Why?

That will unfortunately never be a thing. They could theoretically do a “Docker machine” like setup to support actual Windows containers, but there’s probably not enough interest in that.

Docker and Podman can’t run Windows VMs by themselves. These containers use QEMU, so it’s essentially a pre-made setup for what you already had.

I haven’t yet run into any piece of software that’s fundamentally incompatible with the immutable model thanks to distrobox. This also means I don’t have any packages layered, so updates are very quick.

Aside from the fact that a strong enough supercomputer won’t exist for decades, you’re not limited by the speed of UUID generation. Even if you had an infinitely fast supercomputer, it wouldn’t speed up your brute force attempts, since you’re limited by the speed of the backend. Wherever Tea stores their images, that server has only a limited capacity for responding to requests, far less than the speed with which you can generate UUIDs. That’s a hard cap - you won’t try guesses faster than that.

A UUID v4 has 122 bits of randomness. Do you know how long that would take to brute-force, especially with network limitations?

Sure, it might be, I’m not saying it isn’t. All I’m saying is: the screenshot shows the code someone wrote to download the images. It’s not part of the Tea codebase.

While proper security is better, you’re not gonna brute force UUIDs.

You know that’s not the Tea code, but the downloader, right?

They’re pushing snaps onto users who don’t even want them - when you apt install some packages, you get snaps instead. That alone disqualifies Ubuntu in my eyes.

How are they monitoring and controlling my device when they don’t have MDM access to it? Again, I created the work profile myself. All my company IT could have access to are the Microsoft apps I’ve installed in the work profile which is separated & turned off when I don’t need it.

If I have a second phone, I need to keep it charged, remember to take it with me, and to turn it off after work. With everything integrated into my private phone it’s much easier for me.

Yes.

It works for some of my colleagues & doesn’t work for some others. You can also find bug reports in Microsofts trackers - they just don’t care.

Yep. “Code Snippets” recently stopped working for me (the overlay doesn’t open anymore), so I only have the two remaining ways. I can still do code blocks using three backticks, but inline code I can only do using the keyboard shortcut.

How they managed to fuck things up so badly is beyond me, and how they managed to keep them fucked up for so long is even further beyond.

Literally every week I encounter new bugs, it gets worse and worse. Many very basic features (like inline code with back ticks) just stopped working months ago and don’t work anymore. Scrolling in some channels is completely broken, jumping around wildly. Sometimes messages just don’t get sent (both on Android & Web). Sometimes calls work perfectly all day, then the next call just randomly changes audio device settings and I have to find what’s wrong again. Sometimes the video stream of a shared screen just doesn’t work, or stops working when switching to the small pop-up window while looking at chats, so the other person has to re-share. Sometimes the “available” state is just broken and keeps getting set to “away”. The search just doesn’t find many things, even when searching with fairly exact parameters.

It’s a daily source of frustration & literally gets worse by the week. I can’t remember a program that’s made me angry as much as Teams has.

I actually like the flexibility, but Teams is installed in a work profile that I created. This way I can turn it off when the work day is over. Very useful!

Sure, discipline can prevent some errors. But it’s always possible to run into wrong type assumptions, and I’d say type coercion and null/undefined access make up a fairly large percentage of non-logic errors. You can entirely prevent those using Typescript, which is why it’s so useful.

Static type analysis is always a good idea if you’re writing more than a couple lines. IMO Python is the worst offender with its kwargs etc. - discoverability and testability is just so bad if you’re following common Python idioms.

It unquestionably is excellent. Can you name another language in common use with a type system that’s close to the expressiveness of Typescript?

How? It’s easy not to run into the common issues by using TS. What’s so bad about it that we should throw away the existing ecosystem?

Please give arguments instead of platitudes.

Why? Why not improve JS (e.g. with Temporal), especially given how excellent Typescript is?