If your friend is tripping balls on acid, try showing him Teletubbies. Remember, Teletubbies are the least racist of all eldritch entities and will take good care of your friend’s psyche.
@icedquinn@galena@aven >i don't think that's true. MS doesn't benefit from government protecting them from startups.
You're so wrong. Imagine a startup selling better re-packaged version of Windows without tracking, AI garbage, and other crap. And with proper support. Right now this is impossible precisely due to government protection.
@icedquinn@galena@aven no, you don't understand. What I mean is literally taking a copy of Windows, stripping crap from it, adding good stuff, and re-selling it.
@icedquinn@galena@aven is this a "you wouldn't download a car" kind of argument? Because I absolutely would.
When I buy a chair, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to deconstruct it and make new chairs with the same design. Or maybe slightly altered for more comfyness. Why should a copy of Windows be any different? And if Microsoft isn't willing to supply the market with version of Windows without Cortana or telemetry, given that there is an existing demand, there is literally no reason why nobody else shouldn't do this in their stead.
@shibao sometimes I miss working for a military contractor because of this. Then I remember that most my coworkers were genuinely retarded, the pay was total shit (almost McDonald's level), and there was almost guaranteed overtime with probably no pay.
@retr0id gnome devs are impossible to reason and work with. The result of their horrible culture is exactly this. No wonder that the only people working on GTK are Red Hat employees, because no sane person would subject himself to that much bullshit free of charge.
@scarlett@retr0id there is nothing to love. Look, if you developers don’t know what a volume slider in a music player is for, you have some fucking problem right here.