I remember the days growing on dialup using AOL and 'WoW(? i think)' this is much better

there's collaborative fiction and art all over the place, people easily talking and sharing their work and hobbies from homebrewing and math to the wookiepedia, gamejams, SCP, game mods, whatever is it kids do in minecraft and roblox even when it comes the mainstream there's stuff like (blockclub, the athletic ..etc ..etc ..etc)

If anything I think what all of these "old internet" articles illude to is the authors feeling nostalgic for when they were part of what they considered to be counter-culture or lost interests they want to burry themselves in

> I don't use Facebook, instragram, twitter or well most social media

This could be in and of itself countercultural, and I think perhaps the walled gardens are our thing to rage against today.

I may be weird but I really like the new UI

At the end of the day the corporate branding and hype building is stupid and disingenuous, but people still enjoy interacting with 3d content call it what you want

Windows11 doesn't have candy crush launchers/installers preinstalled in the start menu, I do have some links to Office programs I haven't installed but I don't find them bad

it's still an ad even if you don't mind it

I play a lot of web games without any of that stuff now

There's definitely a niche market out there, I think https://poki.com exemplifies it. Which ones do you play?

BGA and basketball gm

I don't understand what you mean. Searching for problematic material is not a crime. Heck, it can be even done for legitimate reason such as research. I have a friend who loves watching decapitation videos but is otherwise a pretty amiable person and I hope he never kills someone. Persecuting someone on the basis of what they like to watch or what they search for is out of the question in any Western democracy[0]. When you add "social score" to it, it becomes an abominable dystopia nobody would like to live in.

[0] Well, until you actually find CP - it will be placed in your browser cache then, so technically it's on your hard drive now, not a pleasant situation from a legal point of view.

he was right i wouldn't want to mess with the people behind covid and 9/11 either

without net neutrality this could be useful for future billing arrangements

That feels like a bit of a stretch their core CPUs are still very competitive, they are planning on manufacturing ARM chips as well

The windows 8 push ruined anything good about windows desktop development since then it's been a madhouse -- makes the JS world look organized