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Rose

@ umbraroze @piefed.social

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I'm just one random nerdy trans girl. ...Oh come on, you've been around fediverse, surely you've seen us around?

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • For 99% of computer users, if the GUI doesn’t have an option, it doesn’t exist.

    Literally 99% of Windows tech support is

    Have you right clicked on Windows menu, selected Terminal (Admin), then entered sfc /scannow and then DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth? ...ohhh shit you're still fucked up - well, maybe you need to completely reinstall windows, well, here's the page on how to do it.

    That's the difference with Linux. Your average user never uses terminal, and when they do, they find the tools suck.

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • Well, the commands that I presented (sudo, mount, umount, ps, kill, even lsof) are actually just normal commands that you use to do ordinary things on your system to manage account elevation, mounted disk volumes, processes, and running processes. You need to "memorise" them just as much as you need to memorise their counterparts in a Windows system (Run As/Explorer/Explorer Eject/taskmgr) (...what kind of nerd memorises Ctrl+Alt+Esc anyway?).

    ...except you don't have lsof, you literally need to install SysInternals Process Explorer.

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • I've used Process Explorer.

    "What file handles are open that match

    <This drive letter and then some>

    ?""Well there's Dropbox now.""Oh. Again?""Dropbox, I think.""Again.""Maybe nothing???""OK, let's try ejecting now." (It fails again.) "Are you sure no file handles are using this drive?""I'm positive.""Well fuck this then." (Unplug USB)

    Now. I said I've used Process Explorer. I didn't say I've used Process Explorer. I wish to be, one day, one of those frightening people who live and breath Process Explorer every day. There's still a long journey to get there, I know.

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • Which is exactly what I do if sufficiently annoyed! Problem is, Windows is usually hella vague about which particular devices have Quick Removal™®© enabled.

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • Told ya, Process Explorer just told me nothing, except Dropbox maybe.

    But it doesn't change the usage scenario. I don't care what programs are using the drive. I just need to tell them to fuck off, I need to unplug this drive at this moment.

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  • Basically, if you, as a regular user, cannot unmount a device, you can usually just go to root shell (sudo -i), see where the thing is mounted (just use mount) and then unmount it (umount /media/blah/floop). If it says the device is still busy, as root you can remount it as read-only and then unmount it (seeking documentation left as an exericise to the reader, as I'm sitting at a Windows system now).

    There's also lsof ("list open files") tool, which can be used to see which exact programs are using files on that device, which you can then use to kill those sneaky processes (ps, kill).

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Rose @piefed.social

    99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Rose @piefed.social

    Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot

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    Rose @piefed.social

    Always happens at the end of the Pride Month I guess

  • Just wanted to show off the lowest end hardware I ever ran Linux on

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  • The first machine I ran Linux on was a 486DX 33MHz too. I think it had 8 MB (or some weird thing like 4 MB originally and randomly stuck 8 MB addition? I don't remember anymore.)

  • Fox news trying to explain github.

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  • Pollo Request. What Walter White was always getting on his phone.

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Rose @piefed.social

    The 1,000,000,000th repository in GitHub has been created! And it's something alright.

  • race conditions

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  • Or, rather, most compiled languages are just syntactic sugar on top of assembly, and that's especially true with C. (Oh, you can use curly brances and stuff for blocks? That's sure easier to read than the label mess you get with assembly.)

  • if vibe coders built houses

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  • Reminds me of the time when AI image generation was new, and someone generated a bunch of screwed up road intersections with stuff like circular crosswalks and whatnot. Everyone was like "humans can't fix the traffic, but don't worry, computers can't fix it either." ...I think about it a lot.

  • top 5 unsolved problems in computer science

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  • My other pet peeves besides these:

    • Android locking screen a second before I jab the screen, every single time
    • YouTube app. Android and smart TVs. What's wrong with it? (Vague overall gesturing) It's garbage. How is one of the biggest tech companies in the world able to ship this and expect people to pay money for subscriptions is beyond me.

  • will document for sex

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  • "Documentation is like sex: You're not getting any"