bolognafairy

Alright. See you over on the XHTML Internet. Oh, wait.

Concerning, maybe. Definitely not surprising. One’s technical ability to do something has, if anything, a negative correlation with their ability to value and manage their own time. The author’s justification is absolutely ridiculous, hands down. I simply pray that they’re never in charge of deploying another human’s time effectively.

I assure you that “sneaking spyware into installers” predates “tech bros”

Okay. It still doesn’t fill me with confidence.

“Twitch does…”

Thank you Hacker News commenter for lecturing someone on Human Resources policy. The ultimate scope creep from someone explaining why this feature might have an iota of value. The SECOND a tool that you use add a feature that you want because “um, we don’t think that your business should work like that, actually”, there’d be an angry rant on the front page of this very site.

Are you genuinely not reading the comments that you’re replying to?

OP did mot solicit or show that there would be any value in people listing ways that one could circumvent this with preparation.

We all know. You aren’t adding anything to the discussion. Nerds love ignoring the cost of human effort if it gives them an opportunity to show that they know something.

I don’t do “video, audio, and normal web browsing” for a living, and I don’t find macOS unbearable.

For the love of God, please show an iota of acknowledgment that this could just be a matter of personal taste, instead of immediately resorting to such absolutist statement. It’s very telling that your portrayal of “I don’t like this” is “this is surely unbearable for anyone that does the sort of work that I do. Anyone that makes this work for them is doing this OTHER class of things”. And I’ve got absolutely zero doubt that you consider the things that you listed as being ‘lesser’ than your ‘real computer work’.

Please stop moving the goalposts. It makes it even more blatant that you’re engaging in a kneejerk emotional argument that doesn’t belong on this website.

You’re not being clever like you think you are. “They could simply build something else” is … something that truly everybody knows. That’s not the point.

Yep. Fuck laws. The fact that there are potential negative consequences means that we should throw them all out!

That doesn’t mean that it’s “probably not the intention”.