Ooh, devpods, great, so now we can all have the same build environment and we know everything just works!

Hmm, what is that you are saying? Obscure compilation errors? What #devcontainer are you using? Oh, no, that's yesterday's #container, you need the one from today! Unless you're in this special branch, then you need the one from two weeks ago. Possibly. Maybe. Just delete all devpods, purge your image cache and rebuild everything from scratch, that'll fix it! You know what, I don't know either, let's just quit and take up gardening.

#EmbeddedDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareSucks

Well, that’s a new one. I crashed the ATM (as in dead) depositing some checks today. It took my checks and then shuffled off this mortal coil. It ceased to be. It was no more. It was an ex-ATM.*

Let me know if you need me to break something. I excel at it.

* No, mate, it wasn’t pining for the fjords.

#technology #softwaresucks #banking #banks

Take 10¹⁰⁰. Now add 1. Then subtract 10¹⁰⁰ from that.

You end up on 1.

Search engine calculators: NO!

#SoftwareSucks #BrokenByDesign #SimpleMath #duckduckgo #google #bing #startpage

Next project: DIY Mastodon instance?

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In CL?

#commonlisp #mastodon #softwaresucks

My household has three computers, all are 5-6 years old, two were high end spec at purchase.

The Windows machine can't play any streaming video without a hitch in playback. Sometimes it skips 5-10fps in a 24fps stream.

The Debian machine goes into hard lock when you plug the HDMI cable into it and has to be rebooted. It can't stream anything from Mubi. If you play 1080 or above video through VLC it hitches for two seconds on first play.

The 11" can't stream video smoothly at all. Can't even watch 240 youtube.

Two of these machines *still* have higher spec than most new computers sold today.

This is completely insane.

#digitaldespair #softwaresucks #falseobsolescence