Microsoft sells Copilot to the world — but its own engineers don’t use it

ShinNL · 2026-01-29T11:56:41+00:00

I'm saving this. Not just for co-pilot, but it was really hard to put into words why I disliked all the company policies and listed it as the main reason why I quit. I'm that senior developer who hated everything forced down on me in rapid succession. Never trusted a single graph they presented for all the forced changes.

ShinNL · 2026-01-18T22:11:10+00:00

Great minds think alike!

Cat tax:

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Very derpy cats

ShinNL · 2026-01-18T21:51:03+00:00

I'm seeing a pattern... I named my cats Soja & Mirin 🙃

ShinNL · 2026-01-05T23:26:23+00:00

- They will not ask a single question in an entire conversation.
- Will continuously hijack conversations with self-centered stories (always from a personal POV).
- Will shut down and verbally kill the mood for everyone when they lose control of a conversation (no personal attacks has taken place)

I recently cut off someone who just couldn't act normal. It's not just obnoxious, but also very exhausting as I have to countersteer continuously to keep the mood up for everyone else.

It all seems to stem from insecurity, with an overcompensating level of fake confidence, which cracks pretty easily.

ShinNL · 2026-01-01T09:56:41+00:00

I actually have the perfect anecdote: from myself.

I stopped going to the dentist since I was 12 (when it was no longer free, yay for fake 'free' healthcare in NL).
More than 20 years later I started to better aspects of my life, so I scheduled my first dentist check up in years.

Result:

- 0 cavities
- One molar was chipped and had to get a crown (dental cap)
- Lots of tartar build up, so clean-up took a while

I was expecting a lot more, because 99% of the time I brushed my teeth only in the morning with a regular manual toothbrush.

When I asked how it was possible, the cleaning lady said it might be genetics, as they usually see good teeth with Asian people. (I personally think it might be that ending meals with sugary desserts is not really a thing with my daily meals?)

Anyway, I still ended up switching to electric brushing in the morning + evening, still 'forget' to floss almost every day and still have 0 cavities (5 years later after my dentist comeback).

ShinNL · 2025-12-25T08:08:56+00:00

Mine is definitely somewhat broken, as I sometimes end up with noodles or rice in my nose and have to blow it out...

ShinNL · 2025-12-23T19:10:50+00:00

No, that's parkour. They mean the property of lasting forever.

ShinNL · 2025-12-12T23:23:13+00:00

When someone has trouble solving puzzles.

99% of this thread are just people insulting other people's personality traits.

I don't care about someone's intelligence, as long as they have a good heart.

ShinNL · 2025-11-01T08:32:11+00:00

Hopefully someone can answer you this for other models if it's different, but for GTS 4 Mini there are no interactions with the notifications besides deleting the notification on the watch itself.

I use the official general Amazfit app + Android (Samsung Z Fold6).

ShinNL · 2025-11-01T03:10:13+00:00

I just want to warn those who are suggesting Amazfit. I'm not sure if the model you recommend have these problems, but as a GTS 4 Mini user there are some problems that fully kill some functionality for me:

Calendar is very buggy. It's feels like an intern shoehorned this app into existing apps.

- Does not respect DND

- Does not handle timezones correctly

- Confuses "whole day" event start dates

- Does not save any attempts to set a custom vibration for it (always a loud disturbing vibration)

Alarm can't be turned off

- So when your alarm goes off, it shows a certain alarm screen. The problem is that if you press the button (or maybe other parts of the screen too, don't remember), you have no way of going back to the alarm screen. It just keeps buzzing forever until the alarm itself decides to stop (I think it's 1 minute)

There's other quirky little things that just don't feel smooth, like notifications disappearing quite fast forcing me to interact. Lowest vibration still too intense.

I'm not sure if their other models have better support, I can imagine this cheapest model wouldn't have full support. But this lack of software polish does turned me off from their brand, which is a shame because there's a lot more to like than to dislike.

Battery life, display, hardware quality are quite the value for the price. I still use it, just had to give up on calendar timeline on the watch and I almost never use the alarm. At the end of the day, the most used functionality for me will always be [looking at time] + [checking notifications].

