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I'm on an engagement with a client that requires Windows to access their resources. Issues I've had so far:

- The trackpad driver doesn't support scrolling w/ Win 10 (Dell E7470). I know how to fix the issue but I don't have the correct user permissions.

- The buggy corporate printer helper has caused the laptop to shutdown due to overheating twice so far in two weeks. I'd disable it since I will never print from this thing, but...

- I've been trying to figure out how to install software I need without local admin privileges and now I have a Git installation that takes ~30 seconds to update the shell after each command. I tried everything in StackOverflow...

In all fairness, picking a laptop to use with Linux takes a little homework, but I've had no issues with Thinkpads or my current XPS 13 running Fedora.


Facebook will delete itself.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

Facebook interest has been steadily trending down for years.


That's not the way the Facebook user base and revenue has moved. But of course, why would anyone already on Facebook search for it?


An alternative explanation I've read for that chart is that fewer people need to search for it - the app is already installed.


Recruiters are not your buddy. Just like the salesperson at the car dealership is not your buddy.


I don't think that Red Hat announces release dates for RHEL. At least I don't remember one in the last 10 years.


Remember that time S3 went down and the only updates were on Twitter because the status page was hosted on S3?


Yes. When the AWS status page failed to accurately inform their customers for several hours, AWS used Twitter to ensure that there was communication with their customers.

What exactly is your point?


The S3 outage duration was only 4 hours.


I don't. But thanks for sharing, that's hilarious (for an unaffected person at least :D)


Lol, is this real? If so, hilarious.


Sendmail is deprecated. That was the first Unix service I ever learned to configure. This is kind of the same feeling I got when I heard music I grew up listening to on the classic rock station.


Remember the first time you had to edit the rewrite rules?


Remember the first time it was faster to change something directly in the hot mess of a config file than to edit the m4 and regenerate?


You could run pgbouncer in a fargate container in ECS. Still serverless technically?


This is politics in general. The power structure incentivises liars and crooks. It shouldn't be a surprise.


Perl was considered as the defacto scripting language in Windows until they settled on PowerShell.


cough VBScript cough


I also remember quite a lot of Perl script in the WDK (Windows Driver Kit) back then. Was surprised by it that there were so many perl hackers @ Microsoft.


How come? It didn’t ship with WSH but (only) JScript and VBScript did.


De facto, not de jure.

Perl’s COM module was excellent and made Windows very scriptable. This was back in the 90s.


Iirc there are some free servers you can use provided by Google and/or twilio.

Edit: STUN is free, Turn is not. Been a while since I worked with those.


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