• Squizzy@lemmy.world
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        28 days ago

        Major fear is corruption of the culture. There are corpos and cunts that would benefit from Steam stopping linux suppory which is a major adoption driver. Nvidia is supposedly a more difficult gpu/cpu to use with linux and the current duopoly leans heavily in their favour.

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      28 days ago

      The best thing to do is to convert you closest family and friends. If you’re “the computer guy” the chances are you need to support their shitty computers anyway, so you might as well support an OS which is easier to maintain.

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      28 days ago

      If you’re in the US, soon this will be arrestable for enabling terrorism.

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    28 days ago

    Yeah, I’ve dumped all mikroshite from my devices for FOSS software. Only my work laptop has it and I never do anything personal with that. Libre Office, Thunderbird, Notesnook. Also considering Obsidian and Joplin.

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      27 days ago

      Obsidian is sadly not FOSS, but aside of that, it’s amazing (and entirely user-supported, not relying on VC profit-seeking).

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    So if Microshaft is going to install these products automatically with my copy of Windows, the tools are free to use, right?

    I may finally pull the plug on my full conversion to Linux this or next year. I already dual-boot and have been a single inconvenience away from kicking Windows Spyware Edition to the curb, anyways.

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      So if Microshaft is going to install these products automatically with my copy of Windows, the tools are free to use, right?

      That’s sort of the joke of it all. Microsoft needs to tell their investors “We sold AI to 100 million new users!” to justify these bloated investments in OpenAI.

      So instead of selling it as DLC, they just shave off a chunk of the 365 subscriptions and say “that was people paying for AI”.