On Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:13:11 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
Jim Henderson composed on 2019-02-01 19:19 (UTC):
On Fri, 01 Feb 2019 12:26:18 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
Well, I've only been using Linux since 1995, but I managed to figure it out with exfat. It isn't rocket science, and with proper documentation, we make it pretty clear for the dozen people who need hpfs because they still want to run OS/2 and Linux on the same box.
You have statistics to back up this "dozen", right? Stuff that has been just working for decades doesn't get much press.
If you've been reading my posts, Felix, you know that I'm referring to the photos from the Berlin conference that someone else referenced. It's a small number, nobody really doubts that, it seems. Let's not get hung up on the specifics number. Whether it's a dozen or 300, it's still a small number, and that's my point.
How do you know that? Do you think a non-expert would know that?
I think people should be able to figure it out, yes. Why do we assume that people are stupid or unable to ask questions when they run into problems? Isn't that what the community is for?
Remember for most people what computers are for? Saving time, and doing repetitive and difficult or otherwise impossible things. When something long working breaks, time saving morphs into time gobbling, not the least of which is Google's response to its bad responses feeding captchas instead of useful hits, the domino effect of one thing going wrong leading to multiple others before finding any light at the end of the tunnel, the kids stop screaming they're hungry, and sunrise begins before ever having gotten into bed.
Well, then, maybe every possible device should be enabled, just in case one person has a need to be able to connect it at some point, regardless of what we know or what the security implications are.
It just seems silly to me to cater to a relatively small minority of users who have a specific need.
Breaking what works because only some undefined population subset uses it. The voice of tyrannical majority speaking. If most don't need something, nobody needs it.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. 1686, Newton.
And leaving things in a system that add to the security footprint and places that can be exploited is a bad practice. -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org