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Windows 11 is legitimately horrible, outdated pile of shit adware that feels like it's built on a house of cards a speck of dust could collapse. I don't get how anybody can still use Windows as their main operating system, unless they either a) game, b) need some stupid fucking esoteric application from 2002, or c) have no idea how to use anything else. Windows was never necessarily a great product, but Windows 11 is the same exact fucking thing as Windows 10 except with an incredibly lazily tacked on new UI and 100x more advertising.

It's the ads that fucking get me. It's not their computer, yet Microsoft still feels the need to constantly advertise in every single one of their shitty apps that are basically nothing but chromium wrappers at this point. Checking the weather in your city? Well, thanks to Windows 11, there's an app for that – and that app just so happens to be PLASTERED in banner ads that came straight outta 2005! If you open up Edge on Microsoft's insistence, you get taken to a web portal that reminds you of your shitty 85 year old racist ass grandma's facebook page!! And people fall for this shit because they don't care and they don't know better!!! There was a generation of maybe 10-20 years of kids who were taught how to use computers but now we're creating an entirely new generation who don't fucking know shit and it's our fault because we're managing to fall for this shit too!!!

Windows 10 was able to hide its flaws because at least its UI elements managed to blend in and with some tweaks it could be usable, but on an internal level 11 is so incredibly outdated that Microsoft can't for the life of them mask it anymore. They'll never be able to pull off a full UI overhaul for as long as they have to include every shitty little 1994 feature 6 people in some dinky little office in Billings, Montana use twice a year. Windows in 20 years will be the exact same fucking pile of shit it is now, built on an even older infrastructure that will be even more broken and adridden. But you can game on it!!!!!!!!!!! Windows 11 is unstable as fuck and annoying and adware and spyware, but you can play games on it and also saying anything bad about it means you're an idiot who has no idea how to work with technology whatsoever.

I don't even use any Linux distro right now as my main OS, but at this point I'd rather main fucking arch than deal with 11. The underlying OS is stable, and best of all it's free and open source and you won't be advertised to unless you use Ubuntu or something. Using a good Linux distro feels like using a legitimate computer operating system. The problem with Linux as a desktop OS for me is that a lot of the time, in my experience, I've just had to deal with fucking around with the command line rather than doing the shit I want to do, and realistically 99% of people will not want to deal with that.

Including me. I'm a horrible Apple user. After being subjected to Windows 11 for almost a year I finally just gave up. I tried out fedora but it just wasn't for me, then I just said fuck it and bought a M2 MacBook Air that I use docked with a nice desktop setup. I use macOS daily and OH NO that means I'm a horrible sheep apple user who is fucking stupid, has no idea about anything and must be computer illiterate. Apple has flaws as a company and that's obvious and macOS isn't perfect, yet it's the closest thing to having an OS that just fucking does what I want it to do and doesn't annoy me and that feels legitimately stable and easy to use. I just hope that doesn't go away one day with how fucking enshittified basically every aspect of all software is becoming nowadays.

This server runs on linux though. As it should.

#rant #windows11 #macos #linux #apple

having your own website is freeing. having your own space that completely belongs to you and nobody else is incredible.

like. i have an entire website that’s dedicated to me being a weird transspecies centaur. that’s dedicated to the weird shit that i think about and want to write about. with a domain name. my own services. in 1999 that wouldn’t have been a shock to a lot of people, but now it’s like

everything has to be social media. everything has to be judged by terms of engagement. maybe my brain is poisoned by it because i like the idea of my content being engaged with. but there’s no algorithm here (on this site.)

on google there always will be though.

i remember being a kid in the 00s and reading weird personal blogs. i love nathan lineback’s toastytech.com and how pissed he got at internet explorer (for the right reasons that many have conveniently forgotten by now). i loved looking at sites made by individuals. but its like… people have stopped giving a shit except to conform to what the algorithm decides. to conform to whatever stupid bullshit is out there, to conform to whatever the popular opinion is even if it’s marketed as being “non-conformist”.

that’s what all this far right shit is. i remember alex jones and his rise to popularity and his constant warnings against the police state, except now he’s totally on board bringing about that same totalitarian dictatorship. i dunno. i feel like a fucking loon for thinking people are valid for being transspecies or transrace or whatever but like. it’s like full on bigots are okay with saying the type of shit they say. it’s something.

at least twitter is finally proving its irrelevance, but i need to follow better bluesky accounts. i love boomer liberals because they actually seem to care about shit, but the twitter algorithm is perfectly fine tuned for me and bluesky is like boomer/millennial liberal heaven. it feels like hamilton just came out on bluesky.

i dunno.

should i add a comment section? comment below.

trying to think of things to write. i want to write and update this site every day, but i know i'm inevitably going to forget. maybe this should just be like free association subconscious writing or something. i don't even know what i'm talking about.

i want to make The Commitment!

also happy december. i almost forgot to say that. it's like almost christmas and stuff.

can someone take me to the katy perry concert on 9/11 ty

i felt sick earlier tonight, and it felt like my head has been fucked all day. but i think i’m doing better now. i am going to try and get some rest. i’m tired. good night. sleep tight.

#musicilike

chumbawamba – small town

#musicilike

i’ve been watching doctor who a lot lately. goes dummy hard

i saw this video taken almost 30 years ago when it was a big deal that ellen degeneres came out of the closet on national TV, and this was before everyone hated her because she was annoying. it was someone who took footage of a watch party they had, and there were so many lgbt people celebrating, just watching it, just being so fucking happy, and i cried and it's funny because like. you don't think of ellen anymore as anything except the establishment. clean. and now things feel like they're going backward. maybe soon we'll have a society where all this is going to be fucking banned again... ...anyway, i digress.

i'd never seen the episode where she came out, but in 1997 it was a massive, massive deal, because there was absolutely no queer representation anywhere. and like, it's funny because in the episode she is absolutely terrified to say anything about being a lesbian. she would always try to mask it and like.

christ i'm writing this about ellen

i feel the exact same way about being a centaur. (inb4 WOW YOU ARE EQUATING YOUR FAKE BULLSHIT WITH SOMETHING ACTUALLY REAL)

i honestly just want to not look like this at all. i wish i could talk about it. i'm terrified of coming out. i'm fucking terrified. i wish i could transition i never thought i would relate to fucking ELLEN DEGENERES. like i've heard her comedy in the 90s was far better than what she became, but damn. what happened? i just.

:(

i wish i had a big horse body. i also wish i didn't look anything like my current self right now. i'm too fucking scared to talk about that publicly. i want to, so badly. maybe when the time comes. maybe when i can tell my friends and know that they won't fucking hate my guts for that. i'd rather not look like this i wish i weren't so ashamed to say that.

#centaurvents #transspecies #otherkin #transid