#fuck proprietary software

[yukami08]

And this, kids, is why when you want to buy new hardware for your company, you buy standard stuff! For real though, who's the genius at QNAP that decided they were gonna make an enterprise grade NAS with a single board computer based on ARM v7? Fuck you. When the server reaches your pathetic EOSL, what happens? It stops being maintained and it has to be decommissioned. What happens then if someone wants to buy it back? Do they have to plug a security vulnerability on the network? All of that because you decided that using the cheapest components was a better idea? "But Yuka, you can hack the firmware to install Linux on it so you still have security updates" Debian isn't compiled for ARM Marvell anymore. The only version of Debian that is ready to install for this machine is Debian 10 which reached it's EOL only 2 years later! And that's not even taking into account the fact that you have to work around the system to flash the installer to the poor 16MB of unupgradable flash memory on board! "But further updates are too heavy on the system. It's just not powerful enough" Which is why it should have been made with standard components! So you can upgrade and maintain it! And then again, I'm not the one who decided that *an enterprise grade storage server* only needed 1GB of RAM! Tell me, oh great defender of garbage ideas, why do I have in my room a laptop from 2008 running ArchLinux in glorious 64bits with a desktop environment and everything if the system if just not powerful enough to get further updates? Tell me how the system is not powerful enough for updates when I used TrueNas Scale on my main storage server built on a Core2Duo from 2006! Not to even get into the default software of this thing which by itself is a crime but this isn't about that

[autdroid]

running linux is just: copypastes error message into search engine, reads forum posts, copypastes solution into terminal, solution doesn’t work, reads more forum posts, gets distracted, reads more forum posts, searches error on youtube, copies solution into terminal, solution works, now you have a new error message, copypastes error message into search engine

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

had to write up a thing for the makerspace like

this is what you CAN use the embroidery machine for (like three very specific things)

this is what you CANNOT use the embroidery machine for (everything else in the world)

[totallynotabot2000]

Yeah, windows is objectively bad, but mac doesn't fall short, because it's as bad but it doesn't even have the excuse of having to support multiple non standard configurations of hardware and it's still dogshit.

But mUh LapTOp cOoL!

Your laptop is a repairability mess in terms of hardware and a pit of bugs in terms of software, there's nothing good about it and for some reason is industry standard in things that should be multiplatform or just not forcing you to use one of the worst OS in the last 40 years to be even compatible with the rest of the world.

Fuck apple and also fuck Microsoft because that malware infested OS isn't better but at least I can wipe it from my system and use an actually decent OS if I want to.

Apparently some of the evils of humanity in Pandora's box were actually proprietary software and we just had to wait for its blight to blossom in our times.