remember in forums users used to meet and have relationships with each other and then there would be delicious drama but that doesnt happen anymore with imageboards its fucked
like i remember there was some 30 year old guy who got into a relationship with a 10 years younger girl and when he ditched her she published the website where this guy used to write about his rape fantasies this just doesnt happen anymore
>remember in forums users used to meet and have relationships with each other and then there would be delicious drama no i dont and that sounds gay
>>144918 zoomer?
I wonder if you guys understand why that doesnt happen its the anonymity, its the opposite of social
back in the day, in some forum, poetry niggers got all dem hoes. it was weird because poetry is gay and lame. its so stupid. or maybe it was the drugs. yes i think it was the drugs afterall. and grooming.
>>144923 yep true, but the anonymity has also alot of upsides
>>144928 for psychos
>>144930 ye, but also for the truth, in those forums with no anonymity everyone is afraid to destroy his perfect image, see reddit
>>144932 thats false on so many levels exhibit #1: browse anyone's reddit comments and you find a completely unhinged person shoving dragon dildos in their ass. nobody there cares in the slightest because the platform is so big you never run into the same person twice.
>>144934 um can you just stfu pls
>>144937 this is antisocialising. of course you dont meet anyone here. you read something and you cannot attribute it to a person, unless he uses a username. you dont know if that guy or the other guy wrote it, therefore that person practically doesnt exist and cant be likeable. every person has flaws. you like them because of their flaws and virtues. people on reddit try to be perfect for other reasons, dopamine rush from upvotes, recognition, but definitely not to be more social. think of anyone using a username and you probably like them a little. and now think of that american troll. hes the only one profiting from no usernames. just coincidentally, becuase we're 10 people here, hes still recognizable. i can go somewhere with usernames and make a new friend within minutes.
>>144939 sometimes i want to choke you bubert this is one of those times
>>144945 tja, you cant handle the truth
>>144945 like, you want to choke me because me, huberst, you know the person, has evoked an emotion in you meanwhile im still like 30% sure who you are, random nameless commenter
the forum grill who was poetry dudes cumdumpster for awhile went to the same sqool eventually as i, and it was pretty magical to see her irl. i really thought she would gibe the pus pus but it was shitty arc afterall. she looked like motherfucking elf n shiet. sniffed her feet though and slept in same bed. one of the most frustrating and disappoint points of my life. she went to the same heckin school.. no pussi... wtf.. -___-
>>144946 tbh i dont know shit about reddit except that its really really gay >>144948 no i dont want to choke you because violence isnt the answer to words, but you know what i mean... bang...boom....straight to the moon
>>144949 ive read that and tried to cry but couldnt
>>144950 it doesnt matter if you want to choke me or yell at me theres no long term emotional investment into anonymous strangers not even short term its all spam messages with dopamine kicks from funny videos fucking social media crackbabies it is you cant trust someone whos anonymous either, so meetings dont happen. tbh imageboard psychosis is probably not studied well enough if you really have trouble understanding these simple concepts you understand less about socialising than 2 years old child
>>144956 i love you too bubert
I’ve had 4 imageboard boyfriends so sybau with your false info
>>144966 so you had no actual bf, good to know
>>144970 I’ve had them irl but met them through yl*lauta
>>144966 is nobody reacting to your yli threads anymore about zelensky?
>>144974 Idk if you’re just stupid or if you fell head first on the floor as a baby. Zelensky is based because he helps in reducing the number of slavs
>>144982 its shining through lil ryssä
>>144991 O B S E S S E D B E S E
>>145000 sopsy banned you? putin stop paying for gold?
>>145011 Good idea! I could place a bet on Putin dying this year and then he’d hopefully (1) die (b) make me money Thanks for the idea <3
>>144915 (AP) We had a social network with a message board in the early 2010s here. Kinda similar to MySpace. People on there used to actually make friends, then meet and drinkake IRL. This type of shit doesn't happen anymore. There are no forums, image boards or social networks left to make friends in this shithole.
