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Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware by radarsat1 on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:21PM (#16394472)
Ah, yes sorry, I do agree with that. The company is changing things. It does suck. The main difference is just that with SaaS, when they change the server, they change something for everyone, there is no way to really block it. With local apps, you can block updates.*

I'm not so much angry about server-based apps changing things, although I see your point, but I am angry about too many server-based apps in the first place. At least when it's not necessary. Hard to argue when it's literally for a social network.

* Although in practice this only works for so long as it gets more and more painful as time passes.. there are still users of Windows XP! But I'm sure it's far from a pleasant experience these days.

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Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware by b0rsuk on Saturday February 17, 2018 @03:02AM (#16399641)
Don't forget about forking. Lack of source code might not matter for the 98% of application users, but the remaining 2% can modify it for everyone. If people don't like the new direction of OpenOffice or MySQL, they make LibreOffice and MariaDB. People should value nerds and their needs more.
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