[Nextgrid]

> Operating systems have become MUCH more stable

2010 is Windows 7 era, not the dark ages of pre-XP-SP2. I don't recall having computer crashes out of the blue - all the ones I've experienced are due to my own fault by trying to overclock the system.

I'm sure shitty hardware and drivers is a thing (this is traditionally where Apple excelled at in comparison) but I don't recall it being an issue on quality hardware.

> I had to pause a youtube video and wait for the grey bar to advance before watching the next 90 seconds of it

Shitty Wi-Fi/broadband/peering? Ironically nowadays I sometimes experience that too, except instead of waiting for video to download I'm waiting for some Javascript to finish re-rendering the page 3 times.

> I remember constant Skype issues around 2010

Again shitty connection maybe? I was spending every evening on Skype calls and to this day it's been way more reliable than anything I've tried since, thanks to it being P2P. So I guess if you were having constant issues it's down to the network.

[bizzletk]

> I don't recall having computer crashes out of the blue...

I think usually Windows machines crash into blue instead

[literalAardvark]

That's really just a meme though. NT has always been rock solid with just some driver related issues dotted around.