems, actually do some QA for a change, make the onboarding experience smooth as butter, deal with the buggity hellscape that is Windows Hello, fix all the stupid HiDPI weirdness, clean up at least 50% of the legacy shite hiding behind it and start respecting customers again and they will have a product.
Oh and fucking stick to one UI for a bit.
Edit: honestly I would love to use Windows on a daily basis. I lived through the glory days of Windows 2000 and it was consistent and dependable back then. Every step forward since has been two steps backwards.
I've had 20 years of anxiety about closing the lid, hibernating, sleeping. Numerous working configurations became non working configurations after kernel updates and distribution upgrades.
And that doesn't include some of the problems with the desktop software I've had.
There is no such thing as a macbook replacement at the moment IMHO. There is literally nothing with the same quality, battery life, thermals, audio, display, keyboard and reliability on the market. Not even the most expensive machines can get anywhere near even an M1 MacBook Air on this front. The M1 MBP destroys everything else.
I develop software on it no problems at all. We are way past targeting one platform. Linux can be the destination for sure but like hell I'm going to do the dev work on it. Years of attempting to run Linux on a laptop or desktop have left a very unpleasant flavour in my mouth. It might work today but it probably won't tomorrow and I'm getting too old to waste my time futzing. It has to work right now, properly, today with no risks.
Note: I have a mandated Dell Precision 7670 for some work, one of the most ridiculously stupid computers ever made and far more expensive in this config than a high end MBP M1 Max and it's absolutely a pile of shit from a hardware and software perspective. If you ran Linux on it, it'd be worse than if it ran windows on it, which is already terrible.
Yeah this. I pay for the WHOLE THING to work, not just bits of it, depending on the whim of the QA job someone did at a distro vendor. Been burned too many times.
And now we have the M1, sorry but I don't want to know on the hardware front unless Intel get anywhere near it.
Yeah this. Their managed services were absolute dog shit. It required me emailing a filled in word document template to someone to get a firewall change done and then they would fuck it up. Eventually I'd get whichever engineer they had on the phone and talk them through how to do it. One firewall change used to take me at least 3-4 days to get through.
Now using AWS WAF which admittedly costs more but not in wall clock time!
It’s a desktop and I’ve got a MacBook Pro already. I quite frankly despise Linux on the desktop after trying to use it yearly for the last 25 years. Server fine. Desktop no thanks.
I recently bought a Lenovo windows PC to run some software I needed that was windows only. It shipped with windows 11 Pro. Figured it wasn't going to be any worse than the win 10 Pro I have to eat on my corp laptop. So I fired it up and was disappointed and though all the crapware was vendor installed. So I did a clean install of windows 11 pro from microsoft. Actually it was WORSE than the vendor shipped version.
It is supposed to be a professional operating system but really you're being force fed dog shit because you have no choice.
I spent a couple of weeks migrating all my stuff away and will sell the bloody thing on ebay when I get around to it.
I've done a wide variety of things. I try to keep two disparate things on the go. Visual Basic between 1992-2000. C# between 2002 and 2015. SunOS/Solaris admin 1995-2002. SQL Server 1999-2010. Linux admin 1998-present. Python 2005-present. Cloud infra/AWS 2012-present. Go 2015-present. I also did some random PHP and Perl things for stupid money in the 00s. Now I'm Linux, Go, Python, cloud infra.
What I really want to do is be locked in a room with a niche project I can look after until I'm dead a this point. But that ain't gonna pay the mortgage off...
I'm not really cashing in on it. It has become my sidearm. I think that's the best way to describe it. When I want to solve a problem it's just there, trustworthy, reliable and efficient.
What it does is allow me to circumvent demotivating and productivity draining pain which is seen elsewhere which is pretty much summed up as: shitty build tools, runtime environments, libraries, containerisation, IDEs, concurrency approaches, test frameworks.
Really it's a tool that allows me to actually get stuff done.
It's pretty much what I've wanted for years: a memory safe, GC'ed C with a stdlib that wasn't conceived in the 70s.
I already started using ChatGPT to solve problems because I can’t be arsed to read through ten vendors worth of documentation. It wrote me a fairly complete and accurate chunk of code the other day to solve a problem.