You flash the OS (okay, admittedly, debian which is nice) onto it from windows with some lugubrious .exe
https://www.unihiker.com/wiki/burner
No linux/macos tool available. No thanks.
https://www.unihiker.com/wiki/burner
No linux/macos tool available. No thanks.
looking or sounding sad and dismal.
"his face looked even more lugubrious than usual"
It didn't exactly spark joy, which these side project tinker tools should, in my opinion.
Lugubrious, heh.
I anticipate I’ll be using that one semi frequently
Who even develops Windows-exclusive apps these days, anyway? Even the average user these days seems to find it simply abhorrent.
It's so simple to create cross-platform applications these days, there's literally no excuse.
I can't imagine the thought process that went behind this beyond greed and profit, a little mind-numbing.
You simply assumed there is "no excuse" because you couldn't think of one, but you weren't in the room when the decision was made, and don't know the reasonings behind it. My blurb above could certainly have been one of several reasons brought up.
You can choose not to agree with the decision, that's fine, but you're attributing a whole lot of malice to what is ultimately a decision they made based on factors which you are not privy to.
So? I made a Qt-based low-level flashing utility at a previous job. Or do you consider C++ callign C functions not low-level enough?
> You simply assumed there is "no excuse" because you couldn't think of one, but you weren't in the room when the decision was made, and don't know the reasonings behind it. My blurb above could certainly have been one of several reasons brought up.
Just because you did it doesn't mean everyone knows how to do it. And that was my entire point.
Maybe you should offer your services to them.