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What do you think have we taken for granted before it was enshittified? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 17 hours ago by Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Dollar Tree.

It used to have been an unreal experience witnessing the existence of these stores when they came out. Everything for a $1. No joke. The quality of some things have had corners cut and the quantity might've been laughable, but there was a good solid purpose for these stores.

And then I started seeing the signs after a few good solid years of shopping there. The first sign was how they stopped selling eggs. This was before the Bird Flu. They stopped selling eggs because they simply couldn't afford to buy stock and then the price hike to $1.25 happened.

And now they've hiked the prices again to $1.50 for some products in a handful of stores. Additionally, they've incorporated items going from $2 ~ $15 so they have long lost the role and title of being the most affordable places to shop.

Gone were the days.

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[-] Toes@ani.social 34 points 17 hours ago

Microsoft Windows. Oh boy has it gotten bad.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 11 points 12 hours ago

It was always bad.

Windows 3.1 was bad. It was ugly, it was slow. The Macs of that era looked better, although their multitasking was even worse than Windows, somehow. It was pretty clear that 3.1 was just a desktop GUI over a text OS.

Windows 95 and 98 were bad. They were graphical improvements over 3.1 / NT, but they were so brittle and janky. Remember bullshit like "TEXTFI~1.TXT"?

The latest versions are all terrible too. Like, try to make a change to a system setting and you get the Windows 10/11 themed settings menu. But, if you try to make any kind of advanced setting change and you're taken over to a GUI that shows that under the hood it's still effectively running Windows XP components.

[-] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 1 points 6 minutes ago

I thought Win 2000 was an improvement. Didn't Win 3.1 literally run on top of DOS? Like, DOS was the actual operating system and Win 3.1 was merely the graphical user interface/desktop environment, so it consumed a bunch more hardware resources? I think I remember having to run many programs out of DOS so that they would run more smoothly than if I used Win 3.1. In that sense, Win 3.1 was really Ski Free, Space Cadet Pinball, Solitaire, Minesweeper, and a nice file manager.

I also liked the improvements of Win Vista, but my laptop couldn't seem to keep up with the requirements needed for things to run smoothly. Win 7 seemed like a smoother Win Vista, so that was nice. However, I felt let down that there were no major noticeable improvements other than performance, which could also have been attributed to improvements in hardware. Around then, I started experimenting with Linux out of sheer curiosity and slowly switched to Linux 100%. In the past several years, I know about Win only from what I hear on Lemmy, so ofc I think it's terrible, but I wouldn't know from personal experience and judgment. I'm happy af with Linux anyway.

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 5 points 11 hours ago

Windows ME ftw.

[-] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 1 points 5 minutes ago

Can you clarify? I'm confused as to whether you think Win ME was the best or worst version of Win.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 11 points 16 hours ago

To be fair to the XP days, the OS was a bit of a malware cesspool. Now, MS provide pre-installed corpo malware.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 3 points 12 hours ago

98SE was peak.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

In what way? I continue to use Windows 11 just fine.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 7 points 13 hours ago

Must be bliss, mate

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago

Could you expound?

[-] rikudou 2 points 9 hours ago

The OS is riddled with ads. How can anyone be okay with ads running at the OS level is beyond me.

The tracking is also getting much much worse, they spy on every fucking thing they can.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 3 hours ago

The OS is riddled with ads

Is there a particular edition that's prone to this? I don't see any on my work or personal laptop. Either that or they're so subtle that I don't even see them.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago

I have never seen an ad using Windows.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 3 points 6 hours ago

Lemmy is a bunch of Linux users who genuinely don't know how to custom-install Windows without all the bloat

It's bizarre, how the fuck are they managing Linux if they can't even do that?!?

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 6 hours ago

My days of installing LTSC, ShutUp10, Massgrave, modifying ISOs, unchecking 20 checkboxes during install and installing hosts files are over.

Nowadays I just install Linux and it does what I want without begging for it.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

Did ye aye

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