I think the sentiment is that you omitted something, knowingly or not. So, instead of trying to defend yourself in your actions, take a look at what happened and perhaps that will be your “A-ha” moment.
So, don’t take a personally, but very personal ;)
I don’t believe you care to read, a reddit post, a response to your ramblings or a manual. You revert to insults, talking down to others and claiming it’s appropriate because you want something.
Your expectations are not met, take it out on friends, not strangers. They might be more understanding.
If a FOSS-tard means that I encourage the use off FOSS because I believe it’s a often the right way to go when it comes to privacy, freedom and all that jazz… then, yes, I am a FOSS-tard.
I understand that you are attempting to be insulting. I will acknowledge that, if that makes you feel warm and fuzzy on the inside.
We all want everything to work perfect all the time. You are not alone or special in that. Decades experience says otherwise. And from that same period of experience I can promise you that the FOSS-tards like me are equally as gifted in delivering shitty software as any other corp that sells closed-corporate-patent-pending quick hacks for $2000 a pop. Oracle calls them drivers, I call them “curious, and inoperable”.
Like I said, spend money on somebody that can do it for you so you don’t have to lose your patience, save some time so you can “experience” the rewards that you did not work or are interested in.
If you manage to regain your composure, and get all the bits and pieces of software working together so it does what you want, you might understand why we do what we do. And because you don’t get that but choose to come her and and complain to others who do get it… I will call entitled.
Because that’s what you are.
well, yes, we do… but we tend to work to fix things so it does what it needs to do… you are confusing your inability to fix things with “poor design of software”
If you don’t want to self host your shit or get it fixed by somebody else, and trying to make that happen by acting like a entitled end-user, pay somebody to do it for you…
but if that all is too hard, start with not being a jerk first.
A customer of mine chose for his own domains… and it was his mistake that he wanted specific “cool top level domains” in his network for his factory, storage facility and vehicles on the road that connected with wifi at home.
He decided, and I realized immediately that this would be a bad idea (*cough* … no I didn’t… but lets pretend I did), that he wanted something that looked like;
I think he adopted the idea because I had a singular setup at my office/shop where my synology, placed in a 8U rack in the back on the 4th flloor with a hostname… just a hostname “I.am.on.the.forth.floor.in.the.back”. Just a singular name… I remember him laughing when he found the server where the hostname said it was.
So, the systems (electronic toolbag for in the trucks) installed in the trucks would only work a 100% if connected to the wifi at home base. All interfaces with any relation to the outside world had to be brought within the lan to be able to get to warehouse data, and the fabrication department (his pride and joy) just did what it always did… it fabricated stuff. All choices were made motivated by the path of least resistance.
Yeah… a lot of stuff didn’t work as planned. Mainly connectivity things that did not work as expected, misconfiguration of DHCP servers, VPN clients and all other types of “employee owned” gear that were unable to resolve the funky domains.
I started to protest, and explain why what I did was funny, but what he was doing was foolish… especially after I gave him a rough idea of what was neede to be done. I proposed a split dns solution with a real domain, even that would have been easier and less intrusive to work on or fix things in for sure… but it looked “less cool” according to his lordship. Customer is king is a stupid concept, but if the customer claims to be King, his highness can pay for the time required to serve him.
So…
Pick a singular host, get a real domain and setup a split DNS environment (easiest and funnest imo)… but if you don’t care (and why should you :)) pick something fun and cool that makes sense to use for you. All our suggestions are pure personal preference in the end :)