Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day, teach them to fish and you feed them for a lifetime, but sell them a license for fishing software and they will forever depend on you for their fish because they never learned to make their own fishing software and the software and hardware architecture of contemporary computers is so complex that to learn to automate something in them is an incredibly lengthy process.
@grainloom @catoutofbed gotta create jobs or capitalism will implode
@grainloom @catoutofbed yes capitalism will and must implode
@CobaltVelvet @catoutofbed Tbh I'm ok with people using single purpose applications too, but I'd rather they were built to be also used in a toolchain.
easy to use shell scripts with simple GUIs laid over them > GUI only apps that just grow larger and larger
Of course you can't do something like that with Windows (Powershell is not enough) and possibly not even on Linux. This is one huge reason why I want Acme(-like interfaces) to gain traction, because they are a mental zero cost abstraction over commands
@grainloom @CobaltVelvet @catoutofbed Give fire to a man, and he'll be warm for one day. Put a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. (Terry Pratchett)
@catoutofbed @CobaltVelvet @grainloom (sorry for the mostly unrelated joke, couldn't resist...)
@CobaltVelvet @catoutofbed truh
but I really want a future where people can easily modify and script their systems.