Notices by Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)

do you ever catch yourself thinking "well, I've got a migraine and I've got to get to sleep before my doctors appointment, but on the other hand, how long could it take to install the beOS SDK and compile a simple GUI Hello World program?"

or is that just me?

arg. I think my nice portable container just failed to work because I ran it with insufficient levels of nice portable containerization.

no, you need to run linux inside linux inside linux inside linux, not just linus inside linux inside linux, that'll never work

for over a decade I've been getting hired at companies that are 100% linux shops and they've dealt with the problem of a lack of good linux laptops in exactly the same way

standardize on windows or mac laptops and just make everyone SSH into VMs (or run VMs locally)

All problems can be solved by wrapping another layer of Linux around it

someday we'll figure out how to run linux on a computer natively.

what the fuck windows
midway through a call, my bluetooth microphone stops sending sound, so I give up and switch to a pair of headphones with a builtin mic

and they won't work
so I reboot and they don't work, so I make windows forget, and re-pair them

now they pair, but they don't show up as an output or an input

but they are connected
just not as an audio output or input

and don't get me started on the fact that the actual windows clipboard is bullshit and chips. it was implemented in windows 3.1 so it doesn't actually hold the contents of what you copy, it instead holds a pointer to which application can generate the contents of the clipboard.

you can tell this if the program that's got the clipboard contents has hung, because you can't paste shit

for bonus points: open notepad, type "hello world", copy it, then close notepad.

then paste that text into something else.

does it work?

if so, HOW?

this is also why you can copy text out of firefox and paste it into word and it'll show up as rich text, but if you paste it into notepad, it'll be plain text

this does also lead to some weirdness with things like images. when you copy an image, what's on the clipboard? a PNG? a bitmap? a jpeg?

Yes. All of them at once. The program you're pasting into gets to pick which one it's going to ask for

MSDN, btw, has a warning that really really doesn't inspire confidence in the OS:

SECURITY NOTE: The clipboard should not be used to transfer sensitive data.

it's been 31 years since windows 95 and I'm still annoyed that they implemented the copy-cut-paste metaphor for files but they got it wrong

create folders A, B, C, create file "foobar" in folder "A"

copy it from A

paste it into B & C

it appears in B & C

cut it from A

paste it into B

paste it into C

it only appears in B

open text files A, B, C:

type "foobar" into A:

copy foobar, paste it into B, C:

it appears in both

cut it from A, paste it into B & C, it appears in both.

windows refused to actually commit to the clipboard metaphor for files, it just stuck a copy/cut/paste metaphor on top of an existing DOS-style file manipulation system

IT'S IN THE RECYCLING BIN DIPSHIT, YOU PUT IT THERE

copy "foobar" from file A

delete it from file A

paste it into file B

it appears in file B

copy foobar from folder A

delete it from folder A

paste it into folder B

windows says "whoops can't find that file"

the problem is that windows doesn't actually implement copy/cut/paste using files. it instead implements copy/cut/paste on top of file paths. this makes it not work the same as the actual clipboard

why do I keep writing code for the arduino

I hate this programming environment so much

it's also an environment that has existed from 2005 running on 8-bit micros to 2026 dual-core multiple-megabytes-of-ram microcontrollers that have wifi and HTTPS support