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>Bro wake up! hello dude?, you smoked a lot of weed this time and got knocked out!
>Wtf are you on about, covid? sjws? trump? high immigration? ram shortages? gpu scalping? bad films and videogames? loads of tranies?
>Anyway it's 2007
>We are playing Halo and Cod4 on PC with local lan at your house with pizza and mountain dew on Windows XP
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>>108266430
zoomie spotted
XP was relevant and mainstream damn near into 2015, there were some people who just preferred it and continued to use it for as long as they could, and everything still ran on it
in 2015 you could play roblox on windows xp and windows 10 on the same launcher, and i realize now theres an entire generation of software that was like that for a while and thats wild to think of now
it wasnt an everyday thing to run across XP users but some people just have toasters and were running xp and they could still play videogames with you so it didnt matter any more than if they preferred 10 or 7
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Back when it seemed each new technology improvement improved the product and increased the freedom and capabilities.
Now most technology improvements increase the authoritarian nanny state and corporate spying while reducing freedom and features.
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Xp was one of the best OSes.
I used to reference a guide and manualy disable or remove every background process I didn't need until I only had like 15 that were all idle using no cpu unless you did something. Anything shady instantly stood out if it used cpu cycles or tried to communicate online.
Back then applications all had settings that asked to allow updates or call home or were considered suspicious.
It was the most efficient setup of any OS.
Literally 0 background cpu use, with 10-15 background processes and networking and games all worked.
Modern windows has many times that always going on in the background and doesn't even allow disabling many processes.
Updates used to able to be set to manual only, asked permission, were each itemized into 50 parts and each could be selected or unselected.
Now it just does what it wants, is not natively able to have auto updates disabked, and just does whatever it wants in the background.
Hogging cpu to spy with telemetry and similar garbage all the time.
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>>108267083
yeah it was nice. there was no UAC and your shit could get pwnt in many different ways, but at least resource usage was deemed important at the time. from Vista onwards the bloat got more and more retarded. i miss bitmap fonts.
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