Its IRC, it works, there is already a very mature ecosystem

Also, blocking it entirely in your browser / firewall can do wonders in keeping one from relapsing… helped me personaly a lot.

But in the Fediverse you always have the option to walk away, join another instance or even host your own.

Buy second hand, rip, sell again.

Back to the 70s and early 80s…

WTF, why discredit your own article right at the beginning? Such a weird line.

Its “The Register”.

I have tried it… its not bad

There IS no leaving. If you are IN, you STAY IN.

If you are on Linux, use a real editor like Vim or Emacs and not… THAT

Eeeehm… this is ragebait, right?

The last REALLY good Windows was Windows 2000… and i am going to defend this hill until you take this yellowed out PS/2 keyboard out of my cold dead hands.

I think to fill a cavity THIS big you need something like THAT

And if people are going constantly back to the red outhouse this will never change.

Yeah… better times indeed…

If the abominable intelligence is killing every corner of things we consider good its time to start killing the “AI”…

Well, it is what de create, right? Why not encouraging people creating short form videos that are decisively not brain-rot?

You are right, he should send the Swiss Guard to burn down datacenters.

If they would produce a super stable, backward compatible system without “AI”, without tons of dark patterns and with a traditional UI… let’s say, a Windows 7 reboot with compatibility to modern software and released under a Free license… then I would honestly take a look.

Just to be a bit heretical: Its absolutely possible to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, look up Rufus, download the ISO from Microsoft and on you go.

I have managed to get it running on a NUC with a two core and 2 GB RAM after also running a debloat script.

edit: Completed post after my 3 year old crashed into me sending the phone into the neitherworld under the couch

German humor is no laughing matter, this is for sure!