I can understand why people get excited about Linux or *BSD. Infinite freedom, infinite possibilities, and a learning curve that never ends and loads you up with sunk efforts over time. Anyway, great fun!
I can understand why people get excited about MacOS. It’s shiny, oh so shiny. And it has a past that was apparently better than its present, and that still generates loyalty. It has a lot of the technical advantages of Linux / BSD, and instead of freedom, it has Veblen goods. Fine!
But Windows? I’ve spent the past 20 years with computer people, and I haven’t met a single Microsoft fanboy in person. Not one.
Many people use Windows because it’s what happens to be installed on their computer. Because they don’t have the authority to change it, or lack the skill, or simply have better things to do than fiddling with operating systems.
Mit keiner der Parteien bin ich vollständig zufrieden. Muss ich auch nicht sein.
Ich werde die Partei wählen, von der ich annehme, dass sie am ehesten in die richtige Richtung arbeitet, und am seltensten grundsätzlich falsche Entscheidungen trifft.
So ist Demokratie. Wer sich jedem Kompromiss verweigert, spielt am Ende nur den Faschos in die Hände.
Microsoft´s Outlook really needs a bulk edit function for calendar events.
I´m spending a quarter of an hour cancelling individual meetings ahead of my vacation.
Here´s a free user story for the Outlook team:
As an Outlook calendar user I want to be able to select events across a given timeframe and respond to all of them with a single action so that I can cancel all appointments during my vacation.
Now that the kids are a little older, my wife and I are realizing, with fascination, just how absolutely exhausting it´s been to Always Have Our Shit Together At All Times, come what may.
Bumbling through the technosphere. Easily amused.Messing around with #FOSS, baking #bread, paddling a whitewater #kayak, and #parenting a herd of kids . Sometimes I manage a Hello World without syntax errors in #python.Professionally, I help to build and run #trains with software and IT stuff.Middle-aged cishet white guy, trying not to be an asshole about it. Please let me know if I get it wrong.Toots auto-delete after 2 weeks. #noindex or I will punch you.