little bastard. little bastard man. little fucko man. bastard little terrible awful baby computer. Sucks

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little bastard. little bastard man. little fucko man. bastard little terrible awful baby computer. Sucks
I own 20 and will soon own 40. what is the specific complaint before I commit
Well I've only owned a couple but I think they were all USB 2 and I hated that about it. But I zoomed in and I see the USB 3 text so I guess they just use the same chassis for both the Good ones and the Shitty ones, so that's cool of them.
So those probably don't suck but I'll say Keep An Eye Out, for there be wolves in sheep's clothing.
I worked on this fuckin' thing! I somehow got hired at a small QNX consulting company owned by a friend's dad when I was 17 and put myself through school working there for four years until the work dried up. One of the first actual contracts I was involved in working on was a port of the i-Opener software from QNX 4 to QNX 6. It never shipped, iirc largely because we tried to port the Spyglass browser engine from scratch and we never really got it to work right.
I was there for all the great Netpliance moments - people discovering they could buy the machines for $99, never sign up for the service, and put Linux on them, people discovering that the QNX 4 password hash was reversable and gaining root. Good times. Had a debug machine for years until the screen broke in a move.
Even got flown down to Austin, TX for a week to try to help track down some bullshit bug that no one could get a handle on. I had no idea what I was doing but I accidentally managed to find a caching system in the browser that no one knew about that was misbehaving. My solution of "disable it" that I checked in without review was apparently not acceptable because it caused massive flickering issues as the entire system UI loaded from scratch every time you looked at it but I think someone more qualified was able to dig in and find the real bug after that.
i cannot imagine what it was like being anywhere within the blast radius of The Worst Decision Since Hoover Free Flights
As an extremely junior contractor working 2300km away on a project that never shipped: my recollection was pretty much that they kept paying us on time, so we kind of just enjoyed the show on Slashdot. Probably my boss got some panicked emails about it but I never saw 'em.
god, digging around in the wayback machine for old i-opener news and they were trying to do an IPO while this was happening!? jesus christ
was thinking about it in the shower this morning and realized that we never once connected an external hard drive for development. like the thing that killed them wasn't even a useful debug feature. I had a box plugged in that had serial out for a root shell, and a USB ethernet dongle so I didn't have to deal with dial-up nonsense, but I think we either prepared proper flashable OS builds or just used QNX's built-in network filesystem abilities to try stuff on device.