mcc
"The first step, for Microsoft, was acquiring a company named Danger… they spent half a billion dollas to acquire Danger"
Mar 4 at 9:00pmWeb
Show threadWillMar 4
@mcc After which, presumably, they shook hands with Danger.
Show threadHugo MillsMar 4
@mcc They'll be making it their middle name now?
Show threadJason Parker (he/they)Mar 4
@mcc I tried to like my Sidekick, but I just couldn't. It wasn't "there" and it just felt off. I miss physical keyboards though, and I'll die on that hill.
Show threadmccMar 4
@north i knew some people with sidekicks and i regret never asking to try one out while they were still in the world
Show threadTiffMar 4
@mcc @north as fun as they were I think phone keyboards were perfected with the Motorola xt894
Show threadThe Silicon SorceressMar 4
@tiff @mcc @north Oh i think i had one of those, or one of the adjacent models. Absolutely delightful phone.
Show threadAmi AngelwingsMar 4
@mcc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7kMXWh5Sx8
I choose the danger

YouTube
Show threaddemizeMar 4
@mcc silly microsoft, i can acquire danger for free if i want
Show thread4am ❧Mar 4
@mcc "...This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
Show threadmccMar 4

@a2_4am okay so the conclusion i have reached from the many responses i got on this thread is

- GPT is not haunted
- UEFI partition *is* haunted
- diskmgt.msc: haunted
- diskpart.exe: not haunted¹
- gparted: not haunted

¹ Though in my experience it may ask you to do some fairly precise math.

EDIT: This was supposed to be a reply to an entirely different reply by 4am to an entirely different thread. No idea what happened here

Show threadElladanMar 4

@mcc @a2_4am most of the problems I've hand held people through with gparted (or parted, or fdisk/gdisk) in the last few years amounted to this:

"When it asks you for the partition type, it's asking for what 16 bit random number to put in the GPT table. It's not asking for the file system. That is a separate step. Actually nothing in Linux cares about that number at all, despite there being dozens of numbers available. Only EFI and maybe Windows care."

Partitions are... Confusing.

Show threadElladanMar 4

@mcc @a2_4am so in conclusion the partition table itself is haunted.

And that's not even mentioning SMR drives which is just a gateway to the spirit world.

Show threadthe vessel of morgannaMar 4
@mcc @a2_4am gparted is definitely haunted ime, i have had some incredibly bad filesystem destruction resulted from gparted misbehavior :(
Show threadThe 54 Studio 🪩🕺🏻💊👃🍬Mar 5
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