Microsoft keeps giving folks so many reasons to ditch Windows, its hard to keep up.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/115878252757179900
Microsoft keeps giving folks so many reasons to ditch Windows, its hard to keep up. A short but incomplete thread
"Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why"
https://www.techspot.com/news/110848-onedrive-backup-feature-making-users-local-files-seemingly.html
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/115878252757179900
Microsoft keeps giving folks so many reasons to ditch Windows, its hard to keep up. A short but incomplete thread
"Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why"
https://www.techspot.com/news/110848-onedrive-backup-feature-making-users-local-files-seemingly.html
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"Each new update (which will eventually be forced upon you) seems to bring more bugs than fixes. Personally, I encountered 2-3 full system crashes a week when I ran Windows 11 ... After a Windows update (that I didn't choose to do) wiped [my Linux] partition ... I deleted Windows 11 and used the entire drive for Linux"
https://www.notebookcheck.net/I-dumped-Windows-11-for-Linux-and-you-should-too.1190961.0.html
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"Each new update (which will eventually be forced upon you) seems to bring more bugs than fixes. Personally, I encountered 2-3 full system crashes a week when I ran Windows 11 ... After a Windows update (that I didn't choose to do) wiped [my Linux] partition ... I deleted Windows 11 and used the entire drive for Linux"
https://www.notebookcheck.net/I-dumped-Windows-11-for-Linux-and-you-should-too.1190961.0.html
"Microsoft's October Windows 11 update has managed the impressive feat of breaking localhost, leaving developers unable to access web applications running on their own machines"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/windows_11_update_localhost
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"Microsoft's October Windows 11 update has managed the impressive feat of breaking localhost, leaving developers unable to access web applications running on their own machines"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/windows_11_update_localhost
"That's 11 outages spread across seven months, averaging more than one outage a month. That's a lot"
https://www.neowin.net/editorials/microsoft-365-more-like-microsoft-404
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/115878252757179900
Microsoft keeps giving folks so many reasons to ditch Windows, its hard to keep up. A short but incomplete thread
"Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why"
https://www.techspot.com/news/110848-onedrive-backup-feature-making-users-local-files-seemingly.html
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@adamsaidsomething I have to use Windows for work, and man MS has --really-- been pushing OneDrive and Edge.
I think MS sees big $$$ with OneDrive as SAS for files. BUT Users really resent endlessly being forced/pushed into it.
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@adamsaidsomething I have to use Windows for work, and man MS has --really-- been pushing OneDrive and Edge.
I think MS sees big $$$ with OneDrive as SAS for files. BUT Users really resent endlessly being forced/pushed into it.
Yeah their working hard to take control and agency away from users. I read that even if you disable OneDrive, MS sometimes enables it again when it does a big system update
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"That's 11 outages spread across seven months, averaging more than one outage a month. That's a lot"
https://www.neowin.net/editorials/microsoft-365-more-like-microsoft-404
"Microsoft acknowledged Windows has issues [and] admitted that there are problems on almost every major Windows 11 core feature ... like the Start Menu, Taskbar, Explorer, and Windows Settings"
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Yeah their working hard to take control and agency away from users. I read that even if you disable OneDrive, MS sometimes enables it again when it does a big system update
@adamsaidsomething Yeah, involuntary 'opt in' is never a good look.
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"Microsoft acknowledged Windows has issues [and] admitted that there are problems on almost every major Windows 11 core feature ... like the Start Menu, Taskbar, Explorer, and Windows Settings"
Well they know what they gotta do deep down...
Remove all the AI shit and fix all other things
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@Otttoz Ora è ufficiale, per smettere di fumare non serve la prigione. Casomai meglio andare a sciare che riossigena i polmoni.
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Assolutamente da vedere. Cory Doctorow é ipnotizzante
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@mos_8502 I think, or maybe merely hope, that having deep expertise and actually understanding all the code being spewed forth at alarming rates (even if I haven't actually read most of it), has long-term value.
But, I don't think I have any choice about using it and staying employed. If I want to keep working in the field I'm in, I'm going to be doing it with AI assistance. That was up in the air until recently...but, the current generation models+agents lay the question to rest.
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@swelljoe My reply to the vibe coder in this scenario is "well, then, what do we need you for? Pack up your desk."
Now, this is not to say I'm 100% dead set against it per se. I would restrict its use to expert-level programmers who understand the problem domain, on the grounds that you need to know the language at a high level and understand the problem if you're going to debug and maintain the code.
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@mos_8502 the vibe-coder answer to that is, "I don't need to understand it, I just ask Claude to maintain it, too." And...I scoffed at that idea in the past. But, it's gotten really good.
I think it's still very dangerous in the hands of non-technical folks. And, I think most of the models are still flailing a lot (the frontier models are all pretty good, but Opus 4.5 is the one that Just Works, but all the lower end models are stupid a lot).
I dunno. The ground shifted beneath my feet.
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@mos_8502 I was dragged into using it at work, and I've had to accept that I was wrong about how well it works. I still have plenty of reservations about its use. But...it can write good software very, very, fast. And, in an agentic configuration (like Claude Code or whatever other agentic harnesses you wanna use), it can test its own work, verify outputs, etc. It's genuinely astonishing how well it works.
Whether I like it kinda doesn't matter. It works well enough to where it will be used.
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@swelljoe What worries me is the "competent operator". Best case scenario, the model generates perfect code that does exactly what the fuck it should -- and the user who prompted it has no clue how to maintain or debug the code.
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@mos_8502 I wasn't enthusiastic about AI for coding, but Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is remarkable. I can't really say I'm happy about it, but given a competent operator, it produces quite good, if a little verbose, code that works the first time most of the time. It writes better and more tests than I've found most human coders do, it often includes accessibility markup without being asked (another thing human coders simply don't do), and it documents its work.
