wanted to emulate bene gesserit, ended doing bene tleilax
replying to your questions/points in order of appearance: yes; go to hell; get in the sea.
tbh it looks like that whole lemmy instance is pure lolbertarian trash.
he was an abusive gobshite, including physically abusive.
again, there's no need to defend microsoft: microsoft could do the right thing and not try to use the situation in an attempt to undermine eu antitrust policies using a bullshit take.
some twenty four years ago i managed, amongst others, a company's samba and print server (that was at the time when all the company's servers were beige boxes with less memory and disk than the laptop i'm using to type this – and still they served a few hundred employees).
the machine developed a strange custom of hard-resetting itself, which we initially tracked to specific files being sent for printing; the behaviour was fully reproducible.
as it happened, it was a hardware fault somewhere between the mainboard and the integrated SCSI card; installing a separate SCSI card and reconnecting the disks and backup tape device fixed the problem. (i did not have the budget for a new serwer, no.)
establishing the actual cause took me fucking weeks.
jfc. i remembered that the aurini motherfucker was very liberal with hard-r, but listening to that clip in 2024 is something else altogether.
i think this is a common european misconception; the us is bloody religious, even compared to our polish parishes.
(and if you want to know how the salespeople think? remember the movie glengarry glenn ross? the movie about alienation and lack of humanity? this absolutely inhumane monster is thought by them as an example of the right attitude.)
that atleson person is absolutely first class sneerer.
they also stored this thing as a fucking string. looking up strings is costly.
the eugenicist language and narrative should've been at least strongly challenged
…and that's one of the dudes personally invited to the site by its main moderator (see, the public invite trees can be useful sometimes).