see, it's not that easy to explain or visualise.

Speaking as someone who watched the first flipper prototypes being soldered by hand.

Do you understand the word "unmeasurable"?

It means that whatever value you assign to that particular trump variable is so below the noise that it does not matter, can not matter, and anyone pretending it does is a manipulator; a crook.

What is a union? It is another social structure, exactly same as corps are.

.gz/deflate is used when something very cheap and very fast is needed. xz/lzma is quite often too slow or requires too much memory even on decompression.

so no, .zip and .gz are very much needed in 2026.

As noted above, it's the mechanical design / CAD that has to be seriously learned to do anything useful.

I always snarked at clueless CEOs bent on forcing me to sign NDAs while the entire infra _and_ data was living in US from the get go. Like, what's so sensitive I'm going to disclose that wasn't voluntarily disclosed by yourself already?

As for the OP - life is negenthropy. It is by definition a complication. I don't get the complaint - if you want max simplicity just convert yourself into least possible energy state. You will lose agency but that is the point, right?

And virtual desktops/workspaces also had that awe-effect back then. Although with multimonitor setups this faded a bit.

In my experience a game worth playing never exceeded 1 (one) gig in size.

It is only incompetent creators that feel the need to bury their incompetence under gigabytes of irrelevance.