[tacostakohashi]

To paraphrase your own complaint - one "lost art" is self-contained software, that can be shipped on a CD, including release notes and documentation that form part of the software/release itself, and can be used on a standalone computer with no internet access, or occasional internet access.

Lots of software these days is written with the naive assumption of continuous, unlimited bandwidth / zero-latency internet connectivity, and falls apart whenever that assumption turns out to be incorrect.

[the_only_law]

> Lots of software these days is written with the naive assumption of continuous, unlimited bandwidth / zero-latency internet connectivity, and falls apart whenever that assumption turns out to be incorrect.

I’ve been stuck tethering to my phone for connection for a couple weeks with… volatile mobile networks, and what kills me is when the UI in some application stops responding when connection is bad. “Yeah here’s an intrusive popup, sorry you can’t close it because you don’t have a fast enough internet connection”