/baw/ - General Discussion

Please please tell me, that something (hardware and/or software) somewhere, operating system and everything else from web browsers to video editors, anywhere in the foul year of our lord >2020, THAT IS NOT EITHER OF THESE TWO EXTREMES THAT ARE STARTING TO MAKE ME SEE THE POINT OF ECOTERRORISM BEING LESS INSANE THAN ALL THE OTHER POLITICAL GIRLS:

1) Bloated kludgeware tire fire trashheaps slapped together (I am beyond fed up with linux and open sores freetardation in general) by either cringy trannies or cringy nadsee larpers but I can pick and choose my poison to try and carefully avoid both kinds of collectivist authoritarian "YOU'RE A FUCKING WHITE MALE!!" and "YOUR'E NOT A FUCKING WHITE MALE!!" (both are equally gay, two sides of the same slacktivist coin, both of you blow your brains out since I'm sick of both of you blowing each other way outside your containment quarantine shitpits of purity spiraling echo chamber circle jerks, there is no escape from terminally online politislopsuckers) being shoved down my throat at every turn (which is getting more and more difficult to get away from in the digital world: as enshittification, the competency crisis, and the neo-bolshevik long march through the institutions infects every corner of everywhere (the world owes Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Paul an apology!); what happened to hobbyists being proud of their passions? what happened to "coupla dudes in a garage" gigageeks outclassing paid professionals like they consistently did in the 90's and 00's? if you're not getting paid, why waste hundreds of hours stringing the programming equivalent of chewing gum and duct tape patching together over-9000 lines of ChatGPT copy-pastes just to take a dump in the Web3 ocean of piss unless your whole mission is to be a trolly edgelord, what's the point? go get drunk and watch porn, at least then you're only killing your own brain cells and not mine, as well!)

2) Slightly less bloated, slightly less kludgy, only smouldering but not entirely on fire trashheaps vibe-coded by brown hands (so far... slightly less terrible, as even diversity-hires are somewhat smarter and less sociopathic than nose-ringed, birds-handing HR feminists and their beta male orbiting kalergi-mutt-knights), BUT it datamines the shit out of you and puts you on ten-thousand subscription services in financial-death-by-1000-cuts and there is no escaping the "YOU'RE A FUCKING WHITE MALE!!" shoveled straight into my sliced-open belly because that's apparently what the trillionare executives forced me to sign the dotted line for the privilege of being part of modern soyciety.

Are these our only choices anymore, short of going full Inuit or Amish? To just bend over and take it from even more soulless, autistic nerds than myself who're afraid of talking to girls and probably hate me for being a white male, or to instead bend over and take it from soulless, psychotic bankers and their herds of monkey-cattle useful idiots who all certainly hate me for daring to be born male and white? Do I seriously have to go crawling back to Microsoft? Do I seriously have to go full iPhag for a slightly different flavor of tofu? I can't fucking stand open sores anymore and I'm just about out of fucks for spyware and backdoored CPUs and so on. The baizuo effluent choking out all life in all corners of the 1st world seems inescapable if I'm to be part of any social structure that isn't some hunter-gatherer tribe in a remote jungle, savanna, or tiny island in the middle of the Pacific. They'd probably treat me better than commie normgroids anyway.

And if so, well, is there a relatively less shitty taste of steaming diarrhea bowls to suck down in order to be part of a modern world? Not quite ready to go live innacave innawoods onnamount just yet, though more and more it's sounding extremely tempting to go feed myself to the nearest bear to get away from ten-thousand dangerhair cults for the pleasure of a roof over my head that I didn't have to build by hand and food in front of me that I didn't have to kill and cook by a hand-made campfire.

Is Windows 11 or Mac Tahoe really all that bad compared to KDE Plasma 6, for example? Is it at all possible to go retraux with, I dunno, BeOS or OpenSolaris without being virus-bait using ancient abandonware and still sometimes watch a jewtube through invidious with it and maybe play nostalgiabait like Luanti and emulated PS2 titles every now and then?

Enshittification (online and off) and cringy culture wars (offline and on) are all so tiresome. Where did all the good developers go?