really, windows? 2014, and you do this to me?

 

the most depressing thing to happen to me today, looked a lot like this:

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i was holding my iphone at the time.

the anachronism stayed with me for most of the day.


 

don’t even get me started on the sheer silliness of permanent deletion in an age of near-zero-cost storage. who permanently deletes anything anymore?


 

check this out, for an even more stark relief.

i think that, in an average year, i spend about as much time dealing with phone apps (100k loc or less) as i do dealing with a random windows version (40m loc). i’ll let you figure out which of the two category of experiences is more rewarding and/or pleasant.