From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, June 20, 2022 at 3:23:09 PM UTC-5, plateshutoverlock wrote:   
      
   > I can say for sure that when I boot up Windows 3.11 in Dosbox to relive   
   > some old memories, it feels like a giant weight has been lifted off my   
   > shoulders. Even with it's stability issues and rather awkward UI design,.I   
   > feel like I am once again back in control of everything, that nothing   
   > I don't know about is happening behind my back, and that I won't   
   > be blitzed with notifications or "Your experience will be better..." or   
   > all of the second guessing and unwanted overrides of modern operating   
   > systems.   
   >   
   > The industry needs to do a full course reversal into that direction.   
      
   AMEN!   
      
   I started feeling "amiss" when they (the industry at large) began over-blowing   
   the BASIC computer language into "visual BASIC" and other formats.   
      
   Keeping the computer at a "computational tool" level was *LIBERATING* yet   
   turning it into a demographics data mining operation feels "depleting."   
      
   Just last month, gmail made changes to their system which *deliberately*   
   rendered Outlook Express as "obsolete" / non-functional.   
      
   Very upsetting.  I may have to switch to a different email provider after all   
   these years....   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)