You haven’t seen the best part yet. They’re holding back security updates, if you don’t do this whole Pro-shit. I really don’t know how much pot their executives smoked to get that awful idea.
And like, to be fair, for personal use, you can get Pro for free, so you ‘just’ need to create an account to get a secure OS.
But yeah, you basically don’t really hear people complaining, because we simply don’t use Ubuntu. Plenty better Linux distros to choose from. I only know this shit, because my work laptop unfortunately comes with it and I’m not necessarily allowed to change it.
Security updates for packages that are so old that they aged out of official support.
Who determines how old a package needs to be before they start charging money for it?
Well they do, of course.
Tune in next year when they turn off free Snap patches.
Kinda a shit take. Canonical is very generous with licensing. They give you 5 free personal licenses per account AND they license per physical host which is practically unheard of now. Like everything is per VM or container or CPUs or sockets etc now. One pro license on an ESXi host could have hundreds of VMs and Canonical is OK with that.
Source: I work with and use ubuntu pro. Canonical’s alright in my book. More than I can say for the RHEL team
<span style="color:#323232;">~ $ adware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(...ncurses ad featuring blockchain shows for 10 seconds...)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sorry, internet connection is required to run adware.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Aborted
</span><span style="color:#323232;">~ $
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(plugs in ethernet cable)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">~ $ adware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(...ncurses ad featuring Threads displays for 10 seconds...)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(...ncurses ad featuring next-gen Android displays for 10 seconds...)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Press CTRL+C to skip the ad
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[^C[^C
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Got tired from ads? Buy Adware Pro for $5.99/mo [Y/n] n
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ADWARE SHELL
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(C) 2023 Buy-n-Large Corp. All wrongs reserved
</span><span style="color:#323232;">---ad---
</span><span style="color:#323232;">How much do YOU think this advanced operating environment is worth?
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Just press F1 to get the answer!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">---ad---
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Activate Adware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Go to Settings to Activate Adware
</span><span style="color:#323232;">% exit
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Please watch all the ads to be able to exit.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(...ncurses ad featuring alt medicine displays for 30 seconds...)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(...ncurses ad featuring ad-blocker for 30 seconds...)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[^C
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Interrupt rejected. Please watch all the ads.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[^C[^C[^D[^X[^Z[^Z[^Z (unplugs ethernet cable)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Interrupt rejected. Please watch all the ads. Buy Adware Pro for $5.99 to allow interrupts.
</span>
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That’s probably cause you or your packages use CoreJS. It’s basically a one man project that’s holding up the whole modern Internet infrastructure. You can look up the story online, but it was a pretty small donation request for a really relatable individual.
I guess this highly depends on package maintainers, Node already provides funding in package.json for much less invasive funding requests (and that can also be disabled) and you might also block executing the scripts during package instalation which are sometimes used for advertisement. I think this was a lot worse in days NPM didn’t support funding, especially for projects depending on a huge number of dependencies. But I’m not that old Node/JS dev to tell how things were back then in reality.
In my free time I develop ways for advertisers to reach as many platforms as possible. I hate ads as much as I hate people who say things like “just skip it if you don’t like them” so I spend my time trying to fill every inch of their lives with ads as possible.
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