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?

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the entire point of technology is to get better over time.

This is marketing Kool-Aid and it's so sad. Your browser does nothing that it didn't do twenty years ago. All it did was change semantics for the sake of changing semantics; certainly not to ``improve''.

Old people have decreased neuroplasticity, meaning it's harder for you to learn or accept new concepts.

I'm 27, I just managed to take a step back and look at what we were actually doing. I know it's hard to admit you're fundamentally wasting your life, but try to do the same.