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-			<li><a href="/blog"><h2>Blog</h2></a></li>
-			<li><a href="#"><h3 id="title">Site Revamp and Other Rants -- 2019 Edition</h3></a></li>
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-			<li><a href="/blog/list/web/">web</a></li><li><a href="/blog/list/random-xp/">random-xp</a></li><li><a href="/blog/list/garbage/">garbage</a></li></ul>
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-				<li><a class="toctarg" href="#tocanch0">Mirror in Japan</a></li><li><a class="toctarg" href="#tocanch1">An Eruditus
-from Waseda and An Illiterate in China</a></li><li><a class="toctarg" href="#tocanch2">A world in which everyone
-can program</a></li><li><a class="toctarg" href="#tocanch3">The world of smartphone…</a></li><li><a class="toctarg" href="#tocanch4">Googlephobia</a></li><li><a class="toctarg" href="#tocanch5">Software Subscription Model
-Sucks</a></li></ul>
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-		<h2 id="titleh" class="TText" style="font-wight:normal;">Site Revamp and Other Rants -- 2019 Edition</h2>
-		<div id="datetags" class="TText" style="margin-bottom:1em;">2019-02-13<br>#web #random-xp #garbage</div>
-		<hr><div id="article" class="TText"><article>
-<p>If you are reading this, your browser probably fetched all data it
-required to display the page directly from my VPS hosted by ConoHa.</p>
-<h2 id="tocanch0" class="tvis">Mirror in Japan</h2>
-<p>(No pun intended)</p>
-<p>I set up my own git server half a year ago. Now I’ve found <a href="https://cgit.chrisoft.org/web.git/">the perfect use for it</a>. I
-create the git repository right in <code>/var/www/html</code> on my
-local server. The remote server has a post-receive hook that
-automatically pulls in the document root. Any volatile large files are
-moved to a new virtual host <code>filestorage.chrisoft.org</code> and
-kept in sync with <code>rsync</code>.</p>
-<p>The site also underwent a major cleanup. Many legacy stuff got either
-removed or relocated.</p>
-<p>Generally this means you should experience major speedup visiting
-this site. If, however, you are exeriencing problems, please do not
-hesitate to contact me.</p>
-<p>The reverse proxy is now moved to <code>rp.chrisoft.org</code>. It’s
-not yet accessible at the time of writing because my local server is
-hidden super stealthily under multiple layers of NAT.</p>
-<h2 id="tocanch1" class="tvis">An Eruditus
-from Waseda and An Illiterate in China</h2>
-<p>Everyone except me has made significant progress.</p>
-<p>I was actually shocked to learn that he’s now majoring in something
-related to aviation machinery.</p>
-<p>Shame on me, I guess.</p>
-<h2 id="tocanch2" class="tvis">A world in which everyone
-can program</h2>
-<p>I shall probably quit programming and move on by then.</p>
-<h2 id="tocanch3" class="tvis">The world of smartphone…</h2>
-<p>… is now a wasteland. Literally all flagship models are mutants from
-the Chernobyl exclusion zone.</p>
-<h2 id="tocanch4" class="tvis">Googlephobia</h2>
-<p>Shit. They are probably also watching me writing this.</p>
-<p>Thanks to (?) the GrandeFreakWitless, my reliance on Google is not
-that strong – nope. It’s actually my general fear and distrust of those
-tech giants.</p>
-<p>My fear was magnified by my recent findings of just how much Google
-knows about me – they probably know me better than myself; and again by
-Louis Rossmann <a id="n1" href="#note1" class="note">[1]</a>.</p>
-<p>When those Google fanboys are still enjoying the great convenience
-they provide, I’m already planning to flee from Google. It’s probably
-just me being hyperallergic, but it also could be Google doing something
-really unfair to their users.</p>
-<h2 id="tocanch5" class="tvis">Software Subscription Model
-Sucks</h2>
-<p>Reading through Roland Cloud’s product page triggers me everytime: I
-sincerely cannot figure out why they make it a subscription service
-rather than a one-time purchase (with a fee for each upgrade).</p>
-<p>Usually people subscribe for:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Publication or media services, e.g.&nbsp;television, newspapers and
-magazines. These services provide frequently updated information to the
-subscriber.</li>
-<li>Physically consumable material, such as dairy product.</li>
-</ul>
-<p>Roland Cloud falls into neither of these two categories. It’s not
-updated as frequent, and it’s certainly not physically consumable. The
-most triggering detail is that if you end your subscription, you will
-not be able to use any of the products you previously owned, which is
-ridiculous because you can always keep older issues of a newspaper even
-you unsubscribed from it.</p>
-<p>Supporters of the subscription model may reject me saying ‘if you can
-get access to everything when you join and keep it after unsubscribing,
-you are essentially purchasing it with ultra-low price’, which brings up
-my next point: Roland Cloud’s subscription model is flawed from the
-beginning:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Get everything on subscribe: this differs from traditional
-subscription a lot, which seems a great bounty to the customer. But it
-causes problems such as …</li>
-<li>Lose everything on unsubscribe: this is <em>very</em> unfair to the
-subscriber and makes short-term subscription worth almost nothing. For
-example if I just want Sound Canvas VA really badly, I would imagine
-subscribing shortly before its release and unsubscribe after I’m
-eligible for keeping the product permanently. But this is simply not
-possible.</li>
-<li>Weird pricing. To be honest the current pricing is pretty fair for
-long-term subscribers. But if Roland somehow decided to fix the ‘lose
-everything on unsubscribe’ problem (which is very unlikely to happen),
-the pricing would become super complex: they probably do not want people
-to keep a virtual TB-303 for just $19.99.</li>
-<li>Potentially unsustainable. Every good thing must come to an end. The
-most attractive products in Roland Cloud is the software models of
-Roland’s synthesizers from its golden years. But Roland will run out of
-models to recreate one day. What would Roland do by then? Release
-everything as a one-time purchase so that every long-term subscriber
-feels ripped off?</li>
-</ul>
-<p>I’m an absolute supporter of Roland releasing authentic-sounding
-digitialized version of their legendary synthesizer models. But their
-subscription model pisses me off so hard. I know it’s not a big deal for
-a professional producer. However this is a real deal-breaker for
-amateurs such as me.</p>
-<p>Unfortunately there’s no real competitors out there when things come
-to reproducing their own synthesizers. Also a little bit off-topic: the
-music producing industry deserves more high quality free (as in freedom)
-software.</p>
-<p>Now let’s move on and talk about Office 365 by Microsoft and Creative
-Cloud from Adobe. They bundles software with value-add services such as
-e-mail service and (optinal) creativity material. IMHO these products
-they are trying to turn into a service resemble a tool, such as a
-screwdriver, rather than an apartment that people actually go for
-renting instead of purchasing.</p>
-<p>Paying a monthly fee for a screwdriver makes absolutely no sense.
-That said, I would stick with my plain old screwdriver, rather than that
-shiny gold-plated screwdriver with 10 heads which I will lose whenever I
-stop paying them. <strong>Green is my pepper.</strong></p>
-<p>The purpose of this entire rant is to remind the reader of just how
-many ways proprietary software vendors could come up with to screw their
-users up. What they care the most has always been money and this will
-simply not change any time soon. Get ready for more!</p>
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-		<div class="TText" id="notediv" style="font-size:80%;"><span class="TText"><a id="note1" href="#n1">[1]</a>: <a href="https://vimeo.com/329297480">link to
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author	Chris Xiong <chirs241097@gmail.com>	2024-06-22 19:59:16 -0400
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