One key thing that our research into PTSD has found is that soldiers are far less likely to experience it when they understand what it is they’re doing and why they’re doing it. This means both at the large scale operational level, and the small scale tactical level.

“You’re holding this trench so that our sister company can safely withdraw” is a lot more motivating than “You’re holding this trench because orders are orders.”

And yeah, at the operational level, the people fighting a war want to believe that it has a purpose. That they’re doing good. That their suffering will make other people’s lives better.

Hard to believe that when you’re mostly just murdering innocent civilians.

But what about the zero people who used it? Whatever will they do?

No, as in the person installing the app to use the service has to edit a config file.

Yes, I have no issue editing config files. I’m self-hosting, that’s the point. All the technical load should be on me. But my completely non-technical friends should not have to edit config files to be able to access my self-hosted services. Everything, for them, should be as simple as possible.

It can be self hosted, but to connect the clients to self-hosted servers you have to edit config files, so it’s a very user hostile solution.

Meta cutting previous failed ventures to pay for next failed venture.

Please explain how the cost overruns on the development program have any bearing on the effectiveness of the finished product?