> The graybeards are aging out, nobody compiles their kernel anymore, and someday something deep will break and there will be no one left who can climb down and fix it. Maybe. But I think competence is the part that’s fine.

> knew a beige computer in 1995 that wouldn’t run a game until I had rearranged its bits by hand. More dependent than ever

If you look at previous article from this author, it says how Mac is amazing and how Linux sucks. Kids like that in 1990ties would buy expensive consoles, and would not deal with hack PC's to get free games.

Many people today are still dealing with cheap shitty hardware, 7 years old Android phones and sketchy ROMs... Just because there is no other option!

https://unix.foo/posts/it-will-never-be-the-year-of-the-linu...