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On youtube I see tons of avatars and mentions of clippy, the oldscool windows help tool. Are they protesting something?

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[-] ytsedude@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago
[-] alligalli@feddit.org 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Clippy doesn't want to steal your data. Clippy just wants to help.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

Clippy doesn't want to steal your data

It would if it could.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Clippy keeps working with no Internet.

[-] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 month ago

It's being used as a symbol against corporate greed

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 month ago

Which is super ironic because it’s a corporate mascot that managed to become universally hated by everyone. Then again, those were simpler times, so modern companies would deserve much more than mere hatred.

[-] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The irony is part of it, from what I can tell.

That Clippy, the universally hated useless feature, is still less shitty than what these companies are doing today.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago
[-] craigers@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Badgey was terrifying. Fucking love LD

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Things have gotten so bad, that even Clippy begins to look acceptable. What a bizarre world this is.

[-] tarknassus@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

You could actually turn Clippy off as well. Copilot doesn’t really go away, and you can’t trust Microshaft to re-enable via updates. Out of the two I’d much prefer the maligned Clippy.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 14 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately Clippy would get randomly re-enabled, like all microsoft zombies, after an update. You never knew when it would come back to insult your intelligence.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

OMG it’s been going on for decades now. That’s not a bug at this point — that’s a feature.

[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month ago

Some teenage girl deleted a picture of herself on facebook and facebook marked her to sell beauty products to, because she must be insecure and therefor an easy target. Clippy never did that. Clippy was just there to help and had no ulterior motives. Every big company in the world has ulterior motives now. The clippys are meant to show them it's been enough.

[-] relativestranger@feddit.nl 12 points 1 month ago

the big companies have always had 'ulterior motives' driven by their insatiable lust for more profits and higher share prices.

[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

That is not true. The cycle is that someone with passion for the business creates the business and they are a good business. Than they grow and the creator can't handle it anymore, because they are craftsmen, not business men. Than some business men step in and eshittify everything for profit.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

The MS of the late 00s and the MS of now are no different ideologically. If they'd had the same tools and capabilities then, they'd have done the same.

[-] ytsedude@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] rivvvver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago

clippy is now a right-to-repair icon. the idea is that if lots of ppl change their YT profile pic to clippy, people in power will feel threatened and cave in. or maybe corporations will see theres a market there and make repairable devices.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 month ago
[-] rivvvver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

shorthand for people. im lazy

[-] subignition@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

It's an eight-minute video (and it's Louis Rossman, so there's about fifteen minutes of dialogue in it -- highly efficient!)

Not to be rude, but you can afford to make time to watch the whole thing.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 9 points 1 month ago

No, I can't.

I refuse to waste 8 minutes listening to someone when I could read it in 2.

I don't watch fucking videos.

[-] subignition@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Jokes aside, if your time is that important you're probably also wasting it by browsing the fediverse. Good luck to you.

[-] subignition@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

I don't watch fucking videos.

Written erotica is better quality anyway.

[-] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 month ago

Seven whole minutes?! Oh my goodness!

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