Then you have to go into a resource file and find a very specific resource ID for your control panel string, and create a new resource ID to me it to.

Ah yes the joys of working with Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), Back in the day I supported a VS6.0 application, you have room for 65535 UI elements in an application (Including DLL’s) I had to split the ID’s up in ranges to enable adding new elements in a sane way.

But you must admit that page 763 of Encyclopedia Britannica is worth picking up!

Then you chose right! Regarding Ubuntu I have been using it for work VMs and it’s adequate, my current annoyance is that you can’t easily change the UI colours to distinguish different projects, because it’s not the “Ubuntu way”, maybe I’ll find a hack.

I hope one day you will read your comments from 2025 and think: “Oh shit, was I this obnoxious!”

I don’t think it’s dead, we found solutions like using Devuan and stopped complaining.

I can still laugh at the memes.

Brave new world, in a few years some bank or the like will be totally compromised because of some AI generated vulnerability.

That reminds me of Illiad’s UserFriendly where the non tech guy Stef creates a do_what_i_mean() function, and that goes poorly.

I would say this AI function generator is a new version of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM

Hitting people for credits!

I switched to Slackware for some time after I got fed up with RedHat 4’s broken rpm system.

It was a relief that the tar.gz packages didn’t have the habit of blowing up the OS.

They must be hauling the load downhill, what about the ones that hauls the load up from an open-pit mine?

No it’s the one it replies with

I have done several D2 playthroughs, but end up stopping part way through the barbarian tundra chapter, it’s somewhat boring.

Now I listen to Diablo 2 soundtrack, when I miss the game, especially the wilderness music, it slaps!

Ah those days when I was all fired up and re-installed Linux at the drop of a CD-R.

It’s definitely off topic.

There’s no analogy, because windows users are not fleeing.

I read it as a “wish for people to get fed up with windows” comment, and not a “windows users are nazis” comment.

And the more corporate the organisation the more rules, at least the places I have worked trusts developers enough to give local admin, that takes the edge off many tasks.

I expect they compile it like this:

g++ HelloWorld.docx.cpp -o hello.exe

Me: Stop playing with the Nintendo Billy and listen: Rawdogging is when a mommy and a daddy loves eachother very much, and want to make a little baby then daddy puts his pee pee into mommy’s wuu wuu…

Billy: eeeew TMI!

I prefer the multi thread problems that can be solved using queues.

#1 reminds me of Cartman (you could lean into that), #2 is more neutral and looks more angry