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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People with old or shitty browsers make things harder for web developers because they have to do a bunch of hack-y shit to make things work. When new web standards are published (i.e. HTML5, Ecmascript 6, etc) and people still use shit like Internet Explorer or super old versions of Firefox or Chrome, you have to test everything more and you also have to do shit like fallbacks and separate code checking for the user agent and sometimes delivering different sites based on the browser.

I would much rather develop just for webkit (mostly Chrome and Safari) and Firefox and then nothing else. It's bad enough that Gecko and Webkit render shit differently and that causes problems even when I'm only looking at maintaining a site for a couple browsers. I don't want to be an expert on IE or Edge compatibility shit when they don't even follow standards correctly to begin with. I don't want to deal with autistic boomer users who refuse to install software updates and then claim that I'M the one at fault.

Just install updates and stop using old or bad shit.