Today, I am taking an image of my main machine that I can reload at will. I don’t plan to upgrade any software really in the future as it’s all getting worse and more difficult to use as it’s made idiot-friendly, metro-fied and all useful features taken away.

I don’t know how long this will last me. I am hoping I can get five years out of the browser (Firefox 22) before technology advances and I can no longer correctly view lots of web pages. The Windows 7 install itself given the history of XP should be ok for another 10 years or so.

In a way, this is sort of like the opposite of getting old. The senescent usually complain with great vitriol about the “simpler times” as the world gets too complicated for them.

Instead as the world is simplified I am not able to cope as I need the complex and powerful tools to undertake activities that interest me as well as for working.

Never could’ve imagined as I’ve watched software and hardware advance since the early ‘80s that we’d come to a point where software actually starts getting far worse and is less useful and capable.

In fact, some of the software released now is less capable due to its over-simplification and idiot-friendliness than applications I used in the mid-80s.

That is just unconscionable.