When I started on windows, and even with the textual pseudo-GUI’s of DOS, once you got it working you could customize the hell out of everything, and it would just continue to work until something physically broke or I broke somethin; with a tweak I would generally just undo and get back to it.

Windows is nothing like that now. My phone is more customizable, smooth, enjoyable and stable than Windows(OOBE, anyways). Its arguably better at things like, idk, working with scanners, which Windows insists are dark magic only the manufacturers can help you with(TWAIN was literally cleaner, and still is, when you can lift the hood to find it); I’m not saying its all-that-weird to need a driver - what’s weird is refusing to look for an entire device-category until a third-party app tells you how, when EVERYTHING ELSE is basically plug-and-play, including the printing functions of networked copiers or fax machines.

Rant from this-specific-day’s bullshit at work aside, my first experiences were with an Amiga and some Apple ii’s, OS2Warp was an experience that barely struck me as much-different than what I was used-to, and I’ve messed-around with Macs as much as much as anyone.

What’s weird isn’t moving away from Windows, basically the most overtly Black Mirror-esque OS of what’s out there today. What’s weird is how hung-up people are on it.

Every brain-controlling or addicting substance or species on Futurama has more to offer; Windows, like facebook, is trying to be the ads injected-into dreams. Who the hell wants that?

Amazing how awesome a little comfort is when you can just ignore others who don’t have what you have, and ignore how little separates you from them. Injury, illness, mistakes, accusations, random layoffs… Its all so fragile.

am millenial. “lol” is for the squares. The rest of us look good in heels, and will smack/kiss a bitch who says otherwise

Get you friends who will just send “See you there, bitch”, affectionately.

Grandma let’s eat

Also possibly affects what blood-types they can transfuse. There are also more scrutinized supplies they use for babies and pregnant women.

Are you actually asking? No, its not copy-pasta. I could write a book instead if you like, but is your "holy fuck"more specific than that?

I will say, the part in parenthesis I added after most or all of the up-votes it got, but it is something that happened. The practice she was ranting about in particular is where some yogi/“holy men” would piss fire. She hated that Dhalsim was one of my favorite SSF2 fighters, nevermind that she would have jumped at any excuse to get that game away from me.

The crown was made in 1937, and of such historical significance that vandalizing it’s display case requires the arrest of four people and secret prosecution. Yeah, okay, sure.

So um … he missed the crucial step of wearing pants. Being pent-up from not even masturbating over whatever time-period explains … that … for him, wasn’t a good idea either.

I will say, health education needs to teach everyone the concept of kegels, likely even seprately from sex-ed.

I don’t recal how-exactly I ended-up expirimenting with tantric orgasm(chill, I almost certainly read about it first, maybe after hearing my mom rant about “unholy” yoga practices)almost the moment puberty hit, and I’m not exactly the picture of mental health nor particularly suave, but I’ve also never ended up having basically a seizure while standing, or otherwise outed myself over (clothed)pre-mature ejaculation, if I even noticed it happening.

Gotta disable UPNP to commit to this specific strategy …

Just as likely that red sliver at the end was the traffic created by his intentional usage of the phone all-along. Telemetry and ads are just that gross, but what do I know?

I might, but I need it to use exactly this level of context. Tell me their full names or where the building is, and I’m out.

It’s always surprising to me to see her depicted as flustered like this. If the snakes aren’t also poisonous then what’s the point? Oh wait, she’s consistently taller and thicker than her guests too?

… so where’s the part where she legit has no choice but to engage and demand they look at her face? Don’t come back with some “you have to accept being turned to stone to show respect for her as a person not an object” -take either; All I see is a brat in this version.

I don’t even care about the lack of hospitality. Uninvited guests? That’s where I understand wanting to petrify, hurt, kill, intimidate or run-away from them, but again, that’s not this. This is more like … flirting.

If you don’t understand the relationship between technical debt and enshittification, how the business desire for quick and easy (and marketing friendly, user-as-product)solutions now helps drive intentional degredation, deprication, and abandonment of features later, I don’t know what to tell you. This shit has literally happened in Open-Source products.

Enshittification, as a brand-new word, is en vogue, and its “definition”, misused as a quick-and-easy way to dismiss @SanctimoniousApe’s entirely correct and appropriate linking of it to OP, is itself an example of Platform Degredation.

Enshittification is often consumer-driven. That is to say, “giving the users what they want”, only so long as its what the majority will go along with, and leaves-out “edge-cases” that were originally a major feature.

Poll the users, ask them if they care about it. The fact the platforms have the data to pick and choose users who don’t use said feature is conveniently left-out

Before the enshittification you know today, there was Flash, everywhere, whether the page needed it or not. Tech debt, scope-creep, and feature removal, are drivers of enshittification, not-at-all outside of its definition or unrelated to it, particularly where they drive forced-obselecence and unnecessary up-grade cycles, aka consumerism.

It doesn’t have to be intentional to be enshittification. Laziness and group-think will suffice.

Honestly one of my first thoughts about this mess, or when I see countries pulling this shit and people fretting about x y z website; That web-site is either going to make the stupid choice to comply and apply those policies world-wide, or stop acknowleging said country exists by any means possible. Other sites will step-in to take over the surrendered market-share.

If your company and servers are anywhere else, you are under no obligation to comply or even block Brittain. Let Brittish companies and government bear the burden of enforcing their non-sense on their prisoners, sorry, I mean “citizens”.

You could say the same about US states, and you’re the first person to bring up any real flaw in OP’s post, beyond “stop stirring shit” and “learn how to right”. “low-effort shitpost” would at least be ironic.

I mean, in assigning the different outlooks to specifically Europe/America, sure, but they are far from entirely wrong, even there.

It’s more like America and its banana-republic/media-obsessed/victimized/allied/vassal lackeys versus saner parts of the world, or Rich vs Poor(which outlooks would be flipped in different areas), but beyond that and placing their post in YSK instead of somewhere more centered on conversation or argument, I still saw far more “defensive” comments than OP could bear any real blame for.

It’s amusing how much blowback you’re getting without even having stated a preference. Are people assuming the mods here or useless or just haven’t seen this or what?

People here are way too worked up about motivations they’ve assumed and won’t bother with seeing proved or disproven.

Meannwhile, if I see a post I think doesn’t fit, I figure the mods should be approving posts rather than play whack-a-mole, realize its not my problem, and move-on. As an American, I’ll go on record; The “American” outlook on the “marketplace of ideas” is stupid, precisely because the substantiation part of the sale is essentially optional to most - you can get by on pandering to niche biases as the need arises.

I think the downvotes are mostly for that last sentence. Comes across a little-bit as you saying “YOU SHOULD respect him”.

EDIT: THIS comment makes a little more sense now, but I’ve still only seen these two new accounts with a single post plus maybe a comment each, so far. Hardly enough to skip to a “social experiment” conclusion.