Learn Ansible or similar, and you you can be ~OS (OSX/Linux/even Windows) agnostic with relatively complex setups. I set mine up before Agentic systems were as good as they are now; but I assume it would be relatively effortless now.

IMO, it's worth spending some time to clean up your setup for smooth transition to new machines in the future.

Because 'sometimes' doesn't mean you should needlessly handcuf yourself the other 80% of the time.

I personally haves an ansible playbook to ~setup all my commonly used tooling on ~any cli I will use significantly; (almost) all local installs to avoid need for root. It runs in ~minute - and I have all the Niceties. If it's not worth spending that minute to run; then i won't be on the machine long enough for it to matter.

> I personally haves an ansible playbook to ~setup all my commonly used tooling on ~any cli I will use significantly;

^^ Yep. Totally this. I've become entirely too accustomed to all the little niceties of a well-crafted toolchain that covers all my needs at any given moment. It was worth the time invested to automate installing and configuring all the fancy newfangled stuff I've built up muscle-memory for. :)

seems like an easy fix in a month with a new TLD though.

> It’s “installed” at my company but basically refuses to interact with basic company data like files in sharepoint.

on my work computer - there's a sep. 365Copilot app that is tied into Teams,Sharepoint, outlook, and I believe our engineering wiki. Probably other stuff I'm not aware of.

I'm honestly shocked how often I use it now.

If I get a random Pipeline failure; I'll copy/paste it into the o365 Copilot app - and it points me to an email I didn't notice ~3 months ago about a new policy change, and then points me to discussion thread I wasn't on ~2 weeks ago about how to get in compliance with direct links to EngWiki 'how to fix..' documentation, and an Teams link to join the breaking teams Office Hours.

Just off a single ~1 sentence prompt and a stack trace

It's kind of amazing.

The part where it gave you access to a thread you were not a part of seems scary to me..

In this case your absence from the thread was probably an oversight, but in general there could be a very good reason for it

The only way I can reasonably interpret it is that it was a discussion on a Teams channel they had access to but weren't involved in.

this; it was a public channel I had access to, but never look at (I'm on... too many to keep up with, fairly large company).

Isn't that just indexed search?

No.

Search is part of this, but that doesn’t necessarily work from an error message.

It doesn’t mean you get the relevant parts of the thread either.

It certainly doesn’t mean you get a populated meeting invite for a relevant team.

> hilariously probably Windows

That's probably true.

> 15 y/0

It's a matter of expectations, many laptops that old still work decently enough with a refreshed battery. Funnily enough win10 was released 15 ago, and one can still get support for it for at least another 3 years until 2028, even on the customer license.

W10 was released 10 years ago, not 15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history

Sorry, I just have pattern matched the 2015 release year instead of properly counting.

honestly - copilot free mode; and just play with the agentic stuff can give you a good idea. Attach it to Roo and you'll get a good idea. Realize that if you paid to use a better model; you'd get better results as free doesn't have a ton of premium tokens.

if there's a system; people will go out of their way to game it if there's potentially $$$ involved.

See: companies naming themselves "Aardvark (plumbing, electrician, locksmith, moving) in the day of phone books.

are there OSS solutions for controlling/configuring unify hardware?

There are not.

I assume environment variables became popular as it's an 'easy' way to inject secrets without hardcoding them in a config file.

Homebrew does a great job @ initial setup; it does a poor job of keeping a system clean and updated over time.