I was a Microsoft certified engineer working for a fortune 500 company maintaining 10,000 servers worldwide. Retired two years ago, and I won’t have Microsoft in my house.
This man gets it.
I am happy running a dual boot Asus
An IBM mainframe CE myself, the last of which was a 3081 and 3084 with lots of DASD attached. My second career, IT director for a small school district, and we encountered a lot of hardware grief with the Mac workstations. And yes, some of our children use Apple products., to my dismay. Well, possibly a good thing, as if they get in a computer bind, it won't be dad helping. I go way back, to a mainframe language called JOVIAL.
They won't let me fool with their stuff as I will only cludge it up. Had not heard of JOVIAL. I started with FORmula TRANsformation on MVS at an IBM test site at VATECH running on a WATFIVE compiler.
To paraphrase the famous words of Satchel Paige, "Never look back. You'll see who's gainin; on you."
Everyone needs linux. They just don't know it yet.
It took me six months to write a "Post Processor" to allow my CNC wood carving software to work on my CNC plasma..... getting the torch to turn off and raise the "Z" axis, then touch and raise to cutting height between cuts was a bear!
Would be interesting to tell ChatGPT what you wanted and see what it gives you to compare. It's pretty amazing what it can do. Needs someone who knows what they are looking at to confirm it is done correctly but its very useful for things like this.
I use the chatGPT plugin for visual studio at work sometimes. It can be useful for writing a code block outline, but always has bugs I need to correct or misses entire concepts that are crucial like error handling. It's still a huge leap forward over what was available just a couple years ago, so I assume it's going to replace me entirely before long
I've had a Macbook Pro for almost 2 decades. A year ago I switched to an Air. Kinda regretting it TBH.
