TBH using Bottles to run an exe feels more refined than the epic games UI.

They do the same when visiting Mexico which lies on the same continent as the Golf of America.

These guys are living in the glory. I bet they don’t even know all the info they need is just in a fucking config file, in a damn manual somewhere or in the stupid docs that people doesn’t seem to bother reading anymore, or writing some decent ones.

shlubs who barely passed undergrad data structures and algorithms courses.

And that’s the problem with most people getting into IT nowadays, they expect to go to an algorithms course or a development bootcamp and come out knowing everything to make a 6 figure salary, but don’t even try to learn what a software dependency is or how to fix their dev environment and expect GPT to shlub it up, when in reality many of these old school software programmers were self learning nerds who were just trying to solve (a) problem, and spent hours doing so.

Not to mention the sense of pioneering something.

something you’re happy to spend 80+ hours a week on, especially when basic needs are taken care of.

Vs writing the same thing that already exists with a different front end, a bunch of times with different examples, because somebody who has more resources (not just more cash, but also time) decides visuals are more important than real functionality.

Part of the reason I don’t like ‘coding’ or developing software its because is so dreadful and feels overly stupid when an open source alternative works better than what you’d be able to make before the deadline.

I just rather be a CTO / SysAdmin and live happier.

Programmers of the past didn’t have to work 2 jobs to be able to buy a house and live comfortably, less alone spend most of their paycheck on inflated prices for gas, food, services, etc. But hey we got AI and Amazon Prime now.

Isn’t that a byproduct/effect of capitalism? You could say the same thing about Walmart.

Classic Goverment / Army. Walmart. Taking a perfectly thing and finding the absolute worst supplier that will make it for the bottom of the barrel lowest price.

A couple hundred thousand at least, plus setup, on boarding and monthly maintenance fees if I could take a guess.

As far as I’ve noticed for as long as I’ve been alive, a corporation can get away with things such as:

• harm their costumers
• kill their employees
• tax evasion
• commit fraud
• bribery (lobbying)

And that is just from ths tip of my tongue, but for some reason laundering money is a big no no. I think only the alphabet bodies can get away with that.

Also that commercial real estate is more important than residential estate.

I’m Gen Z and did all that shit. I still remember the VG extraction methods to make eLiquid with THC from YouTube. And then kingpens and brass knuckles and others became accessible. The good old times …

Sponsored by gringos like you and me.

Dude I tired DEX once, I saw I couldn’t rotate the monitor or even find some type of settings and I never tried it again.

So everyone already said here they aren’t alive. They aren’t bacteria, they are viruses. What I remember from college classes is that we can classify them as agents. Or infectious agents. They rely on cells to replicate, which they infect in order to do so.

I have a X220 and a T14 Gen 2 (11th gen Intel core) and the quality is night and day. Also they introduced cheaper models like an E series, the L series and those have even worse materials or QC.

The other day I compiled libreboot. It was a fun experience.

I know back then we needed drivers for speakers, I remember the AC’97 hardware being more reliable and accessible than the HDAU, but a KB & Mouse?

The reason why you feel we don’t need driver discs anymore is because the internet allows you to download the windows binaries directly from nvidia.com but what would be the case if I wanted to set up a gaming station in a remote area? And also make sure that a flash drive won’t die, get lost or lose its contents over time for electron decay?

The other day I got an enterprise 10G NIC and it came with a driver disc lol. Is Intel X520 based.

There have been multiple instances of drivers simply missing from the installer. Like Mouse/Touchpad drivers. Or disk drivers.

This, 100% irks me to this day, but not as much as their broken reinventions of the wheel for an attempt to make it more ‘user friendly’ to install drivers automatically, that is if the user knows what Device Manager is, where to find it, etc. And then they broke that, and decided to include everything into windows update.

Did you know MS scans for drivers and uploads them automatically to their database, just to be paired based on the Hardware ID? I only see so much potential for malicious drivers with fake signatures its unbelievable, I am legit surprised no one has come with a PoC so far (and if you’re interested on working on it, send me a message, I’m kinda interested too)

I really miss the old XP days were you knew you had a driver disc somewhere, and could pop it in after a fresh install and let it do its thing. And the disc came with your motherboard / new hardware directly from the retailer.

and switched his workflow to GIMP from PS.

Wow I just gave up and started running that shit on Wine, I have never liked his content but I admire his dedication.

I use Krita from time to time for basic screenshot manipulation tho, I just wished it could print directly.

They never saw a cake base and dome? The candles could be stuck to the dome and blown that way…