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!

@jestdotty

At least Windows has options (Logitech Options). I agree about the pros and cons, though. At the moment, Windows does the job for me (while with Linux I would do the job for it :P) I might reconsider in the future, if Windows gets more cons than pros as compared to Linux. For me it's about 60/40 and getting closer to a tie for each of Microsoft's stupid decisions. I haven't even dared trying Windows 11 yet, and from what I've heard about it I'm afraid it's not for me.

@jestdotty

It's like telling someone to mend their new car just so they can fit in a standard steering wheel.

I'm a dev but I'm not employed by either Linux or Logitech so why on earth would I spend any of my scarse sparetime on writing any code to pull their shit together? If the OS or the drivers require mending in order to work, then they are broken.

@Hazarth

Never heard of them before. Seems promising. Thanks for the tip! I'm definitely going to check them out.

Guys, you know this is exactly what the article against Linux brought up - that Linux enthusiasts tell you to base your hardware purchases on the OS instead of the other way round. I happen to like Logitech as their mice are the only ones with infinite scroll, a feature I can't live without. There's no chance in hell I'm spending any money just to settle with something worse. Sure, Windows is from hell with all its bloatware but at least most hardware manufacturers support it. I might be a geek, but I'm also pragmatic. So, if Logitech doesn't work on Linux, then I'm not using Linux. It's as simple as that.

Sorry, I think devrant just accidentally deleted someone's comment when I deleted my own comment. It's a bit buggy.

This article pretty much says it all:

https://itvision.altervista.org/why...

I'm sorry to say that I totally agree with it. Linux is a lost case. But, as one commenter points out, so is Windows. Feels like operating systems on PC are hitting a dead end.

@jestdotty

I use my own domain hosted on a web hotel.

Why do you need a Google account anyway?

I don't have one and I don't want one.

@Lensflare

If politicians are being serious about tackling the climate changes, they should legislate on product quality with heafty penalties for any manufacturer that fails to meet the standards.

Yeah, forgot to mention: At home I have a G502 gaming mouse. It's great for allround use and also quite durable. This is my second one. The old one lasted for many years despite of heavy use. It still works, except left click is quite wore down.

In general, Logitech are very inconsistent. Some of their products are crap while others are great. Some are great in one aspect while they suck in another. For example, I love my mechanical keyboard G513. It still has that crispy clicky feeling, but the key caps look terrible! Shift, Ctrl and the arrow keys looked worn after just a couple of months.

Gone are the days when things lasted. I bought a Logitech mouse in 2001 that lasted until 2018 when it eventually started glitching.

@kiki

*lol* Quite the contrary :)

This is my third Logitech MX Master 2S. They usually last for four years, which isn't great but still OK considering how much I use them. On the first one, left click got sort of numb and on the second one, the scrool wheel stopped responding altogether. Both of them connected through their own dongle which worked fine. This third one with BT does not, and I'm going to have it replaced.

@Demolishun

Shocking!

That's seven years ago. Most people aged 27 have turned into fine young responsible adults. So I guess there's still hope for them :)

In general, the vast majority of young people of today are far more polite, ambitious and orderly than people my age (generation X) ever were as kids. Many smoked and acted rude, hardly anone gave a shit about school, girls were often getting groped, and there was a fight in the schoolyard almost every recess...wait a minute, maybe it isn't my generation's fault at all, but the one's before us. Many teachers in the 1980s were either to lazy or scared, turning a blind eye to bullying or anything else going on on their watch.

I hated school. A little for the education itself, but mostly for all the chaos caused by unruly fellow students and pussy teachers who preferred hiding in the teacher's lounge drinking coffee and smoking like chimneys (some nice role models there).

@BordedDev

My colleagues are *not* jerks :)

Cosmetic bugs such as typos are not even worth making a PR about. I just fix them on the fly.

This is the brave new world. AI gets to do all the creative and fun stuff, while humans are left with the tedious task to clean up the mess AI has done.

@AlgoRythm

Killing myself would hardly solve the problem. Heaven is run by a highly moderated LLM, ruling out all the fun like binge drinking and full frontal nudity. Hell is already overcrowded, and littered with ads for Tesla.

@D-4got10-01

Neither was I.

I'm saying like Chat GPT, "My apologies for the misunderstanding." :)

@D-4got10-01

It's a small country with small companies and IT departments too small to be divided into devs and infra/support. I've worked at four of them and it's the same thing everywhere. At least nowadays we have an infra team: When I started here we were not only fullstack developers, but allround "computer guys", running around supporting users with all sorts of braindead stuff like installing software, replacing batteries in cordless devices and editing AD. That sucked! Nowadays we have dedicated infra, and they are good at that.

@D-4got10-01

I am working at the IT dept. In my country devs and infra are both IT. Anyway, yeah, I'm already friends with the infra manager, but our company is rather conservative and stuck with M$.

At work I can't install any software of my choice so I just have to put up with all that M$ bullshit.

@Wisecrack

I agree that most people are retards :P, but I do *not* agree that all democracies would be fake. In an increasingly corrupted world, Nordic countries still stand out as relatively genuine and democratic.

@AceDev

I strongly disagree. What you're suggesting is little-endian, i.e. the least significant value comes first, making it impossible to make any sensible sorting on the date, provided that all reading/parsing/sorting is performed from left-to-right. having date first and year last is just as logical as having a decimal number format where decimals come first, e.g. 50.122 instead of 122.50. Plus it's inconsistent. As yyyy means a year from left to right, e.g. 2025 (and not 5202) it wouldn't be properly backwards neither, but an unreadable mix of left to right and then bounce back left again. Also, slashes (/) are bad for any strings as they are usually an escape character, and even worse for uris where slashes are used for directories.

@Lensflare

I couldn't agree more on DST. What a stupid idea that was, trying to fix something that wasn't broken just to cause a lot of unnecessary problems.

@Lensflare

Of course I'm aware of this :) But still, why can't different countries agree on some simple standards? It's not like they have to give up their way of life or anything if they changed their date format to something that makes sense. Talking about Sweden and changing standards, they used to drive on the left side, but made the switch in 1967, spending milliards to comply with the standards of their neighbouring countries. In my country we seem to have made a compromise though; many people drive in the middle of the road ;)

@devux-bookmark

I take it you're being ironical, right? :)