• 0 Posts
  • 22 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 7th, 2023

help-circle


  • From a developer standpoint you’re taking someone’s baby, cloning it into a language they don’t understand and deprecating the original. Worse, if you’re not actually interested in taking over the project you’ve now made it abandonware because the original developer lost heart and the person looking for commit counts on GitHub has moved on.

    Obviously these extremes don’t always apply, but a lot of open source relies on people taking a personal interest. If you destroy that, you might just destroy the project.















  • Of the future? They’re a duplicate of what Apple was doing with software as far back as the mid 90s.

    Every ounce of performance we squeeze out of our hardware is replaced with pounds of bloat like this.

    It’s fine for a utility or something you’ll hardly ever need to use, but running every day software like this is a complete waste.



  • Thinking about this further…

    I can purchase 10GE fiber, at home, for $299/mo.

    I can purchase a solid 16 bay Supermixro server for around $5k

    16TB drives are $168. There’s $3,700 left so let’s buy 21 drives (336TB, 235TB usable under raidz3 zfs). We’ll leave that last $170 for … electricity.

    Leasing all of this from a regular hosting provider woul be much more cost effective. I work for one, what the heck are you doing man?