ITT: We post our unpopular tech opinions

>systemd isn't bad, and is a big improvement over script-based inits
>Any keyboard layout smaller than tenkeyless is a meme
>there's no reason to care about the specs of a phone, they've all been more than good enough for several years

Lumping "programming" together like that is why you think that. If it's so easy, go and get a $100k+ job at apple or google or microsoft or amazon or facebook and cruise your way to the top and find out first hand that aside from facebook, the data-collecting boogeyman is a meme.
Anyone can write hello world or some shitty python script, actual programming is challenging.

blow it out your ass faggot, go back to spotify

>terrified of physical confrontation"
Such as imprisonment?

Hey, pajeet.

MacOS is good when you have a hackintosh

id rather have a macbook than a thinkpad

What do you mean by narcotics? I can see popular tech becoming more and more centered around making human life easier and adhering to human nature (need of interaction and communication with other people mostly) but I don't see how it would create any short of addiction by itself.

>I think Linux is fine but the second you have to do anything that isn't already pre-installed it becomes a huge enough hassle that it's easier to re-install which makes it shit to most people.

GNU/Linux feels cheap and second-rate. The GUIs feel tacky and unrefined and the programs feel like cheap Chinese copies of other, better programs. GNU/Linux doesn't have a feeling of a 'legitimacy', and feels like a novel tinkertoy rather than a real computer workstation. It's like comparing a custom built car to a Porsche. Sure, you may have built the car (or had someone build it for you), but it's not really a legitimate car and you will encounter a wide range of problem you wouldn't have faced if you just bought a Porsche. It just seems autistic and unnecessary. If anything, just tinker with that Porsche that just werks.

I can see where this is coming from, but honestly, I feel like I would rather have a custom built car. Porsche makes you feel fake, because you don't want to touch anything or take risks because you might break something. In a custom built car I would be able to fearlessly drive 1000kph on the highway because idc if it breaks, I can just rebuild it (I have the blueprint backed up).

Congratulations, your Porsche seats are covered in HIV coated tarantula hairs. You have AIDS now.

>responding to bait this obvious

It certainly comes with more risks in the custom car, but if you want those risks, that's fine if that's what you want to do. Some people prefer stability and comfort; others prefer innovation and exploration. I've got nothing against GNU/Linux honestly, it just doesn't 'click' with me is all.

I'm not b8ing, it's how I actually feel

Not because they're lazy imo
It's because they find it fucking boring sitting in front of the computer and desu it can be boring af when u r doing shit like debugging

>he doesn't like debugging
But that's the most fun part.

Programming is easy. Computer Science isn't for most people.

>have unlimited water from well
>someone steals my water
>still have unlimited water

Unless they steal an unlimited amount of water, I don't care. Problem?

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>Anyone can write hello world or some shitty python script, actual programming is challenging.
Define "actual programming."
If you just mean knowing paradigms, data structures, algorithms, ect. then it is still really fucking easy.

>most people should not have personal computers. They can be exploited way too easily and its basically just used as an extra multimedia device. For business, fine; For university/school, literally use pen and paper and actually learn whatever your first language is.
>linux is not "unix like". All distros (except maybe void and gentoo) are basically becoming windows/macos, not really anything unixy about most linux distros.

> javascript is comfy when applied to the right task
> startups are the equivalent of lotto tickets for the wealthy
> its easier to become a senior engineer than it is to become a junior
> technology has exacerbated the fundamental flaw of democracy -- most people are borderline retards and their opinions should not matter

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Mouse, touch pad and trackball were a mistake.
Joystick is far superior input device.

Not sure if you can't tell the difference between making a copy and taking a physical item or just trolling

You can't possibly hold this opinion if you're old enough remember life without PCs. Have you ever had to write a paper without a computer? Have you ever had to go to your local library and find a single poorly written book on your subject, then cobble together your paper with just that and an Encyclopedia Brittanica entry?

