I applaud the writers of that episode for doing that, but I’ve seen too many episodes/movies where people use alien technology with no indication they have a hard time with the interface, or where a Federation ship outright trades equipment with previously uncontacted aliens, and it just works. Hell, even Trip’s reproductive system is so compatible with an alien’s that she can get him pregnant! And don’t even get me started on how often people just walk up and use a control panel to access sensitive systems without needing to present any kind of credentials.

Hyperbole is indistinguishable from lying in a conversation like this one.

That’s called having just one distro.

I’m not gonna listen to Geordi because he lives in an alternate universe where everything is compatible with everything else.

Would you livestream video on the internet of your front door online, 24/7? Of course not.

If you can’t make your point without moving the goalposts over the horizon, you don’t have an actual point.

You think someone in Nigeria is able to change the locks and evict someone from their home in another country? I’ll have some of whatever you’re smoking.

So the scammer could save the trouble of taking their own photo?

If you think people being able to see the outside of a building on a public street is a privacy problem, I really don’t know what to tell you.

Maybe try not habitually exaggerating? People who don’t know you are just gonna take you at your word.

whether the software is memory safe depends on the expertise of the devs

No. Just stop. If a language depends on the expertise of the developer to be free of memory bugs, then by definition, it is not memory safe because memory safety means such bugs are impossible by design. Quit trying to redefine what memory safety means. A program being free of memory bugs does not in any way imply memory safety.

Ah yes, I love how C++ is has so little boilerplate. Sometimes I can even write several statements in a row without any!

If the standard is “you know what you’re doing and never make mistakes”, then all languages are memory safe. All you’re doing is arguing against memory safety as a concept by redefining the term in such a way that it becomes meaningless.

It’s the only operating system with that much market share to lose.

I’m very experienced with C++and I still feel like I’m juggling chainsaws every time I use it. And I’ve personally run into into things like use after free errors while working in Chromium. It’s a massive codebase full of multithreading, callbacks, and nonlocal effects. Managing memory may be easy in a simple codebase but it’s a nightmare in Chromium. Tools like AddressSanitizer are a routine part of Chrome development for exactly that reason. And people who think memory management is easy in C++ are precisely the people I expect to introduce a lot of bugs.

Alas, the longer the stick is, the floppier it gets.

FAFO

That’s some serious copium, and the other replies are worse. “If you’re not growing you’re dying” is bullshit when you control a large portion of the potential market, but not when you’re a bit player. Being less popular than a manifestly shitty platform like Reddit is not a flex and not a sign of long-term health.

They can’t ban a MAC address. They don’t have any way to find it.

What they should probably do is is cap the settings to what computers at release time can handle, then patch it later with “graphics enhancements” that do nothing but raise the cap. They could even do it more than one. It keeps users’ expectations reasonable at launch and then lets the developers look like they’re going the extra mile to support an older product.

As a bonus, they could store the settings in a text file somewhere that more sophisticated users can easily edit to get max settings on day one.

Linus brought a Unix-like kernel to the masses, but he didn’t invent the concept. That goes to a bunch of people at AT&T in the 1970s.