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  • The other upside is that Google Docs aren’t entirely compatible either. So people are already used to imperfect versions and needing to pass around PDF’s if output matters.

    The biggest problem I see is Microsoft can only cleanly collaborate with Micrososft and Google with Google. The second you open that docx in Google, all bets are off.

    The real downer is the libre’s lack of supported online collab, that’s pretty much a requirement for business these days.


  • God, reminds me of the late 90’s and early 00’s

    PM: I don’t know what you’re complaining about with disk space on the public drive, you had duplicate files everywhere.

    Me: No, we don’t, There are no duplicates, I run scripts to find that.

    PM: BS, All the project stuff on the G drive is duplicated on P drive, don’t worry I deleted it off the G drive for you.

    Me: … you what?

    PM: I deleted it for you

    me: O.O would you go look on the P drive? It’ll be empty now.

    PM: nah, I just deleted it from G.

    me: go look, those where just drive maps on P pointing back to the

    PM: looking scared nuh uh… checks Why, why would be do that?

    me: Lead PM asked for a mapping to P: because they disliked typing in G:\Projects. We don’t issue you individual drives because raids are really expensive. Let the PM’s know the files will be back in a couple of hours, I need to go beat up Backup Exec for a while.












  • It couldn’t have been considered a booby trap, legally speaking, because it was a mailbox and was harmless for normal operation and traffic. I

    But it kinda was a booby trap. Guy was tired of his mailbox getting smashed, concrete, 8" steel pipe, railroad tie head, I don’t think he was going to killing the guy or even hurting, but it had happened many times and he knew it was a matter of time before it happened again.

    They driver was clearly in the wrong. the box owner imo clearly had intent.

    don’t get me wrong, i’m not mad it went down that way, fucking driver was a dickhead and playing stupid games, I would rather the mailbox just destroy the truck and taught him a lesson.



  • I’m well versed, been in IT for decades, and my only substantial gripes about 11 (when it launched) were the removal of taskbar features and the capitalism issues with the store, ads, and telemetry. And I suppose the unreliability of the OS to update itself is just fucking embarrassing.

    Now with the AI BS and their fuck you, you’ll get nothing and like it attitude, I’m now actively against them. Except for farming and selling your data and not being able to reliably update eating hours of users time, I don’t really care all that much. They’re trying to be secure, they could do a lot better.

    Win 10 was serviceable, apps worked, developers tested against it, it wasn’t hard to look after a herd of them. Updates were still shit, but it’s been that way since 8.



  • The post itself is just clickbait, but legal consequences are not all that clear. It’s honestly mostly about intent.

    Here’s a case where a guy’s mailbox kept getting run over so he rebuilt it with a railroad tie and an 8" pipe burried 3 ft in the ground packed with concrete, and the guy who smashed it destroyed his car and paralyzed himself. https://www.courtnewsohio.gov/cases/2021/SCO/1124/201057.asp#.YaUu6xZOnDs

    It went all the way to the Ohio Supreme Court where they found with a lack of intent to harm, the owners were not at fault, but that’s a near miss. He said he filled the 8" post with dry concrete mix so if it rained it might ‘firm up’ which is sus and then buried it 36" in the ground testifying he was confident it would ‘lay over’ if struck. I’m not saying he wasn’t morally in the right, but there’s no way those to statements were factual accounts of how that went down. of course, the driver seeing an 8" post under a mailbox would have been equally insane trying to run through it. I’m thinking with a different set of lawyers, intent wouldn’t have been all that hard to prove.

    Also, could you imagine needing to employ a lawyer through several court cases, an appeal, and ultimately state supreme court hearings to keep from being responsible.