Worse... it's a fucking pyramid scheme of disparate hardware and software technologies all jammed together at high RPMs and friction-welded into a homonculous mass. It is only the hard work of crazy bastards like bd and myself who bother to jump in, shovel shit like crazy, then slap a patch onto it to keep the latest split seam from pissing diarrhea sludge all over the rest of the pyramid that keeps it all afloat.
The bitch part is that there's nobody in the last 2 generations who know jack shit about how it all
really fits together except a few thousand freakazoids in Turkey and India who've been doing all the outsourced 3rd tier tech support for the last 2 decades
(okay, slight exaggeration) and nobody since the millennials who could be arsed to do what I do; once the guys like them and bd and me all die off, the rest of the world is either going to be like the
Eloi and those dingles on the
Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B, or like the fucking
Morlocks already in Congress feeding off them.
(not in any way even a slight exaggeration) The worst thing that ever happened to technology was when they allowed corporations to patent software.
mnem