Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

"Based on my location" they gave me a French dubbed version of it. No alternative sound track, heck not even subtitles.

I live in Switzerland, we have 4 official languages. I speak one of them: German. Not a word French. The proposed solution: go to apple and ask for your money back. Very poor experience.

Do not even get me going on the "want to use Premium for a month"? I've declined that offer at least 48 times. Did not want it then, do not want it today. Really a pity since there is a lot of cool (not sponsored or monitized) content.

I use it and love it every day in both dev and prod, but I also really kind of hate it.

I'll keep my complaints short.

There should not be a system-wide daemon. (Or any daemon).

It should not require root at all (no setuid either).

From outside the container, the container and its processes should be a single process (with threads). (Like glueing a bunch of processes together.)

The containers should be nest-able to arbitrary depth without performance loss (at least to say, hundreds of nestings deep.)

Docker-compose should not exist, instead it should be replaced by nesting of containers.

Basically, I think it needs to follow the UNIX philosophy better by providing simple abstractions that can be combined easily. The containers would visually look a bit more like an old virtual machine (single process) than our current containers.

These changes probably require a bunch of kernel hacking, but I think it would be worth it long-term for a cleaner architecture.

It appears there are some movements into this direction thanks to podman, but it's really not there yet, especially with nesting.

Also, it wouldn't really be a product at all but just a built-in tool on Linux systems.

As you said too, the whole thing is buggy. Sometimes screen sharing doesn't work unless you reopen the app, for example.

The wiki feature is crap (at least the web version, I haven't tried the desktop version of the wiki) - formatting is a mess, markdown support is practically non-existent, it's buggy as hell, and so unbelievably slow.

If they had a feature freeze and concentrated on overhauling the UI and fixing the bugs, it could actually be a great product... but as it is, it's loathsome.

The GPU is the new Floating Point Coprocessor. (I think they are likely to be integrated on CPUs even for high performance use-cases, eventually. Although this is only happening very slowly...) It should be be programmed with vendor-neutral CPU instructions and if need be, trapped by the kernel and emulated or delegated appropriately. But all of this should be totally transparent to the user application.