>>145187 it's funny how they made it out as a wacky conspiracy theory back then, but 30 years later it's basic business practice
I found an old forum for my city I used to occasionally lurk and post on back in the day, and the last posts on some message boards that used to be active there are from 2023, lmfao. The internet is dead.
>>145188 You can thank big tech for that. Everyone is on tiktok, fb and other ubernormie dogshit apps like that nowadays.
>>144915 (AP) i think it is because people learned the hard way that there are sick niggers around the internet who will harrass you
>>145191 I had an epiphany of sorts last night, realizing that the enshittification of Windows is in part due to the proliferation of FOSS. MS created asf 30 years ago to be streaming capable format, but it was only marginally adopted by early music stores strictly for it's drm features and it eventually languished before streaming really became a thing and open formats without encumbering license requirements were adopted instead. there's no money in operating systems because there's a hundred+ free options available including simple easy-to-use ones for windows converts who don't know anything about CLI or building from source. their only option is to give the OS away dirt-cheap and monetize their existing market share via content targeting and creation of a pseudo-walled-garden ecosystem like Apple has, but they can't afford to go full walled-garden because their market share is built on the wide range of supported hardware. maybe it's all bullshit, but it kinda makes sense
most annoying thing is that im the smartest person on the internet and i know im not so the others are hiding somewhere
>>145424 I'm a winfag with tenure at this point, I grew up using XP, then used Vista (lol, lmao) for like 2 months, then Win 7 (goated OS, ripped, but not forgotten), then Win 8 (was surprisingly okay, too, after you removed all the tiles and other bloat), and finally Win 10 (IoT LTSC Enterprise with extended support until 2036), which I'm still using and will be using for the foreseeable future, so I have quite a bit of experience with the ecosystem and have had plenty of time to ponder the company behind it, but the long and short of it is to me and people like me it's always been about gaming. Gaming was Microsoft's biggest selling point for over 25 years. Get our OS and play games out of the box, headache-free. And you can use your machine for work and creative pursuits, too! We have crazy versatility, a lot of great software, blackjack and hookers. What's not to like? It is my belief that Microsoft has been evil since its inception, as have its founders, but until relatively recently it was a subtle kind of evil, an outwardly nice and awesome kind of evil, for the most part. The kind that promises you a lifetime supply of great cheap beer, then sneakily starts adding rat droppings and listening devices into it over time. I know that in the US, Microsoft was really hated in the 90s with its anti-trust practices and the whole "embrace, extend, and extinguish" thing, but I doubt many people outside of America heard about it. I think one of the reasons for Microsoft's downfall in recent years is Valve undercutting MS in the gaming niche with their custom Linux distros and such, which then created a snowball effect, where more and more people got involved in the development of various Linux distros, attempting to expand its support in various departments that it lacks in (and boy, there are many of those still, but that's beside the point). It's gotten so bad, even big youtubers like pewdiepie started shilling Linux over Windows to their fans. So now MS is in a funny predicament, where everyone absolutely fucking hates them and Win 11 with all its bloat, AI shit, countless bugs caused by vibe code, while they lose their userbase to FOSS at an increasing rate. I think because of Valve they tried to pivot to the white collar wagie class with "muh productivity" and "AI", but ended up shooting themselves in the foot and making things even worse. Anyway, I have little faith in MS left at this point, unless they come out with a Win 7-like OS after Win 11, but I doubt it's happening. I'm going to ride this shitstorm out until Win 10 IoT LTSC support ends, and hope that the FOSS community figures out how to make Linux more user-friendly before then.
>>145445 if linux mint isnt easy enough for you then i suggest a smartphone and a butt tattoo
>>145452 I do a lot of things on Windows, and 99% of them take me less than a second. I can't do that with the same ease on Linux at the moment. If I attempt to do on Linux even half of what I do on Windows, I will spend the next billion years troubleshooting shit and trying to make things just werk. That's not a very good use of my already seriously limited time, to say the least.
