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What self hosting feels like (It's painful, please help 🥲) (feddit.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (16 children)

This reminds me of when I sent someone a program in a zip folder. Windows now opens zip folders by default, and it looks just like any other folder.

So of course they opened the zip and double clicked the exe, but everyone knows you can't open an exe inside a zip folder (at least, if the exe depends on the folders and files around it). If you try to, windows will extract the exe into a temp space, but leave all the dependencies behind. So the exe promptly crashes.

I didn't think I needed to specify "you need to extract the contents of the zip folder first, then run the exe." It feels like saying "you need to take the blender out of the box before you can use it. And not just the _base _ of the blender, you have to take out all the parts."

Some things just feel so much like second nature that we forget.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Doesn't Windows give a popup saying "Do you want to extract the folder before running the executable" anymore?

Edit: typo (funning to running)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, it does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Perhaps this occurred in the small window of time when it had been implemented and it didn't ask, or perhaps they just said no.

Regardless, I had to troubleshoot

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