Won’t somone think of the job creators??!

7 was it for me. That XP start up sound and bliss hits me in the nostalgia.

“You have clicked no. Microsft Edge is your new default browser! How can I help you more with the microsoft experience?” - Cortana.

Windows has become an early 2000’s webpage. Filled with ads, quiet installs, and nagging deceptive pop-ups.

I should be shocked, but I’m not… Some people go to great lengths to get pokemon cards.

but that’s… different!

The evangelicals made a deal with a grifter.

Thousnds of hours went into trashing the usability.

Bought a brother B&W laser a decade ago. Just replaced the toner it came with, with extra toner I purchased at the time… It’s a two pack, it may outlast me…

Discovery was great, but felt like a space show with Trek slapped on sometimes. SNW felt more Trek than the others to me.

I never used it, but TIL…

Easier to justify making trash.

Cheap homelab.

Those soldered low RAM ones are going to be in the dump a lot sooner.

Sucks. Seems like the open internet is turning into region locked communities.

Is imgur a casualty of “Won’t someone think og the children!”

You do this once, but again when the pain wears off. Then encrypted back up keys stored in multiple locations becomes a religion.

Curiosity at first, but now all the stuff I usually do is easier from linux ssh, sshfs etc. WSL on windows is niftyish.

I would not mind more sites feeding bad data to LLM’s.