Buddy let me welcome you to the Internet where your phones and emails are literally listening to your microphone like it’s Watergate.

It’s not unprecedented at all for Microsoft or anyone to download what amounts to spyware.

The days of antivirus were replaced by advertising a long time ago. There is no privacy.

Most savvy types are hyper aware of every process running on their machine especially those using network lol

Kill the process or don’t by an LG. Everyone just uses Dell, or you’re rich and you get a Mac one. I don’t make the rules

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brynnbee 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Savvy types use Linux

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ikidd 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I've gotten to the point that if you're trying to show me something and I see you're using Windows, I just assume you're an unserious person and it's worthless.

All the major tools for advanced work are Linux-based, and there's maybe a Windows version, but it's probably a kludge like Docker Desktop.

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delta_p_delta_x 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> All the major tools for advanced work are Linux-based

No, they aren't. Linux hasn't yet got anything remotely close to PDB symbol servers and WinDbg's record-replay debugging. perf is... an attempt.

Source: worked on Windows and Linux drivers and user-mode applications. Windows tooling blows the competition out of the water in actually advanced developer experience. Vim is cool to the ricing hackerman types but not people who actually earn salaries. Windows doesn't need Docker because it has a stable user-mode ABI.

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warshinder 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I know you’re joking, but there is a very small sliver of truth in there somewhere. There are some tools on windows that stand shoulder to shoulder with better os’s.

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silverlimetea 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> people who actually earn salaries

Maybe a hot take but the world's "most advanced software engineering" is not happening in W-2 employment scenarios.