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Fallacies that advocate software bloat (Miscellaneous)

posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 31.12.2025, 19:53

> There are practical reasons for these modern designs, even though I
> disagree with them. I really consider computers a tool, not something that
> the infrastructure/security of the world should depend on. If we are
> reaching a point where computers are the only option, we are doing it
> wrong.
I like the sound of this.

Here is something that I consider to be the bottom line:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly64g5y744o

Someone was forced to use pen and paper.

While modern systems work great - when they work great -
I see a need for a "backstop".

Something between a modern system which is too complicated
to understand or maintain, and a pen and paper which is actually
understood.

I normally try to put PDOS/386 in there. But it could be MSDOS
instead.

My wife thinks that PDOS is a joke - why would anyone want to
use that when they can instead use xyz (some modern app that
she uses)?

And I tell her that I'm not trying to compete against xyz. I'm trying
to compete against NOTHING AT ALL.

I don't know the circumstances, but if you were to wake up one day
and it turns out that your current software all had ceased working
because the OS vendor had a "drop dead" date in the software,
what are you going to do?

Pen and paper is the only thing you can use, unless you have PDOS
or similar.

And the funny thing is, that ideally this situation would never occur.
The backstop should ideally never be needed. So no-one will ever
see that situation. And PDOS should thus ideally, be useless.

I do know of one situation, where it acts as a sort of backstop. Here:

https://www.liberatorswithoutborders.org/omelette.txt

It puts an end to the "means of production" argument. So wipes out
Marxist theory. Unless I'm missing something. Regardless of whether
or not it is actually used.

BFN. Paul.

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