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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • My mom made a point to teach me and my sister when we were kids. We even had to plan dinners and cook it. I then made a point to take home ec in middle school. But my mom has a collection of cookbooks she is very proud of. She reads cookbooks like people read fiction books.

    Home cooking was a staple for my family. My grandparents raised my mom and her brothers on the farm. For a little while I even lived on that farm. But even though we mostly lived in town for most of my life, the fact that most meals were home cooked didn’t change.









  • So Ubisoft, that failed hard on their own launcher. Made several mistakes when it comes to the games they’ve released, made the wrong kind of news with “The Crew 2”, cancelled a bunch of games (but don’t worry, Beyond Good and Evil 2 is definitely coming out…), goes and fired a lead designer.

    Let me break out my magnifying glass to check on their stocks. Oh, they made a slight “comeback” from earlier this week, they’re up to 92 cents a share.

    Mgmt at that place is making bold decisions for a company; when if their stock gains a penny, it’s worth celebrating.





  • To add to this list

    1. Remove WebView apps. Eat our own dogfood and use MAUI.
    2. Go back to the classic Start Menu. Use API to make the whole UI available for customizations
    3. Get rid of the whole shitty “Settings” menu and go back to the Control Panel.
    4. Drop backwards compatibility for a bunch of crap. Stop pulling the 1980s forward, let that shit die.
    5. Address real modern issues with compatibility and performance with current CPUs
    6. Undo all the vibe coding.
    7. Focus on stability and performance, not trying to be “An experience”. Windows runs apps, make it do that the best it can.
    8. For the love of everything holy, take a risk and modernize the OS. This goes back to 8. But as someone who makes Windows Server golden images for multiple platforms, FUCKING CHRIST. Having to use the Autounattend to even get anything started, and that’s often (Even in Azure) just a minimal thing to get some client to do the real work, should tell you there’s a problem. The Autounattend is poorly documented. I learned more from just building a basic VM on different providers and seeing what they figured out. I could write a god damn novel on the shortcomings of the initial installation and customization of Windows, but it’s especially embarrassing for their Server platform
    9. Stop dropping support for the crap that works. Just so you can sell an inferior subscription version. WSUS being sunset is stupid. Having on-prem WSUS is always going to be faster and easier. You should focus on making that better instead of letting it limp along and then “Oh, we have an overpriced and slower option!” Get bent.
    10. Azure Local is a really fucking cool idea. That was an god awful pricing as far as I can tell. But neat.



  • I mean, his upload cadence really changed. He hasn’t posted in a year, and his last 6 videos is “1 year ago” then 8 videos “2 years ago”. Millions of views sure. But I think he largely just moved on. Also, he used to do gaming and then just started doing random things (like Flex Tape), KFC, juicing, Goop (more than once), etc.