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?

>>21
the web is more than just plan old HTML and CSS, you boomer.
>>22

Your browser does nothing that it didn't do twenty years ago

You really have no idea about what you're talking about. Yeah, responsive design, single-page applications, all sorts of shit that was never possible before. If you think it's the same, you have no idea about modern web development.

you're fundamentally wasting your life

For my job? Some people clean up shit, some people work at McDonald's. I'm a web developer. All things considered, it could be much worse.

It's weird that you look down on me, when you don't even know what modern web development is like, or you somehow think it's easy or whatever. But you're just out of touch and refuse to admit it.