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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • Why would anybody run Windows? Honestly: it’s officially a platform for corporate surveillance, ad delivery and now for ramming AI shit nobody wants down everybody’s throats. And you pay for the privilege.

    There are alternatives to Windows. If you like corporate rape, Apple is the lesser evil. If you can’t stand corporate rape, Linux is very mature and very usable by your average Joe these days.

    In other words, if you run Windows and you have problems, well sorry but half of the blame is on you.


  • I’m close to retirement and my Mom regularly tells me I shouldn’t drink a beer after work so often because I might “turn into an alcoholic” 🙂 When I point out that I’ve been doing that for decades and I’m still not an alcoholic, she says “Oh yeah, you’re all grown up now I guess…”

    You’ll always be your parents’ baby boy or girl. They’ll stop being overly protective and giving advice to you when they pass away, and then you’ll miss it.






  • But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off

    That’s Google for you: they’ve been doing self-serving open-source for decades.

    For instance: they open-sourced Android. That helped Android become the dominant platform and Google capture the cellphone market. Since then, Google has been slowly moving their stuff away from the open-source AOSP and into their proprietary stack, introduced proprietary features that are almost compulsory for a practical, working Android system like Play Protect, and are actively killing deGoogled ROMs.

    There’s only one thing to keep in mind with Google: if they do something, it’s not in your interest, and they know how to play long games. Anything they do will be used against you some day.