Lack of safety regulations that allowed people to be slowly poisoned by cheap materials or die in freak accidents, siphoning resources from the rest of the world through soft and hard political power, and not being destroyed from WW2 while Europe was recovering
but it took developers forever to update and stop constantly writing to sensitive OS locations.
They still haven't done that in 2025, Windows file locations are by far the worst part of it as an operation system for an average user?
Is it in C:/Users/
<username>
/? How about in the Documents folder? No, AppData/Local maybe? AppData/LocalLow or AppData/Roaming?
Maybe it created a root folder on my hard drive, Intel and NVIDIA love to do that? Did it just dump data in my registry (thanks Adobe)? Maybe it's in the installation location in Program Files, or with the 32-bit updater app in Program Files (x86)?
Who the fuck even knows anymore at this point, just write directly into System32 for all I care
If you use exterior calculus notation, with d = exterior derivative, everything makes so much more sense