> I grew up with "System Error Type 11 (Restart)" on a weekly basis; nothing like that happens any more. This probably explains why we don't understand each ot

> I grew up with "System Error Type 11 (Restart)" on a weekly basis; nothing like that happens any more. This probably explains why we don't understand each other. I grew up with fairly crashy stuff too, don't get me wrong. I ordered stuff on a Minitel, for heck sake. However, I suspect the fact we're old timers makes it even harder to sympathize with "normal people" confronted with unstable systems. Because, a page not displaying properly on your phone, a form not liking your first name because it has a hyphen, a website suddenly switching to Spanish for half its content, a email that says "you'll soon receive " before not receiving anything, the message received in batch of 10 explaining that your subscription will now be "${sub}€", etc... All those things (that I literally encountered _this weekend_, on systems developped by big corporations and / or public service platforms): we hackers call them "annoyances" ; fancy people call them "bugs". Real people call them "stuff that does not work". And when your are forced, by law, to use stuff that does not work because the software got all the funding, and people are too expensive, then, some real people call it "barbary". It's "death by a thousand cuts", for sure, in a world where so many die by actual bullets. So maybe it does not warrant a violent uprising. But you'd be surprised how much I hear it contributing to the overall anger - being the rich "computer guy" trying to help the real people navigating this.