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Oct. 24th, 2006 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roadrunnertwiceStuffit Expander is the shittiest piece of Macintosh software extant, and I hate it with a burning, fiery rage.
Were you using a Windows computer during the late 1990s / early 2000s? Do you remember how RealPlayer would sign you up for spam, bombard you with ads, try to steal all of your file associations, and then top it all of by running like shit? And how you had to use it anyway, because its obsequious company had gotten into the game early and established itself like scotchbroom, so everyone and their dog had locked themselves into distributing all their stuff in RealMedia formats? And how said formats were completely proprietary, so it was nearly impossible to play them with a program that didn't blow ass?
That's Stuffit.
There are still a crapload of files floating around in its bogus proprietary SIT archive format, largely because every Mac user used to have their freeware de-archiver on their computer. When Tiger came out, though, Apple stopped bundling it with the OS, so you now have to go get said freeware version if you need anything that's stuck inside an SIT archive. And the only way to do that is to sign up for compulsory spam from the guys that make the damned thing.
I am not even joking.
Which is how I came to be downloading a freeware program with a torrent file I got off of thepiratebay.org. Congratulations, SmithMicro Software: your crimes against user experience have actually bent the laws of nature.
Were you using a Windows computer during the late 1990s / early 2000s? Do you remember how RealPlayer would sign you up for spam, bombard you with ads, try to steal all of your file associations, and then top it all of by running like shit? And how you had to use it anyway, because its obsequious company had gotten into the game early and established itself like scotchbroom, so everyone and their dog had locked themselves into distributing all their stuff in RealMedia formats? And how said formats were completely proprietary, so it was nearly impossible to play them with a program that didn't blow ass?
That's Stuffit.
There are still a crapload of files floating around in its bogus proprietary SIT archive format, largely because every Mac user used to have their freeware de-archiver on their computer. When Tiger came out, though, Apple stopped bundling it with the OS, so you now have to go get said freeware version if you need anything that's stuck inside an SIT archive. And the only way to do that is to sign up for compulsory spam from the guys that make the damned thing.
I am not even joking.
Please note: By confirming your email address and downloading this file, you are signing up to receive periodic followup emails from us.You can't get it without giving them your address, there's no "Don't Fucking Spam Me" checkbox (it sounds like you need to wait for them to spam you first, and then track down the "unsubscribe" instructions buried in said spam), and the humorless bastards even check the address you give them and will take their ball and go home if you try to use Mailinator or something. Last time around, I managed to cadge some Beta version of it without handing over my precious inbox, but that thing "expired," and I want to use some program that's being held for ransom inside an SIT archive.
Which is how I came to be downloading a freeware program with a torrent file I got off of thepiratebay.org. Congratulations, SmithMicro Software: your crimes against user experience have actually bent the laws of nature.
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