Probably some GPO deployed script your admins configured at boot to tweak some registry nonsense or other corpo-spyware related crap.

When you see a cmd window or two flash into and out of existence after trying to open something:

Yeah, in the US, I’ve always heard it pronounced “wee-gee.” Of course, these were the same people convinced nerds playing TTRPGs were worshiping Satan.

Now I am imagining it called Ouinein to align with the Yes / No on the board.

Fallout: New Vegas is like this. With all of the DLCs you start with some overpowered weapons that makes the first serious quest silly

It is such a stupid barrier to entry.

I went a couple of years but never finished undergrad. That first job tangentially related to what I wanted to do required a personal connection because no one was going to hire a kid to hack code. But after that first job walking away with some (embellished) experience and me listing the university on the CV without mentioning a degree, I was able to break into the field.

Weirdly, you don’t need a uni education to do software engineering because of how democratized the information is on computer science and how freely people share their code and techniques online for you to study. You can Good Will Hunting yourself by your own bootstraps in this area, trivially. But places really wanted to know you had that piece of paper. Even when I knew friends with that piece of paper and were incompetent at the actual craft.

Only a few times have prospective employers asked about the degree and it was a problem (some ten years past lol). It ends up being really good signal on if that place is worth it.

US higher education is uber expensive because whenever americans put something in between the service being delivered and how it is paid, it is out of sight out of mind. The borrowing doesn’t feel real because repayment is deferred. Universities love money and they figured out that they can jack up the tuition and build lots of buildings and hire lots of useless administrators because it is all borrowed money without any kind of reasonableness applied. You would think the US government would demand due diligence not just from the borrower but also from the institution not to waste that money.

Can’t tell if you just like murdering people or if you are a masochist.

Capital/time intensive start up costs make it a barrier to entry. This is why the prices are so high. Supply is inelastic because the producers know this is a bubble. If they do the capital intensive thing and the bubble pops before realizing the additional capacity, they are left holding the bag.