@YourMom

Hey, this guy looks a bit like a character in my latest novel.

@Lensflare

Much to my embarrassment, the only Swift I've ever heard of is a small hatchback from Suzuki.

P.S. As fun and educative it is to tool around with your own languages, frameworks and such, it's actually not necessary. IMHO, C# is everything I've ever dreamt of in a programming language. It's easy enough to get you going in no time, yet efficient and powerful. I just love the way Unity implemented it.

I "invented" my own programming languages in my teens. I recall in one of them, there was this command "const" (this happended way before const came to mean constant), which was a block of code run constantly in the background, a background process, if you like *lol* Then, you were supposed to be able to stack a number of those const statements to run on top of each other. To my defense, I was only fourteen when I came up with that idea, but it's actually not very different from any asynchronous tasks/jobs/processes found in most modern programming languages. Making up your own MFTL is so much fun :)

I have no idea what you guys are talking about, but I'm not saying you're wrong. I do believe in science, but our current state of science can't explain everything, just like thunder was a mystery only a couple of centuries ago. Having visited two heavily haunted places, I know better than to dismiss any spiritual stuff as bolony. We are certainly more than our bodies.

P.S. I'm at the other end of the autistic spectrum, Asberger or, as my gf calls it, "slow ADHD". Can't stand any unnecessary, stupid distractions and bloat. I deeply hate any spellcheckers while typing, autocomplete, popups, "conversation starters", previews on hovering the activity bar, notifications, ring signals, sms signals, any beeping, squeaking, buzzing, whining, screaming, nagging, ticking, irritating noise, visual or acoustic.

@atheist

My apologies for an incorrect assumption. As kids with ADHD also hate Jira, then who likes it?

@retoor

Most people mature with age, while some just age.

@kiki

I'd love to read it. Tell me when it's out. I'm a novelist myself in my sparetime. I've published one novel based on true events. It's not an autobiography though; I'm afraid mine would be titled: "Reading to Help You Fall Asleep".

P.S.

How about writing a novel based on your life? It's a great way of processing your traumas, as well as giving strength to others with similar experiences. Then, when your book becomes an international bestseller, you can tell your mother: "You were right all along. My success is all thanks to you, bitch!"

What a terrible life! My deepest sympathy :[ After all you've been through, it can only get better. Let's hope the rest of your life turns out amazing :)

Ah, chit chat about temperature, how delightful! Here you are, my five cents of thought:

The extremes in my country range somewhere between -35 and +34, but more commonly go somewhere between -16 and +30. Our AC is adapted for Nordic climate and is our primary heat source. We usually deploy it when indoor temperature drops below +18. It's hardly ever necessary to use it for cooling in our agreeably cool climate. My small home office gets hot year round, though, but it usually helps just to keep the window open for a while.

P.S.

I have a cold shower in the winter/spring time when I'm chilled to the bone from foresting/gardening outdoors. Hot, or even luke warm, water on cool skin is painful!

@qwwerty

This is precisely what Atlassian do. I hate their last update of Jira with annoying suggestions in comments. Tried blocking them with AdBlocker, which either only blocked them on a specific Jira issue, or caused the entire page to go blank. Why can't there just be a fucking setting to disable any bloat? What's next? Animations? Auto-AI-generated comments? Fuck you, all tech companies who believe that users actually want to be distracted by senseless, impersonal bloat! Keep it simple, stupid!

OMG! 😲

Fortunately, it's possible to disable this nuisance! :)

It's just so typical of Microsoft to stuff their apps with shitloads of bloat that takes time to figure out how to get rid of.

@Lensflare

I take your word for it. I don't trust Google a bit. At least Microsoft is the lesser bad out of these two.

Thank you all for interesting and useful input. Those are all valid points. OK, I'll give Windows 11 a go on my laptop before October. If it breaks or I just don't like it, then Linux it is - despite of poor support for my Logitech mouse. I'm a bit concerned about my desktop computer, though. It was pretty high-end when I bought it in 2020, and it's still a nice piece of hardware that I'm perfectly happy with. It's also the only computer in our household (we have like...*counting*...8 PCs) capable of running VR. Yet, it doesn't meet the hardware requirements of Windows 11. I presume running any of my Windows-based VR games on Linux would be out of the question? It would really suck having to spend a thousand or two euro on new hardware just to be able to run Windows.

@tosensei

Thanks. This confirms my gut feeling of sticking with Windows 10 for now, and eventually update. To Linux :)

@ptothew

Video tutorials are not my cup of tea. Anyway, I know how to create a local account on Windows 10 and it's supposedly not that different on Windows 11. However, I read somewhere that Microsoft are planning on removing local accounts from Windows 11, thus requiring a Microsoft account. I realised I actually do have one, but am having issues with it. For example, their phone verification lacks support for my country. Yubikey works, we have it at my work, but it's too darn expensive for home users! No, I think I'll stick with Windows 10, and once that is dead for real, I'll switch to Linux- Despite of its cons, it still appears to be less hassle than dealing with Microsofts accounts, expensive yubikeys and such.

@TerriToniAX

P.S.

At home I use Cursor, which is just another fork of VS Code.

@tosensei

Well, you'd prefer any text editor, but I don't. VS Code is still the best for me.

Sure, it sucks that I can't choose my tools, but I have a full understanding of why. If everyone could choose their tools freely, it would lead to chaos and would be very difficult, if not impossible, for infra to guarantee any level of interoperability, let alone security, which is paramount in any serious business.

@tosensei

Yeah, but what are the alternatives? It's been a while since I tried any other source editors, but they were all crap in different ways. VS Code isn't perfect but it's the best I know. Also, at work I don't get to choose my tools.

Despite of everything, VS Code is still the best source editor out of the ones I've tried. RDi is the worst.

@lorentz

Probably. It's one of the three lines I added to settings:

"workbench.editor.decorations.badges": false,

"git.decorations.enabled": false,

"scm.diffDecorations": "none"

@ScriptCoded

I added these three lines:

"workbench.editor.decorations.badges": false,

"git.decorations.enabled": false,

"scm.diffDecorations": "none"

Dunno which one that actually did the trick, probably scm.diffDecorations.

@iiii

The annoying green lines and red arrows indicating diffs since last commit. Managed to sort it out now with the help of our internal support. The question remains, though: Why on fucking earth do Microsoft constantly change the setting parameters so you can't have a stable coding environment?

@jestdotty

On the contrary! Most users are from other countries, because we *do* have freedom of speech. Americans only have freedom to speak in favour of Trump.

Outlaw idiots and you won't have any problems with overpopulation.

I'm inclined to agree with those of you who think I should change to Linux instead. I was stupid enough to associate a Microsoft account with my Windows account and it felt like a fucking virus!

I couldn't agree more!