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[–] 51 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Yea, not everything is a binary choice.

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Anything to avoid using linux, eh?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I mean to be clear I don’t do it. The only computer I run xp on is an old tektronik mainframe that only has lan access and needs proprietary software to work that only runs on xp

    I don’t really count that though since i literally only use it for the one app that allows the logic analyzer and oscilloscope cards to work

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    u might even say its a nonbinary choice laugh track

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    whata wrong with asterisks? they made the text italic as i wanted it to be

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is Lemmy, which is a byproduct of Reddit, and both of them have generally devolved into worlds of black and white only, although here tends to at least still have some nuance.

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