← Back to context Comment by binkHN 2 years ago Masochism is related to gratification and pleasure; you get none of this with Windows. 6 comments binkHN Reply sph 2 years ago Fair enough. Joy returned when I was done and I ran `blkdiscard` to nuke the entire SSD I installed it in. Excised in one fell swoop. DonHopkins 2 years ago Bill "2^(Year-1984) MIPS" Joy?https://donhopkins.medium.com/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mill... MaxBarraclough 2 years ago Navigating from HackerNews to Medium is exactly the kind of downgrade we're talking about. A bloated ad-filled horror-show of openly hostile design.Firefox tells me it had to download 1.9MB, despite that the only graphic in the article weighs just 60kB.Thankfully modern browsers have 'reader mode'. There's no such simple solution for Windows. 1 reply → sevensor 2 years ago I love the image of Bill Joy as a masked superhero, who returns from out of nowhere and deletes your Windows partition. Cthulhu_ 2 years ago Self-flaggelation? Although I get the idea that's also a kind of self-gratification, martyrdom, whichever.
sph 2 years ago Fair enough. Joy returned when I was done and I ran `blkdiscard` to nuke the entire SSD I installed it in. Excised in one fell swoop. DonHopkins 2 years ago Bill "2^(Year-1984) MIPS" Joy?https://donhopkins.medium.com/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mill... MaxBarraclough 2 years ago Navigating from HackerNews to Medium is exactly the kind of downgrade we're talking about. A bloated ad-filled horror-show of openly hostile design.Firefox tells me it had to download 1.9MB, despite that the only graphic in the article weighs just 60kB.Thankfully modern browsers have 'reader mode'. There's no such simple solution for Windows. 1 reply → sevensor 2 years ago I love the image of Bill Joy as a masked superhero, who returns from out of nowhere and deletes your Windows partition.
DonHopkins 2 years ago Bill "2^(Year-1984) MIPS" Joy?https://donhopkins.medium.com/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mill... MaxBarraclough 2 years ago Navigating from HackerNews to Medium is exactly the kind of downgrade we're talking about. A bloated ad-filled horror-show of openly hostile design.Firefox tells me it had to download 1.9MB, despite that the only graphic in the article weighs just 60kB.Thankfully modern browsers have 'reader mode'. There's no such simple solution for Windows. 1 reply → sevensor 2 years ago I love the image of Bill Joy as a masked superhero, who returns from out of nowhere and deletes your Windows partition.
MaxBarraclough 2 years ago Navigating from HackerNews to Medium is exactly the kind of downgrade we're talking about. A bloated ad-filled horror-show of openly hostile design.Firefox tells me it had to download 1.9MB, despite that the only graphic in the article weighs just 60kB.Thankfully modern browsers have 'reader mode'. There's no such simple solution for Windows. 1 reply →
sevensor 2 years ago I love the image of Bill Joy as a masked superhero, who returns from out of nowhere and deletes your Windows partition.
Cthulhu_ 2 years ago Self-flaggelation? Although I get the idea that's also a kind of self-gratification, martyrdom, whichever.
Fair enough. Joy returned when I was done and I ran `blkdiscard` to nuke the entire SSD I installed it in. Excised in one fell swoop.
Bill "2^(Year-1984) MIPS" Joy?
https://donhopkins.medium.com/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mill...
Navigating from HackerNews to Medium is exactly the kind of downgrade we're talking about. A bloated ad-filled horror-show of openly hostile design.
Firefox tells me it had to download 1.9MB, despite that the only graphic in the article weighs just 60kB.
Thankfully modern browsers have 'reader mode'. There's no such simple solution for Windows.
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I love the image of Bill Joy as a masked superhero, who returns from out of nowhere and deletes your Windows partition.
Self-flaggelation? Although I get the idea that's also a kind of self-gratification, martyrdom, whichever.