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> when computers actually acted like computers
That sums it up I guess, I liked when there were less ads (as in the start menu, notifications, search results, but there certainly were useless search bar add-ons), more software to choose from, programs were lightweight rather than bloated (fuck Electron apps, write in C/C++ for fuck's sake, not in fucking JavaScript to make native portable executables, lazy pieces of shits), there weren't as many security restrictions (e.g. hardware, anti-piracy, through the use of networking/cloud), but viruses such as trojans were a lot more common back then (spyware is even more common nowadays though). Computers of today feel more like mobile phones and are probably about to be as limited just because we're being dumbed down into computer illiterates and start treating computers like "magical" black boxes so they can add more subscription services for things that previously didn't have any.