[aboringusername]

I'm not sure why there's a need to update anything every 2-3 years. In fact, the pace of change becomes exhausting in itself. In my day-to-day life, things are mostly well designed systems and processes; there's a stable code of practice when driving cars, going to the shops, picking up the shopping, paying for the items and then storing them.

What part of that process needs to change every 2-3 years? Because some 'angel investor' says we need growth which means pushing updates to make it appear like you're doing something?

old.reddit has worked the same for the last 10 years now, new.reddit is absolutely awful. That's what 2-3 years of 'change' gets you.

In fact, this website itself remains largely the same. Why change for the sake of it?

[JackSlateur]

In your day-to-day life, you do chore regurarly

Why not cleaning the room only once every 2-3 years ?

[frankchn]

I do chores regularly, and I apply security patches regularly.

Major operating system version upgrades can be more akin to upgrading all the furniture and electronics in my house at the same time.

[buildbot]

Not that you’ll agree, but cleaning the house sounds more like running rm -rf /tmp and docker system prune than upgrading from idk, bullseye to bookworm. Let’s call that a bathroom remodel? So sometimes you live in a historic house and the bathroom cannot be remodeled or changed because it’ll fall through the floor or King Louis the XV used it once. In software, the historic house could be the PLLc firmware controlling the valves in your nuclear reactor cooling loop.

[johnisgood]

You keep using this analogy, but it is not comparable, and it is a horrible analogy.

[9cb14c1ec0]

Why not force everyone to upgrade their cars every 2 to 3 years?

[exe34]

Why don't you move house every 6 months?