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by tosti 152 days ago
Is overengineering the norm nowadays?

If you need a queue, lpd. If you need scheduling, cron. If you need backups, tar. If you need to communicate, email and irc. If you need to remote any of those, ssh.

Things shouldn't be difficult, yet they are.

1 comments

Do you have a specific critique or is this another dropbox-esque comment?
I tried reading TFA but it was full of garbage.