• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    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.

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      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.

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

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

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        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.