…And the cost of that convenience is now $2000 and a bunch of spyware.

Delete my memories of everything pre-2016.

I feel like it would be easier to live in this nightmare if I didn’t remember a relatively stable, functioning world.

Now… I don’t like to brag…

Nice troll bait.

No, I know EXACTLY what I’m talking about. Google’s old results were based on click-through determining which results were best. Now that the quality of the average user is lower, so is the quality of the average click-through result.

That’s as much response as you’re going to get though. You responded in bad faith, so now you’re going to talk to yourself if you choose to respond.

There is more to it than that… 20 years ago most of the people on the internet were likely similar to you, so most of their desired results were similar to yours.

Now people on the internet since the early 2000 are a minority compared to the “democratized” flood of users who joined in the mobile crapplication phase and started skewing search results towards simpler, less useful results.

SEO and ads didn’t help, but the whole ecosystem broke the model.

It’s so nice that SOMEONE is trying to make good use of great technology and isn’t actively trying to engineer microSD cards out of existence.

That’s not true.

He said smart people don’t like him.

For me the most important thing in that year was Chrono Trigger.

Been chasing that high for 30 years.

I would KILL for another 1995.

Hero.

Already doing it today in a couple of Wayland threads.

I WILL continue to use Xorg. My workflow requires it. If that means I have to use an unmaintained window manager forever, so be it.

None of this would be an issue if the Wayland developers weren’t so pigheaded that they insist upon forcing their pure, untainted design philosophy onto the project rather than building an inclusive model that allows for backwards compatibility with the system it’s meant to replace.

Then I’ll make my OWN distro. With blackjack. And hookers.

Seriously though… I will have NO desktop environment and run terminal only before I will accept Wayland. Either reach feature parity and stop gaslighting me about functionality that has been there in X11 for decades and is a necessary part of my workflow, or back off.

Keep angrily gaslighting. Surely you’ll EVENTUALLY shame veterans who have been using Linux productively for decades into joining the cult of security over function.

You come into MY home, into MY workflow, take features away from me that have been there ignoring all protests, then have the sheer unmitigated GALL to mock me when I dare to complain?

“opposing viewpoints” is too broad a term for the question to be meaningful.

It could mean everything from “Discovery is the best Star Trek series” to “Women aren’t real people”, and the details of the viewpoint in question are EXTREMELY relevant to your ability to empathize with it.

Any ways to actively help China win the AI race?

Hypothetically, of course.

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