Comment by AlotOfReading
10 hours ago
I have a deep hatred for software with x days offline capability. It's not fun to discover something won't work because someone else had a bad model of what's "reasonable" when you're doing field work in rural Mongolia or wherever. It's happened to me twice. Once I was lucky enough to accidentally discover this before leaving (PDF reader), and once while already in the field (drone software).
Now I'm a lot more diligent about FOSS for anything important.
Tell me more, if you're able. What happened?
Not much more to say. Back when I was actively doing field work as an archaeologist, I'd go out to the middle of nowhere for months. There was lots of software needed and some of it had those kinds of license checks. You anticipate and prepare for computer failure in fieldwork, but it's still irritating when the failure is caused by a person instead of the environment.