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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Well, the whole reason people have to “adopt and learn” is because M$ bought their way onto virtually every new PC sold back in the 90s, so people’s first experience would be their “operating system.”
    Talk about leveraging anchoring bias.
    I’d argue you’d have a hard time selling Windows to people if you were honest about it.

    For just 145€ you get:

    • an operating system that assumes you’re an inept idiot
    • ads in your application launcher
    • a screenshot taken every minute, which gets stored outside your control and analysed by “AI”
    • an invasive “assistant” that listens in on your microphone at all times
    • forced to create an account to log in to “your” machine, so we can collect even more personal data

    Especially when the alternative is free and let’s you do whatever you want with your hardware. And if you happen to misconfigure something you get to be an adult about it and learn from your mistakes.










  • I’ve learned to be highly skeptical of patriotism in general, because it’s a fertile breeding ground for racism and fascism.
    My reasoning being that, except in very few cases, those flying the flag had no hand in them being whatever nationality they are flying the flag of. They were simply born there. Thus any pride they take in the accomplishments of that nation is completely unearned, again with very few exceptions.
    This unearned pride often leads to them taking personal offence at critique of “their” nation, even if it’s warranted.
    Additionally their perception of what that nation is and represents is often anchored in the past, in the best case, or in euphemised half-truths and outright fabrications, in the worst case. This results in them acting as either a conservative force, in that best case, or start slipping into fascism. Because that’s what happens when you believe your country is perfect, can do no wrong and everything would be much better if everyone were just like you.