Still the king but developing/testing/debugging group policy issues is a miserable experience.

I disagree. Group policies are extremely straightforward to administer in my experience.

That depends on how fine grained your targeting rules are. They can get insane.

I always found it straight forward. Never had an issue and I've implemented my fair share on thousands on devices and servers.

Not an implementer of group policy, more of a consumer. There are 2 things that I find extremely problematic about them in practice.

- There does not seem to be a way to determine which machines in the fleet have successfully applied. If you need a policy to be active before doing deployment of something (via a different method), or things break, what do you do?

- I’ve had far too many major incidents that were the result of unexpected interactions between group policy and production deployments.

That's not a problem with group policy. You're just complaining that GPO is not omnipotent. That's out of scope for group policies mate. You win, yeah yeah.... Bye

I wish licensing restrictions weren't holding back more widespread adoption of qt wasm.

Ive found nomad to be a much simpler replacement for smaller scale deployments.

We lost a good one.

I'll take QObject over GObject any day of the week.

This is why any piece of automation that comes into my home is required to function without internet or an app, in its own private vlan.

IKEA remotes are inexpensive and work really well with a proper zigbee adapter and zigbee2mqtt. Home assistant you can build actions right from the web ui.

M series mac's are my dream c++ development machines. Just this week I was investigating some potential bugs in Qt's javascript engine and I was recompiling it from source across multiple tags to bisect. On my i9 mac I would compile Qt overnight, on my m3 pro it takes about 10 minutes, on battery, silently. Truly remarkable.

One time payment for affinity photo/designer and couldn't be happier not to deal with Adobe's subpar software and all that comes with it.

I've tried Affinity. Unfortunately a literal lifetime of photoshop has made it basically impossible to switch. It's like getting into a car and all the buttons are rearranged and behave different.

The jokes on me. I pirated photoshop way back in the day. Now I have no choice but to shell out a subscription.

That sounds good (it's what I'd do) but doesn't seem to be related to what I'm commenting on.

I like Affinity Photo a lot, and it's what I use, but Photoshop is definitely the more powerful program. Affinity still doesn't even have an auto-select.

C's get degrees was some of the best academic advice i ever received.