• tiramichu@lemm.ee
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      What people really want is to not have to change anything - neither about their lives, nor about themselves.

      They want to live in a perpetual 2005 where Windows is forever usable and still just an operating system. Where they feel happy and comfortable in their environment and their skills and abilities.

      And I get that, because I feel it too.

      But sometimes you have to change yourself, in order to change your world.

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        10 hours ago

        I mean if you’re dead set on it you can get a lot of modern things running on windows xp, chromium browsers, dx10/11 games, discord, etc. it’s a nightmare and you’ll have a ton of headaches (especially with the dx10/11 stuff, apparently, I’ve never tried any of this) but it’s possible

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          7 hours ago

          There are also hacked/modified XP builds floating around based off the source code leaks that backport some of the modern Windows OS features.

          Still not an “easy” experience though.

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        5 hours ago

        Please use different formatting for emphasis and non-speech. I recommend escaping the asterisks with backslashes for the latter.

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            2 hours ago

            The way you wrote it, there is no formatting distinction between emphasis (nonbinary) and stage directions (laugh track). I suggest you use something else for one of these, preferably the latter:

            u might even say its a nonbinary choice *laugh track*

            u might even say its a nonbinary choice [laugh track]

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              1 hour ago

              Except for… context? I’m constantly annoyed by grammar/spelling online and even I say you’re going too far.