starting to realize the reason I've come to loathe modern computing is the constant sword-of-damocles-esque feeling that something you've figured out a solution to will be violently subjected to bitrot no matter how hard you try to prevent it, and is as temporary as temporary gets, with you only having six months, a year, or maybe two years before that solution either isn't viable, or no longer works at all.
I am old enough to remember when computing was functionally immutable, where your computer and the software running on it only changed with your direct input, possibly staying the same for years at a stretch. new computers and operating systems took weeks to re-adapt to—there was none of this 'boiled frog' imperceptible change constantly happening over time.
and going further backward, only a generation or so ago, this extended to Pretty Much Everything. my parents spent a great majority of their life interfacing with, and experiencing, the same things and people every day, for decades.
