• Montagge
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    -11 year ago

    I haven’t had any issues with the few snaps I use so far

    • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      01 year ago

      I haven’t had any issues with the few snaps I use so far

      My grandpa used to say something like the idea that he never had problems with the ‘few’ times he drove home drunk so far. Then he ran someone over.

      It’s better to understand something is an avoidable risk BEFORE you’re shown graphically.

        • Solar Bear
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          1 year ago

          Me reacting to analogies with “Did you know these two things are not completely identical?”, completely unburdened by the knowledge that I’m supposed to explain how the differences invalidate the comparison.

          • Montagge
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            01 year ago

            Driving drunk is factually stupid
            Snaps are not
            It’s a bad analogy

            • Solar Bear
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              01 year ago

              I’d argue it’s pretty stupid to use FOSS but then depend on a proprietary server that only one for-profit company is allowed to run to deliver all that software, trusting them to just never do wrong or leave you high and dry. I’d also argue it fits the analogy perfectly, because the analogy was about saying “I haven’t had a problem yet” in response to being shown the potential problems of the action.

              • Montagge
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                01 year ago

                But the problem with snaps is an opinion. If Canonical goes bonkers I’ll just go use something else. Until then I don’t have any issues with them using proprietary software within their own ecosystem.

                • Solar Bear
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                  01 year ago

                  It’s not an opinion that proprietary for-profit software will betray you, it is an inevitability. It has happened every single time. If it was FOSS, we could salvage it. It’s proprietary, so we can’t. When it fails it must simply be abandoned. I just hope you learn the right lesson when this happens.