Graham Sutherland / Polynomial on Nostr: something I find extremely tiring about discussing software on here is that there are ...
something I find extremely tiring about discussing software on here is that there are systems and environments with genuinely immutable constraints that I am intimately, professionally familiar with, and whenever I talk about them someone will inevitably respond as if those constraints are trivial short-term stumbling blocks that can be handwaved away in order to embrace their own preferred form of software. it comes up most commonly with people proselytizing FOSS, but it's not the only example.
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