Or how about when you wanted to buy a ticket for a show? If you were lucky you could do it over the phone. If not, you had to literally go to the venue (or a ticket reseller) and buy the tickets when they went on sale.

Computers have made simple things so much easier that it's easy to overlook them all. Life was totally different before PCs became ubiquitous.

>You can't possibly hold this opinion if you're old enough remember life without PCs.
most people here aren't

Internet 2.0 and smartphones are abominations and should have never existed.

>Have you ever had to write a paper without a computer?
That's a good one. Last time I wrote a paper using paper was in elementary school, and I can't even remember doing it. I'm not even sure if I wrote papers in elementary school.

>track point mouses are significantly easier to use than a touchpad
False, you just aren't used to touchpads
>people can do everything but they are lazy
Also false, talk to more actually average people.

>False, you just aren't used to touchpads
I chose to switch after only using touchpads for years.
>Also false, talk to more actually average people.
I might actually be wrong about that one. Is the average person that retarded?

blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

Holy shit...
This has to be exaggerated, right?

i wrote a really shitting irc bot using raw sockets in python 10 years ago
can i get a job in programming?

Most people can get by just fine without computers. The whole "look how easy everything is now" argument is stupid. If a pc isn't part of your job, chances are you abuse it for netflix/porn/vidya. No one uses computers for things that actually matter like education.

>Have you ever had to write a paper without a computer?
Yes, it should be mandatory at universities. Computers have crippled peoples ability to write/spell.

Also, I understand that this is hard for people to grasp, but it's not lost on me how ridiculous it would be to try and implement something like this either.

>chances are you abuse it for netflix/porn/vidya. No one uses computers for things that actually matter like education.
spoken like a true wagecuck
why live to get and education and then a job if you're not going to enjoy your life

Based quads of truth.

>programming is really easy
>because I've never had to implement anything remotely difficult myself
>or consider long term stability of the program
>or security

Technical interviews are inefficient and most of them are purposefully made way too complicated to justify outsourcing programmers from emerging economies for the cheap.

>Yes, it should be mandatory at universities. Computers have crippled peoples ability to write/spell.
i know an 11yo who is a horrific example of this
you might assume something like "can't spell for shit and lets google correct him", but no, he uses audio dictation to input text, and can't read simple words/sentences
as a quick example, once he wanted to do some casting thing to the loungeroom tv from his ipad, and on the tv it said to "visit youtube.com/activate and type in ", he couldn't read the word "activate", and when i told him what it was, he then spoke out loud "youtube.com activate" at his ipad. i don't know if he was successful, but he probably was, since google is really good at figuring out what people mean
not all 11yo's are that bad, but it's still pretty scary that that's even possible, it's not like he has any major mental disabilities, either (supposedly)

>systemd is a great init system, it just needs time for hardening and optimization
>void is overrated
>there is nothing wrong with not trying to move up the corporate ladder if you make a decent living and you love what you do
>the only people who think programming is easy have never actually written anything of value

>startups are the equivalent of lotto tickets for the wealthy
this

I think there's a lot of people in technology fields who would agree with this

>the only people who think programming is easy have never actually written anything of value
define "of value"

>database is not easy

Explain to me the difference in this scenario, assuming that the money you leave fully covers manufacturing and distribution cost and that you taking a copy doesn't stop someone else from buying one because the store has good stock control and there's 20 other copies on the shelf and 200 more out the back.

>my morality is entirely based on if I'll go to prison for doing something
Still no better you degenerate

>greentexting an entire paragraph without line breaks
why

>programming is easy
I sort of agree but I'm still baffled that it took 3 months to my two classmates to understand for loops. And they're not complete drooling retards. Some people just aren't wired the same.

