I’m curious how software can be created and evolve over time. I’m afraid that at some point, we’ll realize there are issues with the software we’re using that can only be remedied by massive changes or a complete rewrite.

Are there any instances of this happening? Where something is designed with a flaw that doesn’t get realized until much later, necessitating scrapping the whole thing and starting from scratch?

  • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    4•9 months ago

    Just being… crappy?

    Not connecting automatically. Bad quality. Some glitchy artifacts. It gets horrible The only work around I’ve found is stupid but running apt reinstall --purge bluez gnome-bluetooth and it works fine. So annoying but I have to do this almost every day.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      Reinstalling should change nothing. If its getting corrupted check your drive and Ram.

      • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        2•9 months ago

        I don’t know why this works, but if im having issues, i do this, and it fixes all of them across the board. Even just restarting the service is not as effective as this. That some times works, sometimes doesn’t.

        I’m confident its not a drive or ram issue. Its a blue tooth issue/ audio. But I also can’t explain why it is so consistent.

        • @primalmotionA
          3•9 months ago

          That really sounds like shitty firmware at one end or the other

          • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
            1•9 months ago

            Yep. Nothing sus. I also don’t have the time to do a deep dive. I need to work. It might be this chip. It might be my bluetooth headset (but I have issues with my mouse and keyboard too). I don’t have time to figure it out, so I just keep this on a copy paste ready terminal and if I have issue, I run the command and I’m good to go.