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?

Furthermore, I hate when people imply that cruft is good. Backwards compatibility, aka pretending that software was good in the past, even though it sucked ass and we're just building bad shit on top of bad shit. We need to get rid of legacy cruft. Mercy killings of old people in nursing homes, basically. Old tech is holding us back. You can't move forward when some people are rooted in the past and refuse to change.

Fortunately, however, these kinds of users are the minority. They're a vocal minority, but make no mistake -- your ``old is better'' paranoid freetard boomer attitude is just a small echo chamber here, but most developers and users side with me, not you.

I am on the right side of development history and you're just change-averse people who don't get that the entire point of technology is to get better over time. You are stagnating. Old people have decreased neuroplasticity, meaning it's harder for you to learn or accept new concepts. As such, you use mental gymnastics to justify why you can't adapt. It's a form of cognitive dissonance. If you don't know modern development practices, just claim that old is better. It's a defensive coping mechanism.

Whatever, boomers. You're less and less relevant as time goes on.