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xkcd #1172: Workflow (imgs.xkcd.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works to c/xkcd@lemmy.world
 

Title text: There are probably children out there holding down spacebar to stay warm in the winter! YOUR UPDATE MURDERS CHILDREN.


Transcript[Changelog for version 10.17 of a piece of software.]

One change listed: "The CPU no longer overheats when you hold down the spacebar"
Comments: LongtimeUser4 writes: This update broke my workflow! My control key is hard to reach, so I hold spacebar instead, and I configured Emacs to interpret a rapid temperature rise as "control".
Admin writes: That's horrifying.
LongtimeUser4 writes: Look, my setup works for me. Just add an option to reenable spacebar heating.

Every change breaks someone's workflow.


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[–] malloc@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like a future forever paid customer to me. Want overheating back? Pay $4.99 per month in perpetuity and ongoing maintenance costs lol.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The more subscription models there are, the more people there are creating cracks for subscriptions

[–] OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

War drives innovation

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Aren't there situations where you can't crack something? Constant requests to home server and stuff.

[–] __dev@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Anything running on your computer can be cracked; that's simply the nature of being in control of your device. (Web) Apps where the important stuff runs on a server can't be cracked because there isn't any DRM in the first place.

[–] Locorock@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you do realize you can't "crack" maintenance right?

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

As personal, individual user, who gives a shit? I'll just wait until a large enough gap between my version and the current version is there to warrent getting a more updated cracked version

I used an outdated version of photoshop for years.

If you NEED regular maintenance builds, it's probably for enterprise, in which case you open yourself up to a whole lot of legal bullshit by making money using pirated software in the first place.