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Call me cynical, but unless something removes these people from power, they'll keep trying until people get tired of hearing about it and stop opposing it.

Best things we can do are: keep being loud about it each time, look out for sophisticated attempts to sneak it into law elsewhere, and don't let it distract from a potentially even worse move.

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Windows hate train looks fun, but as someone who works in the industry, most of that code is probably just unit tests and boilerplate stuff.

Copilot is decent at quickly writing huge amounts of mostly correct, tedious unit test code, depending on your language/framework. And since Microsoft works with languages like C# and .NET for their native apps, and likely backend too, there is quite a bit of verbosity that Copilot can take care of. Also, documentation might count as well.

No real code is AI-generated. He's just saying shit like this to keep idiot investors happy.

I haven't encountered this luckily. The only use case I can imagine is syncing alarms and timers across devices? But...I use timers for working, and alarms for waking up. I don't really want those to sync across devices. And it doesn't really seem worth a backup - it takes 30 seconds to set a new alarm.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/technology · 5 pts · 1y

Every time I'm given a captcha, which is often since I'm on a VPN, I intentionally get the first few wrong, just to do my part to poison their data.

I've been frustrated with Discord already after their stint with NFTs 3 years ago, and now there are ads in the channel panel and the cost of Nitro has doubled. But, none of the FOSS alternatives work well enough to move my friends over there, in my experience. Hopefully this will spark some progress, especially if Discord goes the way of Tumblr/Reddit.

Unfortunately I've heard the list is not well-enforced, so the do-not-call list functions more as a list of confirmed working numbers with humans on the other end. That's why I've never tried using it...

I get probably 5 spam calls a week so if that keeps growing, I might have to give it a try...

on Operating sysrule · c/196 · 3 pts · 1y

Oh my God yes. I used a MacBook for work and it was a two-step nightmare to get it to connect to multiple monitors.

First, I had to plug multiple type-C cables in, one for each monitor, since Mac can't output multiple displays through a dock. And getting it to actually show on all monitors was a finicky process at best.

And then, every time I'd take it off the desk and put it back, all my windows and workspaces would be all jumbled up, on the wrong monitors, etc.

I needed to install Rectangle just so I could have a keyboard shortcut to snap a window back onto the screen, since sometimes they'd be inaccessible off the end of the screen.

Mac support for multiple monitors is not a smooth experience, to say the least.

on Operating sysrule · c/196 · 8 pts · 1y

Just gonna call out that programming isn't the only "real work" in the world.

on Operating sysrule · c/196 · 3 pts · 1y

Yep, it's mostly just about consistency across the dev team. This is coming from someone with multiple Linux machines for personal use and hobby projects:

At my first job, devs all had Macs. There was the occasional guy with Linux but he was always had trouble because all the scripts and dev tools were made for Mac, so he had to constantly be rewriting and modifying them to work on his machine, and wasted time doing so. Nobody used Windows for development since it wasn't Microsoft, lol.

But, when the Apple Silicon Macs started appearing, that's a different story...

on Share holder value · c/lemmyshitpost · 18 pts · 1y

As much as I'm rooting for this meme, the spike was very brief and the stock has been falling consistently over the last day 😔