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by JD1967 14 days ago
I started my professional career in software development in the mid 80's and had home computers like Atari before then. While software was much more simple back then, I think people just whine more now. When we encountered bugs, we worked around them and adapted. We didn't have the Internet to cry to. We were happy that we even had computers and they mostly worked.
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Yeah, I used to get data corrupting crashes routinely in all sorts of software I use. Now although I occasionally have problems with data not being saved or entered twice, etc. it's been a long time since I lost more than a few minutes of work from a bug like that.

People forget how buggy software used to be or grew up post phone/tablet/webapp where bugs are fixed much faster.