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Re:Local First, Forever by mwcampbell on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @11:12AM (#40789646)
So then it sounds like we have to resensitize people to the upgrade treadmill and make people intolerant of it, so we'll have an incentive to get our software right the first time. If hardware engineers can get their products right once and for all, then why can't we? Are we lesser engineers? I suspect so.
Re:Local First, Forever by mike_hearn on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @11:51AM (#40790081)
Well, hardware engineers make mistakes too but they're covered by us software guys :) Drivers are full of workarounds for buggy hardware. And when things can't be hacked around with a firmware update hardware sometimes needs entire product recalls .... something we fortunately don't have to worry about.