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New comment by ohgr in "The language brain matters more for learning programming than the math brain"

ohgr — Fri, 02 May 2025 17:36:55 +0000

As a mathematician by trade, the math brain is a language brain. Mathematics is about abstract communication rather than mechanics.

Oh wait neuroscientists, explains it all. A statisticians favourite target for being unable to interpret data correctly.

New comment by ohgr in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

ohgr — Fri, 02 May 2025 15:46:19 +0000

Install LTSC: https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links

Then use massgrave hwid activator.

New comment by ohgr in "Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US"

ohgr — Fri, 02 May 2025 15:14:48 +0000

390 million users. Say 10% on iOS. 39 million users. 18Gb on iOS last time

Yeah app distribution costs something. Finger in the air 10's of petabytes...

New comment by ohgr in "Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US"

ohgr — Fri, 02 May 2025 14:50:51 +0000

Fortnite - sit in lobby for 80% of the time and buy shit?

Tim just wants all of his cut.

And wants Apple to pay his app distribution costs...

There's no good guys anywhere in this.

New comment by ohgr in "Zoho halts $700M semiconductor plan"

ohgr — Fri, 02 May 2025 07:02:34 +0000

I expect the thinking went:

build chip plant, ???, profit!

New comment by ohgr in "A new sign that AI is competing with college grads?"

ohgr — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:07:19 +0000

AI is only killing jobs because people are killing jobs and blaming it on AI.

New comment by ohgr in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

ohgr — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:46:46 +0000

So couple of issues there. Never upgrade windows. Fresh install only. Never had a good day upgrading it.

Secondly, there isn't always a solution in Linux. I've got one now where something is utterly broken and it's 5 layers of maintainers down and no one gives a shit.

New comment by ohgr in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

ohgr — Thu, 01 May 2025 11:25:54 +0000

My Linux desktop experience...

I started with Linux installing it from floppy disks in about 1996.

In 1995, I was back on Windows 95 within a week because I needed to get something done.

In 2000, I was back on Windows 2000 within a week because I needed to get something done.

In 2005, I was back on Windows XP within a week because I needed to get something done.

In 2012, I was back on Windows 7 within a week because I needed to get something done.

In 2015, I was back on macOS within a week because I needed to get something done.

In 2020, I worked out I'm wasting my time on this.

I watch my colleagues and friend struggling with it. Lots of small papercuts. Lots of weirdness. Lots of regressions. Plus many years of server-side experience says to me "I should probably just use FreeBSD" in that space.

New comment by ohgr in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

ohgr — Thu, 01 May 2025 11:18:04 +0000

No Linux desktop delivers what the user wants, needs or expect. Only what the developers think they need and find interesting to fix. It's more fun reinventing wheels badly than fixing shit generally. Some people are lucky this aligns with their needs, but for most it doesn't. It's jarring and unproductive.

It needs corporate (or government!) drive behind it or that won't change. I'm not talking about Redhat either who appears to just be a holding pen for the above.

New comment by ohgr in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

ohgr — Thu, 01 May 2025 11:11:09 +0000

It works fine on airgapped networks with Ohook https://massgrave.dev/ohook

Office doesn't have to talk to the internet at all other than periodic license checks.

I won't run it without Ohook, even though I have a license, because the cloud shit has screwed me a couple of times.

New comment by ohgr in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

ohgr — Thu, 01 May 2025 09:39:12 +0000

There are considerable formatting issues when you're working collaboratively on documents with other people who use MS office when you are using MS office too.

We gave up for large documents, assigned an editor and just send them chunks of text.

New comment by ohgr in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

ohgr — Thu, 01 May 2025 09:35:02 +0000

It goes really fast if you turn off the connected experiences like linked in, the AI crap, the splash screen, all the cloud shit and crack it with massgrave.

Like office 97 speed.

There's your problem.

New comment by ohgr in "All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding"

ohgr — Thu, 01 May 2025 07:45:10 +0000

I fail to see how that is different to the situation today?

At least with less money they'll be able to fuck everything up slower.

New comment by ohgr in ""AI-first" is the new Return To Office"

ohgr — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:16:09 +0000

Got one of them. I ignore him most of the time. This has generated more ROI than his initiatives would have. Evidenced by the teams who do them generating a loss every fucking time.

His nickname, which he wasn't worked out, is the first half of a sexual lubricant brand because he's such a wanker.

New comment by ohgr in "Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools"

ohgr — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:21:00 +0000

They did this at my kids school. Then issued them all with iPads which half the software they need to use doesn’t work properly on iPad size devices.

Total fuck up.

New comment by ohgr in "Ask HN: Is there hope for Microsoft 365 support?"

ohgr — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:50:50 +0000

That's how big email works these days. Fucking sucks but it is.

I stopped running my own stuff after Yahoo decided it didn't like me one afternoon with no recourse.

New comment by ohgr in "Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?"

ohgr — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:28:18 +0000

As much as I'd like a machine like that, my 5 year old random Lenovo 10500 desktop is probably more useful as a daily driver machine than an older workstation class machine at the sacrifice of no ECC RAM. I bought it when it was 3 years old and will use it for 4 years then get rid of it before it hits the tail end, the power supply dies or something else goes wrong. You avoid all the weird problems, the depreciation, the energy costs running like that. And you gain things like relatively competent NVMe slots, USB-C and other luxuries. And the single core performance is better than Xeons of the era and earlier.

win11 ltsc works perfectly on it. With a solid background :D

New comment by ohgr in "Carnegie Mellon staffed a fake company with AI agents. It was a total disaster"

ohgr — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:56:40 +0000

Waiting for the proponent default responses:

1. Next model will solve these problems.

2. Humans would have done worse.

3. Something something prompt engineering something something.

New comment by ohgr in "U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent"

ohgr — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:53:00 +0000

Yeah similar. My company is US and have banned all travel to US. Said we can do stuff over Teams instead.

New comment by ohgr in "U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent"

ohgr — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:23:39 +0000

That's completely fair.