one day, payment for goods and services will work or something.

I don't want to scare anyone with kids.

But one day--one day--you will be awake at two in the morning, trying to compile wireless drivers from binaries for his wireless card after installing Kubuntu on his laptop.

And while downloading binaries, you will get this error:

cryptsetup: WARNING: failed to detect canonical device of /dev/sda1
cryptsetup: WARNING: could not determine root device from /etc/fstab

And you will so want to go cry in the bathroom. You won't, as there is no crying in ubuntu, networks, and well, hell, but oh, you will want to.

You know, if blurays would just work when one puts them in their perfectly legal and updated Samsung machine and maybe, IDK, remove all those goddamn trailers, warnings, and random unskippable junk, I might never have learned the joy of hand compiling drivers in Kubuntu.

I get why people become hackers now. I mean, sure, there's the troll quality, but I am pretty sure at this point there is a sizable minority who entered the field by sheer accident due to a break with reality when they realized companies were selling them movies that apparently, the company deeply resented them actually watching.

...and Child still needs this laptop with working wireless tomorrow. Find me a political philosophy that requires corporations provide actual working goods and services for payments rendered and I will leave capitalism tomorrow. Or next time I have time; November 2013 looks good for that.

*dives back in with seething hatred*

Comments

[majoline]

Ugh, don't talk to me about anything ubuntu. Despite the fact I get made fun of at every single conference I go to for being sado-maso, I'd really rather compile everything correctly the first time with emerge --sync in Gentoo.

I got so tired of having to hand code everything important at unholy hours of the morning because I desperately needed my computer to work because only the important things would fail in ubuntu.

But yes, on topic, that is the exact reason I became a hacker. I hate things that don't work and are never going to work because the company is sloppy. Electronic stuff is too expensive to only work occasionally, especially if the hardware is perfectly fine. (I'm looking at you, POS netgear router)

[seperis]

(I'm looking at you, POS netgear router)

Dear God preach it.

I finally switched from ubuntu server to xubuntu in sheer desperation to get a working gui due to weird software errors (and as God as my witness, I will never write another thousands of line single bash script to move files; that was just hell). I prefer command line for configuration and detailed work, but seriously, guis for the drudgery.

(Honestly, I do like to handcode my configuration files and fstab myself, but dear God the joy of moving and renaming things with like, a click. My God.)

I'm adding either a virtualbox ubuntu (or xubuntu,kubuntu) or partition to every computer in the house to finally get a working bluray player. Honest to God, it's worth the hard drive space to rip them just so I can finally play them. Fighting my perfectly legal bluray player has officially gotten beyond old. Gah.

[majoline]

AHAHAHA. We gave up and bought a PS3 because stupid video card drivers kept failing on us and our Samsung blu-ray player had firmware issues.

DRM is a load of bull. LET ME WATCH STUFF I BOUGHT, K? Sick and tired of paying for DIY microwaveable wall art instead of a movie.

[everbright]

I would like you to know that when ever you post computer-y stuff, I e-mail the entry to my MA. This feels entirely like her on-going and ceaseless battle with The Leaks Around the Chimney, or the Saga of Homemade Bread, Attempt Number 368,736,546.

[seperis]

*collapses laughing* This is the technological equivalent of the endless bread recipes that mysteriously fail, I swear. I love the flexibility of ubuntu and the sheer amount of stuff I can do with it, but the trade off is improvising stuff Windows does automatically and more research than any human should do to get say, wireless to work.

*self-pity*

[brownbetty]

*pets you*

I would offer help, but really, I think you're more qualified than me.

[nianeyna]

companies were selling them movies that apparently, the company deeply resented them actually watching.

I fully intend to buy the XMFC blu-ray, leave it unopened on the shelf, and download me a copy that actually fucking works. sigh.

I HAVE A BLU-RAY PLAYER, OKAY. I SHOULDN'T NEED TO DO THIS.

[(Anonymous)]

I have actually done this for some of my favorite movies/TV shows - I buy the stupid stuff because I like it, but for ease of use, I download an "illegal" copy.

I cannot help but think that this illustrates something majorly wrong in the media industry.

Yet file sharing and hacking gets more vilified every day and apparently the FBI has decided that instead of cracking down on real issues, they are going to go after Anonymous. Like anyone (apart from the Church of Scientology) cares...

/rant

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

I assume he tried to download or hack into a movie he shouldn't have. My kid downloaded one illegally and we got a nasty letter from the cable company. Not cool.

that's.... evil

[suzume-tori.livejournal.com]

I have noticed a tendency of electronics to do evil things, actually, when you really don't have the time for them to do so.

Are you still having problems with the drivers?

And -- colour me ignorant, but what does it have to do with blueray? Were you converting to Kubuntu to watch a blueray? Sorry if this is a stupid question.

I'm still a kid, so I owe the parents of the world some effort at helping. So I guess -- I was wondering if I could help? (If nothing else, I go to a gamer school. What I don't learn via osmosis & interwebs, I can just plain ask.)