My root partition is 20 GB and it's full.

I'm still using all the same software I was fifteen years ago when it was 500 MB and mostly empty.

Why are programmers like this? Hardware hasn't meaningfully improved in a decade, but programmers are still continuously bloating up their projects like it's still the '90s and hard drives and processors and RAM are just going to get so good and so cheap that it doesn't matter. They're still running this endless update sprint that means that at least once a year, I have to take a full day to upgrade and then go through all my dotfiles to get everything to work again, because of course not breaking backward compatibility isn't a priority.

What's it all for? Literally no aspect of my computing experience is better than it was ten, twenty years ago—everything is bigger and slower and less convenient—but people keep pouring in effort, and expecting me to pour in commensurate effort, as if we've been building a new world from scratch for years, and we have nothing to show for it except higher version numbers and more money spent on computers that do nothing the old ones didn't.

It's all free software—why do we fall for the capitalist's scam?

Is there a term for this brain disorder, though? This fake neophilia that pretends newer is better by definition, despite ``newer'' at best only ever changing the paint job and intentionally breaking backward compatibility? This mind parasite that, e.g., makes scumbags write endless blog posts about how anyone using a browser that came out more than six months ago is ``holding back the web'' (seriously, google that) as if browsers are doing anything now that they weren't twenty years ago?

When office drones do it you can at least pretend they're doing it to look busy for their employers or to rip off their customers. The free software crowd is just drinking the Kool-Aid, suffering all the drawbacks, and getting zero of the benefits.