My company has a 6 month probation period. It also has a 6 month password expiry. Because of all the SSO nonsense, it’s quite possible for it to lapse without warning.

It’s now a running joke that get locked out on the last day of probation, and you’re expecting a call from HR any minute.

Linux.

Wait. WINE is not an emulator?! Why didn’t anyone try to tell me? 😂

I play HD2 under proton. Even if there is a rootkit, it’s sandboxed.

Ahh. Approving every piece of software would make them… Apple.

You did say “driver”, and Microsoft typically approves every single driver on the majority of PCs.

What do you think WHQL is?

The problem with CrowdStrike’s solution is that they got csagent.sys driver signed by WHQL, and the driver will download p-code from the internet and execute it. This allows them to push out changes without waiting for Microsoft approval.

The biggest problem occurs when you don’t sanitize your inputs and someone accidentally uploads a blank file padded with zeroes. The driver dereferences a null value, and crashes your system. Hard.

Haha I gota new head gasket in 2021. It was a $2K job. Still cheaper than getting a new car.

Shipping five separate executables to avoid CLI arguments is the most Windowsy thing ever.

I haven’t bought a new car since 2004. How fucked am I when I need a new one?

> 176 shots returned.

People chewed gum to fix their breath after smoking tobacco, and I don’t see people doing that anymore either.

The ads never said that gum was for smokers, but it’s for smokers.

I’m digging it. It reminds of reddit when it was good, which was like digg when it was good, which was like /b/ when… wait, /b/ was never good.

I can handle the Linux fanboys because it’s been my daily driver OS since 2003.

I do miss the driversity of topics. Yeah, I’m mostly about my computers and cars, but I like maintaining a surface knowledge of pretty much everything.

It’s 11 lines of trash code too.

The way the function reallocates memory would bring your computer to a crawl on a large string.

Windows doesn’t even have a software repo.

As a worst-case scenario, AFTL could just make you download it from the website and it would be exactly as bad as Windows UX.

You declare it as the first line after “function getNextDay() : date {”, then it is glaringly obvious that is a date variable that will (eventually) contain tomorrow’s date, and will be returned by the function.

However, I would only use “var” if it’s initialized in the same statement. It prevents Smurf code, and the compiler knows the type straight away.

Given a small and clean context, variable names don’t need to be specific.

30s software engineer / linux user here.

We are exactly who you want as the “primer” user group. We will collectively make sure the whole thing works before the load really rams up.