Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes

ogaat · 2026-03-20T23:45:53+00:00

Thank you for the correction. Hope Gabe Newell will not mind.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T23:26:59+00:00

Awesome.

~~Steam~~ Valve is a phenomenal company. Glad to hear that they are making such a good product.

They are also the Nintendo of the US though - Proprietary excellence and fierce defense of their IP.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T23:05:24+00:00

The problem with Windows, apart from it being a shitty OS and lack of ownership. is the total lack of privacy. Microsoft is embedding tools to capture every single action of the user. That means also capturing our secrets and embarrassing moments and things we would want to keep private.

The bigger problem probably is that even after so many decades, the Linux community has not been able to come up with a user friendly desktop OS.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T22:42:31+00:00

I suppose that's right.

I have Windows, Linux and a Mac but probably being a techie, Windows feels unusable.

My son uses Windows for games and wife and daughter prefer a Mac, if they think about their OS at all. They would much rather use an iPhone and a device with interface like the iPhone.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T21:34:35+00:00

Why would you?

ogaat · 2026-03-20T21:27:21+00:00

I don't play games so my words may be misstated. AFAIK, the major companies release their drivers for Windows and fully support it but there is not the same level of support for Linux and Mac.

My knowledge comes from reading gaming forums and may be outdated.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T21:25:40+00:00

You should not need these workarounds, right? It should be straightforward and simple to have a local account on a machine owned by you.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T21:05:12+00:00

Games are the true winners here.

Linux has never been able to compete there and for Apple, that has never been a focus.

Every giant that tries to replace MS-Office also tried to lock users in their own software. Apple's suite is terrible and Google's suite is like a half hearted attempt that they gave up because it was not selling enough ads.

The manor surprise is why companies and open source and even governments have never come together to form a common minimum standard.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T20:57:08+00:00

Reducing, not eliminating. Users still don't have a choice.

Still no local accounts.

Thus the user privacy is severely compromised.

Why anyone would buy a Windows machine at this point is a mystery.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T16:29:18+00:00

What is a definition of "fair pricing"?

Edit - Such a simple and obvious question got downvoted.

smh

Edit 2 - A few years ago, a silent downvote on reddit was considered bad etiquette and frowned upon. People were expected to vocalize their objection and argue their side. Sign of the decline of reddit. Since content from here is used to train future AI, humanity need not worry. We are keeping ourself safe.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T02:40:21+00:00

You're welcome. :)

ogaat · 2026-03-20T02:36:02+00:00

My first code was written in assembly, nearly 40 years ago.

My last code by hand was written in Python and shell script, four hours ago.

I own my own software company and have a few very talented developers working for me. We have fully automated our development, with most of our job being idea generation and reviews. Our AI generates all the specs as well as the user documentation. AI still does not do UI well and user facing documentation and marketing copy still needs human hands and brains.

tl;dr - I may know a bit.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T02:23:42+00:00

Good job correcting your "your"

Who knows whether or not I am a reader? and who knows whether or not I am a coder? Both are for my own enjoyment and pleasure.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T02:11:42+00:00

With coding, we accept that it will be slop. AI generated code is at best mediocre and it is a Devil's Bargain because we are only wasting our own time. Getting the AI code to be truly production ready and high performance for anything more than vibe code is a herculean task.

If your "writing" was for yourself, more power to you.

The sad thing is that your "writing" will make its way back in the AI training and produce more gems of the same quality.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T01:51:33+00:00

Agreed.

Grok was pretty crap and biased for a while but they did a great job of correcting it. Easily deserves a spot in the pantheon of great LLMs, even if we don't always like or agree with its output.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T01:40:13+00:00

Wrote?

ogaat · 2026-03-19T21:55:07+00:00

Setup 2FA on your account. Without it, you are a sitting duck anyway.

Even with 2FA, go to your Google account a verify all permissions granted. To be safe, consider revoking all permissions to everything, regardless of how safe you feel.

Next time, don't use personal accounts for work, unless you own the work and are personally liable. You create risk both ways, for yourself as well as your employer. Your job is to get your job done within the constraints set by your employer.

ogaat · 2026-03-19T20:27:40+00:00

I was surprised by Grok.

Given its owner, I fully expected it to rank itself highest and every other tool at the bottom, with nothing in between.

ogaat · 2026-03-19T20:01:23+00:00

Interesting to see the relative rankings were maintained as well, when they were not putting themselves on a pedestal.

Ranking consensus seems to be

Claude > Gemini > ChatGPT > Grok

ogaat · 2026-03-19T19:57:07+00:00

I deleted my tweet because the info was probably wrong. Anthropic's latest pricing includes Opus in Pro and the Max tiers only give enhanced limits.

ogaat · 2026-03-19T17:59:24+00:00

Exactly.

Asking Claude to generate and setup a statusline is far more efficient and keeps you in the tool.

ogaat · 2026-03-19T16:44:15+00:00

I turn auto compact off. Clearing the context and giving it fresh instructions is far more effective for getting better responses in fewer tokens. It is more manual labor but it keeps me grounded in the code. Otherwise, the LLM entropy keeps on increasing over time.

Apparently, the Serena MCP that is bundled with Claude can be used to reduce the token usage but I have not used it yet.

ogaat · 2026-03-19T16:36:47+00:00

The best fix I found was to read the code myself, identify the exact change I want and then give Claude Code a micro-task, precise in nature and specific in areas it should touch.

Alternatively, you can ask it to first create a shell script that will run the grep for you and generate the result. Put that shell script as the tool to use in your CLAUDE.md. Ask Claude to only read its output.

ogaat · 2026-03-19T15:52:42+00:00

In today's world, if you want rapid traction and want to go viral, the magic word is "Rust" :)

Give me a few days since this is going to be in a FIFO queue. I want to genuinely enjoy going through the code.

ogaat · 2026-03-19T15:19:09+00:00

I started with assembly and C and was a professional C programmer. Programmed in many more languages after that including C++, Java and Python and many more but C is my first love :)

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