It’s definitely a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

Only office is basically the same interface again, all cloning MS-office 2007-2010.

Bleach.

As a sometimes Windows admin, I completely agree. Plus so many things that become simple one-liners instead of taking forever farting around in a GUI tool where a little misclick screws up everything and documentation requires 27 pages of giant screenshots.

That’s good to know. It’s interesting that the other commenter thinks emacs shortcuts are illogical. I’ll make my best guesses at the logic

• ctrl-a/ctrl-e for start/end of line

a is the beginning of the alphabet; e for end (of line)

• ctrl-u to clear the command you’ve typed so far but store it into a temporary pastebuffer
• ctrl-y to paste the ctrl-u’d command

No idea here. Seems similar to nano with k-“cut” and u-”uncut”.

• ctrl-w to delete by word

w for word obviously.

• ctrl-r to search your command history
• alt-b/alt-f to move cursor back/forwards by word

r reverse, b back, f forward. Not sure why alt vs control though; presumably ctrl+b and ctrl+f do different things although I know emacs likes to use Alt (“Meta”) a lot.

If you or someone you know wants a taste of that experience on Windows, try out winget or chocolatey.

Why the hell did they misspell (and presumably mispronounce) tilde?

I’d describe it as making computer systems reliable.

Why is that? What do you feel is the downside?

Yes, kind of.

Someone might correct me if I’m wrong but it’s that, plus extra tooling to redirect the stuff that needs to be writable, plus more extra tooling to allow you to temporarily unlock the read-only parts in order to do system updates, plus a system updater that puts the whole system more-or-less under version control.

“Algorithmic steering” is okay as long as the algorithm is relatively straightforward, public, and well-understood.

The problem is when the corpos tweak it to suit their mass-market advertisers.

Awesome. That seems like the way to go then!

Are there good alternatives?

I feel like forums really fell behind the times, with shitty threading systems and awkward text formatting interfaces and the horror that is bbcode.

Meanwhile discord handles image embedding gracefully, with markdown formatting and previews.

What’s the next-gen forum system that’s keeping up with modern times? Is there a part of the fediverse that meets this?

Discourse seems the most modern, but not sure if it is open, let alone federated.

Lemmy almost fills it but tends to be too ephemeral and doesn’t handle multiple forums/channels for one broad topic.

Kinda but … they go together, and Active Directory is more or less LDAP+Kerberos with a sprinkling of standardization on top.

Busted. Pedantic smart ass it is.

That said I think the windows PIN code system is absurdly insecure but … eh you do you.

implement the Windows PIN thing for startup on my PC

If you’re that specific in your requirements, you’re gonna have a bad time. I don’t think Microsoft makes “Windows PIN” for Linux.

As much of a shit show as it is, group policy is really the killer feature of Windows.

It’s just the usual sssd setup, and even without manual futzing with config files.

Do you even need docker for MS-SQL?

It doesn’t appear so.

Can confirm Bazzite is just fine with domain auth, no special intervention required.

Authing against a Synology NAS domain which is presumably running Samba under the hood.

I mean, I guess: if you think their job is to be a shitty incompetent CEO.

Im not saying they need to know how to do the job of everyone at the company, but they certainly should know what their company does and how.