That’s what I don’t want to understand. The experience is not premium, it’s like any fast food joint. Standardized, quick, efficient.

You’ll get a better experience at almost any small café next door.

Ok, I can get that at every single other cafe bar in town, but with a genuine smile instead of an American one.

What the fuck is premium about Starbucks?

Libre is rooted a bit in 90s design, with an OO object model designed to roughly mirror Microsoft 's COM/DCOM. I’m sure Libre has seen a lot of modernization - and I want that codebase to survive. But it’s also nice to have a second option, now.

Only Office is a Russian thing. Euro Office takes all the open source parts of Only Offices, forks them and rewrites stuff only handled by binary blobs.

It’s a quite interesting project, freeing that half-open office suite.

Yes they are. That’s why you take only the open parts of it, fork and rewrite replace all the binary blobs. That’s why you do your own change management and ignore the Russians. Read up on how the new project actually works.

Because the Only Office source is more modern while Libre Offices’s source code now is around 35 years old. At least that was the reasoning in one of the articles I read.

Oooh, kinky.

Yep, I’m just annoyed by lazy headlines.

TWICE AS MUCH COMPARED TO WHAT???

My left ball?

What really bugs me about it: The first step from “how to ungoogle your phone” is “go, give money to Google” by buying their hardware.

That all nice and good, but where’s the rest of the World Fuck Book, eeerm the Epstein Files?

Much too frequently, if you need to manage systems for a company.

THAT is my point.

I have spent too many nights unrolling and blocking Windows updates just to keep the fucking MS Exchange server happy. Or the damned 8 year old CRM software which writes to places that Windows now blocks access to.

Yeah it was paid time, but I’m much more happy if the systems I care about just run without hiccups.

So ultimately I just jailed all the Windows stuff in VMs which I can snapshot and reliably backup, which I can roll back (mostly, as long as it does not involve Active Directory) etc. Windows is inherently unstable, that’s my point.

The ultimate solution was to get out of that job. Yeah, I stilm do use Windows as a daily driver, but single use only, no centralized management and thats kind of OK.

Haha, are you aware of how many layers of Windows are just backward compatibility hacks? Architecturally Windows has changed a lot since Win98.

The fact that your 30year old business software is still running is just the fact that Windows has built in patches for some common programming patterns used at the time and someone having insight enough can enable/disable them (mostly).

Btw, the same for games. Windows detects specific games and re-enables former direct x bugs.

There are numerous layers of abstraction between your Win32 application and the Kernel, there’s no reason they won’t work on another kernel.

Oh. And of course it’s badly debuggable and frequently goes wrong.

I stopped maintaining Windows systems and focused on developing software - it’s so effing annoying that things always break out of the blue with a new windows patch versions because MS has bad quality control on their overcomplicated house of cards that is named Windows.

Are you wishing back for Ballmer? IMO things were even worse, then. When they built a new version of Windows that was so bad they threw it away after a few years and botched together Vista as a quick save.

Or for Gates? Who just missed and overlooked this newfangled internet thing in the 90s until they slammed the brakes and used loads of money to turn things around?

Or the Microsoft that successfully hollowed out monopoly regulations paving the way for the tech bro style off business we now have?

Your best bet to run it probably is on Linux with Wine. Or if it is MS themselves , they already have their own Win32 to Linux translation layers, for example DB2 for Linux runs that way.

I’m not doing it anymore now, but focusing on the hour hand was my stepping stone as a kid.

And then - someone else mentioned, what you need to learn is how to read the minutes, which count to 60 in 5 minute blocks.

Another post mentioned having an analog wrist watch helps, and I agree, that’s how I got quick with reading the clock at a glance later.

The basic thing I wanted to say in the first place: For kids it is not so easy to lean this.

Yes, I read the clock the same now, 50 years later. As a kid that was quite hard for me.

As kid I knew how to read the clock, still I found it confusing and I needed to consciously put effort in it and I’d need to take some time concentrating.

At some point I decided to just ignore the minute hand, the hour hand alone is good enough for most uses and that helped.

Interestingly early clocks just had the hour hand, the minute hand was a later invention.

Heh, I’m early Gen X bordering on boomer and as a kid I found it a lot harder to read the time on an analog clock as opposed to the Casio digital wristwatch I had.

Of course I could “decode” the clock, but it was not intuitive.