I remember Windows 3.11 as pretty decent.

Or download it in a bunch of other ways directly from Wikipedia.

Don't forget all the fun chemicals they leave in the atmosphere when they deorbit.

Paying for an OS that phones home with incredible amounts of telemetry where you have to run adblock to get rid of the built in ads is just silly.

Microsoft was shit in the 90s and never stopped being shit.

I hope he suddenly goes all sovereign citizen and handles his own defense.

My impression of flatpak is that it was built by someone who doesn't like or use a terminal.

ISO 8601 is always the correct way to format dates.

All the faces on This person does not exist are more believable than any picture of the Zucbot.

This one is easy. I remember the 90s when microsoft pretended to play nice with everyone while they simultaneously did their damndest to destroy any competitor by their embrace and extend tactic. I also remember when AOL opened up their walled garden and the amount of garbage that flooded every usenet group. Im aware that the redditpocalypse probably had the same effect on lemmy but I still support defederation.

Another reason to avoid it is that Jack Dorsey supports known anti-vaxxer and general conspiracy kook Robert F Kennedy Jr. Not the kind of people I'd want to run my social network.

I don't think it's dying. I hope it's a paradigm shift like when it changed from wild west lawless chaos to three or four huge companies running all of it. Maybe we end up with everything replaced by different distributed services. It's going to incredibly annoying when half the search results are dead links or links to reddit but that annoyance can drive innovation.