In context, (Snow) Leopard was almost definitely the peak. Windows users were struggling with Vista (UAC, DWM, and Windows Update taking up an entire CPU core (of which most people had only 1) or the security issues of XP. Meanwhile Mac users had already been through the growing pains and now had a stable, pretty, powerful OS.
USB is fine for PS1/retro games; should be more than enough for AthenaEnv. The difference only matters for PS2 backups. And there're more options than those two. HDD/SSD, Ethernet, MX4SIO/SIO2SD, MMCE (SD2PSX et al).
That's true; network too. Can play digital backups (off USB/Eth) only by using POPStarter (for those unaware, POPS being Sony's PS1 emulator ripped off the single game that was officially used on). Although POPS isn't really that good (was used, experimentally, only once afterall), USB throughput isn't an issue.
The US and Canada (and to some extent elsewhere) have been experiencing a lot of homelessness and open air drug use due to fentanyl, housing unaffordability, and "community" mental health treatment rather than "mental hospitals."
> They're libertarians-light, believing that everyone should be free to do whatever they want, be it economically or socially, and there should be minimal impediment to doing so.
Your comment is a (reasonable) critique of libertarianism, but you're presenting it as liberalism, which only confuses things more.
> But according to the liberal, woe to them that try to rebalance the economic scales of power via things like unions or laws.
People who know the difference between the two would not suggest unions or legislation to help smaller players in society is bad. A balance of strong laws, a constitution, and a varying amount of state control of the economy is part of the ideology.
> "take from the weak and give to the strong". That already is the nature of the world and it is our moral obligation to rise above it.
At least when I was in college, political science 101 started with Hobbes vs Locke, the "state of nature", "Leviathan" vs "Two Treatises" and how that rolls into the US Constitution. Smith, Bentham, then Mill vs Rawls (classical liberalism and freedom of opportunity, On Liberty, the "veil of ignorance" and A Theory of Justice) and even further into the distinction between modern and classical liberalism (freedom from vs freedom to, equality of outcome and how that starts merging with socialism with social democracy.) Even within 1st year courses we cover criticisms of liberalism (Nozick on the right, then Marx and Gramsci on the left) and mixing it up with libertarianism is not part of that critique.
We learn that liberalism was literally a response to "take from the weak" so to present it as a primary criticism is... interesting.
> We learn that liberalism was literally a response to "take from the weak" so to present it as a primary criticism is... interesting.
If 3M dumps PFAS-related chemicals into rivers that feed drinkwater, its good business. If you or I pour a few cups of PFAS-related chemicals into our neighbor's well, that'll get us arrested for poisoning.
That's why I said "minimum impediment", which is something you would usually associate with libertarianism. The current strain of Western liberalism has evolved even past libertarianism. At least with libertarianism, the state is supposed to protect you from force and fraud. With modern-day Western liberalism, the state de facto licenses businesses to poison and defraud you so long as it makes the economy grow.
So yes, currently, (neo?)liberalism seems to lead to eat the weak to feed the powerful. It might not say that outright, and its talking points might be more noble, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck..
It's led to the point where as soon as I hear someone in the West declare that they're a liberal (again, non-US), I immediately assume their primary goal is to further the tearing down of the social fabric of society so that businesses have even more power to make number go up.
I heard the beauty of a statement "we will make 140.000 people on welfare even more destitute, so that it becomes more attractive to work minimum wage", from the main liberal party in The Netherlands, supposedly a beacon of liberalism. That is malicious, bordering on malevolent.
I truly believe it's 75% the name. If the changes in W11 (Electron Start button, tabbed File Explorer, new context menu, etc.) were just included over a few semi-annual channel Windows 10 updates then the push back would be a lot less. All of the most annoying stuff, like telemetry and Copilot advertisements were part of the latest Windows 10 releases anyway.
The hardware support is also a big issue, but I don't know how many people complaining so vocally don't have computers new enough to run without any kind of bypass.
Ehh, secure boot enforcement, Microsoft account enforcement, shitty OneDrive integration?
Microsoft cannot be trusted as a provider for data. I use it on my work machine but here I am authenticated by a locally hosted domain controller. Private installs are a privacy and security nightmare.
I just like the utility of being able to swap hard drives to other machines and I have no evil maid anyway.
In many instances Windows says you system is too old if your system uses MBR/Bios for booting. TPM2.0 is old for that matter. It is just not detectable depending on your boot configuration (which is a good thing in my opinion).
> Criticisms of telemetry and promotion of tools that supposedly disable it aren't new
Yes, well, it does get a lot, lot worse if this telemetry is connected through an account.
I found the Daria Restoration Project online a few years ago. Haven't watched it yet, because the quality is more in line with 2000s Limewire DivX files. But if I do decide to watch the show, it should be with the original music.
I agree. It looked like a solution in search of a problem.
Which is very common when everyone has big hires screens and oodles of compute power in their pocket. What can a new entrant offer which couldn't be an app?
Some people think it is the eyeball (glasses), some people think it is the brain (NeuraLink). Some people think it is the wristwatch. The pins were an attempt at a pendant. I don't think anyone has tried the necklace, yet. A glove might also be interesting. If the peripheral keeps shrinking, it could be a ring, or set of rings, or an earring. Or a fairy that follows you around like in Ocarina of Time. We could write a theorem about convenience of use and capabilities at different scales for peripherals. It is worth noting that some sizes never really go obsolete, but rather enhance in power and capability.
Interaction on smaller devices is harder, so they focus more on consumption. The smart glasses will probably be annoying to interact with so you’ll just get a TikTok feed of endless content and maybe a single input to skip the current content and train the feed.
> I’m not sure what is next, but it’s coming, eventually.
Getting computers smaller and smaller gets impractical in terms of user interface. A possibility is neural implants. But the other direction we’re already facing is just smarter everything with microprocessors everywhere. Each device does not need to run Android to be useful (or annoying, because not everything needs to get smart and adding processing is also adding new and exciting failure modes). But each device still integrates a computer.
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