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abbiistabbii @lemmy.blahaj.zone

10mo ago

Look up "Microsoft Recall" rule

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Of course Microsoft is evil. All companies are amoral machines driven only by profit. All basic search engines become more useless by the day, while Windows enshitifies in every way possible. The natural trajectory of all companies is monopoly, weakening all supposed benefits of capitalism by design. Capitalism requires heavy government intervention to ever benefit the customer, and by removing that as a viable option, liberal democracy has signed its own death warrant.
- That's why I use Linux :3
  
  I wish personal choices could keep us safe from capitalism, but that will never be the case.
- Well put

r/pcmasterrace on reddit is absolutely coping right now and members are attacking Linux users on sight
- Holy shit, really? I have had some people genuinely try defend this by saying it's going to be done "on device" (kek) but holy shit.
  
  Even if it's on device (lol), it is another of the resource hogs that microsoft loves
- At least the top comments on a couple of the biggest threads are skeptical
  
  I found that thread because I was curious I've skimmed it and saw many instances of people going "but it's only on the snapdragon x chip", as if Intel and AMD aren't gonna release the same CPUs but capable of more AI shit
  
  TIL you can customize the icons on Libreddit.
  Gonna have to check the docs -- can I make my own colorschemes??

It’s a corporation. Of course it’s evil.
- Technically, not all corporations are evil.
  For example, I'm a solo-entrepreneur and I own my own company/corporation and I'm the only one in it. I don't think I'm evil. (For now??)
  But I get what you mean. I'm assuming evil comes with size, power and influence
  
  i think the line generally comes specifically at "publicly traded company" that's when everything other than "line go up" is thrown out. publicly traded companies are inherently bad for everyone but those who invest in them.
  
  As am I. Also solo. I’ve talked to a ton of small business owners, and the difference between small business owners and corporations is you have to be willing to fuck people over to become more than “the little guy”. So, I think people like us are in the “not evil” category because our goals aren’t just to simply “make money line go up.” However, because of that, we will forever be “the little guy”
  
  Then you’d be a small business or company, but not necessarily a corporation, correct?
  My understanding is that corporations are larger and generally public owned, and thereby focused solely on “line go up”

Anyone who recommends you use Windows is actively trying to cause you distress and anguish.
- Linux users turning into computer-vegans when somebody uses a different OS
  
  That's so true. There was this time I was checking a Linux community here on Lemmy and someone made a post saying he was trying this new Linux distribution and said he was having fun with it. I genuinely asked what he meant by "having fun" and I received downvotes and no replies. Then, replied my own comment saying "Oh my, downvotes and no replies, what a lovely community" and my comment was modded out. That totally killed my interest in Linux.

Why do you think I'm using Linux mint now?
- To attract horny single women in your area?
  
  We all know that Linux users have the most guarantee to get laid
- Why is everyone moving to Mint?
  
  Mostly because it's similar enough to Window's GUI, while not being Microsoft.
  
  Because I had experience with Ubuntu in the past & wanted to give mint a try.
  
  Mint is pretty good at "it just works" thing and has a very friendly UI. It also comes with a few very handy tools developed in house by the Mint team (though these can be installed on other Debian/Ubuntu based distros). It's usually high on the list of recommended distros for people new to Linux or who just need general purpose computing without a lot of fuss.

Yes. About 22 years ago.
- Was that right before or right after XP?

I wouldn’t say evil, just another capitalist company. It’s the norm unfortunately.
- another capitalist company
  that's a lot of words to say evil
  
  Amoral for sure, but evil is relative I guess. A company can be both amoral and good when it is convenient to be.
  Basically corporations are never your friend, but they can be less terrible if there is financial incentive. If this hurts their bottom line, they'll backtrack.
  ...but that assumes capitalism would provide the financial incentive to be less terrible in the first place.
- Just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it not evil.

"I knew, there's a reason why I haven't upgraded to 11, and once I'll be forced to do so, I'll be using some hacked version to get rid of most of the bloat that still has the upgrades, and doesn't put Brave as its default browser - no thanks, I don't need a Chromium browser for anything else beyond sites that broken on Firefox due to lack of testing and/or intentional breaking even with spoofed user-agent string (I'm looking at you, government websites).
- You dropped this: "
- "I'm looking at you, government website"
  I don't think there is any browser that government sites actually work on.
  
  Internet Explorer 6

Decades ago, i was there when they tried to crush Linux, never trust those fucks
- And now they use Linux for their backend.

I'm too lazy to use Linux but I'm considering
- It's not as hard as it seems.
  
  I've got to get all of my PCs moved to Linux by October next year too; we've got this!
- Go back up your shit and switch. Linux Mint is free.
  
  And what about gaming?
- Install VirtualBox or other VM software of your choice and try playing around. Nothing to mess up like that. But it won't reflect the hardware compatibility for your PC.

Yes to make this a new more versatile meme

ah yes a classic xenia posting, these never get old.

It's pretty clear most of you can't be bothered to read past headlines.
Recall is local and they aren't using your data for upstream training.
- "RecAlL Is loCal TheY" not gonna try to find out and im not trusting for sht anyways until independant network traffic analysis
  
  Blah blah blah blah blah blah, I'm going to ignore 30 years of MS being open about policy and handling oodles of data because it doesn't align with what I want the policy to be.
  Just as dumb as the Alexa is spying on us crowd.

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