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Being more forgiving of software in the past and judging current software by a higher bar is just another way of saying that software was worse in the past.

I agree that we have huge advantages today. I agree that the best practices, tools, and computing resources are much better today than they were in the past.

But these don't invalidate OP's point.

> No browser had tab isolation. In fact, no browser had tabs.

The article mentions Windows XP which certainly had IE with tabs but the problem predates that.

Earlier versions of Windows (95, 98, 2000) featured a single window per site. So if one wanted 3 "tabs" one would need three separate windows. But the browser windows were not isolated. An issue in one window would impact ALL of the web browser's windows.

In addition, there was some issue with IE in particular. A crash in IE would sometimes make the taskbar and desktop disappear then restart.

More generally, browsers did not have isolation. This made for a much worse user experience.

You skipped mentioning the first problem listed: that computers used to crash all the time.

Software in general used to be much less stable. For example, browsers didn't always have tab isolation. A single bad site could, and frequently would, crash the whole browser.

A note, I found that many of the descriptions in "Did you know" include the place name. That is to say, I saw many many descriptions with the phrase "located in $CITY, $STATE, United States".

As all points are within a small radius, these description are very redundant.

What is your current phone?

Pixel phones have an unlocked bootloader. One can load GrapheneOS onto those phones without needing to jailbreak them.

Even without flashing a new OS, one can install third party app stores (e.g. F-Droid) with open source apps and/or side-load modified versions of those apps.

True, I should have specified that this applies to the parent comment's request for color pigments.

Have you looked into a local makerspace (e.g. Maker Nexus)?

Rooftop solar generally requires professional installation. Balcony solar, as discussed in the article, does not require professional installation and simply plugs directly into an outlet.

That defeats the purpose of using the Claude subscription.