Does anyone enjoy their Windows development laptop? I fight with it so much. I would be happy to smack it hard with a hammer for all of the embarrassing things it has done in front of customers.

They are trusting me to build a multi million dollar system yet for some reason I can't join a Skype meeting, or my mic doesn't work, or the scaling on screen makes everything look oversized.

What am I supposed to say? "Trust me to build your system. I swear I'm not as retarded as I appear."

Honestly, I think Linux enjoys fucking you over too. Kernel panic and WiFi broken before a presentation? Hell yeah.

@jurion I think it is a 2019 Dell XPS 15. Up to date. Not much corporate bloat besides an AV and a firewall.

I had a 2017 Lenovo laptop at another company and it suffered from similar scaling issues with Windows and multiple monitors.

If they just have me a good desktop and a shit laptop it would be fine because all of the disconnect and reconnect of my dev machine stops. I could use the shit laptop for shitty Microsoft shit.

I’m in a bleeding edge development path and the computer I use doesn’t even have a proper kernel and shell. Microsoft is just so very far behind on things.

Yeah skype is fucked, thats something they never gonna change because there is literally no meaningful competitors, if you say discord mate look at the app it's not for business. Everything else you mentioned is probably something misconfigured with your windows. And saying windows has no kernel is damn stupid wtf du you think .NET basically is.

Few days ago I was demoing our software and the right click just stopped working, for no reason. I thought it was a bug of our software, so I skipped all actions requiring a right click, and when I went back to debugging I found out that the fucking windows 10 was to blame as right click was disabled system wide because some dumb OS subsystem crashed. Fuck them.

@dontbeevil I was in presentation mode on a projector in front of a quite large audience so I preferred not to make a scene, nobody noticed, but I was truly frustrated...

@dontbeevil Teams is okay. Although it has terrible access controls. You can’t invite a guest to a channel to collaborate without giving them access to all other channels. So we end up making teams for guests which get abandoned because the real conversations happen inside the real team channels.

@dontbeevil Yeah. Proper AC has been on there since 2017 when I my manager told me that I had to release teams to the office.

Seriously. Access controls are nothing new. They have been around and refined since the 1960’s. there is no reason to release an app without an AC model in the modern day.

@dontbeevil Yeah. Because security is an often user requested feature?

What do you need next?
Gimme stickers!
Are you sure you don’t need access controls?
How about a user awards system where I can give trophies.
Or access controls?
Maybe a meme text generator for images that I add. Yeah!
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