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[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 78 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] kittenzrulz123 19 points 10 months ago
[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I wish personal choices could keep us safe from capitalism, but that will never be the case.

[-] kittenzrulz123 8 points 10 months ago

I didn't claim to be safe from capitalism, all I'm saying is that my operating system, browser, and most other software on my computer are community owned.

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[-] logos@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago
[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 50 points 10 months ago

r/pcmasterrace on reddit is absolutely coping right now and members are attacking Linux users on sight

[-] abbiistabbii 27 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 10 months ago

Even if it's on device (lol), it is another of the resource hogs that microsoft loves

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Requiring at least 50GBs of free space! Yeah, Microsoft’s spyware is exactly what I want to spend my storage on.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 25 points 10 months ago

At least the top comments on a couple of the biggest threads are skeptical

[-] SqueakyBeaver 9 points 10 months ago

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

[-] null@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 months ago

TIL you can customize the icons on Libreddit.

Gonna have to check the docs -- can I make my own colorschemes??

[-] BluJay320 44 points 10 months ago

It’s a corporation. Of course it’s evil.

[-] thefrankring@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

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.

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[-] Hathaway@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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”

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[-] BluJay320 7 points 10 months ago

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”

[-] thefrankring@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

A corporation is simply a legal entity that anybody can register. You could have one tomorrow morning if you wished.

I do own a corporation, even if I'm alone. It's just that I own all the shares and equity privately. I'm also a business owner because I run a business with that corporation. But a business owner can also run a business without a corporation if he chooses to.

Now, you can do a lot of things with a corporation depending on your goals and aspirations. It has different rules, laws and purposes than a normal employee or a self-employed individual.

Examples: hire people, tax benefits, grow larger, own assets, sue and be sued, raise capital, loan/borrow money, go public, etc.

A corporation is what you make of it.

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[-] queue 30 points 10 months ago

Anyone who recommends you use Windows is actively trying to cause you distress and anguish.

[-] TheSaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago

Linux users turning into computer-vegans when somebody uses a different OS

[-] moshtradamus666@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] SqueakyBeaver 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah people on the Internet tend to be very very jumpy at anyone It could very well have been that people just took your tone as condescending or whatever better adjective describes it. It isn't your fault

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[-] Ranger 21 points 10 months ago

Why do you think I'm using Linux mint now?

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 18 points 10 months ago

To attract horny single women in your area?

[-] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

We all know that Linux users have the most guarantee to get laid

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[-] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.de 20 points 10 months ago
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[-] Juice64@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I wouldn’t say evil, just another capitalist company. It’s the norm unfortunately.

[-] itslilith 41 points 10 months ago

another capitalist company

that's a lot of words to say evil

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[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago

Just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it not evil.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

"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).

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 7 points 10 months ago

You dropped this: "

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[-] moshtradamus666@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I'm too lazy to use Linux but I'm considering

[-] swab148@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago

It's not as hard as it seems.

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[-] jherazob@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago

Decades ago, i was there when they tried to crush Linux, never trust those fucks

[-] Ranger 6 points 10 months ago

And now they use Linux for their backend.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

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

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 6 points 10 months ago

Yes to make this a new more versatile meme

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] DriftinGrifter 16 points 10 months ago

"RecAlL Is loCal TheY" not gonna try to find out and im not trusting for sht anyways until independant network traffic analysis

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] DriftinGrifter 13 points 10 months ago

right 30 years of selling user data an enshittification and the home assistants from a companny that regularly pays fines for privacy infringement

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[-] queue 8 points 10 months ago

Let's say for the sake of argument that is does remain all local. Hogging up your CPU, RAM, and Disk space, but its all local, unlike every other bit telemetry.

If it is completely local, why would I want it? What does the end user gain? I can think of what non-Microsoft agents would gain. If your computer got compromised, now a third party can see everything Recall logged. Could be completely mundane, could be private information, could be something worth blackmailing someone other.

Today I had to punch in my SSN and phone number to for my health insurance to confirm who I said I am. I don't want anyone to know that who has no direct need to.

So if it is completely local, and everyone is opt-in by default, why would I want it in the first place? What does the end user gain? If I wanted my CPU hogged up for no reason, I'd start mining Bitcoin. If it was harmless, why is Microsoft not really commenting on it on the same way they do other things like Office, Teams, Xbox, etc.

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