Posts by rmullen0 237 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Aug 2017
I always found it amusing that the cloud based systems that Microsoft and Google offer couldn't figure out how to make them have friendly paths. Instead, the URLs are inscrutable and filled with UUIDs and other gibberish. A simple local file server with SMB and actual files with paths and directories is all I've ever needed or wanted. I've hated the cloud with a passion since day one, and almost as much as I hate AI.
I gave up on .NET and reverted back to .NET Framework. They drop support too quick on .NET. The constant updates are ridiculous. But, mostly, I think it was an epic fail not bringing ASP.NET Web Forms forward onto .NET. Web Forms + Telerik UI controls works great for intranet apps. Better than the unproven newer technology that even Microsoft doesn't use in it's products such as Blazor. MVC was always an unproductive rip off of Ruby On Rails. They had it right the first time. Microsoft did a horrible job making .NET cross platform. Too many breaking changes.
Microsoft fixed Windows Update so it worked as well as apt update/apt upgrade does on Linux? Too bad they can't just ditch Windows Update and use apt instead. apt runs without lag and updates in a couple minutes if that. Windows Update takes a good half hour or more to download and then another good half hour to install. Half the time it hangs and could take hours. I'm assuming the slow install time is due to the fact that it's updating 15 million COM Registry entries. Too bad they couldn't have just switched to text-based config files a long time ago. How many man days/months/years has anyone who has used Windows wasted on this? For practical purposes, it removes years off any IT person's life. Instead of fixing the fundamentals, Microsoft does nothing but force things onto users that they never asked for or wanted, like Copilot, Windows 8 tablet UI, Recall, random other spyware and garbage. When it comes down to it, the company is a total loss, and any sane person has no other option than to switch to Linux.
In my opinion, Web Forms, along with UI controls such as Telerik's are still the best way to develop intranet applications. Ever since Micosoft tried to parrot Ruby On Rails with ASP.NET MVC, it has been for the most party a total **** show on the web side of things. The port to .NET Core and all the breaking changes was handled in a terrible manner as well. As far as I can tell, the developers who created .NET Framework and made it great to begin with, left the company and were replaced by people who didn't know the code base and chose to rewrite it from scratch and turned the platform overall into a disaster.
MVC never had the concept of UI controls and was never a full replacement of Web Forms. Blazor claims to be after years and years later and as far as I can tell, Microsoft doesn't even use it in their own products. Look at Teams. Written with .aspx files.
I ported some of my console applications from .NET Framework to .NET and similarly, some WPF apps. And at this point, I'm planning on downgrading them back to .NET Framework. Their constant upgrade cycle is counter productive. Every time I check NuGet, there are 20 new updates to dependencies. Look at what's happening with supply chain exploits. I think you are better off old school and keeping dependencies to a minimum.
The push to making everything cloud-based and AI is a total disaster as well. I have absolutely no interest in that and want to have nothing to do with it.
Microsoft should have ported Web Forms to .NET Core, but, they refused. I have no intention of porting my code to "modern" .NET. I see no benefit to it, and hope to retire before .NET Framework support goes away. Overall, I am completely disgusted with that company, and I've been using their products and developing for their platform since 1990.
The billionaire class needs to be cut down to size. There should be an upper limit on wealth. And I'm thinking that should be $10 million. The government should seize the rest. If you can't get by on that much, then, there is something wrong with you. Additionally, it is time to start breaking these corporations up. I made my living programming and now I feel that I don't want to have anything to do with this industry. This garbage is hurting humanity more than it is helping. Corporations like Microsoft need to be boycotted.
How many people that upvoted this drivel know the first thing about programming? Keep on keeping on with the status quo. It's working out real well for you. Luckily, we live in a perfect world where every developer is 100% skilled and never lets in any buffer overflows. You are right. Don't rely on better tools. Just keep doing things manually. No wait. You all must love running in a hamster wheel and constantly having to patch security holes many of which memory safe languages would eliminate. Self modifying code? Enlighten me on how often that is used. How many buffer overflows appear in drivers versus everywhere else? You sound like a C programmer who is unwilling to change. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Moving to memory safe language is decades overdue. It has been obvious for a long time now.