>explain the difference to me in this specific scenario that I just made up
absolutely retarded m8

>Google has caused very little harm compared to other companies in it's industry and large companies in general
>If the data-driven technocratic dystopia is inevitable the best way to minimize evil is to give Google your data and to avoid giving data to it's competitors

>super specific
>implying this wouldn't be the case in every large store

so they didn't get sigma in math either?

So what you're saying is you're a fucking moron who leaves dollar bills around, pretending as though the distributor has anything to do with the manufacturing of said product? Good job, fgt.

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Well, considering true democracy hasn't actually existed since Greco-Roman times, you're in luck!

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You honestly believe Google is more benign than other tech companies? Do you know nothing of the history of Eric Schmidt and the federal government since the late 90s?

youtube.com/watch?v=EcY4nnFF2cQ

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>>Python sucks
>>PHP is a mature and good web scripting language
>>Anarcho-Capitalism is the way of the future, and technology will free us from the power of the state more and more as time goes on.

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>Russian propaganda media
>0 evidence provided
>Google has been publishing transparency reports for years about it's compliance with law enforcement / government agency requests

Sick bombshell
>Yandex fags cope

Jerusalem belongs to the Jews.

>>Skipping over entire expose by Julian Assange, someone well respected and trusted in regards to states and tech security concerns.

Jerusalem is the proper capital of Israel, of course it belongs to the Jews.

>if you have the ability to assess risk, you're a pussy

I bet that bitcoin investment is serving you well, retard.

>Mouses
>Piracy is theft
>Being on Jow Forums

>not all 11yo's are that bad
they are. they're absolutely fucked. i know a 11yo that all he knows how to do is use an ipad or a playstation controller. his hand writing and spelling is of a 1st grade level and has no idea how computers. we now have a generation of people with advanced computers that have no idea how they work. this isn't by accident, this is all in the plan for corporations that don't want people to be creative or learn but to be mere passive consumers told what to do.

I think you linked the wrong video, in this 5 minute video there's like 20 seconds of him and it's just a bunch of vague mumbles

you can't perform multitouch gestures on a trackpoint. anyone with an IQ greater than 80 could see that.

fuck off russian shills the board is bad enough with american and paneer shills

pajeet*

>read school booklist for 7th grade 2019
>some books and pencils and shit
>REQUIRED: IPAD AND LAPTOP COMPUTER

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Mouses is a perfectly reasonable plural when talking about computer mouses. Mice sounds too biological and makes me uncomfortable.

This is not true

>Drawing is easy because everyone can draw a circle
What a retard

>makes me uncomfortable.
your comfort holds no bearing on whether something is true or not, fucking zoomer, go eat some cactuses

All true

cacti*

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>tfw both are technically correct and he didn't take the b8 of my double irony

Those things are made for different tasks. Also you're trolling.

Why the fuck would I shoplift and leave a dollar if I can actually pay this dollar and not shoplift? What's the fucking point?

>Confusing patriotism with corporate analysis probe
Good boy, Google has trained you well.

>IQ meme
ewwwww, go back to facebook

one gets me arrested, the other doesn't. being successful in the former also tends to involve killing someone or (usually) just the threat of it. also what the fuck kinda criminal just does something the more inefficient way for no other reason than proving they aren't a pussy? that's retarded

i agree to an extent. i think the main problem is that most of the people programming nowadays give 0 shits about the code itself, like i'm not saying you have to be super passionate about it (although ideal) but for the love of god if there were less people who saw programming as a cheap way to make 150k/yr the job would be way more tolerable

guessing you aren't an /o/tist. i'll happily take a custom built over a porsche, at least if you're using "custom" in the sense of at least using an existing chassis or performing heavy modifications to an existing engine. it's not about what's necessary, it's about fun. people don't seem to understand what fun is anymore, it really is heartbreaking

it's the same reason why cars as a hobby in general is kinda dying i guess. nobody else really sees joy in driving anymore (which is understandable if you're a city cuck ig) and as a result car enthusiasts are slowly getting fucked over with shit like banning ICEs, non-autonomous vehicles, etc. even for cases where they'd be harmless, like track use

or on the more Jow Forums side of things, it's why nobody could understand TempleOS for instance. nobody got that it was built for the sake of nostalgia, to be a modern day C64. some people thought it was useless garbage because, thanks to the cocksucking hail corporate mentality i guess, they expect everything to be treated like a professional product marketed as a daily driver, even though terry explicitly stated before that it existed for fun and education

sorry for the rant

on the bright side my 11yo cousin is somewhat tech literate, i wouldn't be surprised if he's shitposted here before

