• BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 年前

    I’m a horrible Mac user (sorry), but I was on a call with a Windows dev the other day. We were debugging something and I told him to Base64 encode a string. Expecting him to go to the terminal and run an equivalent command to “base64”, I watch him track down an application in the start menu, wait 30 seconds for it to open (complete with loading spinner), navigate through some menus and then finally encode the value.

    Nothing against the guy, it was just sad to see someone caged by Bill Gates’s vision for humanity.

    • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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      3 年前

      I unironically just use online tools to do anything technical when I'm troubleshooting a Windows machine. Type "base64 online" into a search engine and just pick whatever looks least scummy.

      • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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        3 年前

        Out of curiosity I looked up how to base64 encode something with Powershell and it's literally this bullshit:

        PS> [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes('text_to_encode'))

        That also requires .NET to be installed to work.

        What the absolute shit Microsoft, would you like your users to ever actually get anything done or not?

    • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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      3 年前

      Window devs do be like that. Me, I try to mold Windows to not be aggravating to my Linux minded brain. Got tons of CLI tools installed and others within reach with scoop.