I've recently seen a trend in tech communities on lemmy where people have developed this mentality that computer hardware is as disposable as a compostable cup, and that after 10-15 years you should just chuck it in the bin and get something new. If someone asks for tech support, they'll just be told to buy new hardware. If someone is saddened their hardware is no longer supported by software they are just entitled, need to pull up their bootstraps, and "only" spend $100 to get something used that will also not be supported in 5 years. It doesn't matter if there is actual information out there that'll help them either. If the hardware is old, people will unanimously decide that nothing can be done.
I've seen this even in linux communities, what happened to people giving a damn about e-waste? Why is the solution always to just throw money at the problem? It's infuriating. I've half a mind to just block every tech/software community other than the ones on hexbear at this point.
Browsers have gone from document renderers to virtual machine app platforms over the last 30 years. It's a significant change, even if mostly not good.
And yet my use of the internet hasn’t changed, gamefaqs, blogs, forums and YouTube. All stuff that rendered just fine before I needed to be shipped 900gb of react bollocks. My desire for web apps is in the negative they almost always feel worse than native applications but those are a dead art.
Nothing browsers have done can I point to having improved my life and nothing that has been done couldn’t already be done better elsewhere.