No fucking way this was decided by an engineer instead of a manager

Customers shouldn’t need to be concerned because the company going down should not brick your PHYSICAL PRODUCTS

And yet, here we are

Bad meme usage

Aah meme history memory flashbang

I like to imagine I’m yelling it. SUDO!!!

sudo !!

Day 564: I have become lost in the forums amidst flake debate threads. Do not search for me, it is already too late.

Ooh clever. I was able to get around mine by opening sites in an iframe, I made a bookmarklet for it

So true

Anyone who replies to this with “any mistakes in C code are the developer’s fault” should be banned from the kernel. I know someone’t going to try it.

They’re a liiittle harder but yeah basically

I let the intrusive thoughts win

More like poop os haha get it

I hope this works out so much. Tim Berners-Lee even endorsed it! Unfortunately, a lot of these super cool ideas come with the limitation of needing a personal server. I think if we really want this stuff to happen, someone needs to start selling modem/router combos with a home server built in. You could add Solid, local media share, etc. by default, and it would be a great place to install Home Assistant or run a Minecraft server from.

I have no significant private data on my disks. They can be wiped whether encrypted or not if they’re stolen. And I like that in theory if my pc explodes I can recover the data with only the drive.

Truee I feel like open source has really picked up recently and that makes me happy

Ok, that’s true. But what I’m saying is that you aren’t considering the value of convenience and user experience at all. It’s possible for those benefits to outweigh the downsides.

Also encryption wouldn’t prevent your first example

I would also argue that it’s “dumb and shortsighted” to not care about user experience, because then you lose the users and they go back to the unencrypted environmentally-disastrous service.

Why

To some, convenience matters more than intangible benefits. This is not necessarily dumb.