rant

Quite often I see decisions around creating XML schemas that involve the same mistake repeated over and over. The persons making the decisions seem to have forgotten that XML supports attributes and that you express data in those attributes. Compare these two fragments: <Company>...

<rant> After another pkg upgrade, and accidentally pressing Insert while typing in LibreOffice Writer, my flow of thoughts has been interrupted with this abomination: Are we now catering to the illiterate? On one hand, why not - we can do both, just click on the "do show again" and calm...

Everyone now is just listening to compressed MP3s on low-wattage bluetooth speakers with SBC compression. No-one builds their own Hi-Fi systems with good speakers and amps anymore. Almost no-one listens to lossless or analog anymore. Even though the sound quality is technically worse, I go for...

If you like it, power to you, I'm sure it has it's use somewhere But me... I can't stand it! I'm so tired of being cockblocked on linux because I don't want to type my password a million times, and after each linux install I have to manually tell it not to in a convoluted config file. Or oven...

I learned many programming languages but i ended up with a few. Mostly on a virtual machine. What is your take ?

Today, I'm feeling a little curmudgeonly. Should I bother upgrading or not? Bare with me as I set up the background - this really is about FreeBSD... in the end :). If it's too long for you - run away, or skip to the end and make your way backwards... I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T430, a Dell...