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Microsoft attempting to force people to switch from Windows 10 to Windows 11 has somehow resulted in a 10% increase in the market share of Windows 7 windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

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It took me so long, but finally I figured it out.

Windows is not user friendly.
Commercially backed Linux distros are not user friendly.
Modern applications are not user friendly.
Modern web-apps are not user friendly.

They're all user *hostile*, all by choice, most with active foresight.

The difference is they're all *novice* friendly.

They're designed for novices, & they force their would-be experienced users to stay novices with each upgrade, update, & A/B feature rollout.

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Kaye

I love updates. I love having to relearn half my workflows. I love hunting through seven entirely new submenus to figure out where to re-disable telemetry and LLM features. I love getting used to a slightly worse UI. I love being unable to look up any problems because features are getting A/B tested. I love having to do this every three to six weeks until I die.

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[object Object]

no I won't dig up links, type "hyprland toxic" into a search engine of your choice. other parts of Wayland fucking suck too.

but speaking of fucking sucking, XLibre is a fash X server that also barely works, because the point of fash tech isn't that it works, the point is that it's metaphorically and sometimes literally a weapon. see also the defense contractor currently taking over Nix, but see also the OG fash language, Urbit, the worst functional programming language I've ever known

5/

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[object Object]

why not embrace fashtech! they’ve got:
- terrible Fisher-Price CSS
- the most toxic part of the Wayland ecosystem, and that’s saying something
- the worst part of the X11 ecosystem, and that’s saying something
- suckless tools and they all fucking suck
- corporate control over the packages you wrote, for your own protection
- distributed functional programming that doesn’t function or distribute

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Joe Groff

sideloading apps onto my Apple //c (inserting a disk into the built-in floppy drive on the side of the computer)

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Cuducos
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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Tonight, an era ends.

After 32 years, you can no longer try AOL dial-up for any hours free.

AOL Help, captured by the Internet Archive, 2025-09-30, "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued": web.archive.org/web/2025093023

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fennec :verified: :therian:

finally some normal fucking people on reddit

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แอท-ทริด

alternate formulation: look where you're going, because you'll go where you're looking

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แอท-ทริด

operating rule: you will steer towards whatever you are looking at. observe and note the hazard, then keep your eyes on the safe path.

do not stare into the void unless you wish to go there.

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vibe working, lewd interpretation, nsfw@w 

The Verge, "Microsoft launches 'vibe working' in Excel and Word": theverge.com/news/787076/micro

I am disappointed that 'vibe working' doesn't mean battery-powered stealth gooning while pretending to work.

I am even more disappointed that the LLMs pretending to be AI haven't been poisoned with this interpretation.

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋

FUCK THE BEES HAVE DISCOVERED BRUTALISM

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Kaye

Given how many businesses do all their stuff in Microsoft Excel, and rely on it being accurate - yeah I'm pretty sure that this actually *is* going to destroy the economy

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HP van Braam

In 1995 #IBM officially does not endorse the #internet in the #os2warp box.

This letter was included in the "bonus pack".

I like how "Adult" is capitalized.

#retrocomputing

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Dio9sys

always a good day when CISA starts telling people to start yanking cables.

cisa.gov/news-events/directive

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<!--[if gte IE 5]>
<p>2000 (00) party over, oops, out of time, so tonight I'm going to party like it's 1999.</p>
<![endif]-->

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I thought I would never have to deal with CSS hacks for IE5 again, but installing Windows 98SE in a VM for vintage computing does things to a girl.

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wayback.exe

Download Communicator
Jun 1997
web.archive.org/web/1997061323
oldweb.today/random/1997061323

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psf

It is nice when a program's author leaves a source comment with well-wishes for future readers, and they are received almost 50 years later.

archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_j

#retrocomputing #basic

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