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[Goujer (she/her)]

maaan i rlly wish i were an editor of the os tan wiki... and its not like i would vandalize any part of it too
i would like to be signed up just for editing and creating own articles if you please!!

I made a topic for Wiki requests as a compromise for now. Feel free to recommend any Wiki changes or additions there.

https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,1957.msg176978/topicseen.html#msg176978

[Dr. Kraus]

It may be cool, but it's an absolutely terrible video when you consider the fact that all companies (Microsoft included) really want is money.

Moving my response to this thread since it's getting off-topic from the original post.

Sadly, the internet as a whole has been transformed mainly into a platform for businesses and individuals to extract as much money from you as possible. The old days of niche little communities and interesting websites around the corners of the web are long gone it seems.

I've even fallen into the trap over the years where I only really interact with 4-6 websites on a daily basis and don't explore much or interact much.

• Youtube
• Gmail / Outlook email
• Google News
• Ars Technica
• Reddit
• Mangadex

Youtube has turned into my brain soup TV, I let it feed me constantly through the day where I'm served a string of consumer videos. Lately since I'm going to be moving into a new place later this year I've been getting nothing but "Desk Makeover", "Room Tour", and "Living Space Upgrade/Tour" videos that are nothing but people showing off all the random crap they have bought to fill up their living spaces.

Windows as an OS has continued to get worse over the years, I really only continue to use it due to being a Windows based sysadmin. But with Win11 introducing the AI screen capture features and other intrusive data mining features... I plan to make my main computer a Linux based system while keeping a secondary Windows system for when I need to use it.


I hope everyone is doing well, I'd like to post some more here in the future like I used to back in the day.

Have a nice weekend everyone

[QuickyGreenTheNanamiSimp He/They]

"The old days of niche little communities and interesting websites around the corners of the web are long gone it seems."
I mean, there's still a bit of that...
It's a shame some of it is actually long gone, though. I used to lurk around a Urusei Yatsura forum before it got shut down around November 2024, for example.
Doesn't help that the Wayback Machine hasn't archived the site properly...

[RaitoninqXaara she/her]

how do i setup the oekaki bbs on my website? i downloaded satopians potiboard v6 from github... 

[fedora-tan]

Sadly, the internet as a whole has been transformed mainly into a platform for businesses and individuals to extract as much money from you as possible. The old days of niche little communities and interesting websites around the corners of the web are long gone it seems.
Have a nice weekend everyone

Same. For the nice Weekend wish too

Oh and, hi also 

[Dr. Kraus]

Exciting things, bought a house. Busy times but I hope everyone has been well!
I'll have lots of space in the new place so might make a retro computer room...

[Chocofreak13]

late to this, but duuuuude, you bought a house!? cool!!

hope all your homeowner-based dreams come true. i forget, are you outside of the US? cause i mean, buying a house is already like, "woah that's a lot of money", but the US lately has been INSANE in terms of CoL...

like i was browsing apartments last week and in my area it's over $1600 for a studio.

to think, at one point my dad thought they went for $400/mo....this was pre-insane-inflation but they still cost like, $950 and up at that point lol

[Bella]

Congrats on the house Kraus!!

late to this, but duuuuude, you bought a house!? cool!!

hope all your homeowner-based dreams come true. i forget, are you outside of the US? cause i mean, buying a house is already like, "woah that's a lot of money", but the US lately has been INSANE in terms of CoL...

like i was browsing apartments last week and in my area it's over $1600 for a studio.

to think, at one point my dad thought they went for $400/mo....this was pre-insane-inflation but they still cost like, $950 and up at that point lol

It's crazy. When I moved 8 years ago my 1bed/1bath apt was like $1500. Went up to nearly $1800 by the time I moved out. We're in a bigger apartment now and most of the time I think it'd be cheaper to just have a mortgage. Dunno where we'd want to settle down; we like this area, but I also yearn for New England. T_T

[Chocofreak13]

Congrats on the house Kraus!!

It's crazy. When I moved 8 years ago my 1bed/1bath apt was like $1500. Went up to nearly $1800 by the time I moved out. We're in a bigger apartment now and most of the time I think it'd be cheaper to just have a mortgage. Dunno where we'd want to settle down; we like this area, but I also yearn for New England. T_T

oh dude, a mortgage would def be cheaper. i've done the math on that several times over. were it not for the Air B&B boom, i'd suggest moving to my sister's area up north since she got her house for a song....ofc, that's also dependent on how much you have left over to heat the damn thing (she's got 4500 sq ft and the temp with wind chill gets into the -30's F), and if you plan on having kids (theirs is the worst school district in the state). i couldn't in good conscience direct you there unless those two things weren't an issue.

that said, if you're ever approved for this kind of thing, Madison, NH is super nice. a little pocket of liberal amidst the republican north, and super pretty. :0

[Bella]

Schools aren't an issue for us ^_^;;

That's a *really* pretty part of the state. Not sure I've been to Madison itself but I visited Sandwich, Conway & North Conway on different occasions and liked them... that said I've spend enough time in the city that I'm not sure I could go back to rural/small town living.

Southern NH might be more our speed. Also the metropolitan areas of Vermont (such as they are), we really enjoyed it when we visited last year.

[Chocofreak13]

Schools aren't an issue for us ^_^;;

That's a *really* pretty part of the state. Not sure I've been to Madison itself but I visited Sandwich, Conway & North Conway on different occasions and liked them... that said I've spend enough time in the city that I'm not sure I could go back to rural/small town living.

Southern NH might be more our speed. Also the metropolitan areas of Vermont (such as they are), we really enjoyed it when we visited last year.

hahaha, you could move to my town. god knows there's enough fancy condos going up around here. and iirc Lowell has some national historic sites and is only about 20 minutes away by car, so the job opportunities are right there.

that said, Salem's becoming HELLA gentrified....it doesn't feel like my hometown anymore. we have a Shake Shack now, which is cool, but it's becoming a place i feel too poor to live in, like the cool Salem.

one of my sisters lives on Cape Ann. it's pretty metro and you could live by the sea. property values are through the roof, though. : \