They are nothing but criminals. But, the world already sees that. They see the genocide that is going on in Palestine and know that Israel and the United States are the two biggest criminal organizations on the planet..
If you invest in Oracle, you have no morals or ethics. Larry Ellison is a terrible evil person who in addition to trying to take over and censor the media, is also building AI data centers that are not wanted or needed, ruining the environment, driving up utility prices, and using up water resources, in addition to being a huge proponent of the genocide that Israel is committing against Palestinians, paid for with US tax payer money and weapons.
Yeah, generate a lot of nuclear waste for AI garbage that no one wants. Does anyone seriously think that the waste is going to be looked after for thousands of years? The country is on the verge of breaking up right now. The reckless irresponsible fools don't care. I am ashamed to be an American. The country is a disgrace.
Maybe the legacy player would no longer be necessary if Microsoft would fix the modern one. The new one is a joke. It takes forever to import music into it and then hangs. I find it amazing that a company like Microsoft can't implement something as simple as take a list of files and read the metadata and load it into a database. I have around 20,000 files. It can't even handle that many. They couldn't just load the data into an SQLite database or something? It's pathetic. Clearly, they don't care at all about applications such as these. it doesn't make them any money. So, they don't care. They would rather try to jam AI down everyone's throats even though most people don't want it.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is Israel's handy work. Most unethical entity there is. The IDF claim they have booby trapped devices around the world. I wouldn't be surprised if their pager attack was just them exploding the lithium ion batteries in the devices.
Yes, that is exactly the problem. You say the wrong thing and you get the Internet death penalty and have your accounts closed. What would happen if Microsoft disabled your email account tomorrow? Could you even get a hold of someone for support? It is insanity how everyone is reliant on these companies for something as critical as email.
It is obvious that if one wants to have any autonomy whatsoever in what they do on their own computer that they must abandon Windows for Linux. And Microsoft is doing the same thing to Office as they did to Windows. They want to control everything and spy on everything you do. They will not be content until they have created a total surveillance state. Glad I'm on on Debian now. Along with Firefox, Thunderbird, and LibreOffice. They do the same thing, work fine, are free, and most importantly let YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WITHOUT CONSTANTLY BEING TRACKED AND SURVEILLED. The billionaire class are losing their minds, because they know there is going to be an uprising.
The new version of Visual Studio looks like a nightmare. Nothing but AI BS. No thanks. Visual Studio 2022 can be my last version of Visual Studio. Just like Windows 10 is my last version of Windows. I don't want AI. Never asked for it. And won't accept it. If you want any semblance of control over anything, you have to move to Linux. There is no way around it at this point.
Me too. This is exactly why Linux is necessary. Linux lets you do what YOU want. Instead of having Microsoft dictate what you do. Sick and tired of them forcing things I don't want on me. They do it with every new version of Windows and this is finally the breaking point. I've already switched multiple PCs over to Debian 13 and have no intention of ever upgrading to Windows 11. Microsoft has boulder sized balls thinking users will accept something like Recall. It is nothing but spyware.
2025 is the year of Linux. I have a several older PCs. Some as old as 16 years old. They all work fine. I installed Windows 10 Enterprise IOT LTSB on some of them, which is good until 2032. On others, I've switched to Debian 13. I'm slowly chipping away and building up experience on Linux. Every new thing I learn, gives me one less reason to stick around on Windows. I've been using Microsoft products since 1990 and I'm a .NET developer. At this point, I feel I have no other option to abandon the platform. It just gets worse and worse. I don't want AI. Never asked for it and will not have it force fed to me. A new version of Visual Studio is coming out. Look and Microsoft's dev blogs. It's nothing but jamming AI down your throat. The people running these tech companies are truly sick people. All I have to say is, thank god Linux persevered. It is the only way to have any semblance of control over anything. The people running our country and the ones running these tech companies are truly evil people.
Installed Debian on a few computers and I'm in the process of getting off Windows completely. No thanks on AI invading my privacy. I don't want it. Never asked for it. And won't accept it. Recall is just the latest example of Microsoft not caring at all about what customers want. The oligarchs are trying to turn the world into a total surveillance state. I saw a video the other day by I think it was PC World and the guy in the video said it captured and consumed 75 GB on his hard drive.
