why is windows

Snow Jo ❄️ :v_enby: 💫

why is windows

Snow Jo ❄️ :v_enby: 💫

no seriously

i just debugged my boss' home PC, after pings and incoming TCP connections via LAN (and the overlay network thingie im making) didnt wanna work

even though outcoming connections and pings DID work, so nothing was wrong with the connector itself

i looked EVERYWHERE for a setting wrt firewall blocking something; group policy, advanced firewall, etc.

we even disabled the firewall itself, it didnt work

then on a whim, we looked in settings for any 'connected' accounts, we found a organisation account, disabled it, rebooted it, and everything started working again, incoming pings worked, and incoming tcp also

my boss said "yeah its probably a hidden secondary firewall that windows has"

whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Snow Jo ❄️ :v_enby: 💫

not even macos has given me this grief, it has ONLY been windows which has me waste this many hours trying a thousand things, 0 diagnostics options, 500 irrelevant menus that all do a slice of the same thing, only to arrive at the solution serendipitously, because of some magic incantation

i'd rather have macos' arbitrary obtuseness, not this fucking bullshit

and that's not even talking about the 0 documentation there is for deep network-stack rooting-around that i have to do for windows

Samuel Hautamäki

@ShadowJonathan Windows is literally like "what if we make an operating system absolutely nobody wants to use"

LiquidParasyte

@ShadowJonathan @puppygirlhornypost2 any experience/insight as to why windows is a fuck in this example?

Amber

@[email protected] @[email protected] considering jo said something about an organization account it's possible that there was a group policy in place