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New comment by vmpost in "How to escape meeting hell as an engineer?"

vmpost — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 22:55:03 +0000

I've heard "Let's not get into the weeds" so many times. Somehow, the time for getting into the weeds never seems to arrive, and things never get done... I've started scheduling follow-ups on the spot. You don't want to discuss this now? Alright, we'll meet again in two hours. It's worked once or twice!

New comment by vmpost in "Moderation in a public commons"

vmpost — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 22:51:08 +0000

Seems pretty level-headed. I appreciate their points about decentralization and the conflict between capital and the maintenance of a digital public space - it does read a little reactionary, but that makes sense. Much of the migration to Bluesky is being driven by Twitter, after all.

New comment by vmpost in "Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?"

vmpost — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 22:39:29 +0000

Hey, thanks for the write-up. I've been losing my patience with Windows for a long time, and seeing "AI" in an add on my start menu made me see red. I downloaded Linux Mint on my laptop for the first time and have been tinkering around with it for the past few days - it's definitely got a learning curve, but I really appreciate how flexible it feels versus Windows. I'm one of those people who have to go into Powershell with any new Windows device right off the bat, so I can remove most of the apps I don't need - an Xbox game interface, really? - but even I can remember a time when it wasn't this bad. I'm not even that old: the earliest Windows system I have concrete memories of is Windows XP!