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When you get fed up of Apple's unreliable hw (2 laptops in 3 years, both broke), shitty keyboard, wtf touchbar and so on 😀 Image
Hello darkness my old friend #windows Image
The whole setup process is very nice and Apple like so far. There is #Cortana telling you what to do and even throwing funny (!) joke once in a while. You can also interact with voice, eg just say yes instead of pressing confirm button. Image
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Y'all want to see one of the top 10 stupidest things I've ever seen in my life on @Windows? Image
I spent most of the day trying to figure out why my geth node, running in #Docker on #WSL2, wasn't syncing with the network. The hint was that I kept getting notifications that my system time was off. So, I started looking at my system time.
At first time.is was telling me that my system time was behind by about .03 seconds. So I started looking at fixing that. I got that fixed, and https://t.co/qS58GnOaXB said my time was exact. But I was still getting the message, and geth still wasn't syncing.
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Seeing my Windows and Linux mutuals freaking out over #WSL2 announcements at #MSBuild and I have to ask: is this the end of the Win32 API? It never had a winning successor—WinForms, WPF, WinRT—and now maybe MS don’t need one, in line with desktop’s waning biz model value?
They’re bringing DirectX over.
devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/direct…
It’s gutsy, but I anticipate irate Windows C++ devs’ blog posts by year’s end.
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