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[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 57 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Buying technology used to be like plucking a ripe apple from a tree. You see, you take, you enjoy.

Lately, I liken the process to gutting a fish. You now have to skillfully dispose of the unwanted bits, and it always comes with unwanted bits.

Edit: okay, you have to pay extra for the "professional" version to go back to a less encumbered experience. It's still bad though.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And that's just computers. Cars and phones, man, holy crap.

To take your fish analogy, it's like "Well maybe 5% of your catch is NOT laden with innumerable parasites, but they're the only thing that lives here and we gotta eat so...."

Edit: "But I heard there's a new breed that not full of parasites!"

"Yeah but those don't seem to migrate here and if they do they either don't thrive or get eaten by these bloated monstrosities."

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

Or choose open-source, which is either plucking the apple, or planting the whole orchard from seeds and tending it for years. Coin toss.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 8 points 11 months ago

Pfft! Don't like it? The code to the DNA is right there in the treepo.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

The pro version is still pretty encumbered, pirate the LTSC version if you want unencumbered.

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