Anecdotally, working as a sysadmin if there’s one minority group that comes up more than any other it’s “Indian immigrant”. That being said, half of the 4 trans people I know irl are programmers. The others are an organic chemist and an alcoholic who lives off of her father’s disability check. Ymmv.

ReactOS isn’t Linux. It’s an open source reimplementation of win32.

Typo/intentional misspelling aside, it’s clear from context what you meant. Here’s a fun idea, let’s not call anyone retarded. It’s a slur against a marginalized group who have nothing to do with any of this. There are plenty of other adjectives to choose from.

He has his own instance? Lol

regarded (sic)

Surely you can insult musk without being ableist though? There’s 500,000 words in the English language. Choose one that doesn’t drag innocent people into it.

Another example is boot or login scripts that run on all the servers/desktops to make environment changes you can’t handle with group policy. This person is talking nonsense, they don’t know any windows admins.

Sounds to me like they chose to be helpdesk. It’s nearly impossible to be a windows admin without using PowerShell, unless you’re super old school and use vbs for everything.

They must be some pretty shitty admins then. PowerShell is essential for managing more than a handful of windows boxes. If you’re running server core (which you should be in most cases) PowerShell and rsat are the only way to manage your boxes

It is really weird, yeah. Half the commands are actual sentences. Tbf most of the common ones have shorter aliases (test-netconnection -> tnc, clear-itemproperty -> clp, get-content -> cat, etc).

The killer feature of PowerShell imo is the -WhatIf flag. I wish all shells had something like that, it’s fantastic for testing scripts without risk of damaging anything.

It wasn’t the first, no. But it was the first that was commonplace and implemented well enough that others almost immediately adopted it.

It’s the same as the iPad. Tablets existed before the ipad. Nobody bought them until apple created a market for them. It’s their biggest strength as a company.

If only windows and macos included a terminal…

That’s not a windows problem, it’s a user problem. The same scenario could play out with a shell script that modifies a hundred dotfiles. Lots of solutions on Linux help forums are “Paste this into your terminal. Don’t forget the sudo!”

As far as I’m concerned “windows key, start typing the name of the application” or “CMD+space, start typing the name of the application” is the right way to handle GUI. Apple nailed it with Spotlight and it’s vastly improved Windows and a variety of Linux DE’s

Lenovo does that too (or did 10 years ago, I haven’t touched Lenovo since). There’s actually forums full of hackers that will add your MAC address prefix to a bios dump for you for a price

Shit, they’re gonna want my DNA. I’m 1/8th Cherokee and I’m descended from Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Christopher Columbus, Abraham Lincoln, every signatory of the magna carta, Jesus, and the Mayflower. The actual ship. Don’t ask.

Thank you 23andme for telling me just how goddamn special I am simply for being born, now I’m not under any pressure to ever accomplish anything.

: I finally got it all setup but syncing isn’t working so I guess I did something wrong

$5 says you need a srv record or something that wasn’t obvious from the docs

Typically something like a political campaign will use a dedicated texting service intended to send out mass texts. They’re not copy/pasting them on a consumer level cell phone account.

That person believes you are having a stroke, but I didn’t see anything wrong with your post. Seemed perfectly legible.

Not true at all. The iPad excels at simple things and will do them much better than an ancient Thinkpad. The iPad cannot do specialized or complex things.

If they have a nub instead of a track pad, yes