Just when I’d thought I’d found an app for editing plain text files on iOS they lock me out after opening 5 files. This is unacceptable! I refuse to pay anyone to be able to edit plain text files on my general purpose computer. I will pay for services that innovate, I will not pay for services that provide such fundamental computing capabilities! This is outrageous!
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@rlamacraft write it yourself then? everybody expecting that software and services should be free beer is one reason why big tech is so successful and fucking everyone.
anotger question is, why does your "general purpose computer" not ship with an editor? :)
Interesting:
1. 1990s: FOSS rises with Linux (replacing 1980s shareware and freeware)
2. 2000s: they want to get you using SaaS and apps that they control
3. 2020s: we have no control over our machines
Everybody wants to rule the world.
@amerika @rlamacraft i'm getting a bit off-topic here, but:
the best thing is that this appification
enables continuing the oldschool nerd bullying. only that the normies have poisoned gifts given to them and laughing about everyone who doesn't want them. it is considered dumb to build your own infrastructure. "you want some spare change for hosting $service? wait, it doesn't have $feature big corp. apps have? HAHA YOU ARE SO DUMB YOU RETARDED NERD!11"
i don't have that much spare money, but i am happy to spend it on things created by actual people, like locally produced food, but also for software maintainers etc.
to be honest, i want that those people who laugh at this fall flat on their faces in the worst possible way. i won't help them anymore. they have no gratitude for other peoples work and no respect for other beings. there is no excuse for that.
@bonifartius @amerika No, I totally get where you’re coming from. I too think we have to be careful not to take the tireless effort made by FOSS contributors for granted and should help wherever we can, financially or otherwise. My main issue is with Apple: I spent nearly a grand on this device and it can’t do such basic stuff. I feel like over time computers are becoming devices only capable of white-listed functionality; we’re going back to before WW2… We peaked at UNIX pipes…?
I agree. Apple makes it easy to do stuff, but then breaks lots of functionality and charges high prices for it.
I escaped that cult years ago, but it wasn't easy to see.
Like most things modern: angry serfs pretending to be kings. Steve Jobs was not a happy man.
We peaked with early UNIX because those coders at least knew how to make a consistent and logical operating system and interface.
Now we have clueless syntax junkies tacking on random stuff as the OS bloats and internal interoperability crashes...
@rlamacraft @amerika modern os always find a way to fuck up while trying to hold my hand. linux without systemd, plain window manager and programs looking like it is 2000 still work the best for me. at least i can fix things if they are broken :)
@amerika @rlamacraft btw. not a rant directed at you rlamacraft, just to prevent
a misunderstanding. i'm just generally pissed at the state of the world i guess ;)