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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Windows 7 made me switch to Linux ! I skipped over Visa entirely by using some obscure XP 64bit version for years. Then, 7 came out, and I was like “WTF is this crap ?”. I was particularly infuriated by the complexity to setup network shares, you always had to navigate to some obscure menu to turn off some hidden “security” settings, but “media share” on he other hand, this shit was always ON even if nobody asked for it, or ever used it. Now I have to use Win11 at work. In retrospective, 7 wasn’t so bad…





  • Well, my work computer is pretty much that already. My company is full-on Google suite. We are not supposed to store any files on the computers, we don’t have any back-ups for the computers’ storage. Everything is supposed to be on Google Drive and 90% of the work is done with Google Docs, Sheets, Slides.

    I think many big companies would be very happy if they could have a key-in-hand solution with laptops as “user-terminals” with all processing and files handled in a cloud. Of course there are some important considerations like confidentiality, cybersecurity and GDPR. Network/electricity is another one, but this is already the case today that almost no work can be done in either of these situations.