lka1988

Man pages tend to assume a lot and overload the user with information.

Forums are full of "duh, haven't you read the man pages, idiot?" kinds of people.

Web searches are full of AI/garbage (same thing) articles that focus on distros/programs that are either horrendously inaccurate, out of date, or simply don't exist anymore.

Therefore, I utilize the tldr man pages, and use extremely specific terms for web searches.

Idk, it was horrendously insecure, would freeze a lot, and missing creature comforts like window tiling.

It was significantly more secure than it's DOS-based predecessor of the time, Windows ME (that's a whole other rabbit hole; if you wanna talk insecure and buggy as fuck - look no further). That's what people don't realize, they look at the past through a modern lens. You gotta look at it from the time it was released. There's a reason mainstream consumer-focused Windows editions dropped DOS and moved to the NT kernel. XP was the first real consumer version of Windows based on ~~XP~~ NT.

If they kept refining Win7 it would've been great.

They did, it was called "Windows 8" and nobody liked it.

Not even GNU - just Linux.

Yeah yeah, something something GNU/Linux blah blah copypasta....

When did I ever say I was entitled to it?

Furthermore, why are you so eager to lick corporate boot over this? Just accept the fact that corps are fucking consumers over by trying to redefine terms like "purchase" and "own" to mean something other than their existing widely-accepted definitions.

If I buy an expensive piece of hardware, I do expect to be able to own it and install what I goddamn well please, corporate approval be damned. That's why I buy Pixels and standard PC hardware, because I can unlock the bootloader/disable secure boot and install what I goddamn well please. Can't do that with any iPhone, and rarely a Mac, because it goes against what Daddy Apple hath decreed.

Additionally, it is also acceptable to acknowledge the former and simultaneously acknowledge that Epic is a shitty company. They aren't mutually exclusive.

We've got multiple tools still on Windows 2000, happily running production. They're on an airgapped network though, so no issues.

You guys need to get this idea out of your head that the makers of the device that you bought need to provide ways for you to do what you want with it. They don’t, and any attempt to force them to write software to do so should be denied.

You can do whatever the hell you like with your hardware. Take it apart, take it fishing, try and hack it, have sex with it - whatever you want! But the device makers aren’t responsible for giving you ways to hack it.

You're looking at this the wrong way.

We do not expect Apple/Google/Samsung/etc to give us tools to do whatever we want. Hell, Google already ships adb that explicitly allows unlocking the bootloader on at least Pixel devices.

What we do want is for companies to stop intentionally preventing it with arbitrary restrictions that amount to nothing more than "because we said so".

Why is anybody licking big corporate boot in the first place? How does that benefit you?

I have a genuine question:

How does arguing in support of arguably bad business practices in general benefit you?

So can I self-host it, or are you just drive-by advertising in a vaguely-related forum?

I run it dead periodically so I can get a proper analysis on its overall health.

To the obsessed morons who refuse to go outside of 80%/20%: No, this doesn't impact it in any meaningful way

Revanced is basically the same thing. Just less shitty.

It's worth noting that Dodge (yes, that Dodge) were the ones who took Ford to court over it. If you want the reason why shareholders come first, blame Dodge.