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So I tried to install omnivore. What can I say it's raining and dull and a Saturday. Needless to say I gave up. I simply couldn't be arsed.
1. It pulled in an entire operating system. (hyperbole maybe)
2. http://localhost:3000/ wasn't working at all.
3. I had to learn how to use docker and shit.
Another great OPEN SOURCE project that may as well not exist unless your a fifteen year old nerd. Most of us just want to get shit done and as quickly and painfree as possible. 95% of software today seems to only exists due to Sunk cost fallacy and OPEN SOURCE rhetoric.
If your going to put something out there, make it have as few steps as possible to install. I mean having to learn Docker! WTF! It's ridiculous. The sunk cost fallacy goes in two directions. It comes in and it goes out.
Am I going to waist time on something that may brake half way through due to PEBKAC or #linux-is-unlearnable issues? It's a big ask. It's a faith based leep into a time-cost void with no clear evidence you'll get anywhere favorable other that the usual waffle and blarney.
Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who like reading.
Omnivore along with a myriad of other (most) products boasting "OPEN SOURCE" are clearly not for their target audience or at least they have massively failed their target audience.
Call me old fasioned but I recon most people who like to read would rather read a book than figure out how to make one from scratch.
Getting online has never been easier. But reading outside of a hard copy is becoming needlessly complex.
The same dev mentality that makes reading anything online virtually impossible without some kind of intervention are the same dev's figuring out ways to circumvent the maelstrom of your averge web-page.
I'll rewrite your blurb.
Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for nerds who like installing more than one peice of software, reading tutorials and finally after maybe a day of fucking around may actually get what they signed on for but don't hold your breath.
I should know by now that very few software projects actually beliver on the statements they make, Omnivore is no diffrent in that regard.
The last statement (egregious lie) that really annoyed me was the statment that FreeBsd was a "Modern operating system" when the only thing modern about it is that it exists in the present. I think if most people where dumped at a comand line after installing an operating system they'd consider aforementioned operating system broken and beyond antiquarian. Considering the installer though; most people wouldn't get that far, yet another thing that precludes modernity from the sales pitch.
Checking Doom core for irregularities... ! Couldn't find the `fd' binary; project file searches will be slightly slower
Take the above. It's a classic *uck you to the end user.
Note there is zero indication as to where to find (parden the pun) FD. For me it's hidden in a package called fd-find; who knew? I had to look it up. But why? Why not point to a fix? P.S fd is fdfind at the command line. It's just another missing peice amongst a myriad of missing peices. #linux-is-unlearnable
Theres no need is there.. The end user will debug/waist their time debugging our shitty product for us and even report the worst of it back to us.. So *uck it! and *uck that lower class of none developer.
Whether running Doom-Emacs requires a certain level of competency is irrelevant, by the time anybody's got to the "Doom Doctor" they've already sank time and effort into getting there and to be greeted with a brick wall error message is kindoff insulting when you clearly know how to fix it, or at the least point to a fix.
Therefore doom-Emacs Doom-Doctor is broken, therfore Omnivore is broken.
Software developers are not suited to creating instrution manual's or giving instrution in anyway. And this being all to basic for consideration. Never forget "Open-source" is just a kindof wishy washy mantra to brain wash kids into a pseudo Communitarianism mind set, it has taken on cult like status as a phrase; just like 'One thing well', the end user is on the outside of this fake community and are Other-ed. They are the ones that get the Butter (probably Vegan) whilst the end user gets Margarine (if their lucky).
I deal with the customers so the engineers don't have to I'm a people person dammit!
We are smack bang in the middle of a technocracy and for the end user (peon) it isn't going to end well it never does.
And here if the forgoing wasn't warning enough.