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  • Oh, you sweet summer child…

    Up to the 90s my friend. Then 3.5 floppy"s took over (1.44 MEGAbyte!) then came zip (100MB) but only for rich people, then it became the era of CD and later dvd burning. Internet was not measured in mbits back then and most of the time not even in kbits. The internet was not a valid delivery system. It was slow and very expensive. Also the first memory cards (CF) around the millennium and from there it went on to the 10s and around there you got the pivot to what we have now.

    Tape is still around in computing; its cheap, it’s cheerful, dependable and has quite a throughput. Seeking on it is still horrible though. But anyway, watching a real mechanised tapelibrary do it’s thing backing up computer systems is still mesmerizing.




  • Yeah, sure.

    You sound like one of those people who are the reason why we find the following warning on microwave ovens:

    WARNING: DO NOT TRY TO DRY PETS IN THIS DEVICE.

    And on plastic bags:

    WARNING: DO NOT PLACE OVER HEAD.

    We both know that this is not what it’s for. And it (model S) has never been cleared ANYWHERE ON THIS GLOBE as an autonomous vehicle.

    (Adaptive with lane assist and collision detection) Cruise control/autopilot on, foot on accelerator, no eyes on the road, no hands on the steering wheel. That’s malice. There where visible, audible and even tactile warnings wich this guy ignored.

    No current day vehicle (or something from 2019) has in it’s manual that this is use as intended. As a matter of fact all warn you to not do that.

    And I get that you hate Tesla/Musk, don’t we all. But in this case only 1 person is responsible. The asshole driving it.




  • Not that guy but another: No. You? Because Microsoft is a lot of things but walled gardens is something out of Cupertino. Not Redmond.

    You can call MS shitty and I would fully concur but a walled gardens it’s not.

    You don’t need ad, Exchange/outlook, m365, entraid. They’re nice for most users but you can live without and use other services in their place on any MS platform.

    Now, iOS… Have fun with that.




  • I somewhat got your arguments. I just don’t feel the same about current day powertoys. They are not needed, don’t add anything useful and don’t work in a lot of setups. Current day powertoys are not what powertoys of the past where.

    MS being focussed on the wrong shit to soon: well that has been true ever since the company existed. In the end looking back each and every innovation they did was needed but just years too soon and way too rough around the edges. I Guess we’ll see the same with ai. Some things will stick and be used by others but refined.


  • All the things you say are mandatory are a distraction at best. And hog a lot of resources.

    Spotlight run: adds nothing except being a slow down. It’s not that different from the standard search/run box. It just looks nicer. Way nicer.

    Fancy zones: does not work reliable on multi monitor/big monitor setup. Useless in my use case. Has been for several years.

    Fie renamer: … Really? This is a power tot these days?

    Screen ruler: i don’t need rulers on my desktop, i need them in my apps.

    Color picker: same. I do not have any use case for it. This is standard app functionality.

    Every time i installed powertoys in the last 4/5 years i shrugged, cursed at Fancy zones for not working in my setup and removing it after a few days.

    That’s the same usage loop as rainmaker or most stardock tools by the way. Good ideas but fucks up to many things.

    The new tabbed shell. (Or not so new anymore these days) Now that is a real powertoy. Or the lnx subsysteem.