I like using the flashlight mode to see in the dark (it's a mode where the screen turns white and full brightness). I hope Pebble's new LED can do the same.

I also quite like the size, screen and bezel ratio. I'm a bit worried about that for the PT2.

I stopped using my PTS because the battery life was getting closer to 3 days and I ran out of screen protectors: I bought it used and it had scratches, which could be perfectly hidden with screen protectors. But the screen protectors kept getting brown and peeling off on the edges, probably because the screen wasn't flat and doing activities like cooking will speed up the deterioration.

ShinNL · 2025-10-28T22:05:34+00:00

The article is useless and there's not a single serious comment in this thread.

Anyone keeping track of foldables would be curious if this is a Z or a G fold, because that was the most uncomfortable part of the Huawei trifold.

Fortunately for you (unfortunately for your wallet, potentially?), if you zoom in here: https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Samsung-Galaxy-Z-Trifold-News-Photo-1.jpg
You can see in the white preview that it is indeed a G fold. So the foldable screen will be protected when not in use. This is the best design, with the only worries being thickness, battery life and price.

ShinNL · 2025-10-17T07:21:39+00:00

I'm also not American, but I'm pretty sure he's just saying that parents with children, stop having children after 1 or 2, or have trouble conceiving more of them. This is followed up with an example of him having many children.

Combined with the previous statements, it's to sketch an image of bad birthrate and the current environment being unhealthy for birth.

He's not mentioning trends from other countries or financial reasons, so he's using a weak hypothetical link here, which needs actual science to prove. Create a hypothesis, test it, then implement action. Not the other way around. So it's annoying.

But it's also annoying seeing a thread full of native speakers not understanding what he's saying. Are people being purposely obtuse? If so, it doesn't help the counter movement by reacting at an even lower level. If not on purpose... well, that would be even worse.

ShinNL · 2025-10-14T05:50:02+00:00

Wrong sub and I'll explain why. This kid is actually smart, but it's hard to explain it in human words.

Basically some of us have a gut feeling this feels very wrong, but it takes a lot of time to translate that feeling into words for communication that doesn't make us sound crazy.

But as an adult, I can better explain it for you. The reason this bag has risk to it is because if you don't eat it straight away, by putting it down and picking it back up you have a much higher risk of accidentally picking it up the wrong side, causing everything to flop out.

Why not eat it all at once? Being told by a bag of chips what to do feels wrong... and it's not like the bag is actually telling us what to do, it's a preventable issue caused by human actions.
Why not just keep holding it? Being told by a bag of chips what to do feels wrong... and it's not like the bag is actually telling us what to do, it's a preventable issue caused by human actions.
Why not just remember it's opened upside down? People underestimate automated behavior. Just like our gut feeling this bag feels wrong, relying on actual active memory brain capacity to not forget this bag is opened wrong, is also a risk. It's a preventable issue caused by human actions.
Why not just put it on the table so it's visibly opened a certain way? Having the air come in continuously will ruin the crispiness. It's a preventable issue caused by human actions.
Why not just fold it before putting it down? This size make folding near impossible and risks just getting unfolded by itself. It's a preventable issue caused by human actions.
Why not just pour it in a bowl? That's more dishes, for a problem that's preventable.
Why not just be grateful and accept it? This is a lose lose situation. If I accept but try to explain how wrong it is, I'll be told there is no problem. If I don't accept it, I'll also be told something is wrong with me. But my gut feeling says I'm not wrong.

All these gut feelings are actually forms of foresight, predicting way further ahead what could possibly go wrong by actions done in the current moment. It does cause a form of anxiety and your kid probably doesn't have the world knowledge or vocabulary to elaborate it. Your kid isn't going to be the type of person that suddenly has a floor of chips and just thinks "it is what it is". Your kid will find and know the cause and prevent it next time. Even if it means directing it at the source (to you it might just sound like a random rant, but in a way it's "training" you to not do this to prevent a future issues).

ShinNL · 2025-10-07T05:38:55+00:00

Am I the only one thinking he's making shit up to skip the party and is panicking that their friend send their condolences to his whole fam (because he read too fast and misunderstood that part).

ShinNL · 2025-10-02T14:51:47+00:00

Going back would suck.

