i can't possibly move to linux you must understand my PC not booting is load-bearing for my work
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@davidgerard Jesus, Microsoft has really been letting some doozies of bugs through. Did something change in their development practices recently?
(Is there a symbol for rhetorical questions?)
@ainmosni @davidgerard how much slop coding are they bragging about this quarter?
@davidgerard Have you tried throwing the PC in the sea and moving to a log cabin in the woods?
@david_chisnall it would follow me around to haunt me
The Telltale BIOS Bleep
@davidgerard any time there's a tech headline like this with the word "botched" i can't help but think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3pk9CMwtN0
@davidgerard okay but in fairness, with Linux I have to do my own patching to make my computer unable to boot. That has been a lot of effort for me in the past, but I have occasionally pulled it off. MS is providing this as a service.
@brianpiper this is why Linux is not enterprise quality
@davidgerard @brianpiper the shareholders are not happy having to keep and pay in-house crews of experienced boot prevention engineers. 🤷
@davidgerard that's why people does not switch to Linux. On Linux, you loose one holiday everytime microslop pushes an update. /s
@primalmotion it's ok! we still have cloudflare and us-east-1
"exploring potential fixes and workarounds" means Microsoft has no fucking idea what to do here either
@davidgerard Of course they don't. They got Copilot to vibe-code some random feature, it spat out something that mostly works but with the odd side-effect, and nobody knows how it does what it does, as it's impossible to review.
LLMs are biting them, hard. It's been fairly obvious for the last year or so that the (already shoddy) quality of #Windows has plummeted. 30% of code is LLM-generated? Join the dots, Satya.
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The shit that happens when you fire many developers in favor of your own AI that NOONE wants to use..
Couldn't happen to a more deserving company.
@davidgerard “on physical machines” like “oopsie we accidentally broke your computer, guess you better just rent a VM from us, tee-hee”?
@arestelle *better run it in a VM on Linux
@davidgerard if you really need to run it at all
@arestelle i find the main barrier to going Linux is That One Fucking App, and a VM is an answer that works quite a lot
you can often reuse your box's OEM licence
@davidgerard @arestelle What's really funny is when That One Fucking App is also what's preventing an upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11, let alone onto linux
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@davidgerard I want a disembodied voice to intone this article every time someone tells me windows is "enterprise grade" and linux (on the desktop) isn't
@errant this is the hard evidence that windows is enterprise software
@davidgerard @errant Having worked for a few enterprises, this seems about right.
@davidgerard I wonder if "potential fixes and workarounds" includes firing all the slopslinging vibe coders and hiring real programmers again.
@theorangetheme "exploring potential fixes and workarounds" means "we have no fucking idea either"
@davidgerard "We're considering potential options and courses of action, up to and including 'doing something', 'making changes', and even 'fixing things'. In short: we have concepts of a plan, yes."