Also, I think those timestamps were built with the idea of an ephemeral, temporary stream in mind. Everything posted is disposable, and not meant for reference.
Conveniences we've lost
Carson King
Isaiah Miller
one of the reasons i hate reddit, its useful for when im looking up information on something somewhat niche and end up on some archived subreddit post. but when i need information on when the post is from its always
>3 years ago
Henry Bell
in this modern era of most text editors accepting UNIX style newline and UTF-8, there's plenty of reason to just use plain text
like, it's more convenient now than it's ever been
as fast as it is, oldschool Mac OS kinda fucking blows ass
especially at multitasking of any sort
whether it be dealing with the old MultiFinder style lack of memory management (nothing like fiddling with memory partitions in the Get Info box) or the cooperative multitasking (enjoy waiting for one program to finish processing something intensive so you can use your computer again) or having to reboot the machine because Finder took too much memory away from other shit
like, System 7 is a good bit less bloat than Windows 95 on comparable hardware, and asstons faster, but it's also a decent bit less pleasant to use and just as unstable (hell, at least if a program dies on 95, I can usually kill the offending program and save whatever other shit I had open -- if something dies on System 7, all I can do is click restart since it bombed out).
It's a bad example, and there's a damn good reason why Apple spent the entirety of the 90s looking for a replacement.
that being said, to this day, I still have no idea why post-XP Windows is so ungodly fat
a pretty standard Linux distro like Ubuntu out of the box is like 6GB, and that still comes loaded full of software, vs Vista onward's 6GB Windows folder with fuck-all installed (7/8/10 is like 10-12GB)
my /usr folder is like 3GB on this machine, and I've got a decent bit of software installed
and 3GB is absolutely crazy compared to like 20MB System 7 install (it's like 40MB or so if you installed everything) or a 40MB Windows 95 install (again, more like 120 for everything), but I can at least imagine where the space is going
what in fuck's name is a bare OS with just like wordpad and paint installed doing being 6+ GB, let alone your disk use after you install your multi-gigabyte copies of Office and the Adobe suite and shit
Levi Smith
Humans can't multitask, but computers can, and not all useful multitasking is necessarily of the former kind. Try using an old cooperatively tasked operating system like classic Mac OS in the same ways you would use your current computer and you'll see the deficiencies of primitive/non-existent multitasking very quickly.
It's not a conspiracy or incompetence, you're merely just not on the receiving end of the improvements anymore as a casual user. Many mainstay pieces of software we use today were indeed perfected for the average user very early on in their lifetimes, and since then developers focused on improving them in ways that assisted more specific use cases or different kinds of users from ourselves. A modern copy of Word is still pretty much just as proficient at putting rich text on the screen as Word 4.0 was, but now contains much more advanced spell/grammar checking for multiple languages, smarter help facilities that monitor user activity and attempt to point them to features that may be of use to them or prevent mistakes before they actually happen, better integration with other Office software, styles, built-in equation editors, watermarking, mail merging, reference management, markup/commenting, collaborative editing and access management, and a multitude of other fuck-knows-what lurking around that maybe one or two people will end up using ever.
That's not to say there aren't still tons of stupid decisions, needless inefficiencies and overly expensive features that are simply not needed in modern software, but to imply anyone can do nearly the exact same things on your LC III as whatever computer you're currently posting from right now is just silly. There's a reason I'm not writing this from my Quadra 700 I was attempting to daily drive for a good portion of 2016.
Hunter Carter
This actually makes me think more that we don't really have much consumer choice any more. While it is true that something like a modern version of MS Word has far more features than Word in the days of DOS, if those features are useless to you there's no way to forego them and have a reduced cost. I know that there's LibreOffice, but using something non-MS Word basically leaves you speaking a foreign language to most people.
There's no way to, say, as a writer get a machine about the cost of a SBC that functions as a featured (not fully featured, but features comparable to Word 95, and the comparable OS, or so) to fulfil your needs.
Ryder Butler
>Spend weeks rewriting your autoexec and config or you won’t do jack shit.
>not just using QEMM you pirated off your local warez BBS and getting perfect upper memory utilization every time
Wyatt Thompson
If you want a better OS like that, get kolibrios.org or menuetos.net
But you'll probably find out that while today's software is surely not the most efficiently written, it still does a lot more and going with absolute minimalism is an arsepain in terms of absence of functionality.
So really, just use Antix, Nix, Guix, Gentoo or whatever else you like.
Caleb Campbell
I miss the audio clarity of copper land lines. All this technological advancement and wireless bandwidth yet cell phones still sound like utter shit and you often struggle to understand what the fuck the other person is saying because their voice is compressed to shit.
Brayden Young
> All this technological advancement and wireless bandwidth yet cell phones still sound like utter shit
That's actually probably your phone provider trying to get paid with minimum bandwidth usage.
Even people who can't into technology are often using their own VoIP software - whatsapp, discord and such. If you talk to more tech-savy people, you can get crystal clear audio on mumble or riot or whatever.
Owen Harris
The "general purpouse creator OS". At one point in time, OSes were moving towards offering a full media suite to create all kinds of media. As a kid, these were fun but more importantly you could edit basic shit.