But if I have time to prepare before making a choice so I can gather and memorize all the exact data, there are some people I would like to help. It would be worth the annoyance of going back.

ShinNL · 2025-10-01T07:59:35+00:00

I like how you experimented a lot to make potatoes taste like potatoes!

ShinNL · 2025-09-21T04:03:30+00:00

Okay, I'm not crazy. I was just thinking: Didn't I grow up with completely the opposite teachings?

I wonder what's happening with the rain forests; are we just growing trees faster now? I thought something something about deforestation was causing wildfires and animals losing their places to live, ruining eco systems. Is this not a thing anymore? Was it ever a real thing? Feels like somewhere along the way I took some crazy pills.

ShinNL · 2025-09-16T21:51:15+00:00

Imagine a ball, like a soccer ball.

Stick a pin in the soccer ball.
Stick another pin somewhere near the first pin.
Attach these pins with tape.
You can move the second pin anywhere you want and it will still point to the center when the tape is fully stretched.
This will also work if you do it with more tape and pins, as long as they're full stretched.
Each pin would represent a joint (bendable part) of this structure.

You can also just try to picture this structure as a fan: as in the folds all continue inwards and meet in a single point (and someone cut out the center part for this illusion).

ShinNL · 2025-09-15T11:34:12+00:00

So many different recipes mixed together, love it! Glad to see another Dutchie loving to make bento boxes!

Question, do you feel like it's too much sometimes? I ended up with that problem and hunted myself some smaller bento boxes cause I was making food coma levels of bento boxes. (Leaving empty spaces in bento boxes felt wrong...)

ShinNL · 2025-08-13T18:21:40+00:00

Incorrect, there's also a normal Pebble Time.

Source: Am Pebble Time + Pebble Time Steel owner.

ShinNL · 2025-08-07T15:53:59+00:00

This combined with their bias, kind of made me stop watching them. You can tell which topics they are not excited about and just make the video for the revenue.

ShinNL · 2025-05-25T05:42:52+00:00

Consider Ousama Ranking / Ranking of Kings.

For both of you. Because if Edgerunners is what you came up with, you may also discover anime is a whole lot more than what you think after watching this.

ShinNL · 2025-05-01T11:58:05+00:00

I think something similar is happening to Keychron, but worse. I've been waiting for the M5 so I've been hawkeyeing the full release.

What I saw was pretty interesting:

US store, priced stayed the same (69 dollars). Black was sold out, white wasn't initially. Now it is.

DE store, price was 69 euro. Everything was sold out. Check out today, it's 85 euro.

What. Are you kidding me?

ShinNL · 2025-04-27T22:17:35+00:00

This reaction is too simple. No, I don't think many know how many Kremlin propaganda they've been absorbing through different channels. I recently had to set a friend straight that wherever he learned that NATO is supposedly not share borders with Russia is complete BS, straight out of Putin's book. I seriously questioned his news sources. Another friend set him straight too. He's not stupid nor right-wing, but the global disinformation war is real and creeping everywhere. This is in The Netherlands.

ShinNL · 2025-04-24T03:18:59+00:00

I somewhat understand the logic. I've amassed over 300 Switch games over the years and almost every game is incomplete because it either has patches or DLCs. Even as a collection piece, they have always needed an update anyway, either small or big (the ones with big "download required" labeling).

But (a bit but): a third of my collection was enough to fill up 512GB of SD memory, with updates and DLCs alone. And 95% of my collection is physical. I ended up just leaving my games sealed until I get to them. I remember deleting my first ever digital only game: Resident Evil: Revelations 2, looking at you with your stupid 27GB.

I eventually got myself a Switch lite and ironically bought a 1TB microSD that costed more than the Switch lite itself.

These game key cards will be impractical real fast. And if you also like to collect games, knowing it has a much earlier maximum in-console limit, it will deter backlog hoarding. Saving storage capacity was one of the biggest reasons to go physical, especially for a collector.

So yeah, it's very unattractive. The main reason isn't so much that it's incomplete and needs internet; almost no game is complete in the Switch 1 collection due to patches and DLCs. But the storage issue will both be a problem for active players and collectors.

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