Ah, chit chat about temperature, how delightful! Here you are, my five cents of thought:

The extremes in my country range somewhere between -35 and +34, but more commonly go somewhere between -16 and +30. Our AC is adapted for Nordic climate and is our primary heat source. We usually deploy it when indoor temperature drops below +18. It's hardly ever necessary to use it for cooling in our agreeably cool climate. My small home office gets hot year round, though, but it usually helps just to keep the window open for a while.

P.S.

I have a cold shower in the winter/spring time when I'm chilled to the bone from foresting/gardening outdoors. Hot, or even luke warm, water on cool skin is painful!

@qwwerty

This is precisely what Atlassian do. I hate their last update of Jira with annoying suggestions in comments. Tried blocking them with AdBlocker, which either only blocked them on a specific Jira issue, or caused the entire page to go blank. Why can't there just be a fucking setting to disable any bloat? What's next? Animations? Auto-AI-generated comments? Fuck you, all tech companies who believe that users actually want to be distracted by senseless, impersonal bloat! Keep it simple, stupid!

OMG! 😲

Fortunately, it's possible to disable this nuisance! :)

It's just so typical of Microsoft to stuff their apps with shitloads of bloat that takes time to figure out how to get rid of.

@Lensflare

I take your word for it. I don't trust Google a bit. At least Microsoft is the lesser bad out of these two.

Thank you all for interesting and useful input. Those are all valid points. OK, I'll give Windows 11 a go on my laptop before October. If it breaks or I just don't like it, then Linux it is - despite of poor support for my Logitech mouse. I'm a bit concerned about my desktop computer, though. It was pretty high-end when I bought it in 2020, and it's still a nice piece of hardware that I'm perfectly happy with. It's also the only computer in our household (we have like...*counting*...8 PCs) capable of running VR. Yet, it doesn't meet the hardware requirements of Windows 11. I presume running any of my Windows-based VR games on Linux would be out of the question? It would really suck having to spend a thousand or two euro on new hardware just to be able to run Windows.

@German Normii

Thanks. This confirms my gut feeling of sticking with Windows 10 for now, and eventually update. To Linux :)

@ptothew

Video tutorials are not my cup of tea. Anyway, I know how to create a local account on Windows 10 and it's supposedly not that different on Windows 11. However, I read somewhere that Microsoft are planning on removing local accounts from Windows 11, thus requiring a Microsoft account. I realised I actually do have one, but am having issues with it. For example, their phone verification lacks support for my country. Yubikey works, we have it at my work, but it's too darn expensive for home users! No, I think I'll stick with Windows 10, and once that is dead for real, I'll switch to Linux- Despite of its cons, it still appears to be less hassle than dealing with Microsofts accounts, expensive yubikeys and such.

@TerriToniAX

P.S.

At home I use Cursor, which is just another fork of VS Code.

@German Normii

Well, you'd prefer any text editor, but I don't. VS Code is still the best for me.

Sure, it sucks that I can't choose my tools, but I have a full understanding of why. If everyone could choose their tools freely, it would lead to chaos and would be very difficult, if not impossible, for infra to guarantee any level of interoperability, let alone security, which is paramount in any serious business.

@German Normii

Yeah, but what are the alternatives? It's been a while since I tried any other source editors, but they were all crap in different ways. VS Code isn't perfect but it's the best I know. Also, at work I don't get to choose my tools.

Despite of everything, VS Code is still the best source editor out of the ones I've tried. RDi is the worst.

@lorentz

Probably. It's one of the three lines I added to settings:

"workbench.editor.decorations.badges": false,

"git.decorations.enabled": false,

"scm.diffDecorations": "none"

@ScriptCoded

I added these three lines:

"workbench.editor.decorations.badges": false,

"git.decorations.enabled": false,

"scm.diffDecorations": "none"

Dunno which one that actually did the trick, probably scm.diffDecorations.

@iiii

The annoying green lines and red arrows indicating diffs since last commit. Managed to sort it out now with the help of our internal support. The question remains, though: Why on fucking earth do Microsoft constantly change the setting parameters so you can't have a stable coding environment?

@jestdotty

On the contrary! Most users are from other countries, because we *do* have freedom of speech. Americans only have freedom to speak in favour of Trump.

Outlaw idiots and you won't have any problems with overpopulation.

I'm inclined to agree with those of you who think I should change to Linux instead. I was stupid enough to associate a Microsoft account with my Windows account and it felt like a fucking virus!

I couldn't agree more!

@jestdotty

At least Windows has options (Logitech Options). I agree about the pros and cons, though. At the moment, Windows does the job for me (while with Linux I would do the job for it :P) I might reconsider in the future, if Windows gets more cons than pros as compared to Linux. For me it's about 60/40 and getting closer to a tie for each of Microsoft's stupid decisions. I haven't even dared trying Windows 11 yet, and from what I've heard about it I'm afraid it's not for me.

@jestdotty

It's like telling someone to mend their new car just so they can fit in a standard steering wheel.

I'm a dev but I'm not employed by either Linux or Logitech so why on earth would I spend any of my scarse sparetime on writing any code to pull their shit together? If the OS or the drivers require mending in order to work, then they are broken.

@Hazarth

Never heard of them before. Seems promising. Thanks for the tip! I'm definitely going to check them out.

Guys, you know this is exactly what the article against Linux brought up - that Linux enthusiasts tell you to base your hardware purchases on the OS instead of the other way round. I happen to like Logitech as their mice are the only ones with infinite scroll, a feature I can't live without. There's no chance in hell I'm spending any money just to settle with something worse. Sure, Windows is from hell with all its bloatware but at least most hardware manufacturers support it. I might be a geek, but I'm also pragmatic. So, if Logitech doesn't work on Linux, then I'm not using Linux. It's as simple as that.

Sorry, I think devrant just accidentally deleted someone's comment when I deleted my own comment. It's a bit buggy.

This article pretty much says it all:

https://itvision.altervista.org/why...

I'm sorry to say that I totally agree with it. Linux is a lost case. But, as one commenter points out, so is Windows. Feels like operating systems on PC are hitting a dead end.

@jestdotty

I use my own domain hosted on a web hotel.

Why do you need a Google account anyway?

I don't have one and I don't want one.

@Lensflare

If politicians are being serious about tackling the climate changes, they should legislate on product quality with heafty penalties for any manufacturer that fails to meet the standards.

Yeah, forgot to mention: At home I have a G502 gaming mouse. It's great for allround use and also quite durable. This is my second one. The old one lasted for many years despite of heavy use. It still works, except left click is quite wore down.

In general, Logitech are very inconsistent. Some of their products are crap while others are great. Some are great in one aspect while they suck in another. For example, I love my mechanical keyboard G513. It still has that crispy clicky feeling, but the key caps look terrible! Shift, Ctrl and the arrow keys looked worn after just a couple of months.

Gone are the days when things lasted. I bought a Logitech mouse in 2001 that lasted until 2018 when it eventually started glitching.

@kiki

*lol* Quite the contrary :)