I am old enough to remember when buying a game with online content gave you the game client AND server software.

I can still run old Quake online if I want. Costs id Software nothing.

I know companies moved away from this to an online service model to fight piracy. But we, the gaming community, let them.

We should demand a RETVRN TO THE OLDE WAYS. I personally have been avoiding games that can turn off my purchase on a whim.

Let's not allow facts to get in the way of The Narrative of "Orange Man Bad."

The Slashdot comments section used to be a lot better than this 20 years ago. Now TDS will turn a Linux kernel update story into rabid Trump hate fest. It's ridiculous.

Both, especially when politicians are involved.

It is almost impossible to find a truck with an 8 foot bed.

It's a reasonable position, and one he can make without resorting to personal insults.

I'm old enough to remember being told that we were all going to freeze due to global cooling. Panic, oh the horror and terror!

And then we were all going to be living under water in 20 years. Be afraid!

Whatever the truth may be, the climate scientists have overplayed their hand with fear mongering. Their credibility with a large share of the population has dropped to zero and it is their fault.

We are no longer just "web scale," we are now at "hyper scale." That sounds so, like, high tech and stuff.

It's been a very long time. Slashdot is mostly just partisan bickering now.

Your completely unbiased response, full of nothing but objective observation, does much to change minds.

I miss the old Slashdot. It was a fairly libertarian place. But Silicon Valley became captured by the left and now government can do no wrong.

Hence "when optimization was a lot more primitive."

I don't recall this being an issue in Win7 either. Or XP. Or 98. Or 95.

Not saying it was the snappiest experience ever, but it was rare for me to need to wait more than 10-15 seconds at most for things to be usable.

Then again I didn't install a giant pile of garbage, and I would remove stuff I didn't need. It was the bloatware that caused the issues for me, not the OS itself.

It's so sad to see modern Slashdot filled with lazy commies. Old Slashdot would have had an intelligent discussion about free market economics, maybe name drop Hayek, talk about allocation of scarce resources, discuss supply vs demand economics, etc.

Instead we just get whining from brat who can do no better than "lol ok boomer lol" and blame absolutely everything but himself for his problems.

Yeah, life is hard. And it's harder now than it has been in decades. And yeah, the boomers got lucky. But economics is not a zero sum game.

Sounds like you're a humorless BlueSky user.

You must be a lot of fun at parties.

For a very long time it was the best we had and things cannot change overnight. This will all take time. Your attitude is unwarranted.