HarkMahlberg

they're gonna have to invent a new word for the angry agreement i feel right now

I have no doubt in my mind the cultists will be given their marching orders by Monday. Question is, what flavor of crazy pill will they take?

1. The files were actually written/destroyed by Biden, so they were illegitimate anyway.
2. The files were real and implicate Trump, but God tells us to forgive, so they will forgive Trump for sexually abusing minors.
3. The files were real and implicate Trump, but it's ok when he does it because reasons, and akshually abusing minors is totally cool.
4. Whether the files are real or not, Trump will announce a raffle for an all expenses paid vacation to Epstein Island, and the cultists will bring their whole families thinking they may be allowed the privilege of living like Epstein.

They're gross, evil, horrible people. Not merely ignorant, but incorrigible.

Edit: ladies and gentlemen, there it is.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-trump-epstein-call-b2788906.html

gastric geology is wild ngl

"Even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward."

No. The question at hand is whether you expect any company, or any person, to indefinitely fix and maintain legacy systems. And yes, your argument is indefinite support because you want the purchasing machine to be granted use of the software in perpetuity, you want it to never lose access to the software. You provided no deadline by which anyone is allowed to stop fixing things that broke. And yes, things break naturally as a function of time.

It would not be onerous for them to continue supporting a couple of old versions of Windows

Denial.

All software breaks.

I mean, there is still an industry of Cobol engineers maintaining mainframe code for banks from the 80s.

my gramps, that's not the beacon of good business practice you think it is 🤣

Can I hold you to the decisions you made 20 years ago? I bought that program you built decades ago, that means I'm entitled to your continued support. And don't you even think about getting paid, your support should be free. You shouldn't have built and sold the software if you can't support it...

Lol, I'm a software developer that started by writing legacy windows software, I know exactly how much (little) has changed.

It is this perspective that exposes your bias and colors your perception.

We live in a post-Heartbleed world. We live in a post-UAC world. We constantly find new bugs and vulnerabilities, and they cannot always be patched without massive changes to the architecture. We cannot forever maintain old systems that cultivated bad habits in it's users.

Not all change is good, but all change is inevitable.

they rather recommend subscription services that are multiple orxers of magnitude worse.

Yeah that was a pisstake, a totally unforced error in judgment. Many commented on his GitHub repo to say as much. I sympathize with getting jaded about Valve and Steam, I understand the frustration with how exploitative gaming has become, but nuking his own 20-year portfolio, a thing he should be proud of, because Valve made him so mad he wanted to stick it to them?

That's a highly self-destructive and ultimately futile decision. What a waste.