*actually reads tfa*

Oh. It's the customisation app that stopped working, so the "freak[ing] out" was presumably the mouse reverting to defaults in the absence of a running customisation app?

What. How does a mouse get out onto the Internet in the first place?

Oh, like Budweiser?

Even without the AI there's nothing here to say this is the badge belonging to the person making the posts! At the very least I'd expect it with today's copy of a well known newspaper or something.

I know at least a couple of people who plan to fund their retirement based on Perl becoming our generation's Cobol

Oooh, I've wondered on and off about this and the inevitability of that migration since well-actuallying all over the internet about how "even ms run Hotmail on Unix"

Clearly not deeply or early enough to realise it was win2k they migrated it to!

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

Hah, this reminds me of my stepsister asking why all the lines I was writing ended with "crying faces" - the `);` that so many lines of Perl end with!

Because if you're going to give someone a general purpose computer it's only fair to let them run general purpose things on it.

I don't want to be banned from useful but niche features just in case someone else decides to use it to distract them.

That ... sounds like you're asking for another meeting

Oh! We are the opposite - pureed potato is what you get in the shop bought ones, proper latkes are coarse gratings! But we are less fundamentalist about it and more into sampling and comparing and contrasting...

I think it's Computer People in general; I'm having exactly this experience right now with macos. When you care about how your computer works it can be baffling to see what other people unknowingly up with., while not really noticing what it is you are used to putting up with.

Mmm, I've for a while now wished my corp laptop could be windows+WSL rather than a Mac, but as I hear more about Win11 getting in the way I'm changing my mind...

Yeah, I think the problem is probably that I'm now using the same keyboard for both with different maps. Hadn't occurred to me to move the Mac keys to feel like everyone else's!

My _mac_ on the other hand! I'm forever fighting muscle memory over it's unique keyboard shortcuts, and when I veer slightly into tinkering it's such a different system to Linux and one that really doesn't want to be diagnosed. Reading that piece I can't imagine him finding macos less frustrating!

My laptop is mostly a Firefox and file manager machine at the moment and I'm dimly aware that I should have Wayland problems, but I don't, for instance. I've never had to think about that scaling thing, I just set it in gnome and it's worked for everything I run.

I've wondered about a thing recently, where most Linuxes are great if you do 100% dull stuff on them or if you're a full on tinkerer, but are really bad at the slightly odd use cases (like RTL and LTR language mixing, mounting a phone on a laptop, running keepassx, whatever it is that's chrome-only)