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Well, some software used to crash a lot for unknowable reasons, and if you were lucky you got a patch 6 months after release which may or may not fix your probl

Well, some software used to crash a lot for unknowable reasons, and if you were lucky you got a patch 6 months after release which may or may not fix your problem.

tux 6y ago
Any software can have an option to upload a bug report when user chooses too. But not automaticly when it want's too. (EDIT) I agree, everyone should have at leat one air-gap (so called "family garden" in the article) computer in there house when shit hits the fan. Like no internet :-) (EDIT-2) This article gives a very cool idea about "heirloom computer". The author should come up with such a product based on Raspberry Pi (maybe?). Than sell it with basic custom OS and software for the family. This software should include things like diary, notes, racipts, jokes, photos, video storage. It should be sold relatively cheap so anyone could buy it.
- wizzwizz4 6y ago
  The Raspberry Pi, while humble, probably won't last long enough.
- GrumpyNl 6y ago
  I have that on old ms-dos pc's.
grishka 6y ago
But then offline-first software was held to a higher overall standard because of this exact reason. Nowadays no one gives a crap because "we can always push an update", and so everything is an eternal beta.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
You say that like it is different today. We had a slack outage just a few days ago that affected basically everyone who uses the software, multi-year bugs still exist in cloud software, etc. The only thing the cloud fixes is the problem of convincing people to rent software.