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   Peter N. M. Hansteen (pitrh@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 23:27:07 JST Peter N. M. Hansteen

   What, people are freaking out about #windows11 *now*?

   That writing was already on the wall (in bold, italic, lots of !!!s) when I wrote this thing in 2021 - "The Impending Doom of Your Operating System Going to or Past 11, Versus the Lush Oasis of Open Source Systems" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/2021_wild_wild_world_of_windows.html about my then-new laptop and #openbsd support.

   That machine is *still* quite usable with OpenBSD, thank you! #opensource #freesoftware #libresoftware

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 23:27:07 JST Robert Link

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     @pitrh Open Source, generally, is motived by a desire to get things done. Proprietary is motived, generally, by a desire to cash in on the planned obsolesce cycle which drives modern consumerist capitalism. So, of course your OS requires the newest hardware, which, coincidentally, requires the newest OS, and this way to the great egress, sucker.