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  • In that era we had HP Unix boxes and SGI workstations, to run engineering software. Then the company was bought by a private firm with share holders. The board decided to scrap the Unix stuff and move to Microsoft servers and clients. (Citing: nobody knows what Unix is).

    We then battled with BSOD and lost work for almost a decade.




  • It was great at first then MS started changing teams all around and old app didn’t have the functionality of the new stuff, and the repo was getting no updates.
    The only pain I had originally was I had to contact MS to tell them there repo was missing the valid signing key, when they did updates




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    I’m using it daily for work. It seems to work fine. They changed things a long while back which made things harder to find in the app chats etc. But it does what it is supposed to do.

    I preferred it when the Linux version was being maintained, since I didn’t have to be on a Windows machine for work.






  • I don’t take offense, nobody is going to have exact lived experience. And open debate is much better than division. Your point about younger age group is valid, because it could be they used it extensively but were self aware and refrained in front of a slightly older person.

    I saw same decline in the work place with a large swath of age groups. Many rough shop floor types use slurs still, but internal office and customer facing had a large decline in R word and homosexual slurs in my era.
    But there is always one guy dropping it and the group goes quiet.




  • The terms moron and idiot are still used on the test reports, but nobody nowawdays associates calling somebody an idiot/moron with a slur against the mentally challenged, but the R word is.

    Like under your argument we can still call people gay as a slur because it used to mean happy.

    We stopped calling people gay or R word in the early 90s dude.



  • It no longer means the same though. Language changes, and the R word is used as an insult equating somebody to somebody with down syndrome (as an example) while Moron and Idiot don’t have a direct correlation to a group.

    While all are still uses medically, there is context needed. Like the test might say your child is in the idiot, moron range. But a doctor will now say they have mental retardation or reduced mental capacity. They dont say hey parents your kid is ‘Re----"

    People still using the R word (as non time related uses) are just behind the times, like when my mom called black people colored…at some point somebody has to confront you and say “hey, this is not how we do things now”