society doesn't take kindly to the hyper-aware. tone it down.

Microsoft's quality control used to be: release a buggy new OS then forge a solid next release.

Going backwards in stability is out of character.

The irony here is that the market is willing to pay for quality.

I don't have time to deal with phone issues-it should just work so I can get on with my day.

Hearing that Apple were dedicating time to stop features and go after stability is exactly what I want to hear.

The saddest here is "were". iOS 26 is every day showing us that quality left Apple few years ago.

I'm pretty sure that the recent shitshow (at least in iOS land) is the failure to have tentpole Apple Intelligence features, so scraping the bottom of the barrel and shipping things that were in no way finished (e.g. Liquid Glass UI/X).

So essentially, they need to turn quality around or suffer the thousand cuts of death like Intel?

Although. These companies don't "die" - it's more the consumers end up being abandoned in favour of B2B?

Updated Windows 11 on Parallels: Has been stable since 2021.

Boot loop: Can't system restore. Can't roll back updates. Can't reset PC. Can't even enter safe mode.

All options ran into unexpected errors and cancelled out. Only option left was to shut down or "restart".

Had to clean install and attach the old virtual drive to a new installation to copy files across then copy the new installation's disk back to the old system as a replacement to ensure it was able to activate.

Seriously considering if I even need Windows anymore.

I haven't _needed_ windows in over 5 years, and I game pretty hard (though not much in the realm of anti-cheat compatibility drama). Bazzite is my daily driver now for development and pleasure.

Arch is really good. Between Wine, Proton, and QEMU/KVM there isn't any need for me to boot windows anymore

Tech. is composed of a variety of people with skills that augment other employees. Mass-layoffs are a blatant sign of miss-management and lack of understanding of this basic principle.

> Windows needs to go back to the drawing board and Microsoft should bring back the testers it fired years ago, and focus solely on fixing bugs, UI issues and performance concerns.

Vendor lock-in. Next.js is great until it's not.

it is true that our plugin story is not fully fleshed out. We have good support for webpack loaders and have observed that that solves many (though not all usecases). This of course is one of the reasons we are still supporting webpack

We never hear what the actual questions are. I reckon it's Claude being great at coding in general and GPT being good at niche cases. "Spikey intelligence"

There was a very negative "immune" response from the users when they perceived suggestions from ChatGPT as ads.

This will be hard for them to integrate in a way that won't annoy users / will be better implemented than any other competitor in the same space.

Or perhaps we just deal with all AI across the board serving us ads.... this makes more sense unfortunately.

There’s a very negative immune response to the idea of Netflix running ads.

And yet they’re there, in the form of prominent product placement in all of their original series along with strategic placement in the frame to make sure they appear in cropped clips posted to social media and made into gifs.

Stranger Things alone has had 100-200 brands show up under the warm guise of nostalgia, with Coke alone putting up millions for all the less-than-subtle screen time their products get.

I’m certain AI providers will figure out how to slyly put the highest bidder into a certain proportion of output without necessarily acting out that scene in Wayne’s World.

I suspect google can last much longer in regards to an AI model chat engine that competes with open AI and other companies, without needing a profit from that particular product in a timely manner. I can's say the same for the others. Google is using it's own money to fund this without mch pressure for immediate profit in a time deadline. They can rely on their other services for revenue and profit for the meantime.