Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

I did the thing. Hewwo. It me, adventure fox.

It would be like knowing someone's a child pornographer, and merely giving them a slap on the wrist temporary suspension and saying you'll only ban them if they do it again. At that point, if they do it again, I honestly feel you're liable for that. You knew they were problematic and you let them stay anyways. It's no different with Twitter letting Trump stay. 3/3

And even if you think Twitter shouldn't be held liable for yesterday, they are explicitly allowing him to stay on their platform as long as long as he doesn't try this again. Even if you don't think they should be held liable for yesterday, they are absolutely culpable if he does this again using their platform. 2/3

So, ostensibly, I support section 230. I think that most people who hate it don't even know what it is. But after the events of yesterday, I think we've finally hit the limit of §230. Twitter has known how bad Trump can be for *years* and let him keep using their platform. Twitter should absolutely, in part, be held liable for what happened. 1/2

So, doctor's appointment yesterday went okay. I was put on 50 µg/day of L-thyroxine. We'll see how well it works and if it needs to be upped or whatever. So, yeah.

Holy shit.

I just realized that we're now re-entering a time where there is an actual mac/pc distinction. It's been so long, given that they've both been practically the same hardware since apple moved away from powerpc, but we're going back to the before times, when macs and pcs weren't just same hardware, different case/OS.

Damn.

Anyways, enough windows hot takes. In conclusion, Vista and 8 weren't that bad.

P.S. Linux is still better. ​

And, I guess I should admit I used Classic Shell to get the start menu back. I didn't use the start screen on my laptop. But, honestly, that's like the one tweak it needed, IMO.

Of course, I will also admit I'm biased on Windows 8 because I actually bought a license key when it released. They had Win 8 Pro keys for $40 at the time, and I took 'em up on it.

But it's seriously good, start screen aside.

I know because I had a Dell Venue 8 Pro that ran Windows 8. It was a rather nice device, lack of apps aside (and honestly you can't really put that on Microsoft).

Also, while I'm making Windows hot takes, Windows 8 also wasn't bad. Granted, I may be biased as one of the earliest users of Windows 8, having been using it since the early developer previews, but it wasn't bad. Literally the only thing wrong with it was the start screen. And even then, that was on desktops. I really think the only problem with it is that they did have the start screen on non-tablets. It's fine on tablets.

In conclusion, yeah, it may have ran like shit on the 2002 Dell Optiplex you kept around at the time, but if you actually had a computer built for it, like the Satellite A250 or the Studio Hybrid, it was a rather lovely operating system to use.

Love,
Aura, one who kept using Vista for years after Windows 7 came out.

And one more for you: The Dell Studio Hybrid sitting on my desk. It came with Vista. You wanna know how that ran? If you can't guess, you either need to read the rest of this thread or *still* haven't caught on. It ran perfectly. Vista wasn't bad. Computers were.

And, oh hey, that 3rd image reminds me: I also had a Toshiba Satellite that came with Vista Ultimate. You wanna know how well it worked? Perfectly. Vista ran amazingly on it. Vista wasn't bad. Computers were.

Seriously. I managed to run it on a netbook *perfectly*. It ran just fine. No performance issues. That netbook was also released in ~2011. Vista wasn't bad. Computers were.

Windows Vista wasn't bad. Computers were.