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

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[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.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Sounds awfully familiar. One of our customer wanted a very specific option our system does not provide - because it makes no sense at all. But instead that the customer discusses what is good and what is not, based on our >40 years of international experience in the field, we just got a bunch of drawings telling me that I should do something in the way a political committee with no professional input had decided.

    Customer pays for it, customer gets it. Fun fact: I know they will get sick of what they cooked up in no time, so I already installed a “kill switch”. As soon as they get sick of their stupid idea, I can reverse it with a single option. Bossman says to take the same amount of money for switching it back, and he knows they will pay.

  • malloc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.devEnglish
          01·
          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          I used an outdated version of photoshop for years.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.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Not in my experience. The three most dangerous things in the world are:

      • A programmer with a soldering iron.
      • An HVAC tech with a software patch.
      • A user with an idea.