Comment by zahlman

Comment by zahlman 2 days ago

I consider it more or less immoral to be expected to use the Internet for anything other than retrieving information from others or voluntarily sharing information with others. The idea that a dev environment should even require finicky configuration to allow for productive work sans Internet appalls me. I should only have to connect in order to push to / pull from origin, deploy something or acquire build tools / dependencies, which should be cached locally and rarely require any kind of update.

raw_anon_1111 2 days ago

Do you know how many times since 1999 I have had my work Internet go down? Definitely not enough to spend time worrying about it. The world didn’t stop.

In 2022, funny enough I was at an AWS office (I worked remotely when I worked there) working in ProServe, us-east-1 was having issues that was affecting everything, guess what we all did? Stopped working, the world didn’t come to an end.

Even now that I work from home, on the rare occasions that Internet goes down, I just use my phone if I need to take a Zoom call.

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zahlman 2 days ago

I don't care how reliable it is. That has nothing to do with my objection.

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- raw_anon_1111 2 days ago
  
  So what other technology that has been available to consumers affordably for over 3 decades do you refuse to use? Whst is “amoral” about using the internet to its fullest?
  
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  zahlman 2 days ago
  
  I thought all of this should have been clear in the first post, but I guess it wasn't.
  The problem is not using the Internet, but being expected to use it for things where there isn't a clear domain requirement for it.
  The immorality I describe is on the part of the entity expecting Internet usage, not the user.
  The issue is that I paid money for my hardware to own it outright, and this expectation makes it feel like I no longer actually fully own that hardware.
  
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