How useful is this tech? Some tech is just pointless or part of someone's scammy business.
How Eternal is the knowledge? Math is Eternal in the true sense, while that new webpage framework will be around for maybe just 2-5 years, and is thus not worth learning. (Although I am sometimes happy that people sacrifice their lifes on stuff like that, I would never do it.)
Vendor lock-in? I steer clear from that.
Is it being maintained? (Some things are okay not being maintained though. It depends on the type of tech.)
Surveillance potential. I am somewhat paranoid in my own personal life.
When procuring network-attached tech I usually dig through exploit-db and the CVEs and try to make myself a picture of how their security is being handled. Small companies are difficult to judge from this because they have little recorded history. (So I didn't buy any mikrotik router because of their shenanigan attitude to security, for example.)
Do the creator of the tech try to keep my hands away from digging into the machinery? Like hiding that it is really just a Linux/bsd box underneath? I stay away from that, if possible. (It's not always possible, almost all tech runs on Linux nowadays.)
I can be bribed to ignore any of these things that I usually avoid. For example, I learned MS Windows and some of their tech because I got bribed.
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How useful is this tech? Some tech is just pointless or part of someone's scammy business.
How Eternal is the knowledge? Math is Eternal in the true sense, while that new webpage framework will be around for maybe just 2-5 years, and is thus not worth learning. (Although I am sometimes happy that people sacrifice their lifes on stuff like that, I would never do it.)
Vendor lock-in? I steer clear from that.
Is it being maintained? (Some things are okay not being maintained though. It depends on the type of tech.)
Surveillance potential. I am somewhat paranoid in my own personal life.
When procuring network-attached tech I usually dig through exploit-db and the CVEs and try to make myself a picture of how their security is being handled. Small companies are difficult to judge from this because they have little recorded history. (So I didn't buy any mikrotik router because of their shenanigan attitude to security, for example.)
Do the creator of the tech try to keep my hands away from digging into the machinery? Like hiding that it is really just a Linux/bsd box underneath? I stay away from that, if possible. (It's not always possible, almost all tech runs on Linux nowadays.)
I can be bribed to ignore any of these things that I usually avoid. For example, I learned MS Windows and some of their tech because I got bribed.