Really? Because folders on a hard drive and the OS’s networking does all that… what am I missing?

Yet you huge nerds tizz out over the most boring and trite software trivia that’s obsolete within hours, but won’t learn basic grammar that will serve you your entire life?

I’d like to think that improves things by a tiny amount.

an open standard for all it’s files

All that and you still can’t use the right “its”.

As discovered by plyth, you can’t do anything anymore. There are limits

crap

Oh it’s like Zombo?

The real reason for modern complexity is to create more bullshit jobs and ensure money keeps flowing.

If we just said “enough”, which is true, we’d have a leisure society and people would have time to start thinking.

We can’t have that, so instead we have Linux soft drink dispensers that need multi-core CPUs, containers, VMs, gigabytes of RAM, SSDs, always-on internet connection, and endless hardware upgrades to dispense carbonated water and sugar syrup.

Something a mechanical switch from 1855 can do.

The complexity of modern stuff boggles my mind. Why?

*lets

Is it named after Max Zorin?

Well my 25$ Value Village SFF PC works well after about 100$ of upgrades, including a i7 and 32GB of RAM (bought last year)…

I have to use it, it’s the corporate setup. Every day I envy plumbers who unclog toilets.

You’ll be a great hit at the retirement home!

KMFDM’s latest single is “A Drug Against Arthritis”

Yes that does seem to describe modern computing, indeed, consumer electronics in general.

It’s no longer about solving actual problems, it IS the problem.

I’ve given up trying to understand modern PC software. I can barely keep up with the little microcontrollers I work with. They aren’t so little.

Probably that’s the folder explorer or whatever itself crashing.

Ah, a Plan 9 man.

I recommend BeOS

Oh like a slingshot for floppies?

It’s to prevent TEMPEST hackers from reading his screen, ergo his mind, through the walls.