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[–] wings@lemmy.rimfaxe.net 47 points 1 day ago
[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And ya'll bitch about systemd 🫤

[–] softwarist@programming.dev 0 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

To be fair, systemd is like the Windows 11 of Linux software.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 2 points 23 minutes ago

You are thinking of snap

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Hardly. It does what it needs to then a bit too much more but in my experience all the pieces at least fit together and I've never had any instability from systemd.

[–] chraebsli@programming.dev 3 points 17 hours ago

*1400 patches in one month

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

we're gonna put copilot in EVERYTHING! it'll be great

bill arrives for the compute

we're gonna take copilot out of EVERYTHING it'll be uh

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol. Work is currrently trying to cram Copilot into critical business processes despite it being incapable of doing very basic things.

However, it has shed light on the fact that we have people in management who dont understand the fundamentals of how our business operates. Not that anything will be done about it.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

have they tried replacing management with copilot?

I mean with some of the managers I hear about, it couldn't be worse than the current situation....

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 26 minutes ago

I've always said that most middle management can be replaced by LLMs. And not even the more expensive models. Gemini flash would probably do about as good of a job as most middle managers.

Of course an LLM couldn't do the job of a really good middle manager. But most middle management is basically doing basically what LLMs do, and hallucinate and get things wrong just as often.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 90 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure notepad.exe is actually below the kernel. Its load bearing.

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can confirm it's not. One cool feature Windows does have is Windows sandbox, which lets you instantly start a blank Windows VM with no persistence. I was playing around with it yesterday and discovered it doesn't include notepad in the guest OS!

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 30 points 1 day ago

I'll bet the hypervisor for that VM is notepad based /j

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

still kinda pissed they got rid of edit.com after win7....

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They brought it back (well, a modern version) in Win 11.

It's available for Linux too!

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/edit/

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 5 points 23 hours ago

Recently revived my old gaming PC, decided to put Bazzite on it. Was a bit surprised to see that sudoedit had a menubar and everything, used to it being vim or something. Got even more surprised when I found out it was made by fucking Microsoft. Yuck.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

is notepad.exe still around? I was sure they had replaced it with a new Microsoft Store app with copilot and ads.

[–] OliMoli2137@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

yes, and i think you can open it with win+r notepad

[–] bold_omi@lemmy.today 1 points 23 hours ago

Yes, but they made it dumber.

[–] DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Notepad++ is in my opinion. It just should be at the side in mid air supporting a big lever under cmd

[–] Sina@beehaw.org 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait, is the current start menu thing really edge webview??

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 2 points 14 hours ago

It isnt, but it is a react native component, so it is running a JavaScript runtime

[–] fractal618@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Can you make the copilot icon 7 times bigger and have it pulsate?

[–] notquitenothing@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

I love these type of memes XD

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's horrifying, but I can’t look away…

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

File explorer should be way bigger.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 24 points 1 day ago

And with spiderwebs of connecting lines tying it to pretty much every block both above and below it.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Not sure what the Apple logo is doing there, though Macs did have Boot Camp until the Apple Silicon models.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

About cmd: if you trace back things like right-click > print, it's usually a switcheroo between 7 registry keys and 5 directories that ends in some.dll /arg.

[–] mHtt@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

missing level 0 = electricity.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

That tree reads like “build an apple orchard to discover gravity”.

[–] kazerniel@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not 100% sure, but I think civilization 6

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Goog's image search agrees with you: "The image shows a section of the Atomic Era technology tree from Sid Meier's Civilization VI". One thing AI is good for.

[–] kazerniel@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago
[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

I miss taskmanager. Should be right on top win32

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 day ago

Part 2: ReactOS stack