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.

  • malloc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    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.

      • Tangent5280@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Aren’t there situations where you can’t crack something? Constant requests to home server and stuff.

        • __dev@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Anything running on your computer can be cracked; that’s simply the nature of being in control of your device. (Web) Apps where the important stuff runs on a server can’t be cracked because there isn’t any DRM in the first place.

        • AdmiralShat@programming.devEnglish
          63·
          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          I used an outdated version of photoshop for years.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.