Recent content by StoicCabal

You're probably thinking of Windows S, a short lived, cutdown version of Windows 10 that ran on select MS Surface tablets. You could basically only install software from the MS store, and they were heavily curated.

Because they're kids most of the time, or people that failed to grow up in any meaningful way. (the funkopop collecting types that soy out over nintendo games)

You're absolutely right, I should've clarified that I was referring to companies that still host on-prem as opposed to Cloud. Corporate internal networks however, are still primarily on-prem, so my point somewhat stands as far as employee machines are concerned. Additionally, more startups are...

I think a lot of it stems from our recent shift into a culture of mass pathology has led to tons of Munchausen cases where kids and the more lonely, to pathologize "quirky" personality traits and embrace/celebrate it in order to make themselves standout and be unique individuals. And our...

Just watch out if you've got an Nvidia card, drivers aren't open sauce, so you might run into issues with your own personal config that aren't easily fixed. Especially once you're diving into things like Wine/Proton for gaming.

My earliest memory with the internet has to be dialing up with AOL to register my copy of Lucasart's The Phantom Menace on my PC and hearing my mom talking thru the phone lmao

Necroing this thread, our local area is seeing the mall finally shutter after years of struggling. Some people have been visiting and taking walks thru one last time before it closes. It's always eerie to see malls so close to death that stores that have long since gone, still have their...

At least on a forum, the bad actors become pariahs in their respective communities. Whereas mass-media social sites like leddit or twatter, the bad actors just meld into the background noise. That's why I value communities like these, it's easier to self-police when conversations are confined...

I would like to think of Agora as a waystation that everyone stops by on their travels. Much like Love's is to truckers and crosscountry travelers in the US, Agora can be that place where we all gather and share what we found while exploring the wider internet.

The real faces behind the globohomo order