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  • 98SE, 2000, XP (Service Pack 3) and 7 were Windows at their peak.

    Windows 8 and 8.1 were screwed by Microsoft’s insistence at creating a more mobile-friendly OS, when the Metro menu was just bad for the desktop user experience. A lot of disgruntled 8/8.1 users did flock to 10 because having the Start menu back was seen as a compromise to having forced telemetry tracking in your OS.

    As for Windows 11, it’s getting super shit. Recall AI is being baked into the OS, which will effectively allow Microsoft to snoop and capture data on your computer activity. They claim to not capture sensitive info like bank details or credit card numbers, but I think that’s been proven wrong.

    Also, 11 is hardly an upgrade feature-wise, yet requires a significantly beefier PC, and was released at a time when the world was still going through a significant semiconductor shortage.

    The only real hurdle for widespread Linux adoption is anti-cheat support. That, and either getting Linux versions of industry standard software (Microsoft 365, Adobe CS, 3DS Max, etc) or decent support through Wine/Proton.


  • Lemmy is undeniably smaller but it feels a lot more free, like I’m not walking on eggshells when posting here.

    On Reddit I have to mince my words on a lot of subs and be careful about using certain words, lest I want Automoderator to effectively shadowban me. Reddit is ruled by tyrannical power mod assholes who likely got slammed into lockers and beaten for their lunch money in high school, and are now using their role as an internet janitor to exert a repressed power fantasy. And don’t get me started on the Tintin-looking supreme cuck who owns Reddit Inc either.

    Put it this way, Lemmy is a place where you can post about Luigi Mangione, or about the people involved in Elon Musk’s DOGE operation without risking a ban.


  • Kinda limited, in the sense that I didn’t have my own computer until about 2006 and just had a “family” PC before then, which my brother and dad used.

    One of my earliest memories from the late 90’s (I would have been about 8 years old) was making a website on MaxPages, which was one of those build-your-own-website services. Mine listed video game cheats and passcodes. I didn’t have much time to add to my page as my computer skills were limited and I didn’t get much time on the computer, so I got bad reviews just for not having much content. Some asshole on one of their public chatrooms hacked my account and defaced my site a few weeks later. I think his name was Ray.

    For reasons I’d rather not go into, I had a more limited exposure to Flash games and didn’t really get involved with Newgrounds until my late teens. Cartoon Network (at least the US/Canada site) used to have a great selection of Flash games though.

    By my teens I was playing RuneScape actively (2005 - 2007), then World of Warcraft (2007 - 2012.)




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    Unfortunately trans rights are a hard-sell to the public. And I’m not stating this out of any transphobia or support towards your comment.

    A lot of people (especially anybody Gen-X or older) hold transphobic views. It’s one of the big reasons why support for the Scottish National Party fell apart.









  • Still, it’s a crappy justice system if literally running an international drug cartel thats administering adrenaline to torture victims (so they don’t fall unconscious), skinning them alive and hacking off their limbs with a chainsaw until they die gets you a lighter prison sentence than being a Libertarian web developer who ran the “Amazon of illegal narcotics” and went down what I can best describe as a dollar tree Walter White style descent into criminality.

    And that’s just one of the cartel’s many torture and murder methods. They are mercilessly brutal and an incredibly good reason to stay away from huge parts of Mexico.

    I’m not saying Ross didn’t do anything wrong (he certainly did) but there are worse convicts in the criminal justice system who are getting the chance of parole that Ross was denied.


  • I think Ulbricht received a disproportionately harsh sentence for his crime of running an online dark web narcotics marketplace. El Chapo only got one life sentence, plus 30 years for his role as a drug cartel kingpin. And last I checked, the Sinaloa Cartel are responsible for torturing and murdering hundreds, likely thousands of people through some of the most brutal and sadistic methods known to man. Ulbricht’s body count by comparison? Zero, unless you count the two attempts he made to hire hitmen.

    As for why Ross got pardoned… A few months ago Trump visited the Libertarian National Convention on his electoral campaign and pledged to commute Ross Ulbricht’s sentence to that of “time served,” which suddenly made an otherwise-booing Libertarian crowd erupt into cheers.

    Good on him for actually keeping to his word. He could very easily have flipped the middle finger to the Libertarians who voted for him based on that pledge.











  • Wouldn’t say really enjoyed, but Cats didn’t deserve the hate it got. I saw it with my (then) girlfriend about five years ago when Frozen 2 was sold out and we had the choice of seeing this, Star Wars Episode IX, or Jumanji: The Next Level instead. We chose Cats.

    I’m gonna ignore the elephant in the room that’s the atrocious CGI, and say that Tom Hooper didn’t do a terrible job besides that. Most of the movie adaptations of each song were at least on-par with the musical. ‘Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats’, ‘Bustopher Jones’ and ‘Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat’ were the three that stood out as the movie’s best songs.

    Only three songs were far worse than the musical, and they were big ones…

    The Old Gumbie Cat was awful. Rebel Wilson absolutely butchered Jennyanydots by portraying her as a fat lazy glutton, complete with awful voice, awful ad-lib jokes thrown around the song and a part where she literally starts munching on CGI humanoid cockroaches marching around the dinner table. I mean… as much as I hate James Corden, he at least played the role of Bustopher Jones (a literal aristocratic fat-cat) really well, and unlike Wilson, his ad-libs were actually funny. I’d keep him in the cast, 100%.

    The Rum Tum Tugger is another bad one. Jason Derulo’s vocal performance was really weak, but I don’t have much else to say about it.

    Magical Mr Mistoffelees was the worst though. Hooper legitimately took the most iconic song from Cats and massacred it by portraying the titular musician who ultimately saves Old Deuteronomy as a nervous wreck. This is one that the Rum Tum Tugger should have sang, like in the original West End/Broadway musical. I got what he was trying to do with this decision but it just didn’t work.

    If I were in Tom Hooper’s shoes, there are four things I’d change:

    1. Redo the CGI
    2. Replace Rebel Wilson with Lea Michele. She is probably one of the best actresses who could play Jennyanydots.
    3. Replace Jason Derulo with Brendon Urie. Imagine Panic! At The Disco’s frontman singing the Rum Tum Tugger and Magical Mr Mistoffelees. 'Nuff said…
    4. Redo the three bad songs listed above to make them more like the musical.