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Things have gotten worse in some respects. Computers get more and more locked down with corporate security bullshit, it becomes harder to get any work done. R

Things have gotten worse in some respects. Computers get more and more locked down with corporate security bullshit, it becomes harder to get any work done. Remember when you could quickly FTP a file, toss up a web page, email someone a zipped file. Can’t do any of that now without jumping through hoops. Computers have become very slow for tasks that used to be fast. Everyone always seems to “waiting on the computer”; that’s screwed up. It should be the other way around.

noonespecial 8y ago
>Remember when you could quickly FTP a file, toss up a web page, email someone a zipped file. Can’t do any of that now without jumping through hoops. Oh I remember all right. I've spent weeks of my life yelling into a phone "no PASV. You have to find where it says PASV and check it" Toss up a web page? On what, Geocities? (back to the ftp thing are we?) Email a file? Great. I hope its less than 2mb or it might just vanish somewhere along the way... Dropbox. Wordpress. Slack. This stuff is 100x better for the average user than a decade ago. 1000x better than 2 decades ago. The real trouble is all of this means just about nothing when you're afraid to go to the doctor because your deductible is more than a decent used car.