I’ve been using Linux and MacOS my entire life, with brief stints on windows when my job has required it. Every time I have to use Windows I’m gobsmacked at some of the design choices, bugs, lag, and anti-patterns.

You’re absolutely right that it’s mostly the same, you mostly use the same apps, you still use a mouse to interact with them, there’s still a file system, etc. But when the experience is mostly the same it just makes the parts where they differ so much more frustrating in my experience.

Unfortunately my experiences trying to use Windows as a daily driver have been much like yours with Linux, I find myself messing around with stupid bullshit in a never ending cascade of settings menus, each more janky than the last, just trying to do simple things. It’s unfortunate Windows has become so janky as I remember it working quite well back in the xp days.

All this is to say, I think at this point Linux is often as good as Windows (it does depend on the distro, tons of bad ones out there), but familiarity is king. I’ve spent decades using all three operating systems, and have mainlined Linux since 2023, so that’s just what I’m most familiar with now.

I’ve lost track of what we were originally talking about, but yeah. They’re all good enough just use whatever you’re comfortable with and don’t overthink it I guess 🤷

You’ve used modern Linux and modern Windows and think the experience is almost identical? That’s an uncommon opinion.

Nobody thinks you can’t do software engineering on windows. It’s just worse.

It being foreign to you is literally an anecdote too you fucking idiot lmfaoooo

But that’s a slur that does hurt people. Clanker doesn’t, whether said in public or privately. I also agree that it’s not really a slur since it’s targeted at unfeeling robots. I think people mostly just call it a slur because it’s funny (to them, though morally classifying it as such is murky).

You said it was foreign to you… So I provided an example of it happening…

Last year my job refused to give me an inflation adjustment, then they laid me off 6 months later because they didn’t have as much growth as they projected.

Is that inherently a bad motivation? What makes slurs a bad thing? The fact that they hurt people? This doesn’t hurt people.

If the concept of someone staying in the same rental for a while and having their rent increase over time is that foreign to you then I don’t think you should be commenting on this topic.

You can be if you stay in the same place and the rent keeps increasing.

Banks will not give you the loan if you do not make enough such that your repayments would be less than 35% of your income. But you could very well already be paying more than 35% of your income as rent. Trust me bro not everyone is renting because they feel like it. One of my friends saved a $100k deposit but didn’t have the income to get a big enough loan for a house. These people aren’t just stupid. Buying isn’t an option for them.

Yes, it’s in favour of buying in the past. If you missed your window you’re fucked though. That’s why I bought, because I recognised the sliding window and knew if I didn’t buy now I’d be locked out of buying forever and instead get stuck renting forever. I don’t think anyone is against buying, just often unable to.

Yes I’ve applied. I bought a place last year so it’s very fresh. Banks being math-based is exactly the point. They won’t bend the rules for you. Plus the expense is mostly set in stone once you buy, whereas with renting you can rent an affordable place and have it increase year-on-year every year following, taking it from within that 35% to above it.

Banks don’t give loans like that to people who aren’t high earners already.

People could happily spend 50%+ of their income on their mortgage but banks will not give them those loans because they are seen as high risk, whereas people can rent at 50%+ of their income because there’s less risk for the landlord (their only real risk is having to find a new tenant).

Congrats, you’re in the minority.

Agreed 👍

I assume it’s people making (hopefully consensual) POV videos.

This hurts but I’m glad they’re ending it on their terms.

That’s fair enough. If you lead with this I wouldn’t have commented. I agree his recent videos have been more sensationalist, I just thought this one was pretty good, especially for the non-technical crowd.

I think you’re being pretty reductive here.

I agree his videos are usually mediocre, but as a cyber security professional I actually think this one did a good job of simplifying and explaining computer security fundamentals at a level that most can understand.

You and I have a ton of extra context that the average person does not, so that Wikipedia article might suffice, but the video covers far more than that Wikipedia article.

They clearly did more research than just reading that article, and they went to the trouble of reproducing some of the steps in the attack to demonstrate the danger it posed. This isn’t just a brainless regurgitation of the Wikipedia article as you’re implying.