Linux is an OS

By now, piracy of movies, tv shows and music is much less about the cost of getting the product but about the absolutely retarded way that the services work.

If I watch just five shows, odds are that I'll have to subscribe to three different streaming services that then deliver me bitstarved shit despite the fact that I have a 1Gbit connection (so I could stream a UHD bluray). On top of that, remember stuff like needing specific CPUs for Netflix 4K, not because of codecs or performance issues but just because they were paid by intel?

Tl;dr - piracy is a service issue, not a cost issue.

Good for you. Anime is literally the antithesis to leading a successful life. If you're older than 16 and still watch anime, odds are you will not procreate and are thus an evolutionary dead end.

>a cracked copy is exactly the same as an original copy
>a cracked copy gives access to all contents that a original copy does
>a cracked copy causes shortages so that other people cannot buy that product
>a cracked copy has any monetary value
>a cracked copy has manufacturing and distribution cost
Imagine being this much of a brainlet and still have the gall to look down on people. Downloading a torrent and deleting it later is literally better than refunding a copy. Because if you didn't take it off the shelves, try it out and then return it, another person could've bought it and kept it. Go kys you salty, autistic kike.

software developers should be required to take basic networking and linux classes

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>sorry for the rant
Not a problem, I'm always happy to hear other perspectives. I can really see what you mean at the customization being 'fun', and it's totally understandable. I must admit, it's a point that I had completely overlooked.
Regarding your point on TempleOS, I've always found it so endearing and (daresay) beautiful in its own weird little way. Not everything has to be perfectly functional or pragmatic; sometimes beauty and value can be found in things that simply interject the heart of its creator.

Here's mine: Razer makes much better keyboards than any of the goofy ancient IBM bullshit keyboards that neckbeards love to post on Jow Forums

I'll try.
You make specific allowances considering only mass production, which I don't see why, seems arbitrary to me.
When you steal a physical item, you decrement the inventory in the store, you remove the profit potential from everyone involved in the supply chain, from the retailer, to the employee, transportation, manufacturing, material processing and delivery, raw materials extraction. Everything. You take a tiny bit of the work everyone did on that and "remove" it.
When you make a copy of an item, you don't depreive anyone of the opportunity to sell it or a service related to it, you're merely replicating information. The interesting thing about making a copy of a software is the hypothetical in which you write your own, which without knowing has completely identical behavior to an existing program. Have you made a copy then? Have you stolen then? I don't see making a copy as being different from that because they're functionally indistinguishible. Why is the work you put into making a copy woth more than the work you put into making money and purchasing a PC and using it to make a copy? I hope I've been able to clarify

I am a dev and was required to take networking and linux classees.
I 100% agree with this.

>>Tl;dr - piracy is a service issue, not a cost issue.
Those two are equivalent. All the content producers could easily resolve the service issue. Basically that'd mean getting all their content onto one platform instead of trying to have their own exclusive platforms, and agreeing not to have advertising in the programs. But the things that make that good service also mean that they're extracting less than everything they possibly can from their content. They don't want to do that, they want to wring every single dollar they can from it, by demanding that consumers pay extra for their special stuff, and by injecting ads again when they think people are hooked enough to not leave over the annoyance.

Solving the service issue necessarily solves the cost issue at the same time. That's why they refuse to solve it.

> I enjoy being raped, as long as it is with a small cock ;)

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