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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cells are basically the self replicating nanobots that sci fi sometimes has as an example of highly advanced technology, but naturally occurring.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago (3 children)

R&D life cycle... hundreds of millions of years.

The manufacturer takes a really long time to respond to new feature requests, and most of the support tickets are still open.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Update request? Sorry, best I can do is a new kind of cancer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There are support tickets? I have a few complaints.....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Theoretically you can submit complaints to the lead engineer, but there are very few, very old reports of anyone receiving a response and the sources are somewhat suspect.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plus major patch releases only seem to happen after major events that make old renditions obsolete, if not downright broken and dismantled.

Although new software does have a ton of useless speghetti code.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Typical enshittification. Brilliant and amazing technology taken over by private equity and run into the ground