Comments on: I can’t remember being screwed like this since Windows 8. https://habitablezone.com/2014/09/24/i-cant-remember-being-screwed-like-this-since-microsoft-8/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:38:00 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2014/09/24/i-cant-remember-being-screwed-like-this-since-microsoft-8/#comment-31897 DanS Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:53:12 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=47537#comment-31897 Every graduating class comes out with newer, better, faster ways to muck it up. As for the tech, we need to keep learning newer, better, faster ways to jury-rig it back together. <center><font color="#680000"><strong>...grumble, grumble, grumble...</strong></font></center> Every graduating class comes out with newer, better, faster ways to muck it up.

As for the tech, we need to keep learning newer, better, faster ways to jury-rig it back together.

…grumble, grumble, grumble…

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2014/09/24/i-cant-remember-being-screwed-like-this-since-microsoft-8/#comment-31895 ER Thu, 25 Sep 2014 03:29:50 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=47537#comment-31895 All this flexibility is paid for by sacrificing robustness. We come to depend on the tech, but they get to change it whenever they feel like it for their own benefit, and we have no choice but to adapt to their reality. And what used to be routine chores now involve learning new connections and relationships. I guess its always been this way, iron tools were better than bronze, but they rusted and they had to be sharpened differently. Still, the changes didn't seem to come as frequently and didn't seem to be so unforgiving. Now it seems things change before you can get around to really learning how to use them. And of course, its always your responsibility to adapt to them. Its not their problem, is it? The more hooked you get, the more expensive the dope, and the harder it is to score. Bastards. All this flexibility is paid for by sacrificing robustness. We come to depend on the tech, but they get to change it whenever they feel like it for their own benefit, and we have no choice but to adapt to their reality. And what used to be routine chores now involve learning new connections and relationships.

I guess its always been this way, iron tools were better than bronze, but they rusted and they had to be sharpened differently. Still, the changes didn’t seem to come as frequently and didn’t seem to be so unforgiving. Now it seems things change before you can get around to really learning how to use them. And of course, its always your responsibility to adapt to them. Its not their problem, is it? The more hooked you get, the more expensive the dope, and the harder it is to score.

Bastards.

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