Ram disks!!

Gambling with OTHER PEOPLE’S money.

You win, you take a cut. You lose. Someone else suffers.

These people destroy everything for greed.

Damn. I use relay a lot

Poorly behaved system monitors are as old as windowing systems in Linux.

Gkrellm on Afterstep was famous for this.

I installed Slackware from 24 floppies I downloaded from a Volkerdings personal server, because I didn’t have a CD ROM. I installed using documentation printed on a dot matrix printer that was versions out of date… It took a day to compile a kernel. I’ve had to manually patch drivers (3c509 baaabyyy).

I dreamed about a future where I never had to do that again. Arch pissed me off.

Samesies! The Garmin battery is starting to deteriorate after about 3 years use though. That said I don’t regret buying it, it’s been great.

amateurs.asm

(Calm down, I’m joking)

Let me introduce you to the concept of the Venn Diagram

Yeah. We had options in the past. Not now.

Mostly because a stable prosperous middle class doesn’t benefit a globalized oligarchy. This means dismantling the American democratic experiment.

But you gotta do it on stages to prevent an armed revolt.

A real president hasn’t been possible since Regan sold the country to corporate interests, CNN entertainment news, and the end of unions.

If you have kids, feel very sorry for them

Holy shit. I must be really old.

I’d like to counter both these arguments with:

I know you meant copyright… but this made me laugh.

It is the ultimate giving up of your personal free will… and they make it a fucking SELLING POINT.

Like door to door lobotomy salesmen.

Yeah he didn’t find the right unmaintained project. There are many many many cs undergrads starting projects that will become unmaintained pretty soon.

Aww sweetie. You’re cute.

Luddites were champions of the working class and have been smeared by capitalist for over a century. I’d be proud to be called a Luddite.

(In before history nerds um, actually me: chill…I know)

Yeah. It was a controversy like 10 years ago at this point.

claps

Took way too long to find a response from someone that actually does the work.

Most of this discussion is just the neuro spicy and olds angry that everyone doesn’t do it the “right” way.

I bet there are billions of hours wasted by people trying to make the perfect way to document and discuss stuff, while the answer is “it’s hard, tedious, and pretty manual work to create and manage good documentation”.

But nobody wants to do it because it has and always will suck.

I’m amused to know that I can look through old irc chats talking about how forums are the death of foss projects. Or mail lists complaining that everyone is using IRC wrong…