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   Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 05:04:50 JST Dana Fried

   I'm seeing some people posting shit like "help your family this Thanksgiving by logging onto their computer switching their default browser from X to Y" and: PLEASE DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS.

   Do not switch them from Edge to Chrome. Do not switch them from Chrome to Firefox.

   Literally, these are different software environments with different features and access to different data, and if they suddenly cannot log into their bank because they saved their password in Edge, you have just fucked them.

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     Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 05:05:39 JST Dana Fried

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     It's okay to be an evangelist for good technology.

     It's okay to turn off a feature like motion smoothing on their TV where there's really no downside.

     But going and changing the software they work with in a way that will affect their workflow materially is not cool. It's the kind of weird "I know better than you" consent violation we see all too often from people here on Mastodon.

     (I've also heard of people switching out Windows for Linux and I hope those people enjoy their eternity in hell.)

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 05:11:38 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @tess Interestingly for me the term evangelist carries exactly what you're arguing against due to it's origins.