I don't know how anyone uses proprietary commercial software in 2023.
Like, I have enough trouble using free and open source stuff, and there I can just google an error message and hopefully find 200 people fixing it.
but I just tried some development tool we've got and it threw an error that doesn't make much sense and I google it and there's zero point zero results .
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Foone🏳️⚧️
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •it turns out it broke because I downloaded my executable in June and I'm running it in November and the two programs now speak completely incompatible protocols.
jesus.
Foone🏳️⚧️
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •OH WAIT THIS IS PROPRIETARY COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE so I can't just google "foobar version 27.8.3.2" because that's hidden behind some login screen deep in the bowels of some website I can't remember and I need to figure out what manager I need to talk to to get the updated username/password
Foone🏳️⚧️
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •answer? go fuck yourself. all the talking about FOOBAR are behind logins, so google can't index them.
varx/social
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •vandorb12
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •We don't even support our support staff supporting you
Benjamin Reed
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Brian Swetland
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •It's all so awful. And increasingly full of craptastic license managers, obnoxious subscription payment models, upgrades that make everything worse every single time.
When I was working on an FPGA project at Google I ran into a nasty synthesis bug and thought "well this time at least I have a dedicated support contact!"... they acknowledged my bug report and said that maybe there might be a fix in next quarter's update. Thank you, $MAJOR_FPGA_VENDOR, so helpful.
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in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Neil E. Hodges
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •@tk a good idea! I'll have to ask them who is the This Proprietary Thing expert here.
oh wait, it's me.
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