>>145455 what things
>>145474 this is why i use this website. rofled, spitted coke on monitor etc etc
you can invent an anonymous user and pretend he is harassing you from multiple countryball vpns though
>>145474 Archival. I have very niche software with backups of certain websites that is only available on Windows and it would be a fucking pain in the ass to make it work on Loonix. Gaming. I'm not sure just how many games work on Linux now thanks to Valve's efforts and such, but I doubt that it's as easy to play every single game I want on Linux as it is on Windows, and I play a lot of games. Especially older ones, that use long forgotten Windows tech like dgvoodoo and such. I'm not even going to bother making that work on Linux. Photo and video editing. Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Pro are my go-to programs for that these days. Drawing. I'm used to a very specific program for drawing that I'm not going to dump for anything else (Jap CSP), and it's not available on Linux. I have an absolute shitton of chink tech (controllers, mice, keyboards, headphones, etc) that simply doesn't have drivers for Linux. VR. I'm not sure just to what degree Linux supports VR, but I doubt it supports everything I need. Generative AI. I like to fuck around with AI sometimes, and it would be an absolute pain to set it all up on Linux (as it was on Windows, but I imagine it's even worse on Loonix). In general, I use a lot of niche software that is not on Linux. Including for work. Plus, I already have all of my shit set up on Windows. My media server, my torrents, my symlinks, my disc burning software, my scripts, my image downloaders. It's all already there and ready to go at a moment's notice. I'm not going to spend even more years that it took me to set all of this up on Windows, just to move to Linux on a whim. That said, I dual booted Arch with Win 10 for a couple years, and do have a few machines that run Linux, but I'm not using them as my daily drivers. Some of them are gaming chinkhelds with custom linux OS (and it works fine, I'm not trying to use them for anything other than retro emulation), and my NAS also uses a proprietary linux distro. But it works fine. It's great. It's intuitive and it does what I need it to do. IT has docker, and that's all I need. I'm not trying to do anything that I do on Windows on it.
>>145480 I see
>>145480 you could run windows in a vm too but its a bit of a hassle and graphics support idk may or may not work
>>145484 Another issue is that I have terabytes upon terabytes of already filled storage. Moving it all to Loonix is just not going to happen.
>>145486 you just copy that somewhere
>>145486 And I'm not even going to consider a VM. It's pointless, especially with my GPU. I doubt there's a single VM out there that can take full advantage of it. VMs are notoriously bad/not developed with VRAM in mind at all.
>>144945 based
>>145488 I see no way out then
>>145491 Well, Bubert, I know you hate Ameris and are trying to switch to European tech, and I get the appeal of the challenge, but to me it would simply be impractical. Plus, I don't hate America. I dislike the current American ruling class for obvious reasons, but I don't hate American tech or gaming companies, or movies or other forms of entertainment. I think they and the Japs are the best at it. At least they used to be in the past. Everything everywhere is kind of shit now, if you haven't noticed.
>>145445 I am too, but I saw the failure that was vista firsthand, after having such good experiences with 95, 98 and XP and that was my first sense that the ecosystem wasn't necessarily going to be viable forever. they redeemed themselves with 7 but then they did all that awful ui redesigning in 8 and I knew it was never gonna feel 'good' again for me. I ran Ubuntu for 4 or 5 years and kind of did it as a semi-mixed environment of some native programs and some wine stuff (there just isn't another torrent client as nice and low-impact as utorrent 1.8.x) evntually though, the hardware on those laptops went out and I bought a thinkpad with 7 in december '13, right before they discontinued it. seeing how they've stuck with the nu-ui through 8.1, 10, and 11, I'm moving to some version of linux whenever I have to replace this machine. since I'm not into games much and most of the ones I do play are gb/a I don't have a compatibility issue to contend with the way you do. I pretty much learned everything I know about photo editing in Gimp anyway because I didn't earnestly start doing any of that before I was using Ubuntu. before that it was pretty much just cut and paste in mspaint also the comment about easy-to-use for windows converts was more about people who basically only use a computer for word-processing, media viewing and web browsing. power users are going to have a harder time because they're accustomed to having all of their specific utilities and configuration tweaks.
>>145692 ah, forgot to mention the pic: metadata from >>145486 lol
