Hypertextsensitive

Who do you talk to when you're hypertextsensitive? When the webshit get so deep under your skin that you don't even want to scream, you just want to lay down and give up. When you have to cross your fingers till they whiten that your browser tab won't be OOM killed when you visit that beast of beasts, that monstrosity so littered with javashit that not even your keyboard assisted browser navigation will ease your pain, having to carefully drag the right pixel next of the border you want to move just a tiny bit so you may eventually have within reach the other maneuvers that will get you the file.

Who, I ask you, who will comfort you? Who will listen when the OOM killer comes for the fourth time this day. You only have a mere 16 gigabytes of RAM and twice the swap in your machine. You just want to get the file. So that you can fill out the spreadsheet in peace. And then. Then visit once more this wicked place of darkness without meaning, this solitude in the intertwined web of remote resources and watchers, measuring your every step, filling a myriad of data stores humming away, who knows where.

"Let us show you this new feature here", the modern slick popup says, not even resembling the popups of old and barely distinguishable from the rest of this mocking of an UI. By accident you've clicked where a fraction of a second ago the button you intended to use was. You whimper. The noises you make by the mere thought of returning the xlsx with its two new numbers to where you first, not without struggle, went to get it.

You stumble into things as you make your way to get a glass of water.

When will you ever get time to do what you where trained at? What they hired you for and what you're supposed to be good at. What are you even good at anymore? What is the point of it all?

Who will ever listen? Who would understand?

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Originally posted as wall of text in the fediverse

Initially I just wanted to throw out the first question "Who do you talk to when you're hypertextsensitive?", as a play on the word "hypersensitive" but implying stress caused by modern web experiences. Then I wanted to give a little bit more context and eventually I just let it flow and become the above.

(I will expand on the below)

I do feel that I have more and more issues using anything that require a modern web browser, wishing and searching for CLIs and TUIs everywhere (there are some really great ones!).

Some times I "joke" and say that I believe web developers shouldn't be allowed to develop on anything more powerful than your average 10 year old machine.