Orcocracy [comrade/them]

Yeah bluetooth sucks everywhere. I have a Bluetooth mouse that works fine on Windows and Linux, but macOS just can’t handle it. Pairing any kind of controller with Windows that isn’t specifically certified by Microsoft can also be a nightmare. Don’t even get me started on Bluetooth headphones paired with an iPhone and the weird shit that ensues when you try to answer a phone call five hours after you happened to listen to some music.

I can’t speak to whatever your field-specific desk-apps are, I’m not in the desk carpentry business.

Nobody can prove you wrong (or right) about “some things” not working. What things?

If you value your time you should switch to Linux. Yes there’s a brief adjustment period, but especially now, that period is very short and well worth the initial effort. It’s not 2005 anymore, Linux has less jank than Windows or Mac OS now.

Yes, I did mention monitoring installs as one of the reasons, thank you. That was the only online check back when it was introduced 25 years ago, but there’s quite a bit more going on now.

Why make the computer do a thing that it doesn’t have to? The answer is control and profit. Control by monitoring installs and requiring Microsoft accounts, profit from advertisements for Microsoft services and data brokerage, and so on.

We should not happily embrace Microsoft’s desires for greater profits and control over the public.

It was a thing back in the late 1990s as part of the antiglobalization movement. Look up old issues of the Adbusters magazine or Naomi Klein’s book ‘No Logo’

Yes that’s all well and good for programming computer code, but that’s not how making arguments through human-readable prose works.

“The best we can hope for”? This website isn’t the pope of privacy. It’s ok to say they’re doing a bad job of it.

It’s interesting how this site hides their direct and clear recommendation to de-Google the Google phone on a completely different page from their recommendation to buy the Google phone, which is much more vague on the matter at best. Maybe it really is an ad after all.

Yes, considering the average westerner’s privacy is essentially exploited by Google every single day, telling the privacy-conscious person to just shut up and buy the Google phone without discussing alternatives makes this website read like it’s just another ad on an internet filled with ads.

Oh the printers messed this up, it’s supposed to say “Never? Again!”

Not only that but there is a broad lack of understanding and empathy towards the elderly and people of all ages suffering from mental decline. It’s ableism, to put it plainly.

Just don’t forget that Steam is another corporate run platform and Valve nukes online accounts too.

Also the Washington Post actually pays its writers.

That reads like AI slop

The perfectly alienated and isolated liberal approach that changes nothing. Festooning a suburban house with solar panels is like washing your oversized pickup truck with those unbleached brown recycled paper towels.

However, advocating for vasectomies and such gestures towards eugenics and eco-fascism.

If you borrow a DVD from the library for free you don’t need to pay for whatever streaming service is holding that particular film hostage, if it’s even available at all. And if it’s a Blu-ray Disc it will have better picture quality than a compressed stream. Making copies is also very easy if you have a computer with a drive, and doesn’t require paying for a VPN to avoid facing the risks of online piracy.

I’m a foreign bad actor.

Yes, EU policy is clear. Foreign companies deliberately undercutting European business to monopolize whole sectors is only ok if they’re American, not Chinese. Amazon good, BYD bad.