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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.ziptoMemes@sopuli.xyzW.XP
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    4 days ago

    Left because of XP. Win 2000 was fine. XP started all of the crap. It was when you needed to have a corporate key to actually control the computer and have all the features that win 2000 did. The colors were awful and the design was piss poor of course, but I could have dealt with that.

    This was when Microsoft began introducing online accounts. They started trying to really wedge explorer into everything. You could buy music online with them, but ONLY with explorer. There were three programs that were forced on everyone (I forget what they are now). People didn’t like it so they gave people a “remover”, and was supposed to remove those programs. Except they lied, and all it did was hid the icons.

    The writing was on the wall. Win XP was when MS jumped the shark and began the decline. I could see it in real time and wanted nothing more to do with them. So Linux it was.


  • She shouldn’t have said this, it sealed the deal “Millions of Americans will have less trustworthy information about their communities, states, country, and world with which to make decisions about the quality of their lives.”

    She should have said: “Millions of Americans will lose access to information about how great Trump is and how to report who to deport next.”

    Jokes aside, the emergency broadcast system makes so much sense as a function of public broadcasting. I have been to several countries that explicitly subsidize radio and tv channels for this purpose. You can have public programming 99% of the time, and a way to get information out in an emergency all ready to go.


  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.ziptoMemes@sopuli.xyzW.XP
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    4 days ago

    I noticed. When Windows XP came out I saw the enshitification right away. Never mind the play-skool colors and complete lack of security. I couldn’t believe that people were going to be willing to use that crap.

    I moved away from it for me and my business fairly quickly, and that was that.

    I did notice over the years as winxp went away in public spaces and hotels. It was always kind of nice to know there were free to use computers out in the wild if one wanted to use them. XP was never able to be locked down, so you could bypass any login and just use it if you wanted to. Never for anything important, but I could always load up some games on the hotel one and let the kids play on it for fun for example.







  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.ziptoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldLiteral Hostage Situation
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    5 days ago

    You have a choice. You don’t have to use it. People managed for thousands of years, you can too.

    Have some principles. If they can’t or won’t change, don’t make it your problem.

    They will come around if and when you take it seriously. Or they won’t, and then well, fuck em.

    I have family around the world. Some said they can’t change, that’s on them. Others did and that’s fine. But nobody is going to if you cave and enable them to just keep doing it.