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Ironically, this is the result of various people at Microsoft at various times declaring "we need to scrap all this shit and start over"

There's some logic behind each, but each time assumes they don't have to do anything to port forward the previous approach to new UX standards as those will just die out. If it was roughly 13 screenshots of different developer experience, but consistent looking and behaving UI for the actual user, everyone could just shrug, maybe developers getting a bit grumpy about Microsoft's inconsistency.

Switching to Dvorak caused the gratifying result of people that would just start trying to use your keyboard without being absolutely befuddled.

The key map tends to apply to all keyboards.

The computing equivalent of a stick shift.

At what point do investors kind of shrug and stop believing his stated plans? He has waffled back and forth on this thing so much

More like the AI rationalized collapse of the industry.

The cuts largely have nothing at all to do with AI, but it makes for a very good narrative to spin at investors.

Funny part is I'm responsible for some software which needs just a little privilege.

The direct install option runs as a broadly unprivileged user, thanks to systemd service for imparting one, surgical ambient capability to the process.

A team that wraps it in a container however demands it be run privileged, because they say the container runtimes dont support the same granularity, so the container users end up with unreasonable privileges while the direct install users are almost completely running unprivileged.

Sure, though at least it doesn't take too many words to clarify...

windows app on the other hand..

Do you mean teams for work or school or teams for personal?

That compatibility matrix, the windows app does not support connecting to Windows from Windows.... That's some amazing product planning there from Microsoft...

I will second the suggestion at something like "expanded support for more image formats". One of my responsibilities is rolling the development log into customer release notes and I agree with the "changes that highlight a previous shortcoming can look bad", and make accommodations for that all the time. I also try to make sure every developer that contributed can recognize their work in the release notes.

"Expanded image format support" seems like something that if a customer hasn't noticed, they would assume "oh they must have some customer with a weird proprietary format that they added but have to be vague about". If it were related to customer requests, I would email the specific customers highlighting their need for webp is addressed after pushing the release notes

The only way it could really do it would be for the Windows shell to get out of the way, which it won't.

You can with effort have some sort of abomination where you get inflicted with both UI designs at the same time...

Realistically speaking, MFA most importantly is to get away from the "something you know" factor since that is generally more vulnerable. Even if it is a single factor, it's a better factor.

Also enables people to meaningfully have multiple factors if they choose. The password managers generally require a master passphrase and/or unlocking through something like "Windows Hello"

I referenced both parts of your comment. First that things were good without any segue as to why you think this contributes.

Then to your assertion that we now have these and didn't have then before due to lack of community, and I find that to be odd to say about a currently isolated incident that had nearly zero precedent.

There's not particularly good reason to stop doing it in that scenario either.

You have an offline technology stack in that elevator that has been doing the job correctly for 20 years. Why take on the expense and risk of changing things that aren't currently broken?

It would be crazy if you are building new to resort to that stack, but for an established elevator, why bother?

Same for some old oscilloscopes at work. I'm not crazy about the choice but I can hardly suggest it would be practical to change it while the oscilloscopes still do their function.

I would say it's a problem if the stack is online, but if it is self contained, the age of the software doesn't make it a problem in and out itself.

If your knees are screwed up from "just turning 30", then that indicates an expectation that you don't need injuries to have bad knees.

Repetitive impact injury can screw things up, but the vast majority of people bemoaning their old age joints especially in their 30s are not exercising enough and/or are obese.

Whatever the case, bring it up to your doctor, didn't assume changes like this are just normal/expected.

That is a rough situation, as from experience I can say trying to maintain a healthy weight will cause the obese folks in the family of accusing you of being anorexic and take any opportunity to try to get you to fatten up.

They also marvel about how I must have good genetics because my back and legs don't hurt and my blood tests come back so good at physicals.

There's a sweet spot. Go too easy and they get screwed up and go too hard and they screw up.

But it's true that being reasonably active helps a ton. Someone I know who complained of joint pain as they retired claims it went away as his leisure time caused him to walk all over the place, and now he's 70 with no joint pain. Closest he got was when we spent two hours in a crawlspace working on some frozen pipes and complained that his back hurt a bit and wondered if it was because he was old. No, even the 20 year old hurt after waddling around hunched over in freezing temperatures for a couple of hours.

This comment in the context of a guy bombing other people's IVF attempts? It's a valid choice to opt out for oneself, it's certainly not valid to force others to opt out.

Somewhere in the middle are the folks that take any opportunity to talk about how they think anyone having a kid is highly irresponsible, standing in judgement of people who have even one kid.

I don't care if you want to refrain from kids and stand by that decision. Closest I'll come to not minding my own business is to mention that people can change their minds, so you may want to hedge your bets with something reversible like an IUD instead of a hysterectomy, but ultimately you may stand by the decision and that's all your business.