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nonsense take; just like you train a junior engineer to make better and better decisions over time; your expertise as a senior engineer nmaturally forces a drift to helping others be more productive

Edge started as a reffreshing take on a chromium-based browser, then they regressed to absolute early 2000s bloatware-Microsoft. I was an avid user for about 4 years. Now I avoid it like the plague, except for their awesome “Read Aloud” feature. Can’t recommend Arc browser enough, it’s a browser built with craft and designed to streamline modern workflows.

I experienced this a couple of months ago while trying to spoof a hotel room's captive portal. I was attempting to get a Chromecast to work, which isn't designed to operate with wifi connections behind captive portals. Very frustrating and no feedback from the OS that the commands I was running weren't actually doing what it said it was doing. This was on a latest gen MacBook Pro 15" running latest version at the time of MacOS.

Appears that they're offering patent lawsuit indemnification as a built-in to using Azure, as they have a massive patent portfolio: "use Azure, and as an additional benefit, we'll cover damages related to patent law suits that arise, if we have a patent with which we can defend."