Name: Anonymous 2018-06-14 0:53
Many paranoid freetard boomgrammers here are:
But guess what?
That's what most shit is these days.
How can you talk about programming if you don't even like it?
Like it or not, face it. That's what a lot of software is these days.
Normie non-programmers appreciate modern programming more than you do.
It's a terrible user experience to use a desktop Guhnoo/Linsux distro with Tor Browser and javascript disabled and dial-up tier internet being bounced slowly and unreliably through a zillion Tor nodes, and no cookies and no anything. Open source command-line programs only. That's the paranoid /prog/rider equivalent to being ``woke''. And you know what? That shit is unusable.
Meanwhile, with proprietary software, you get better speeds, better support, more modern features, customer support who can help you (instead of freetard forums where people make fun of you if you say your Linux install has issues), and so on. But, of course, it's not freetard-approved, if you only value privacy and nothing else.
I'm not saying privacy isn't important, but to completely abandon pragmatic values in favor of ``muh privacy'' and ``muh freedum'' has led to the mess of FOSS being as bad as it is now.
I feel like the open source community celebrated prematurely, at ``winning'' against Microsoft, because of being able to install a desktop OS on a desktop or laptop. But the expectations for modern tech are different. GIMP looks exactly the same as it did a decade ago. Most Linux DEs are outdated as shit. People want their data to be synced on all their devices, not siloed on a single thing on local storage. People do not want to spend hours tweaking config files. There is no open source mobile option. Android does not count. Copperhead is unusable by realistic standards. Freetards have become out of touch and are thus sealing their own fate as connoisseurs of archaic technology. Free as in freedom? No. Free as in obsolete. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is moving on without you.
I wish freetards would abandon purist idealist bullshit and get on board with helping the average joe's tech become more privacy-respecting, but you'll never do that if you stay in your comfort zone of GNU/Linux and typical /prog/ shit, where you're not going to influence the average person and get them to care about privacy and open source.
• Anti-javascript • Anti-cloud • Anti-mobile • Anti-proprietary • Anti-tracking • Anti-IoTBut guess what?
That's what most shit is these days.
How can you talk about programming if you don't even like it?
Like it or not, face it. That's what a lot of software is these days.
Normie non-programmers appreciate modern programming more than you do.
It's a terrible user experience to use a desktop Guhnoo/Linsux distro with Tor Browser and javascript disabled and dial-up tier internet being bounced slowly and unreliably through a zillion Tor nodes, and no cookies and no anything. Open source command-line programs only. That's the paranoid /prog/rider equivalent to being ``woke''. And you know what? That shit is unusable.
Meanwhile, with proprietary software, you get better speeds, better support, more modern features, customer support who can help you (instead of freetard forums where people make fun of you if you say your Linux install has issues), and so on. But, of course, it's not freetard-approved, if you only value privacy and nothing else.
I'm not saying privacy isn't important, but to completely abandon pragmatic values in favor of ``muh privacy'' and ``muh freedum'' has led to the mess of FOSS being as bad as it is now.
I feel like the open source community celebrated prematurely, at ``winning'' against Microsoft, because of being able to install a desktop OS on a desktop or laptop. But the expectations for modern tech are different. GIMP looks exactly the same as it did a decade ago. Most Linux DEs are outdated as shit. People want their data to be synced on all their devices, not siloed on a single thing on local storage. People do not want to spend hours tweaking config files. There is no open source mobile option. Android does not count. Copperhead is unusable by realistic standards. Freetards have become out of touch and are thus sealing their own fate as connoisseurs of archaic technology. Free as in freedom? No. Free as in obsolete. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is moving on without you.
I wish freetards would abandon purist idealist bullshit and get on board with helping the average joe's tech become more privacy-respecting, but you'll never do that if you stay in your comfort zone of GNU/Linux and typical /prog/ shit, where you're not going to influence the average person and get them to care about privacy and open source.