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minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·20 days agoI told a younger coworker that computers before broadband still had bugs, but generally worked because shipping updates was a challenge. Now everything is half-assed because a patch is a click away.
minus-squareRagnarokOnline@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·20 days agoAnd the bugs were (usually) reliable, so if you found a workaround on your own or just avoided causing the bug, you would get a consistent experience. Now it feels like each deployment ends up breaking something new.
I told a younger coworker that computers before broadband still had bugs, but generally worked because shipping updates was a challenge. Now everything is half-assed because a patch is a click away.
And the bugs were (usually) reliable, so if you found a workaround on your own or just avoided causing the bug, you would get a consistent experience.
Now it feels like each deployment ends up breaking something new.