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This carries a tonne of complexity into the most trivial things. Not only that, people have stopped developing things entirely, and now just rely on cobbling together commercial “solutions”. Rube Goldberg machines at their finest.

Yes, this exactly. I even used the term “Rube Goldberg machine” when ranting about this to my therapist earlier today.

Early in my career it was seen as a luxury to have 4MB of RAM on a consumer device, and now it’s a given that 4GB isn’t even remotely enough for even the most basic things. A factor of 1000, all for devices that just do largely the same thing, only worse, and slower, and requiring even more bandwidth and power to do even the most basic shit.

It’s maddening but it’s also good to know that I’m not the only one who feels this way.

I build things to be tools that can be used generally, and what we have is an ecosystem where every device has its own set of screwdrivers that work differently and each need a complete infrastructure to even function, and they’re made of lead and fall apart the moment you exert any pressure on them.

It’s enough to make me want to become a hermit but I suspect that even the hermit life requires an active cellphone connection these days.