Honestly this is why I like what Cloudflare is building nowadays. They aren’t just a CDN but rather they’re becoming a full on cloud, like AWS and Azure are - except their developer experience is just so incredibly better than any other cloud

One thing I like about Cloudflare is that each product makes sense on its own, not like AWS: go make access policies in one place, ACLs in another, and before you know it you have no idea how anything works without taking an AWS Certified Consultant course.

Cloudflare feels like separate silos, each individually complete and usable. And the “minimum viable path to make-this-work” is usually 1-2 button presses, rather than filling in pages and pages of configs.

I also love that Cloudflare is scoped under each domain, it helps keep my projects separate.

My experience is pretty much the opposite. Bad support for common APIs like S3, terrible support for terraform/opentofu, none/lackluster help in support or github issues.

Clearly you haven’t seen an older person’s Android phone. One time had someone come to me with an Android phone that played forced fullscreen unexitable ads every few seconds through some obscure permission that you can’t even prompt for (i.e. user has to go to settings and enable it in an unusual spot). I get why the overlay permission would exist but honestly it’s not worth it. I can’t imagine what would be done by even a single malicious app slipping through with a “literally see and control your entire phone” permission

I have, I just don't understand why we need to develop for the lowest common denominator, nor why users reliably fail in that particular way. These same people are perfectly capable of driving their cars and stopping when the low oil light comes on, without randomly resetting their radio settings trying to fix it. What is it about cell phones that breaks their brains?

Okay, if your use case doesn’t require it, then don’t buy it…? You aren’t the only person in the world and some people might actually make use of this phone’s features(?)

it looks like the bump doesn’t have just the camera but also some other stuff like the processor ?

As of a few months ago, when setting up Desktop you do actually get an option to copy your message history to it

Thanks for the heads-up! Signal on the Desktop has receded for me in the past year when I moved to an Arch- rather than Debian-based distro (Ubuntu to Manjaro). This might get me to reconsider. (Ugh.)

definitely loved renting e-scooters when I was in Germany, really convenient with how many bike paths there are

The problem with these scooters is that people leave them in awkward places, such as where they block the pavement or a wheelchair ramp. Their wheels lock when not in use and they're really heavy too, which means that some people can't move them out of the way.

With bike rental systems the frustration is slightly less common as you often need to put them up against a bicycle rack in order to return them.

Ultimately this is just a societal issue, but unfortunately there's neither the public co-operation nor enforcement of sensible rules about where to park them in many large cities such as Berlin.

IMO all of these except the RDP app and the Office 365 -> M365 Apps rebrands are great rebrands and better represent the product

IMO “Azure AD” implies it is literally just AD hosted in Azure, when it’s become much more than that

Control Panel is definitely a bad example, I do see them working little by little, update by update, to integrate everything into Settings

It's been like 10 years since that settings panel came out with Windows 8. How many more years until it's done?

It's done when you're not visiting old control panel anymore. I wonder what people are even doing regularly enough in control panel for that to be such a problem.

I don't use them terribly often, but one thing that old control panel windows did was pack a lot of information into a small amount of space.

Device Manager has that nice tree setup allowing me to see problematic devices a lot quicker.

Drive management has that nice table of physical devices on the top and then partitions on the bottom.

The old-school network adapter page shows me every network device in a single window, real or virtual, and I can mess around with their settings a lot faster with right-click properties.

And of course the services manager allows me to make sure that certain services arent running, like Windows search indexing - I use voidtools Everything instead.

That said, those tend to be the exceptions and not the rules. I've actually been quite pleased with the progression of the settings window over the course of Windows 10 and 11. A special shout out to the new fonts page as it is light years better than what came before.

Funny, I recently wanted to uninstall a bunch of fonts I tested for programming. Turns out, in the new font settings widget you cannot uninstall all fonts or even all styles of a font at once. I would have needed to select a font, then click "Uninstall" for the bold style, the semibold style, the medium style, the italic bold style etc.

Opening \Windows\Fonts instead gives you a nice view of all fonts, you Ctrl-select all you want, right click, uninstall, done.

I do agree they didn’t do much in the 8/10 days but definitely feels like there’s a big push since 11

Or if you use M365 then Viva Engage/Yammer can be great!

PS. between the two Mastodon will be better, you can fully disable all federation and even have SSO! + setting up a private Bluesky is quite a bit harder