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I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it's trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it's downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it's being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my usage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I recently came across a CRT monitor similar to the one I had growing up, which led me to reviving my grandfather's old Windows XP machine that has an AMD Semperon 2200+ processor with 2gb of ram, a 128mb video card, and a 100gb, 5200rpm IDE HDD (not even SATA!). It's slow, but consistently slow. Despite this, it is way more responsive than my windows 10 machine. This is a PC with a Ryzen 9 3600x, 32gb ram, RTX 3060 TI, and a 1tb Samsung SSD (can't remember what exact model, it's one of the high-end ones) for the OS and some games (I also have several terabytes in 5200 and 7200rpm drives, mainly for general storage and smaller/older games that don't benefit as much from an SSD).

When I tell that slow-ass XP machine to jump, it immediately jumps. It doesn't jump very high and it stutters a bit while it's in the air, but it doesn't sit there for a moment figuring out how how to jump, how high it should jump and if it should jump. It just jumps. This is a PC that was low-end when it was new, compared to a modern PC that's somewhere between a mid-range/high-end PC.

It took four tries to get it to boot when I started it for the first time in like, 10 years, and the OS desperately needs to be reloaded as it keeps forgetting drivers, but holy shit despite being slow and in bad shape, it is infinitly more responsive than my "gaming rig". I had forgotten how much fun it can be to just use a PC. The dopamine rush I got from a combination of nostalgia and using a PC that did what I wanted it to, when I wanted it to, was euphoric.

I'm sooo happy that PCs are regressing.

^inb4 ^just ^use ^linux