One of my ex employers sold a construction company a six figure “building logistics system” which was just a Microsoft Access file. And the construction dudes had to use a CDMA dongle to remote desktop into a mainframe to open their access files. A travesty.
I reckon it’s hard to attach blame to Microsoft because of the culture of corporate governance and how decisions are made (without experts).
Tech has become a bunch of walled gardens with absolute secrecy over minor nothings. After 1-2 decades of that, we have a generation of professionals who have no idea how anything works and need to sign up for $5 a month phone app / cloud services just to do basic stuff they could normally do on their own on a PC - they just don’t know how or how to put the pieces together due to inexperience / lack of exposure.
Whether it’s corporate or government leadership, the lack of understanding of basics in tech is now a liability. It’s allowed corporations like Microsoft to set their own quality standards without any outside regulation while they are entrusted with vital infrastructure and to provide technical advisory, even though they have a clear vested interest there.
OK, but people aren’t running Crowdstrike OS. They’re running Microsoft Windows.
I think that some responsibility should lie with Microsoft - to create an OS that
I get that there can be unforeseeable bugs, I’m a programmer of over two decades myself. But there are also steps you can take to strengthen your code, and as a Windows user it feels more like their resources are focused on random new shit no one wants instead of on the core stability and reliability of the system.
It seems to be like third party updates have a lot of control/influence over the OS and that’s all well and good, but the equivalent of a “Try and Catch” is what they needed here and yet nothing seems to be in place. The OS just boot loops.
Why is no one blaming Microsoft? It’s their non resilient OS that crashed.
Or get medical care when we’re sick.
I think it’s the conservative movements final stand to be selfish, retrograde minded and cruel. The majority of people now believe in empathy and doing the right thing but those who don’t have doubled down on their ways.
My 2c anyway!
Religion is mostly to blame, but I think some of those religious teachings have been integrated into institutions and secular society as well. Notions that self gratification is a treat and not a need, the perception of masturbation that it’s some teenage boy temporary phase and not for women or older married men. The idea that it can’t be a social activity at all, even though it’s free and safer than drugs.
You guys have money??
I’ve been working my arse off my entire adult life and have nothing to show for it but debt and long term illness.
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In order to determine the best before you’ll need to solve the emo’s riddle.
Ghostbusters 2 - that painting and the pink goo gave me nightmares for weeks.
My inner Professor Farnsworth is disappointed it’s not called Zuzu…
How do you breathe? I’ve rimmed a few guys but never stuck my whole head up there.
I’ll be fine with the powers of the wizard king of Israel, weed and dinner for two…
Pretty much! I’ve been sales prospecting since November but it’s just a baad time to be doing that in terms of time of year and the pinch on a lot of company budgets out there. Uncertainty everywhere makes people nervous and not want to spend money on new contractors offering advanced 3D visuals etc.
Thank you for the kind words of support! Some very helpful advice in most of these and actionable.
And to those questioning my lived experience, perhaps a bit of victim blaming too, while I open up and ask strangers for help… what the fuck is wrong with you lmao
I have a veggie garden, three pets, two businesses, multiple digital and physical projects…
All the distractions in the world don’t help much when my husband is writhing in pain and we can’t even see a surgeon. The Australian health system thinks walking, being able to work and living without pain isn’t a priority, in the next week we’ll have been on the waiting list for a year.
It gets my goat when we can’t even get into the public hospital without having to walk 500m through the car park because the private facilities have taken over the entire complex.
Yeah I think I need to get more involved in my local progressive political groups… I can’t complain about the world sucking if I’m not committing to being part of the better change myself.
Thank you, some great advice and feels like affirmation I’ve taken the right first steps on my own, just need to keep at it!
Ah, I see one of the toxic family members is with us.