who needs free software or getting rid of planned obsolescence?

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    You’ve never gotten a BSOD on old versions of Windows?? My personal experience is that old versions of Windows (XP, 7) were much more unstable than new versions of Windows (10, 11).

    Correct. I never had BSOD and I used XP for thousands of hours in the early 2000s. Mostly runescape, halo trial, neopets, dozens of various flash game sites, etc.
    I actually saw my friend have it a couple times and I remember thinking how exotic the solid blue screen looked

    Why would the golden age of “normie” consumer computing have taken place in the 2000s, when there were pop-up ads that gave you malware and adware toolbars?

    uhhh because you can x them out? I never got malware or adware toolbars installed on my stuff it felt like “it just werkz” back then, and now it doesn’t anymore. I don’t even do anything more complex now, it’s just internet surfing and some steam games. And discord. Discord also feels extremely laggy, like when you click on something it takes a full split second to switch chatrooms

    The 25th percentile user today has literally never interacted with a hierarchical filesystem.

    This is only true for zoomers and boomers right?

    Regardless of the windows stuff it extends to phones too. Smart-ish phones from before 2012 never gave me problems, while today’s smartphones brick often and even while working, sometimes feel randomly laggy in a way the old phones never did. I have no idea what’s going on but it feels like the software is just so built up and strung out that it’s like a house of cards impromptu stuck together with superglue