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One day one of my friend's kids asked the other one, "Is this a good use of my time?". Even though I know that my time is valuable, I wonder if we shouldn't que
by kordlessagain 6y ago
One day one of my friend's kids asked the other one, "Is this a good use of my time?". Even though I know that my time is valuable, I wonder if we shouldn't question our actions a bit more as we wander through this minefield of software we've created over the last 10 years.
The last TWO times I had Docker on my Desktop, some update caused it to fry itself and bring my computer to its knees trying to restart something that it had "uninstalled". I said to it the last time that if it wanted so badly to be uninstalled, that it could just stay that way.
- barry27 6y agoWelcome to Hacker News, home of the orthogonal response.
- nikau 6y agoI've started to use VMs for a lot of tools that I want to just work. I snapshot them so I can roll them back if an update breaks them. Quite a few are still on Windows 7 - but who cares, they still work and security vulnerabilities don't matter as they are for one purpose and have limited access only to their own sandbox shared folder.