I fixed the office WiFi not long ago and also wrote policies just last week that defined acceptable use of IT systems and what constitutes “abuse.” In smaller and even medium-sized orgs, it’s extremely common to have one generalist doing many, many things. It’s just that not many people are all that good at it.

But I am.

I wouldn’t say it’s the worst. There’s some pretty atrocious software out there. But OneDrive is certainly near the bottom. It never works quite right, is confusing to use, and has no easy way to admin it.

MG to launch first electric car with solid-state battery in 2025.

Wow, did not know that tech was fully baked yet. The future moves fast sometimes. As recently as 2-3 years ago, we were told a solid-state battery of this size/capacity and at this price was “impossible.”

Some clowns on Reddit will still be saying it’s “impossible” after the car has been on the road for five years.

I’ve been able to do that on Mac for years.

I will always disagree with the philosophy that we should design every tech product for the dumbest possible motherfucker we can locate. In most products, there should always be an “advanced” area where people who need powerful shit can do powerful shit. This used to be available back in the day — Gnome had it, and it worked great.

All that was stolen from us. I’m sorry, but I do not have a room temperature IQ. I need power. I need the ability to make things do what I want them to do. I don’t really care what others need. I used to but this “taking everything useful away” made me too angry to give a damn.

It will now be even more impossible to log out of Windows 11.

Microsoft wants to make sure there is always a way to steal yet more data. Clown-ass dipshits who argued (and there were many of them) that Microsoft wasn’t really engaging in massive data-thievin’ are looking awfully foolish now.

Sonos workers shed light on why the app update went so horribly.

This was a miscalculation, but the article writer does not understand what Sonos was actually attempting here nor what was their end goal.

The reason for this bit of ridiculousness is that Sonos wanted to position themselves as a SaaS company (and have Wall Street see them that way), with recurring revenue based on subscriptions. The app was rewritten for that purpose, ignoring the needs of existing customers who were not sending Sonos any money on an ongoing basis. To the MBA way of thinking, those customer who’d already paid were worthless.

So in other words, the re-written app was intended to force new customers into a subscription model so that Sonos stock would be more appealing to Wall Street.

That’s the real story, not the Sonos-friendly propaganda in the Ars piece.

The Fediverse combines all the worst parts of BBSes with all the worst parts of Twitter. So it certainly matches our modern age quite well.

One of my employee makes more than I do.

I’ve made more than my managers before. It happens when you have unusual and specialized skills. It’s not at all uncommon in tech. It’s a whole lot easier to find a manager than it is to find someone with the combo of certs + skills I have.

That’s just the way it be.

I don’t want AI or Apple Intelligence in my computer or phone. In fact, I don’t want it anywhere. I hope there is a way to turbo-nuke the shit out of those things. The future sucks.

The worst users to support are in fact developers, alas. They have high self-opinion and belief in their own capability while in relative terms possessing the lowest levels of knowledge and actual proficiency.

It’s a sad thing to watch computers and applications get less powerful, less customizable, less useful and more limited all the time.

We never should’ve let normies have access to any of this. It was a mistake.

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML.

99% of pages should be mostly HTML with a little CSS. (I claim as I look at the 2000+ lines of CSS code I cobbled together for this site. Heh.)

I guess there will never be a small phone made again. The large ones are worthless to me.

Fuck all of this.