andyburke

Yes, but these ones are for-profit, see?

make it a 20 year wait and we have a deal.

… it’s insidious, isn’t it?

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… the unit circle, in fact! In this talk, I will explain how the Fediverse and rhe Federation are analagous constructs in …

where is everybody going?

I’ll uh … be over here continuing to use an OS that doesn’t <checks notes> show me an ad when I am logging in.

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I’ll uh … be over here continuing to use an OS that doesn’t <checks notes> show me a full-screen ad.

This is one company using FUD to scare you away from another to switch to them.

This company is doing the thing they say is bad but <checks notes> for marketing purposes.

Miss me with this shit, I will keep backing my stuff up into a service that stores bulk data…🤷‍♂️

But modern Linux is easier to use than modern windows, so that last point doesn’t really work.

Modern Linux runs just about any windows app, including most games. It also supports web browsers which can access Teams, etc.

It seems like maybe the reason is more inertial than based on factors a well run business should consider.

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My friend in fediversing - you are the one who made a comment with a claim people have asked you to expand on or back up and you have utterly failed at that repeatedly.

You could have just never commented in the first place and you wouldn’t be whining right now.

Or … maybe the datacenter shouldn’t use so much power to produce something of extremely questionable worth to our species. 🤷‍♂️

Humanity still doesn’t get germ theory. 🤷‍♂️

This person programs. ☝️ 🤝

I have news for you about where the taxes you paid on those burgers went.

Hope everyone is voting!

No it doesn’t. We have any number of free and open source operating systems to choose from that are already more secure. The number of people in a situation where they absolutely need to run Windows specifically is small.

This is already true for the vast majority of games. 🤷‍♂️

That’s weird timing:

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

You are … making my point.

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